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by yarekt 2y ago
Exactly. I really like the empirical example. I find that solutions to work problems come to me at most random circumstances, shower, sleep, etc. Also a 15 minute break can unblock something that I’ stuck on for hours. I think it’s importan
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by yarekt 2y ago
All (grid tied) inverters technically provide that function. An inverter doesn’t just generate 50/60 Hz sine, it supplies power by attempting to slightly “push” the frequency higher, i.e lead, to provide power. if there’s no more power
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by yarekt 2y ago
Great insight, it actually aligns with the conversation above: Yes, teaching is its own skill regardless of the subject matter, but to teach you really have to understand the subject matter really well, and isn’t at all related to “doing it
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by yarekt 2y ago
Isn’t what I said exactly the opposite? In your example, if 4G is slow, and people will pay for development and deployment of 5G, won’t that create a gap in the market for someone to deliver that for which people will pay for extra? It won’
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by yarekt 2y ago
When working together with a colleague, after some weeks each of you understand more how the other works, what they need to be productive, how to communicate better and achieve good results. Same with the domain context you’re working on, a
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by yarekt 2y ago
Exactly this. And I did mean equal skill when i said “more than 2x” implying that you get more done together than if you were separate. One interesting thing is skill levels aren’t really comparable or equatable. I find pairing is productiv
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by yarekt 2y ago
Sure, but you’re always going to get better results by actively looking for the good solution rather than building something and hoping it’s right. (building a prototype is one tool in your toolbox) We as developers are tasked with figuring
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by yarekt 2y ago
If putting those 12 hours towards making food and shelter works then it’s not fair. If you need multiples of those 12h to make yourself a shelter, you’ve just invented capital. In real terms: if every renter received equity in what they pay
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by yarekt 2y ago
I would go one further: give government powers to simply purchase things that work well out of the free market, and run it in a way that is pro-quality-of-life rather than profit. Is fast internet working well? buy and invest profit to incr
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by yarekt 2y ago
Entirely solvable, but requires thinking and discussing things that many find uncomfortable: socialism, equality, etc
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by yarekt 2y ago
Well where do you think all that tech debt that “we’ll pay off later” goes? new icons is the only thing they can ship quickly. In their defence who wants to be the first PO to ship nothing for extended period of time. Long term always takes
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by yarekt 2y ago
Oh yea, point 1 for sure. I call copilot regex on steroids. Example: - copy paste a table from a pdf datasheet into a comment (it'll be badly formatted with newlines and whatnot, doesn't matter) - show it how to do the first line
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by yarekt 2y ago
> A lot of our job is to do a lot of inference in figuring out what our managers are even asking us to make This is why I think LLMs can't really replace developers. 80% of my job is already trying to figure out what's actually
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by yarekt 2y ago
That's such a mechanical way of describing pair programming. I'm guessing you don't do it often (understandable if its not working for you). For me pair programming accelerates development to much more than 2x. Over time the
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by yarekt 2y ago
No it’s very much meaningful. for every new ecosystem it’s immediately graded based on whether it has the critical mass of adoption. The build and release system is great, what I actually wish for is nixpkgs to offer debs and rpms to ensure
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by yarekt 2y ago
It’s more that change won’t happen until it has serious impact to majority of population. It sounds cold but food/water/housing shortage will be solved once it starts affecting > 51% of the population. (or at least resources wi
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by yarekt 2y ago
Yes! well done. Having taken apart some consumer level coffee machines I was shocked at the poor design. Something much better is possible, but requires redesigning the base components that are common off the shelf
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by yarekt 2y ago
Exactly. All those things that are critical in a startup are really good way to accelerate possibly stagnant development. However, short-sightedness and ignoring tech debt kills startups too
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by yarekt 2y ago
Yep yep, exactly this. When an incident review reveals a fluke that flew past all the reasonable safeguards, a case that the team may have acknowledged when implementing those safeguards. Sometimes those safeguards are still adequate, as yo
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by yarekt 2y ago
I can tell you’ve never worked with a competent manager. They are required because building the wrong thing is worse than not building anything at all
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by yarekt 2y ago
I agree with both of you, but consider that if this was a real meeting, you’ve both just wasted 10-15 minutes arguing about a line on the graph of a metaphor. (and yes I’ve seen this behaviour in meetings). I agree with the original comment
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by yarekt 2y ago
This reminds me of WOPR from War Games
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by yarekt 2y ago
So the plot of Halo 1 was always pigeons? Hmm
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by yarekt 2y ago
I overheard a fascinating conversation on a plane once, about the difficulty in packaging salads/leafy vegetables. Finding the right plastic is incredibly hard, and you can’t just stick it into a paper bag. There would be so much spoil
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by yarekt 2y ago
As I understand it, plastics that come “post consumer” are too polluted to be used for anything but lowest grade of products: tyres, though probably not even that as people want “performance” from their tyres. Where I live (UK) most plastic
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by yarekt 2y ago
Just like plastic use in medical setting, single use plastic straws have a similar sort of use, but they are obviously not needed everywhere. Another source of major plastic waste is fishing, but people love their fish /shrug
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by yarekt 2y ago
I can relate very much, from both viewpoints! I sometimes catch myself discussing “correctness” in PRs because it’s important to know what tradeoffs you’re making, and whether a neater/simpler/better solution exists. So yea, somet
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by yarekt 2y ago
I think it goes back to experience. If everyone involved has suffered at least once, they’ll be keen to spot issues before they cause pain. both developers and managers. So therefore my current reasoning is this sort of thing can’t be taugh
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by yarekt 2y ago
As with everything, there’s some truth to that, but also C#’s json parsing libs are sub-par… and that’s really the least that a modern language should do well
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by yarekt 2y ago
Good in theory, but try that on a project with real customers and you’ll get a very simple “remove it and we’re done here” /shrug. Team’s processes and decision chain must have agreed to enforce this already, and that above is just a s

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