andrewjf

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by andrewjf 18d ago
Why choose a second rate backwoods language if you could choose one that actually has guardrails for AI with an actual functioning type system? Half joking.
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by andrewjf 2mo ago
This is pretty cool, it brings back memories. Thanks for posting. I used to manage Tru64 (Alpha) and OpenVMS (VAX and Alpha). Mostly Oracle DB and whatever they called their App development suite (horrible, horrible software) for a Univer
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by andrewjf 3mo ago
Rust tortures you into greatness.
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by andrewjf 3mo ago
But you don't have to handle errors in Go. With multi-return you just don't bother with the "err" value and happily proceed with whatever is in the first return position. IMHO, only languages with exceptions or Sum ty
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by andrewjf 3mo ago
I mean, let's do it. But it seems more straightforward to tax wealth as capital gains when it's used as collateral for liquid assets (low interest loans, lines of credit, buying twitter).
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by andrewjf 3mo ago
The worst thing about UEFI HTTP boot is the utter lack of information to debug anything that's gone wrong. Whether that's the DHCP filename option is some wrong format for whatever stupid mode the UEFI is in, or there's some
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by andrewjf 3mo ago
I agree with you, but haven't really left yet since there's still a good amount of discourse outside AI related topics. Seems a significant amount of contributors here are all to eager to fall over themselves putting themselves,
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by andrewjf 4mo ago
I'm going to sound like a lunatic, but the best bug tracking software I've ever used was Apple's Radar internally. I wish they'd open source it. I've also had a bunch of fever dreams about re-implementing it as a
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by andrewjf 4mo ago
Maybe that’s why I get the 1Password UI _and_ the native password selection UI :-/
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by andrewjf 4mo ago
Quality in general seems to be going downhill, too. Frequently the desktop app and the safari extension won't be in sync and missing a recently added password, or doesn't show up on my other devices hours later. I still have no i
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by andrewjf 4mo ago
You don't need other people anymore to find security issues, you can do it yourself with AI.
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by andrewjf 4mo ago
I don't think that's relevant. You can still find security issues in software nobody uses. The question is a matter of impact because of how used the software is.
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by andrewjf 4mo ago
I agree with what OOP said. But it’s not my intent to “shut sites down.” I have this view to try to increase diversity of media consumption and break people out of echo chambers. If your business model is so shit you have to exploit weakn
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by andrewjf 5mo ago
There's two kinds of reviews in my experience: 1. Does it work? Then ship it. This is great for early on, high-velocity where the goal is to get something working in the wild. AI and AI proponents love this option. It's easy to
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by andrewjf 5mo ago
If only the American Colonies would just have petitioned King George just a few more times…
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by andrewjf 6mo ago
I would be very happy to do so if we had working infrastructure, education, and health care not coupled to the generosity of your employer. Isn’t it the case anyway that if you add state, federal, local, property, capital gains, and sales t
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by andrewjf 6mo ago
Sources on the first paragraph? I can’t tell what you’re even trying at say. DACA ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_... ) was an exec order specifically because those individuals were brought
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by andrewjf 6mo ago
Fair point! Makes complete sense. But I wouldn't exactly call "professionals trying to make high brow media" exclusive alternative to Reddit, Youtube, Twitter, TikTok. A lot of the propaganda (and sane washing) is coming fro
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by andrewjf 6mo ago
That's really root cause in everything, isn't it? - The consolidation of media (& social media in general) is about making money from outrage (emotions) - Anti Vax (& other) movements is about people only receptive to peop
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by andrewjf 7mo ago
being "hard-over on privacy" and regularly using google services is an astounding level of cognitive dissonance.
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Clean Coder: The Dark Path (2017)(blog.cleancoder.com)
46 points by andrewjf 7mo ago|68 comments
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by andrewjf 7mo ago
Author argues against strong typing systems and language features to prevent classes of bugs and instead encourages developers to "writing lots of tests" for things that a type system would prevent. The authors thesis seems to be
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by andrewjf 8mo ago
Propaganda. The actual videos do not support this conclusion at all. You’re being lied to.
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by andrewjf 11mo ago
You describe a world where human skill is required to prevent these class of bugs, time and time again we've proven that people are people and bugs happen. Systems must be _structurally architected_ with security in mind. Security is l
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by andrewjf 1y ago
I have two moonlanders but wound up giving up because I just couldn't adapt to it. And when writing code, finding the symbols like {, =, }, and other common coding ones was just too difficult to retain muscle memory. I tried many lay
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by andrewjf 1y ago
What do you mean “separate from google”? Golang’s success is directly and exclusively based on google envy back in 2009-2012.
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by andrewjf 1y ago
> Idiocracy. At least President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho cared about things enough to make things better for his people, hired the smartest person he knew and genuinely tried to fix things.
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by andrewjf 1y ago
I don't like the Tidbyt v2. I hated it from the minute I unboxed it, would not recommend. The pixels are very blurry and the image is not crisp at all. The v1 was pretty good, looks more like a dot oriented board (far less resolutio
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by andrewjf 1y ago
Exactly, now they're out of other peoples money.
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by andrewjf 1y ago
I mean, the middle class finally died a decade ago and all the money was siphoned off to the top. I don’t think is has much to do with growth in it of itself

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