fiddlerwoaroof

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by fiddlerwoaroof 2mo ago
Google Buzz also seemed like a better path for Google to have a "social network" than what they tried to do with G+: Post short twitter-like things from various Google properties and have your friends posts show up in the same pla
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by fiddlerwoaroof 2mo ago
Yeah, I’ve done that in a slightly hacky way (manually run the various stages of the sbcl build and statically link c libs before building the actual image).
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by fiddlerwoaroof 2mo ago
sbcl can compile to a single executable (the image is embedded in the binary). From a deployment standpoint, the only real issue is if you depend on a dynamically linked C library like OpenSSL.
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by fiddlerwoaroof 2mo ago
AI can generate a fairly satisfactory SVG for a favicon now (programmer art quality at least).
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by fiddlerwoaroof 2mo ago
In a world with nix and where nearly every system has zsh, restricting yourself to the POSIX version of these tools is masochistic.
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by fiddlerwoaroof 2mo ago
The two arg cd is pretty useful (and, zsh implements it too because cd is a shell feature): if you have parallel directory structure (e.g. the way rails does tests) you can switch from app/b/c/d to spec/b/c/f b
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by fiddlerwoaroof 2mo ago
I just use while’s default variable name, $REPLY most of the time. But `while` is my preferred tool for the xargs problem in most cases.
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by fiddlerwoaroof 4mo ago
My experience mostly matches this: I think of a piece of development work having three phases: 1. Prototype 2. Initial production implementation 3. Hardening My experience with LLMs is that they solve “writer’s block” problems in the protot
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by fiddlerwoaroof 6mo ago
You can hold command and drag the icons under the notch to make the invisible ones eventually show
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by fiddlerwoaroof 6mo ago
This might be programmer-brain, but I find sqlite is pretty nice for things people would use a spreadsheet for. It’s a little bit higher friction, but when I started designing a Improv-like terminal spreadsheet a while ago, I eventually rea
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by fiddlerwoaroof 6mo ago
“assuming a controlled access road without pedestrian traffic”
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by fiddlerwoaroof 6mo ago
The Cayenne would not be safer going 35 instead of 40 "regardless of all other variables": it's statistically safer to go closer to the flow of traffic because you're then "at rest" with respect to other driver
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by fiddlerwoaroof 6mo ago
Yeah, mine to which I find really annoying
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by fiddlerwoaroof 6mo ago
I've done this sort of thing or worked with people doing it. The concept is simple, actually executing can take months.
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by fiddlerwoaroof 6mo ago
I’m not justifying the design but splitting a table with several billion rows is not a trivial task, especially when ORMs and such are involved. Additionally, it’s easier to get work scheduled to ship a feature than it is to convince the re
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by fiddlerwoaroof 7mo ago
Normalization is possible but not practical in a lot of cases: nearly every “legacy” database I’ve seen has at least one table that just accumulates columns because that was the quickest way to ship something. Also, normalization solves a p
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by fiddlerwoaroof 7mo ago
> the effort and cost to download an ad-blocker that automatically removes the prompt to accept/deny entirely is practically zero It's only zero if you don't need to interact with sites that break when you're running
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by fiddlerwoaroof 7mo ago
Yes
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by fiddlerwoaroof 7mo ago
Coalton ( https://coalton-lang.github.io ) is the sort of thing I like: a Haskell-style language hosted inside a very dynamic one with good interop.
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by fiddlerwoaroof 7mo ago
Yeah, there's something of a tension between the Perlis quote "It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures" and Parse, don't validate. The way I've though
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by fiddlerwoaroof 7mo ago
I'm not sure why "954 partners" is surprising: log10(954) is between 2 and 3 so, if you assume Soundcloud uses at least 10 SaaS products to manage data (AWS, Snowflake, Datadog, etc. this number is definitely a low estimate).
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by fiddlerwoaroof 7mo ago
I've had a couple outages due to major version upgrades: the worst was the major version update that introduced systemd, but I don't think I've ever irreparably lost a box. The main reason I like nixos now is: 1) nix means I
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by fiddlerwoaroof 7mo ago
Over time I evolved to Debian testing for the base system and nix for getting precise versions of tools, which worked fairly well. But, I just converted my last Debian box to nixos
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by fiddlerwoaroof 8mo ago
I think you could mitigate some of the problems by making the drug company pay for the treatment before approval.
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by fiddlerwoaroof 8mo ago
Genius did something like this to prove that Google was stealing lyrics from them: https://www.pcmag.com/news/genius-we-caught-google-red-hande... ?
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by fiddlerwoaroof 9mo ago
Gemini (3.0 Thinking) solves it too.
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by fiddlerwoaroof 9mo ago
I strongly disagree with this: calling your thing that serves webhooks “webhooks” or “webhook-service” sounds nice and neat when you’re looking in a repo list but you immediately impose a tax on everyone in the org: now everyone in a conver
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by fiddlerwoaroof 9mo ago
I wish people would stop promoting the singleton pattern: in almost every case I’ve seen, singletons are unnecessary tech debt and solve a problem that’s better solved with some form of dependency injection (and I don’t mean the XML/YA
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by fiddlerwoaroof 9mo ago
Yeah, the liberating thing for me in CL is that things just don’t break as much as they do in other ecosystems. So, when I get breaking changes I look for an alternative that doesn’t break.
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by fiddlerwoaroof 10mo ago
But how the data got sorted is irrelevant to the speed of the algorithm: for example, you could use binary search as part of an algorithm to find the insertion point of a new element in an always sorted data structure, meaning that sorting

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