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by decasia 19d ago
Ok, I found these: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Da3NGbfk6Lo/ https://heated.world/p/another-summer-day-stolen
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by decasia 19d ago
I have been trying to find the original source of this quip for a long time. It stays in my head but I don’t know quite where I saw it.
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by decasia 20d ago
The CCTV footage was one of the most heartbreaking things I have seen on the internet lately. It makes me think a bit of the Johnstown flood from 1889: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood#/media/File
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by decasia 5mo ago
Yeah, I just discovered this and was also amazed. https://decasia.org/tech/2026/02/raise-not-a-reserved-word.h... This being said, I don't think there is any requirement technically that every core metho
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Bike Safety Rules in Cities(decasia.org)
2 points by decasia 6mo ago|0 comments
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by decasia 6mo ago
It's a neat project. Write cross platform desktop apps in C. Presumably it would not have been very usable in practice in the late 1980s, because of all the OTHER system interfaces that still weren't portable, even if the windowin
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by decasia 7mo ago
I had a long conversation with a fellow parent sitting next to me at soccer practice today. Never met her before in my life, but we just started chatting about soccer logistics, and then I just started asking her about her life. I learned a
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by decasia 7mo ago
Counterpoint: I thought it was a useful analysis — I was very disappointed when the local Joann's closed and this added a bunch of context I would not have had otherwise.
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by decasia 9mo ago
Strongly agreeing with this comment… I realized early on in my enterprise software job that if I produce code faster than average for my team, it will just get stuck in the rest of our review and QA processes; it doesn’t get released any fa
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by decasia 10mo ago
This reminds me exactly of "The Art of Turboing"[1] [1] https://www.macwhiz.com/blog/art-of-turboing/
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by decasia 10mo ago
I thought this was a really good piece of writing. It’s rare to do something like this because the job discourages it by putting PR filters on everything you say. My uncle was a pretty big pop star in the 1960s. His group at one point had a
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by decasia 10mo ago
My current org uses this: https://libyear.com/
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by decasia 10mo ago
I misinterpreted the title and was hoping that this was going to be a post about realtime algorithmic music generation from the Postgres WAL, something like the Hatnote “listen to Wikipedia edits” project. http://listen.hatnote.c
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by decasia 1y ago
Agreeing with most of the other comments here that this discussion needs more context which we don't have... If the request for additional access controls/access cleanup came from one of the Ruby Central funders, could we not know
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by decasia 1y ago
I have a toy web application that accepts a very, very low rate of writes. It's almost all reads. It is implemented like this: - The front end uses react to draw a UI. - It fetches data from a JSON file stored on S3. - When we get a wr
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by decasia 1y ago
“If the devotion scholars feel toward their work is intense and sometimes irrational, it’s because this is one of the last spaces of unalienated labor” Speaking as a former academic, I don’t really agree with this — I think academia can mak
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by decasia 1y ago
Remind me to stick to my hyperlocal fast food restaurant that only has one location and probably doesn't record every conversation you have with them or use any of the other gross surveillance technology that was recorded here. The sto
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by decasia 1y ago
To be clear - this isn't an endorsement on my part, just observations of why cloud-only deployment seems common. I guess we shouldn't neglect the pressure towards resume-oriented development either, as it undoubtedly plays a part
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by decasia 1y ago
Regardless of the cost and capacity analysis, it's just hard to fight the industry trends. The benefits of "just don't think about hardware" are real. I think there is a school of thought that capex should be avoided at
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by decasia 1y ago
About this, I noticed a relatively prominent gem maintainer publicly announcing his efforts to avoid rubygems security measures: > I'll try to get a unicorn 7.x release soon but tests take forever to run on ancient HW and I need to
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by decasia 1y ago
For what it's worth, I really enjoyed "Traceroute Isn't Real." I have noticed for quite a while that the data from it is at best patchy, often apparently meaningless. So it's helpful to see the explanation of why th
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by decasia 1y ago
I spent a few years trying to work on legacy PHP systems. Would never take another job using it if I had any choice. Most large tech companies do not have large PHP codebases, and most small ad hoc PHP codebases are awful to work with (in m
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by decasia 1y ago
I was trying to reinstall my rear wheel the other day after removing a bike trailer. I apparently didn't tighten it down enough and the wheel came out of the brackets as soon as I started to ride, causing an instant crash and a lot of
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by decasia 1y ago
Just in case you ever had any doubts about whether baseline competence or domain knowledge were important in technical leadership (and yes, I would consider disaster response a kind of technical leadership) - this kind of story makes it so
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by decasia 1y ago
We aren't expecting LLMs to come up with incredibly creative software designs right now, we are expecting them to execute conventional best practices based on common patterns. So it makes sense to me that it would not excel at the task
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by decasia 1y ago
> Information loss is an inherent property of large organizations. That's such an interesting axiom, I'm curious if you would want to say more about it? It feels right intuitively - complexity doesn't travel easily across
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The Invisible Layers of the Stack(decasia.org)
2 points by decasia 2y ago|0 comments
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by decasia 2y ago
It basically is like having politically motivated human chaos monkeys running around the data center randomly killing systems and seeing whether anyone notices.
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by decasia 2y ago
To me software engineering is an interesting and kind of inexhaustible field, but the longer I do it, the more familiarity I have with the problem space, and some parts of it can become routine (it's ok to do things the boring way). An
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by decasia 2y ago
I have to confess I am guilty of this — I used to just draw some unstructured circles and arrows on a whiteboard and call it enough. Lately I've been trying to work my way through lots of different diagram types from https:/&#x2F

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