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by twodave 1y ago
I agree. Especially in the originals, everything just sort of “works out” for the protagonist(s). The bad guys don’t aim well, fly well or really do anything great. And that’s fine because that is era of cinema Star Wars came from. In Andor
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by twodave 1y ago
No, today I can tell my manager when someone sucks at their job, and if enough other people are saying the same thing then that engineer will either be given help so they stop sucking or be fired so they don’t subtract from the team. Becaus
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by twodave 1y ago
If you stick with the same software ecosystem long enough you will collect (and improve upon) ways of solving classes of problems. These are things you can more or less reproduce without thinking too much or else build libraries around. An
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by twodave 1y ago
I would be much more in favor of them as a software developer if I felt the qualifications of other software developers were reliable. But they never have been, and today it’s worse than ever. So I think it’s important to weed some of that
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by twodave 1y ago
I think I agree with the central point here. I think the key phrase is “internal consistency”. This is also very true of programming. It’s difficult to build good software without having a handle on the subject matter (and/or a domain
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by twodave 1y ago
There are plugins for VS Code that enable local rendering when previewing markdown files. Fairly nice for editing dev wiki files!
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by twodave 1y ago
I would argue that it’s likely there was no Biblical reference intended, but that even if it was, it’s then more likely the apple is a reference to “knowledge” (as in, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil) than a vague warning about using
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by twodave 1y ago
I have a similar situation with a console tool I built to do API test automation—open source, just built it because it was useful to me. I started using it at work and sharing it with my coworkers. Posted a few things on X, LinkedIn. Ended
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by twodave 1y ago
In general, many addictions are self-diagnosed. Some guidelines include: * is the behavior unwanted? * is it frequent? * is it uncontrollable? * is it progressive? * do you choose it to the detriment of more important things? If you can ans
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by twodave 1y ago
Yes but so far many of our technical achievements have allowed us to work more valuably, raising the standard of living for many people. There is basically no plan (in the US, at least) to replace such large portions of the workforce humane
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by twodave 1y ago
IME most managers became managers because they preferred working with and helping organize people to creative contributions. I don’t see the need for any of these functions going away. I see productivity differences. Maybe the roles evolve.
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by twodave 1y ago
Yeah I did. I realize that each state and municipality has the ability to do this. But they aren’t countries. Is it fair to compare e.g. one cherry-picked state to France? I thought maybe it wasn’t, but you certainly have a point.
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by twodave 1y ago
Is there support for dynamic sign in provider urls? One of the deal breakers (in addition to federated sign in/sign out being a pain) for us with next-auth was that we have certain customers whose security requirements include pointing
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by twodave 1y ago
Sure but then he says in his next sentence he expects 50% by AI in the next year. He’s clearly using the terms interchangeably.
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by twodave 1y ago
Updated my comment to include the link. As much as 30% specifically generated by AI.
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by twodave 1y ago
I feel like I saw a quote recently that said 20-30% of MS code is generated in some way. [0] In any case, I think this is the best use case for AI in programming—as a force multiplier for the developer. It’s for the best benefit of both AI
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by twodave 1y ago
Yeah, these examples are all challenging in that they tend to represent more governance/funding than infrastructure. Out of both of our lists I think the USPS, highways, parks and land are the most infrastructure-related things. Of cou
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by twodave 1y ago
Maybe I’m just not a very insightful person, but I can’t imagine ever having so many original and valuable thoughts that I’d need a place to store them. In fact, many of the things I think end up being wrong, so I’d rather use the Internet
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by twodave 1y ago
I feel like if you try and file a police report because your car with one of those plates got vandalized, they'd take their sweet time trying to follow up on it... just saying :)
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by twodave 1y ago
As an American, this sort of brings back into question for me thoughts of, "What should constitute a public utility in a Capitalism society?" Upon doing some cursory research (so cursory that I'm afraid to provide links), it
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by twodave 1y ago
I love it. This also would have been a great opportunity to break out of corporate speak for a moment for a good “Up yours hacker assholes!” Even us folks in the Bible Belt appreciate a well timed swear word here and there.
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by twodave 1y ago
Not “to” but “through”. What am I missing?
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by twodave 1y ago
Your opening and closing statements aren’t mutually exclusive, but I can’t tell if one is a typo (or if so, which one it is). I didn’t mean to imply that MS wanted to migrate anyone, just that the different offerings serve different kinds o
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by twodave 1y ago
I don’t disagree there. And I was probably a bit aggressive with my take really. Not all healthy choices are hard ones, and exercise alone isn’t enough. Actually the hardest thing for me (and I have and continue to deal with addiction first
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by twodave 1y ago
It’s not about what’s easy. This is what the OP is talking about. Anyone who is in shape over a certain age pretty much has to wake up and choose the hard thing most days. Whether it’s bunions, old (or recent) injuries, GI problems, arthrit
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by twodave 1y ago
Well you’re right (especially wrt things like security scanning), but you sort of have to include Azure DevOps in the conversation nowadays. I think the end goal for Microsoft is to get the larger organizations into ADO, either cross-pollin
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by twodave 1y ago
How is it the fault of the US that Ukraine has no defensive army? Having hope (but not a promise, just the support of an outgoing(!!) president) of one day being able to join NATO is not the same as being invited. They took a risk and it di
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by twodave 1y ago
Not OP, but I think this makes the point, not argues against it. Something has come along that can supplant Google for a wide range of things. And it comes without ads (for now). It’s an opportunity to try a different business model, and if
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by twodave 1y ago
Alternatively we could pretend it’s a radio and follow those conventions.
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by twodave 1y ago
Are different coding agents better at different languages? Like if I’m trying to write in python vs Golang vs PHP vs C#, am I going to want a different agent for each? Or is one agent going to be more or less consistent among all languages?

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