darkmarmot

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by darkmarmot 6d ago
Here in Washington state, it's a fine of over $500 to not be able to present insurance proof on demand when pulled over...
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by darkmarmot 12d ago
Next you'll want us to prosecute coal company executives for air pollution that killed millions? PFAS makers and companies that distribute it in products causing cancer for dozens of generations? Capitalism needs compliance! /s
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by darkmarmot 12d ago
As a species, we can't even address high-probability, high-impact events like mass ecosystem collapse and food insecurity due to global warming. This is just another kind of doom on the pile.
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by darkmarmot 23d ago
While on my high school math team, we weren't allowed to use calculators at school. Being able to work quickly without one was too important.
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by darkmarmot 1mo ago
It's like it turns everyone into a CEO with all the yes men they could ever ask for! Never goes wrong!
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by darkmarmot 2mo ago
I recently mentioned that my team and most of my dev friends don’t use AI for code on a gamdev forum (we do stuff like distributed consensus, compilers, etc.). I was quickly denounced as “an arrogant douche”.
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by darkmarmot 3mo ago
Hard to guarantee it's private if you don't keep it local... I don't have a lot of trust for companies in this space.
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by darkmarmot 4mo ago
As someone in the Venn diagram intersection of "software engineer" and "studied climate/astrophysics/planetary science" in school, reading comments here is painfully disheartening. Virtually everyone highly eng
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by darkmarmot 4mo ago
I worked on their Power Play downloadable system to embed games in a local player and also did stuff like add Mojo Jojo and new levels to games like Power Puff Girls Fast and the Flurrious. They had a mini golf game with a 3d golf club I em
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by darkmarmot 4mo ago
Alas no. I worked on their Power Play downloadable system to embed games in a local player and also did stuff like add Mojo Jojo and new levels to games like Power Puff Girls Fast and the Flurrious. Fun times :)
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by darkmarmot 4mo ago
Doh, I did some work on some CN games back in the day -- but don't see any of those here. Hopefully they keeping adding to it!
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by darkmarmot 9mo ago
Alas, we're back to 1989. Bush did the same to Noriega in Panama when he stopped playing ball with the CIA.
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by darkmarmot 10mo ago
This is what I'm seeing currently at work. YMMV.
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by darkmarmot 10mo ago
Besides search, Android kinda killed Nokia and friends for the consumer phone market.
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by darkmarmot 11mo ago
We're on the verge of ecological collapse, undergoing an insane mass extinction event with ocean acidification and methane release going off the charts. I can't even begin to conceive of your reality.
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by darkmarmot 1y ago
I work in distributed systems programming and have been horrified by the crap the AIs produce. I've found them to be quite helpful at summarizing papers and doing research, providing jumping off points. But none of the code I write can
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by darkmarmot 1y ago
VGT?
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by darkmarmot 1y ago
Yes! Thanks for the interest, hope they're helpful! for HL7: https://hexdocs.pm/elixir_hl7/main.html for MLLP: https://hexdocs.pm/mllp/readme.html
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by darkmarmot 1y ago
We run a large distributed cluster (currently 4 DCs spanning the US) and use hot code reload for live patches when needed and rolling deployments for our standard releases.
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by darkmarmot 1y ago
I think that's a good point. Our largest pain point with Elixir is definitely the size of the community and the associated dearth of niche libraries. The technology behind it, though, is solid enough that once those libraries exist, th
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by darkmarmot 1y ago
i am still fine in my used 2012 12k prius.
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by darkmarmot 1y ago
see the novel kiln people and the transparent society essays by David Brin
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by darkmarmot 1y ago
good god, i would quit in a heartbeat.
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by darkmarmot 1y ago
Santa Clause was also my complete religious breaking point as a child!
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by darkmarmot 2y ago
Is there a video of this ui??
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by darkmarmot 2y ago
We use something like this at scale, similar to Riak's design. We use it to store things like the active state of millions of hospital patients in RAM for high availability (zero downtime when DCs or nodes fail). One copy per data cent
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by darkmarmot 2y ago
It's not hard to learn and my current Fortune 100 has had zero trouble hiring for it.
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by darkmarmot 2y ago
I used to do this kind of work as a contractor (for logistics and manufacturing), and I've it seen go both perfectly well and tragically wrong. The most common points of failure I've seen are underestimating the amount of business
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by darkmarmot 2y ago
So true! I have a tech job at a Fortune 100 building unique and interesting distributed systems in Elixir and get to work on open source libraries through the company. You won't make as much $$$, but you can potentially work on more in
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by darkmarmot 2y ago
A lot of Ruby devs moved to Elixir.

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