travisgriggs

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by travisgriggs 7mo ago
“My job” is an oxymoron. It was never your job. Your employer has always made it clear that they, not you, own the job.
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by travisgriggs 7mo ago
So this. A year ago my wife and I did a road trip up into Canada (Kelowna BC region). It was a new experience. I’ve been up into Canadian provinces many times (20+ over the years), but because of the anti Canadian rhetoric that Trump and co
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by travisgriggs 7mo ago
Meta curiosity… would OP care to comment on what role agents/LLMs played in crafting this library?
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by travisgriggs 7mo ago
Hyperbole of some sort. I think it works on both the positive and negative side of the axis too.
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by travisgriggs 7mo ago
In our (small) team, we’ve taken to documenting/disclosing what part(s) of the process an LLM tool played in the proposed changes. We’ve all agreed that we like this better, both as submitters and reviewers. And though we’ve discussed
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by travisgriggs 7mo ago
Interesting. This has not been my experience. I have not regularly worked in Smalltalk for 12+ years, other than the occasional download and show some young programmer how cool the "petri dish of objects" was/is. For the last
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by travisgriggs 7mo ago
This is so damn cool. And most people won’t even see why. They won’t realize just how amazingly cool it is that you can grab any block of code in a block closure (the [ ] syntax*), and extend that object with more behavior. And how if you h
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by travisgriggs 7mo ago
> We are so early into this AI revolution… I keep hoping it’s almost over. Not trying to be the Luddite. Had multiple questions to AI tools yesterday, and let Claude/Zed do some boilerplate code/pattern rewriting. I’ve worked i
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by travisgriggs 7mo ago
I had my formative years in programming when memory usage was something you still worried about as a programmer. And then memory expanded so much that all kinds of “optimal” patterns for programming just become nearly irrelevant. Will we st
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by travisgriggs 8mo ago
So once that's achieved, I wonder how well it deals with unsuspected variations. E.g. "Give me an illustration of a bicycle riding by a pelican" "Give me an illustration of a bicycle riding over a pelican" "Giv
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by travisgriggs 8mo ago
To make this go away, I think you’d have to change/mitigate the economic incentives (real and perceived) that influence programming practitioners. People see the languages/libraries they use as their sellable articles. And why wou
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by travisgriggs 8mo ago
My frustration with the flow, is that you’re forcing me to make a decision at a point where I don’t really know if a thought/idea/comment I want to share will rise to the level of warranting the organizational overhead of making i
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by travisgriggs 8mo ago
> We anthropomorphize because we’re people, and it’s people all the way down. Nice bit of writing. Wish I had more than one upvote to give.
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by travisgriggs 8mo ago
Where is Pratchett when we need him? I wonder how he would have chose to anthropomorphize anthropomorphism. A sort of meta anthropomorphization.
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by travisgriggs 8mo ago
Read through much of this. Definitely started feeling like “a picture might be worth 1,000+ words”.
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by travisgriggs 8mo ago
I’ve always heard/repeated it as: “The first 90% is easy, it’s the second 90% that gets you. No one’s willing to talk about the third 90%.”
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by travisgriggs 8mo ago
A C Compiler seems like one of the more straightforward things to have done. Reading this gives me the same vibe as when a magician does a frequently done trick (saw someone in half, etc). I'd be more interested in letting it have a go
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by travisgriggs 8mo ago
Curious if erlang/elixir isn’t the same sort of thing? Or am I misunderstanding the semantics of “pass by value”?
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
> I imagine just about any computer science major would have learned the rules of memory layout according to some kind of C-like compiler. I have worked with a number of fresh grads over the last ten years. I can think of one who may hav
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
About 7 years ago, we deployed a “gateway/orchestration” role device in ag tech. Power draw is a big concern for us (not a lot of free power out in the middle of fields). We used an SBC from Emtrion. I remember asking my EE counterpart
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
I'm waiting for the "Can it do Management?" experiment. I do not have a positive impression/experience of most middle/low level management in corporate world. Over 30 years in the workforce, I've watched it ev
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
Huh. I tried docker. Didn’t like the odor of enshittification, and so switched to podman (desktop). I use it on macOS, and deploy on Ubuntu. It’s been smooth sailing. I found the signal to noise ratio better in Podland. As a newb to docker
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
What if some level of efficiency (not necessarily internet) improves turnout and participation?
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
So where is the thought on mail in these days? It’s what we have in Washington and I rather like it.
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
I have this same reaction. But I also have to honestly ask myself “aren’t humans also prone to make stuff up” when they feel they need to have an answer, but don’t really? And yet despite admitting that humans hallucinate and make failures
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
I certainly won't. I wonder if it's because they don't see other relevant low-cost/overhead solutions. "Follow me on facebook" certainly isn't going to be a win. "Follow me on Bluesky or Mastadon&quot
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
I was curious in particular about the concurrency story between the two, but thanks for the higher level feedback.
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
Another languages that just “gets” concurrent right (imo) is erlang/elixir. I’ve done elixir for the last 3 years off and on. Can someone with experience in both Go and Elixir compare the two? I’m sure I can have GPT whip up a comparis
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
I feel like modern design, in so many cases, missed the science for the symptoms. "It shouldn't look cluttered" --> "Apply ever increasing amounts of padding/margin everywhere" "keep it simple" --&
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by travisgriggs 9mo ago
It depends. I like programming. Quite a bit. But the modern bureaucratic morass of web technologies is usually only inspiring in the small. I do not like the fact that I have to balance so many different languages and paradigms to get to my

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