Scubabear68

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by Scubabear68 8d ago
Completely off topic, but for some reason it irks me seeing all these articles on MartinFowler.com which aren’t by Martin. It rubs me like “Tom Clancy” novels not written by Tom. Like we would likley never see them or care if it weren’t for
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by Scubabear68 10d ago
I was very disappointed that this is “interpreting” some tiny made up language. This is not Python, or even within three orders of magnitude of Python.
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by Scubabear68 15d ago
Been there very recently. The very difficult tech job market makes this even more stressful now. Concrete things that helped me: - Prioritize savings if you haven’t already. Do everything you can to have a cash cushion. Not having a cushion
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by Scubabear68 17d ago
Not just the high end stuff. The Neo is sold out until late September on the budget end, it seems like it is a smash for HS and college kids. I hope Apple can take all this cash and do some stability releases like they used to do, bugs arou
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by Scubabear68 17d ago
I appreciate the comment. I agree that LLMs can be a significant issue with new comers to the field, and their use in replace of foundational learning is causing real concerns for me and my company specifically. I have found the LLMs work b
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by Scubabear68 18d ago
Who said I was "looking at walls of code [I] don't understand"? Really, you are reading a lot into this without context. I've been working software development for close to 40 years now. I've worked in plenty of la
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by Scubabear68 18d ago
I often find that example code never covers my use cases, and I am left scratching my head over nuances not covered there. With AI, I can describe my exact use case and see what it gives me. Sometimes it will just cough up a furball like a
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by Scubabear68 18d ago
I am describing a problem and seeing how the LLM solves it (or how it goes off the rails). I am often exposed to techniques new to me. I call that learning. To be clear, I am closing in on 60 years old. I’ve written a lot of code in a lot o
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by Scubabear68 19d ago
It is opposite for me than what the author describes. With AI I can explore new areas far more effectively. For example, I have never been great with front end web stuff, but asking LLMs to generate something and then looking at the code th
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by Scubabear68 20d ago
It can't be emphasized enough for me just how unpleasant side effects like heart palpitations, tachycardia and related conditions really are. For me at least, those kinds of conditions trigger something close to a panic attack which fe
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by Scubabear68 20d ago
This is a serious issue, but for a humorous sci fi take on this issue, go read The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore. It deals with a small town psychiatrist who takes a whole town off of anti-depressants, and an ancient m
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by Scubabear68 22d ago
This is an important distinction, I hope the title can be changed. I was really surprised when I first came across DuckDB at how good at it is for its target use cases. It is a game changer for me for the "local analytics" space,
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by Scubabear68 27d ago
Man I really miss Populous, the whole feel of that game was just so unique and fantastic.
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by Scubabear68 27d ago
Yeah, I was referring to the 3D release in 2004, not the original.
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by Scubabear68 27d ago
Wow, you just tickled a whole bunch of nostalgia centers in my brain. Pirates! was a gift from my wife years ago, and I kind disappeared for a couple of weeks. The dancing was tedious though :-)
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by Scubabear68 1mo ago
So in other words, a 12x increase - which is exactly that I already responded to. A 12x increase in volume should not be world ending for Microsoft given that the number of developers in the world is a pretty small baseline number to start
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by Scubabear68 1mo ago
First off, there aren’t that many developers in the world compared to consumers. Taking every developer in the world and multiplying by 12x-24x is not a-lot compared to many consumer oriented sites. Second, you can’t ignore the payloads, ev
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by Scubabear68 1mo ago
The thing is Github’s core is git’s core plus extras, and thet core is fundamentally text wrangling. Youtube and Insta and Facebook and many other social media platforms handle very resource intensive media for billions of people plus bots.
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by Scubabear68 1mo ago
The ugly reality is consultants like Martin have little production coding experience. Martin has posts going back to the early 90s showing he had little understanding of how software teams work and deliver value. From what I have seen, his
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by Scubabear68 2mo ago
"Not all households are as dysfunctional as the ones you described". This comment of course needs to be taken in the context of HN. In the wider world, we have literal tens of millions of people in the United States who are in pov
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by Scubabear68 2mo ago
I feel the same way, and treat AI the same. Very conservative use, and check everything possible. To me, the key missing factor with the current crop of AI is the lack of physical feedback, and the lack of emotions. I am not an expert here
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by Scubabear68 2mo ago
I disagree a little bit, but only for this reason: the amount matters because it is invariably very, very small compared to the revenue/profit of the company and the impact the lobbying has. It is shocking what politicians will do for
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by Scubabear68 2mo ago
That machine was my intro to computers too, and I was fascinated by “fast mode” blanking the screen and the interesting tradeoffs between hardware and software.
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by Scubabear68 2mo ago
It is jarring to me that most of the dancing seems slightly out of sync with the music. It is like a music video uncanny valley - images look good, but the lack of sync to the sound shatters the illusion entirely.
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by Scubabear68 2mo ago
Very commonly in the U.S. are liabilities that "run with the land", not the owner. This is done intentionally. Easements can be a huge headache too e.g. some utility may have an easement to come on your property at any time and do
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by Scubabear68 3mo ago
My 2023 Mazda CX-5 uses knobs to control car play, it basically acts like using Tab key to walk through selectable UI elements.
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by Scubabear68 3mo ago
Based on your description, I don't think the process is working. You describe a shared database, micro services you aren't aware of using the same database, and a desire for everyone to have a rough idea of the state of the codeba
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by Scubabear68 3mo ago
I think you're missing the point of the poster you are replying to. You make it sound like 3 weeks is 3 years. It ain't. Very little, or possible nothing at all, is going to change in 3 weeks. If you are that myopic - as the XP pe
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by Scubabear68 3mo ago
The original Agile poster child, Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System (C3) was never very successful as a project. It achieved only a fraction of its goals and was ultimately cancelled. YAGNI in that context is hilarious, because they
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by Scubabear68 3mo ago
This was the issue with the early agile-developed systems. Not that they didn’t write no code, obviously, but they didn’t understand the domain and so YAGNI’d everyone to death. As a result there wasn’t enough code for the system would do

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