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by torginus 5mo ago
and correctness too - I guess there aren't that many hardcore electrical engineers/physicists/mathematicians that can make sure the results it makes are correct and sound, and debug weird issues coming from numerical stabilit
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by torginus 5mo ago
Imo lambdas are super cool, and the best way to have a no-headache fast-iteration time deployment service. What most people realize, that you don't have to go microservice or fragment your code to a billion little repos, you could take
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by torginus 5mo ago
Personally I think the UI flow is geared towards the idea that engineers don't really see the costs, they just build stuff and then management pays at the end of the month. Often I see something that's supposed to be leaner - like
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by torginus 6mo ago
Imo the biggest issue with these no-code architects has been that you could become one without ever having coded at any noteworthy level of skill (which meant most of them were like this). In my experience, in a lot of organizations, a lot
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by torginus 6mo ago
I mean he could be, though nowadays that's not really a recongition of skill some seem to think it is nowadays. Besides this is an opinion piece, which contains passages comparing programmers who despite AI, make hundreds of thousands
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by torginus 6mo ago
Does it? Why do those slaves work in the Congo? It's to produce materials that go into premium EVs in order to satiate demand in rich Western countries. If said demand never existed, or people would say 'yeah, but not at this cost
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by torginus 6mo ago
Well I don't want to come along with you, as while Java might be an ok language, and a great runtime, the cultish Clean Code middle management, and design patterns, with intentionally obscure control flow paths thanks to stuff like dep
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by torginus 6mo ago
Dunno, a ton of UK born and raised people have accents so thick that I struggle to make out what they're saying.
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by torginus 6mo ago
I don't love this - in a forum I frequent, there has been a surge of posts theat have a distinct LLM flavor to them. Some people have argued this is a good thing as it allows non-english speakers to participate in the discussion. Howev
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by torginus 6mo ago
Fun fact: I remember encountering the term 'late stage capitalism' while reading some William Gibson novel, I think it was Burning Chrome, which was written in the early 80s.
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by torginus 6mo ago
Aren't most of these privacy-encroaching systems mandatory?
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by torginus 6mo ago
Linus Torvalds for one, but generally people in charge of the kernel have a principle of API/ABI compatibility outside the kernel, but no promise for API ABI stability for anything inside, including drivers.
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by torginus 6mo ago
Do you have sources on this? I interviewed for a company that built software for high-end German cars, and their compensation wasn't bad.
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by torginus 6mo ago
Yeah the first thing everyone does with their new iPhones is put them in a case - at that point thinness doesn't matter, Id argue Apple counts on it, as their phones are awkward to hold otherwise. Replaceable covers used to serve the
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by torginus 6mo ago
Phones should be like PCs - they give you the hardware, and you figure out what to install on it. Unfortunately Linux imo is partially to blame here - if they decided to do a stable driver ABI (don't hate me, this was the norm outside
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by torginus 6mo ago
>and outsource everything they perceive ads no value. In their defense, if they know they have no inhouse competence and their existing org structure is not good for building software, then doesn't it make sense to contract people
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by torginus 6mo ago
In the defense of VW, their EVs launched with absolutely horrible software, but apparently its pretty good now, and its still the same indigenous platform. And to join in the bashing - I once went to a tradeshow where a software company bui
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by torginus 6mo ago
SAP is basically the core of the German compliance machine. Most of the time, people get onto SAP not because its good, but there's a bunch of compliance regs, which basically say 'use SAP'. Noncompliance results in firms bas
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by torginus 6mo ago
Good. It's hard to overstate how nervous most executives are about relying on cloud-based providers. AI currently works basically by sending your entire codebase and workflow, and internal communication over the internet to some third
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by torginus 6mo ago
From the paper: > The command-response protocol and binary data format are described in device models generated using DTDLv2 [10], a JSON-based language for describing digital twins. These models are used within the Azure IoT Plug and Pl
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by torginus 6mo ago
Hhaving worked on quite complex embedded projects, my 2 cents is that dynamic allocation should be avoided as much as possible (and its been possible to avoid it 100% of the time for me). Memory layouts are often pre planned, with hand-writ
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by torginus 6mo ago
I've read (from one from one of the people that contribute to Rust afair), that they were involved building formal verification for Rust, and found that the control flow is just so complex that its very hard to use the language like th
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by torginus 6mo ago
Yup, there's a reason while ROC is a thing in data science. You can build a 99% accurate cancer detector that's just a slip of paper saying 'you don't have cancer', but everybody understands its worthless intuitivel
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by torginus 6mo ago
Not sure about your life experiences, but every new, from-scratch project I have undertaken has looked like 1-2 or at most 3-4 people on good terms who really pulled their weight, with the rest being basically not dead weight, but the manag
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by torginus 6mo ago
Why? In IoT stuff, its very useful if you can talk to your devices via standard internet protocols, otherwise you have to introduce some pointless 'gateway' node for that. I mean sometimes efficiency matters a lot, but a lot of ot
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by torginus 6mo ago
I feel like it's an entirely reasonable stance. The two valid approaches to solving a technical problem is either you try to solve all of it so that no one is concerned by it any more, or you solve as little of it as possible, but solv
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by torginus 6mo ago
I wish people actually put some thought into responding as opposed to just hitting the downvote button
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by torginus 6mo ago
My personal opinion of having worked with all layers of networking for my job without developing a comprehensive understanding, is this: We as consumers see and use the highest level, which is often https or friends, and due to the layered
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by torginus 6mo ago
Dunning Kruger is just people thinking they're more average than they actually are. Which leads to below average people overrating and above average people underrating themselves. Which is fair, if somebody asked me how good a driver I
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by torginus 6mo ago
Well, turns out 'prompt engineers' need to use less 'you are a faang engineer with 10 years of experience' and more 'uwu' and 'rawr xd'

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