voidsnax

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by voidsnax 1mo ago
Open web display inventory is a mess. Nearly entirely fraudulent. Every person in the supply chain for open web display inventory, sometimes even including the Chief Marketing Officer of the firm purchasing the ads, is incentivized to turn
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by voidsnax 3mo ago
While I'm still waiting for the right moment in my own life to do my own Recurse Center retreat, I have had the pleasure of hiring and working with several RC alums over the years and in every instance have found them to be high-qualit
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Something AI Isn't Good At(hidden.computer)
3 points by voidsnax 8mo ago|0 comments
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by voidsnax 10mo ago
I recently tried to sign up for the Microsoft Partner Network and the entire experience was grueling and excruciating from start to finish. I wasted two days on it and never managed to sign up.
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The Best Thing I've Learned in Programming This Year(hidden.computer)
3 points by voidsnax 11mo ago|0 comments
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by voidsnax 2y ago
Before Claude Code, out of the alternatives you mentioned, I'd only tried Windsurf. I find Claude Code to be roughly comparable to Windsurf in terms of capabilities, but I can use it from my terminal. I'm much more at home in a te
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by voidsnax 2y ago
Doing row-by-row inserts into DuckDB is really slow. Accumulating rows in an in-memory data structure and periodically batching them into something like an in-memory Arrow table, and then reading the Arrow table into DuckDB, is fast and has
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by voidsnax 4y ago
I competed against IBM for many contracts over many years as an engineer at a small startup. The experience left me with zero respect for IBM. On occasions when a customer did choose IBM over us for a project, I would genuinely feel bad f
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by voidsnax 4y ago
I think a big part of an engineering manager’s job is protecting their team’s focus, and advocating for their team to the rest of the organization. Programmers should be insulated by an engineering manager from the vicissitudes and stresses
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by voidsnax 5y ago
That the Russian government is characterizing these personnel as “peacekeepers” would be a fair statement, but to regurgitate that characterization in reporting on the matter seems rather less credible.