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by dajt 18d ago
Why are experiments like this done without air-gapping all the servers from the internet? They can have it all on a LAN or whatever but it seems risky to allow agents access to the internet in these experiments. I guess everything is so con
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by dajt 29d ago
I use rpy2 for that. The scientists wrote the calc engine in R (via my Python transscription of the Excel original :) and I wrote the dashboard and data pipeline in Python. The data pipeline batch process embeds the R interpreter to avoid s
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by dajt 2mo ago
Everyone in Silly Valley needs to read chapter 5 ASAP.
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by dajt 2mo ago
We had a guy give a talk at our local nerd meet-up about doing this to an old landrover with the hopes of commercialising it. Did a good job, but it was only for someone with money to burn. Looks like he did commercialise it: https:/&
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by dajt 4mo ago
I'm stumped by things like this. The drawing & modelling are not the difficult bit - the CAM programming is. That seems difficult enough that I have not found an open source program to load a 3D model and allow me to set the toolpa
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by dajt 4mo ago
I'm from back then, love programming, and I can't type. Just can't be bothered learning how; it's not the bottleneck.
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by dajt 4mo ago
I have AuDHD - there is no way I'm running my own company. I'm a good developer but I need someone else to have the idea and run the business and I can lead a small team to bring it about. Given I'm now in my mid-50s, things
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by dajt 5mo ago
I think the number of non-programmers who think 'I want to learn to program; I'll start with common lisp but emacs is too difficult!' is so small it is not a group worth considering. It's probably MIT & Stanford unde
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by dajt 5mo ago
Why would a non-programmer want to download, install and run a CL IDE?
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by dajt 6mo ago
We would not be sad if they were lawyers. But I'm sure they were not lawyers. Lawyers are how Oracle generates revenue. Developers & QA are cost centres and liabilties.
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by dajt 6mo ago
I've been using DBeaver CE since I lost my DataGrip license.
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by dajt 6mo ago
This is still happening. The org I work at was all-in on Google stuff, then just before I joined 5 years ago, some senior exec joined. Must have been in tight with Microsoft because suddenly the org was all in on Microsoft. The exec left, j
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by dajt 6mo ago
I know how you feel. I'm 54 and resisted this stuff until about a month ago when I decided if I want any hope of staying employed as a coder I'll need to get on board. Using codex has allowed me to add bring up my current project
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by dajt 7mo ago
I'm (unfortunately) running Tahoe on my M1 macbook pro and don't notice it to be slower than Sequoia. Where is your slowdown? I'm dislike Tahoe as much as anyone else but performance isn't the problem for me.
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by dajt 7mo ago
I use UTM, it's simple and seems light. I can share my source directory with the VM so I can edit using macos pycharm, and test the containers in the VM. What really caught me out was I downloaded an x64 image once (there was no arm64
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by dajt 7mo ago
That's been obvious for years. It feels like they're extracting whatever remaining money they can get from the home PC market while it lasts but won't much miss it when it's gone. I'm surprised they haven't giv
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by dajt 7mo ago
I've been a full time developer since 1988, using linux since 1996, and kubuntu is the only linux distro I'd use ATM for a desktop. There's paper cuts but it feels about right. I tried kionite but there was too much friction.
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by dajt 7mo ago
"A new welcome experience" for a text editor? What have we become?
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by dajt 7mo ago
We should not call ourselves engineers - it's a massive insult to actual professional engineers.
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by dajt 7mo ago
The vibe is flawless.
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by dajt 7mo ago
I never used the Turbo stuff, but I know they were very good for the time by reading about people using them in Dr. Dobbs. I started with C on the Amiga and then went to UNIX and only later starting doing Windows coding on Windows 3.1.
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by dajt 7mo ago
> Exactly, VSCode is done by well known people from the GoF book, Visual Age and Eclipse IDEs. That doesn't mean it's any good - which I admit is subjective. I'm sure they've put good devs doing a ton of work into mak
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by dajt 7mo ago
With all the problems that recent Windows updates are causing, and a blog post about how the Windows team are using Native React to deliver changes to the apps such as a part of Settings outside the usual updates I got to thinking how great
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by dajt 7mo ago
But not the same people or culture.
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by dajt 7mo ago
I used Visual C in the early 90s and it was a dream compared to vi and whatever C compiler the various unices I was using had.
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by dajt 7mo ago
LOL, making a note of usernames of likeminded and situated people. Where's the old people's YC?
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by dajt 7mo ago
Weird, I don't recall having an alt-account and posting this. That's old age I guess. I do the same, try to help the young'uns shooting themselves in the foot. I've always enjoyed that part of the job. It really annoys m
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by dajt 8mo ago
I'm guilty of this. I started with a C64 and love hardware and programming, but modern CPUs and MCUs are so complicated I can't be bothered learning about them. The old 8-bit Arduinos were pretty understandable, but with an ESP-32
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by dajt 8mo ago
I disagree. I generally don't get too upset by UI changes - having been programming since before Windows I've seen many of them - but LG is a loser. I upgraded my mac to Tahoe and I don't like any change to the UI that I have
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by dajt 8mo ago
I was shocked when I first hit this. I'm also confused as to why the settings app constrains the window size but I think it did that in the previous version too - not a justification! I complained about it to a team mate and he thought

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