cybrexalpha

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by cybrexalpha 2mo ago
Rowling is a bigot and it's unethical to promote her works, even indirectly. She uses her wealth and fame, legitimized by continued engagement and spending with the Harry Potter IP, to attack, demonize, and spread hatred about entire g
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by cybrexalpha 2mo ago
The visibility is a huge part of it. It signals "it's okay to be yourself here" when most professional life, even in tech, is dominated by keeping up "professional" appearances.
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by cybrexalpha 4mo ago
You can't compare a decision made in possession of all of the facts in a calm environment with full hindsight, with decision made in the moment with limited information and hundreds of lives on the line.
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by cybrexalpha 5mo ago
Go's module system got a lot right, but it's a complete nightmare to work with. The author actually highlighted one of it's very worst traits: > Go got it right from the beginning and didn't use a centralized packag
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by cybrexalpha 8mo ago
The big thing is that dealerships do not have new cars sat around on the lot waiting to be sold. They usually have second-hand cars available, but new cars are always built to order.
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by cybrexalpha 8mo ago
Ignore the advice of anyone who doesn't have ADHD, or a medical degree with a speciality in ADHD treatment. Anyone that tells you that you just need to try one "trick", a planner, a mindset change, default mode networks, &quo
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by cybrexalpha 1y ago
This isn't a tangential discussion. Ring has shown they're willing to work with law enforcement without due process, that's the entire point of the EFF's article. > you're mistaken about what the terms allow. Wh
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by cybrexalpha 1y ago
The feature doesn't exist yet. Ring have said it'll be user consent, but we don't know that for sure. My point is that Ring can change their minds about this at any time without informing you, so it doesn't matter how
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by cybrexalpha 1y ago
The two are very different. If you are subpoenaed then you're obligated to respond, and the same is true for Ring. But that's not what we're talking about here. This is law enforcement requesting access, and Ring doesn't
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by cybrexalpha 1y ago
Yes, but they have to subpoena you. That means process, that means getting a judge to sign it, and it means you can limit scope (i.e., if the incident under investigation occurred outside your home, you're not going to need to provid
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by cybrexalpha 1y ago
That also jumped out to me as pretty weird. Buildkit as a library is nice, but there's no way it's good enough to justify throwing out the entire project. It feels like there was some big change internally, and the new team either
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by cybrexalpha 2y ago
> Do you have some political goal? Again, what political goal or agenda do you think I’m pushing?
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by cybrexalpha 2y ago
> Changing does not bring any advantages. Sometimes, progress requires fundamental change. > So why waste any time with them? Can you not envision a business model that is not a high-growth startup? > What is your real motivation
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by cybrexalpha 2y ago
I disagree with the implication that flat structures "don't scale" or can never work. To be effective in a flat environment requires a fundamental shift in perspective. Hierarchy is so baked in to every other company, organiz
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by cybrexalpha 2y ago
Yes. H. P. Lovecraft is a good example from literature. He was profoundly racist, even beyond the cultural norms of his time. However, as he has long since passed away buying and amplifying his works do not further his views and causes. A m
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by cybrexalpha 2y ago
In the long run, in many cases, it probably would be cheaper. It's just that the incentive structures between the long-term health and executives are not aligned .
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by cybrexalpha 2y ago
> wouldn't there be a huge competitive advantage to being the CEO who said, "hey, we can get rid of all our expensive SaaS, free up a bunch of cash for productive investments, and make a bunch more money"? Unfortunately, t
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by cybrexalpha 2y ago
There's a difference between identifying areas where a new technology (AI) can solve a problem in a better way, and just slapping "Now with AI!" on an existing product purely to chase investor dollars.
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by cybrexalpha 2y ago
One of my soft requirements for engineering roles is "no agile". Usually if a hiring manager tells me that team is an agile one it's a very clear sign that I don't want to work there. Of course, this pickiness is only if
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by cybrexalpha 2y ago
Minecraft is still pretty opaque. It's gotten a lot better with the recipe book and advancement list giving some guides. But if you'd never played or interacted with Minecraft before and were dropped into the game I'm not sur
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by cybrexalpha 2y ago
The whole concept is so fundamentally flawed that no amount of tweaking or improvement can save it. Of course the implementation is terrible, but even if the implementation was perfect it would be awful. Even if it ran locally-only, even if
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by cybrexalpha 2y ago
I'm getting increasingly nervous about baking in assumptions on software that doesn't have a strong guarantee of staying open source. Foundations like the CNCF help here, where projects are assigned ownership to the foundation. Th
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by cybrexalpha 2y ago
Which of those options do you view as 'the style'? One block, two blocks (core library and others), or three (core library, 3rd party, same-source-tree).
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by cybrexalpha 2y ago
For an internal-only dependency it's possible. But if you've got a lot of active branches, or long-lived feature branches, it'll create chaos in merge conflicts. Even worse if you've got multiple supported versions of a
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by cybrexalpha 2y ago
It does a lot well. For example it correctly pins dependencies by hash in go.sum. It's by no means the worst dependency management system I've ever used. IMO the biggest miss with Go modules is conflating the identity of a depende
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by cybrexalpha 2y ago
Yeah I get it. I've found workarounds in the past. But it's always involved some friction. In general, Go's generics are a huge step forward though. So I'm not that annoyed about it.
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by cybrexalpha 2y ago
> Not sure what you mean by "no generics on interfaces"? I didn't word this very well. You can have a generic interface, and functions on that interface can refer to generic types. But you can't have a generic method
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by cybrexalpha 2y ago
Go fmt is pretty good, but it's not ideal. My biggest gripe is imports. Go fmt will just sort imports alphabetically in lists that aren't separated by a blank line. Goimports will separate out core from 3rd party imports, unless y
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by cybrexalpha 2y ago
I've been coding in Go for over five years. I like Go, but I don't love it. It's never my first choice, although I don't advocate for rewrites just to move away from it. The tooling is a mess. Go modules still feel l
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by cybrexalpha 2y ago
> Why are we generating a structured language (YAML), with a computer, by manually adding spaces to make the syntax valid? Yep, it sucks. It's not like nobody has tried to do better, but nothing else has the adoption of Helm. Ultima

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