SomeCallMeTim

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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
I totally get the same sense that I'm just "communicating" using code. I just write out the code that expresses the concepts I have in my head. And at least some people clearly don't. I was talking to one guy who said th
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
Sure enough. Presumably my brain was switched off if I added that "correction" myself. Or it was already there in whatever source I managed to copy it from. No idea.
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
I was both of those developers at different times, at least metaphorically. I drank from the OO koolaid at one point. I was really into building things up using OOD and creating extensible, flexible code to accomplish everything. And when I
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
It's practically my life experience. Sometimes I'm appreciated, and managers actually realize what they have when I create something for them. Frequently I accomplish borderline miracles and a manager will look at me and say, &quo
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
This reminds me of the "Parable of the Two Programmers." [1] A story about what happens to a brilliant developer given an identical task to a mediocre developer. [1] I preserved a copy of it on my (no-advertising or monetization)
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
Yes: Programmers who start at twelve are often the 10x programmers who can really program faster than the average developer by a lot. No: It's not because they have 10 more years of experience. Read "The Mythical Man Month."
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
Honestly, most everything listed on the page as an advantage of Zig, is a disadvantage from my point of view. I'm sure Zig has its use cases. For what I write, I not only don't care if there's a hidden function call or error
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
Another way to say "decide they're against the merger" is "evaluate the situation and make a timely ruling that they oppose the merger as illegal." Which is exactly what they were supposed to do. Adobe and Figma tri
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
The output of LLMs is ... rarely well-designed. Well-documented (with often incorrect documentation), well-formatted for sure, but profoundly not well-designed, unless you're asking for something so small that the design is trivial. Ev
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
> LLMs are very, very good at generating code Ummm.... Awful code that often looks right at first glance, maybe. Maybe LLMs can generate the kind of code that's really shallow in its complexity, but for literally everything I would
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
What would that even accomplish? And no, even if it were created as part of vaccine or coronavirus research, that would not equate to it being a biological weapon. That's an absolutely unjustified leap. Do you know how virus research
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
> Blockchain have a lot of utilities. I have yet to see a single application for blockchain that isn't better done without blockchain. Zero. None.
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
Web3 morphed to mean "things that use a distributed blockchain." That's why we hate it. (It's not just currency either; it's anything blockchain, including NFT.) "P2P web" needs a new name.
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
The aversion to blockchain and cryptocurrency is because they're a scam. There's literally no use case for crypto that makes sense. Nothing that couldn't be better done without a distributed blockchain. Blockchain is a way to
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
I also tend to switch to straight black and white. I don't get the desire for less contrast. I do like ligatures, and I like checking out new fonts, but I'm not going to be offended if you don't. ;)
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
Meh. I like nice fonts, but I never talk about what font I use. I don't even know what font I'm currently using, though I put some thought into choosing it at the time. Some of us just care about what our fonts look like. I&#x27
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
I think you're mistaking centrists for liberals. Are you in a predominantly conservative area? A "red state"? Or is your circle of friends in their late teens and 20s? Younger folks just don't vote as often as older. In
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
Fox? Yes. Absolutely. NYT? Only if you consider "what's actually happening" or "reality" to be a bubble. I see both liberal and conservative viewpoints in the NYT all the time. Reality does have a stubborn liberal b
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
I do wonder whether encouraging people to exist entirely in their bubble is healthy. I agree with the article to a point. I don't really have a "daily news ritual," though I tend to stumble across major stories. But enoug
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
ESLint does an amazing job in detecting floating promises. I've not had it miss one, ever. When adding this to a project, I've discovered multiple accidental bugs due to a missing "await" keyword--bugs that were extremel
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
> Package.json, no such thing for Deno (not unless you go out of your way to infect Deno with it) Yeah...this always felt like a bug in Deno. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ > scripts, doesn't matter since all Deno projects have the same tools bu
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
...and? As long as there are chargers available at a particular station, why should I care how many are sitting unused? I've been by many Supercharger stations where there were no cars charging at all. Sometimes I see one or two, but t
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
We'll see what happens, I guess. As long as I can charge my car (Ioniq 5) moving forward, it doesn't really matter. CCS has higher speed charging than is available at Superchargers, at least for my car, though, so I hope the NACS
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
I've done a long distance road trip, and the CCS stations have occasional failed chargers, but every single one was available to charge my car. Think of it this way: The Supercharger network has to be reliable, because there's o
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
Most of those 2M EV chargers only need to be Level 2. It makes MUCH more sense to use J1772 by default in those 2M chargers, since every EV other than Tesla currently uses that standard, and Tesla can easily use an adapter. So CCS hasn&#x27
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
Reading about how, over time, the volume of a black hole seems to grow infinitely makes me immediately jump to an obvious connection: The universe as a whole is ALSO a system that appears to grow infinitely. I mean, there have been many con
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
Bash is used as a programming language. And it's an objectively awful programming language. Sh is even worse. Korn isn't installed absolutely everywhere like Sh is. It's not even installed in 1/100 of the locations tha
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
> Bash is a user interface. Meh. That part is irrelevant in the extreme to the discussion. Fact is that people write `.sh` and `.bash` scripts to get things done. They use conditional logic and loops and everything. Functionally, it&#x27
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
I don't know that NVC always works the way its proponents think it does. I've been around a lot of NVC practitioners. Many have been active NVC educators. Maybe they've all been Doing It Wrong, but...I find that when presente
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by SomeCallMeTim 3y ago
Ummm.... A debugger won't "step in" unless you..."step in" instead of "step over." STL is also no longer a thing. There's only the C++ standard library. So I think you're dating your usage of C++

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