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by xmodem 9mo ago
No. A lot of devs delayed their launches: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/silksong-release-date-has-... Those that didn't or couldn't think it hurt them pretty badly: https://www.dexerto.com&#x2F
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by xmodem 9mo ago
Are you hosted on cloud platforms that are SOC2 compliant? Or have you achieved and been audited for SOC2 compliance yourself? I'm going to have to assume it's the former because if it was the latter you would directly say so. To
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by xmodem 9mo ago
The point is that no indie dev was able to plan around the surprise release of Silksong, precisely because it was a surprise.
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by xmodem 9mo ago
I have not been as aggressive as GP in trying new AI tools. But the last few months I have been trying more and more and I'm just not seeing it. One project I tried out recently I took a test-driven approach. I built out the test suite
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by xmodem 10mo ago
Your post sent me down a rabbit hole reading about the history of computers playing chess. Notable to me is that AI advocates were claiming that a computer would be able to beat the best human chess players within 10 years as far back as th
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by xmodem 10mo ago
What's your point, though? Let's assume your hypothesis and 5 years from now everyone has access to an LLM that's as good as a typical staff engineer. Is it now acceptable for a junior engineer to submit LLM-generated PRs wit
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by xmodem 10mo ago
It's crucial to be able to do some processing locally to filter out sensitive/noisey logging sources.
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by xmodem 11mo ago
> A robust stdlib or framework is in line with what I'm suggesting, not a counterexample. Maybe I didn't argue this well, but my point is that it's a spectrum. What about libraries in the java ecosystem like Google's
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by xmodem 11mo ago
> Introducing a library with two GitHub stars from an unknown developer I'd still rather have the original than the AI's un-attributed regurgitation. Of course the fewer users something has, the more scrutiny it requires, and b
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by xmodem 11mo ago
At one stage in my career the startup I was working at was being acquired, and I was conscripted into the due-diligence effort. An external auditor had run a scanning tool over all of our repos and the team I was on was tasked with going th
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by xmodem 11mo ago
Let's have AI generate the same vulnerable code across hundreds of projects, most of which will remain vulnerable forever, instead of having those projects all depend on a central copy of that code that can be fixed and distributed onc
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by xmodem 11mo ago
I've seen this argument made frequently. It's clearly a popular sentiment, but I can't help feel that it's one of those things that sounds nice in theory if you don't think about it too hard. (Also, cards on the tab
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by xmodem 11mo ago
No-one's forcing you to use crates published on the crates.io registry - cargo is perfectly happy to pull dependencies from a different public or private registry, elsewhere in the same repo, somewhere else on the filesystem, pinned to
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by xmodem 11mo ago
I work on an application that has various components split between sync and async rust. For certain tasks, async actually makes things a lot simpler.
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by xmodem 1y ago
I'm going to quibble with that observation. CPUs HAVE improved dramatically in the past 10 years. It just doesn't look dramatic if your comparison point is storage speed.
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by xmodem 1y ago
Why would they bother if we don't act on any of the learnings from this one?
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by xmodem 1y ago
> Well, synchronous blocking approaches (as opposed to asynchronous nonblocking) provide that stuff for free. Not really. The talk describes problems that can show up in any environment where you have concurrency and cancellation. To ada
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by xmodem 1y ago
In your view, which languages / ecosystems have a better general approach for handling task cancellations than async rust?
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by xmodem 1y ago
The path we've collectively chosen as an industry is to push those responsibilities further up the stack into the application layer. No widely-deployed filesystem before or since ZFS is in the same league.
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by xmodem 1y ago
I'd argue the reverse is true. On your local system, which only need to operate when a named user with a (hopefully) strong password is present, you can encrypt the secrets with the user's login password and the OS can verify that
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by xmodem 1y ago
Part of it is an ecosystem thing. It's a lot better now, but there were times when libraries would throw a variety of checked exceptions that usually couldn't be handled sensibly other than by being caught and logged by your top-l
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by xmodem 1y ago
A hot take I have is that Java's checked exceptions - which everyone hates - are semantically very similar to Rust's Result<T, E> and ? error handling - which is broadly liked. The syntax makes or breaks the feature.
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by xmodem 1y ago
Every time one of these comes up, I have similar thoughts. A threat actor is in the position to pull off a large-scale supply chain compromise, and the best thing you can think of to do with that is also the thing that will guarantee you ar
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by xmodem 1y ago
I could perhaps have been clearer with that point - this was more about public perception. People have a tendency to jump to conclusions - build system is not working, must be the build system team's fault. But regardless, I already le
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by xmodem 1y ago
When Apple switched to their own silicon, I was maintaining the build systems at a scaleup. After I saw the announcement, I immediately knew I needed to try out our workflows on the new architecture. There was just no way that we wouldn&#x2
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by xmodem 1y ago
Maybe I'm a community-driven project funded by donations and volunteer time. Maybe I'm a local government with extremely limited IT budget and no in-house skills. Maybe I'm just some dude who maintains a hobby project that li
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by xmodem 1y ago
Question for those in this thread who are okay with this: If I have endpoints that are computationally expensive server-side, what mechanism do you propose I could use to avoid being overwhelmed? The web will be a much worse place if such s
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by xmodem 1y ago
It sounds like this only applies to boards that were never listed as PCIe 5 capable in the first place.
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by xmodem 1y ago
I've been using MacPorts since before homebrew existed and never switched away.
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by xmodem 1y ago
No issue. Just that the introduction to your post got me excited that I was going to learn how to do something I didn't previously think was possible.

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