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by zerbinxx 3y ago
craftsperson or artisan both work, but no one cares if you use craftsman
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Weird that all of the discourse on this thread revolves around facts and figures about these various startups, and nothing to do about the inherent insanity of the “mundane thing as a service”, which is remains in my eyes as a bubble mid-po
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Not to be an egghead/navel gazer about it, but I’ve grown skeptical of “innovation” as an end in itself: was Facebook innovative, or was it just another small iterative improvement on an existing form? Same with Google and search. My g
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
But it’s not changing their livelihood. Msft just gives them the same deal. In a lot of ways, it’s similar to the telepoll - people can just say whatever they want, there won’t be big material consequences
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Doctors are somewhat unique in the fact that they can live and practice in a wide variety of places. Anywhere there’s a hospital, you will have them. Where they will choose to work/for how much is a much wider decision matrix than it i
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Mark Fisher had an interesting comment on this, and this is more in the context of public/privatization but the point is relevant, calling it “market stalinism”. In Stalin era Russia, bureaucrats spent enormous amounts of time compilin
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Right, but obviously you can see the unknown unknown problem or Dunning-Krueger popping up when software developers who don’t know everything (unlike me, of course) start using it extensively without knowing the ways in which their prompt e
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Agreed. A good example of this (in Python) is to explore solutions to problems that use decorators/a more functional style vs. solutions that use classes and a more OO style. Usually both are totally good. The code GPT generates can be
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
The U.S. is presently grappling with its own democracy-related issues, rise in authoritarianism, and declining quality of life, as well as a lot of “de globalization” problems originating in its poor attempts at playing hardball with China
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
To play devil’s advocate: have you never reviewed a PR and said “yeah this works and completes the ticket but you REALLY shouldn’t be doing it like this”? There’s a pretty big gulf between functional and correct in a world where optimizatio
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Imo if you’re “doing coding right”, at a certain point, you should be thinking very little about what you’re doing. This can manifest as having easily copypastable design patterns, lots of tests, inversion of control, etc. Even among senior
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
If you ask it to start explaining/extending/implementing classes/interfaces, start asking it to reason about leaky abstractions or when it’s appropriate to use Mixins, it frequently generates code that either doesn’t work or
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Yeah the democratization era is already well underway: arguably over, even, in that it’s no longer possible to become a “big star” from throwing together some shit in fruity loops and hitting it big. Every once in a while, a bedroom musicia
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
fwiw there’s a ton of upcoming (and heavily debated/not yet implemented/understood) regulations around EV chargers that will absolutely nuke some of the shittier app-centric/not really functional charging systems that people
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Fwiw locking people up actually does make some addicts lives easier. The life of a hard drug addict is filled with the constant strife of trying to procure money/drugs, all while extremely fucked up, and the. navigating the dangerous a
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
It’s already currently true that many mid-tier shops employ an army of low-knowledge practitioners who will always “solve” whatever problem you give them in record time by abusing the tools you give them, reinventing wheels, punching semi-t
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I frequently run into this, and it’s quite maddening. When you’re working on a toy problem where generating functioning code is giving you a headache - either because it’s complex or because the programming language is foreign or crass - no
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
If it’s the difference between them getting your $50 per month network subscription you bet they will disable your headlights if given the legal leeway to do so.
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
You could rephrase it as: All functions that a consumer could reasonably expect a car to perform without an internet connection must be operable without an internet connection. All features related to driving the vehicle, including but not
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I tend to agree that both practically and legally, when you’re dealing with a fraud as big as this one, that successfully prosecuting the Big Man At The Top is the best strategy. People might scoff at mid-level fraud “doers” getting a slap
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Communism was/still is (depends on how you feel about China) a system that billions of people lived through. I think there’s been a great amnesia about this in younger people who’ve never met someone who interacted with Really Existing
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Yeah, but there are obvious differences. A lot of people watched TV with their families or friends, although this is likely less frequent now with streaming. The amount of interactivity, portability, and solitude that the iPad affords its u
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Essentially, yes. Between a few times per day and a few times per month I would like to create branches to store the “backup” copies of table-stored confs to compare against logs/events and see if configuration changes caused certain c
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Hi Neon CEO. I’m curious if users have deployed Neon as a (selective) audit-logging tool for configuration which might need to be edited or rolled back from time to time. Think configuration-driven/event-driven systems where an update
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I dunno, I’ve never been head-over-heels passionate about writing code, though I’ve been at it for 15 years now and I still get quite a kick out of it in the right circumstances. I tend to gravitate towards bug fixing, integrating work othe
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I don’t think that’s really ADHD. It’s a motivation/interest issue (and maybe it’s not really an issue) and it can be fixed by factors like choosing to pursue fewer things, focusing on your day job, or prioritizing certain things over
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
I would absolutely kill for a job that’s 2 days per week in office with everyone on my team in one room. It’s really amazing but it’s hard to find anything but places that do “zoom from open office”, which is nonsense.
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Sadly people are and do. I got a text earlier saying that my bank (and they, by random chance or something more nefarious) named the bank in the communication AND they got lucky because I was just traveling nearby, AND before leaving home I
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
Yeah, it really wouldn’t be that hard to implement though. I think I’ll take a stab at something like this using GitHub cli tomorrow or Monday
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by zerbinxx 3y ago
True - but there’s been a ton of stylistic and technological advancement of the basic 88 key device over the years - ranging from the development of key synths to (neo)classical reimaginings of how to use the hammers and strings to do somet

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