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by gbear0 4mo ago
Those checked-in specs become the requirements for the system. So the next time you ask the AI to make a fix, it can use those specs as part of the solution and not break another requirement. Basically the code underneath keeps getting rewr
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by gbear0 4mo ago
Why was it a maintenance dead end? It sounds like you were able to iteratively work on it in its current state, but are you going to be the one maintaining the code? I keep asking myself the same questions, and the conclusion I keep coming
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by gbear0 1y ago
I've had a similar desire for a code modelling system for decades, so I've given it A LOT of thought, and there has been a lot of older research into Zoomable UIs and Semantic Zoom. Code Bubbles ( https://learn.microsoft
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by gbear0 3y ago
On the idea of interpreting the weights, I've been very interested if it's possible to compute basis vectors of the weights matrix to define the core concepts within the model and then do a change of basis to allow reorganizing th
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by gbear0 3y ago
Things get obfuscated because someone's viewing the problems from a different abstraction lens, and they're building a system onto that lens. Eg. Iterate through an array: const arr = [1, 2, 3]; for (let i = 0, l = arr.lengt
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by gbear0 4y ago
Why are they hiring people that need a visa and need to relocate across the world? The ask for compensation for getting dropped before the start date should usually be an easy one for a company to accept since that shouldn't be normal
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by gbear0 4y ago
Has anyone tried to add special clauses to their initial contract along the lines of: "If the offer is rescinded before the start date, the applicant will be awarded 3 months salary. If the applicant is fired within 3 months of the sta
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by gbear0 4y ago
I've always wanted to see a swarm of miniature roomba drones that can automatically clean/collect dust from anywhere in the house.
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by gbear0 4y ago
I think my new favourite way of managing runbooks is to actually build them into a file tree of a bunch of simple python subcommand scripts, and have a run.sh script that scans the file system and uses argparse to construct a cli to call ea
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by gbear0 5y ago
I assume each service has its own health check that checks the service is accessible from an internal location, thus most are green. However, when Service A requires Service B to do work, but Service B is down, a simple access check on Serv
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by gbear0 5y ago
I don't see much of an issue with any company having lots of entry points into different industries. I see more of the problem being tight control over vertically integrated aspects of the supply chain. I'd prefer to see rules lim
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by gbear0 5y ago
I think you'd be surprised. For example, with the wrong hire, one person with bad behaviour could frustrate everyone else on the team to the point where no one wants to work on the project anymore. This could lead to the whole team fee
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by gbear0 5y ago
in case anyone is looking to do this, it's as easy as doing the following #!/usr/bin/env node console.log("Hello World!");
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by gbear0 5y ago
The default editor is usually configurable (of course you'd have to learn all the different contexts you can do this from first to know this is a thing ... discoverability is hard). For example in ubuntu you can do sudo update-alte
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by gbear0 5y ago
Did you start programming with OOP or Functional programming? Did learning how to programming in the other form seem difficult to understand why you would do things that way, or seem obtuse vs just using the ways you already know? I think
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by gbear0 5y ago
I think the value of a state machine is treating all of the associated states in a single conceptual model or level. You can definitely do everything directly in a bunch of if statements and tracking state in separate variables, but that op
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by gbear0 5y ago
Is there not a better solution for this? We have this baked into our docker builds and it irks me that we have to copy personal credentials into a docker build so we can use git to pull modules and build. Is everyone actually doing this, o
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by gbear0 5y ago
this has been my biggest problem with Meetup style events too. I'm often looking for others with a level of experience or interest in a topic to match my own, only to find people trying to break into the industry and just barely scratc
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by gbear0 5y ago
I'd also suggest people making these requests to try and expand their interests to make themselves more rounded and valuable. For example I'm totally the kind of person that likes to jump from one thing to another cause I like the
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by gbear0 5y ago
The other ambiguity that I questioned right away was whether the language itself guarantees the order or evaluation or if it's compiler dependent? If I switch between Chrome & Firefox would I get different results? Also, by using n
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by gbear0 5y ago
I disagree. Diversity CAN BE a competitive advantage if everyone else is carving out a strict path. But if everyone is extremely diverse then heterogeneity could actually be the competitive advantage, allowing a business to specialize more
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by gbear0 5y ago
I've found the same thing with most of my friends that own homes. Everyone goes with a fixed mortgage banking on the fear that interest rates would go up. I assumed this was just a lack of financial knowledge on how to calculate and gu
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by gbear0 6y ago
It's only the text instructions that have this, not the rest of the text. ie one line of the content looks like this, where it's trying to write the text 'Service' BT 0 Tr 0.000000 w ET BT 44.814370 775.487087 Td [(\
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by gbear0 6y ago
Actually I can think of one place I know I've seen explicit null characters in text, and that's a Facebook Business Record pdf. If you download your FB data the text instructions of all the PDF raw contents streams actually have a
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by gbear0 6y ago
'America's Funniest Home Videos' meets 'Dancing with the Stars' meets 'Robot Chicken'
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by gbear0 6y ago
I'll admit that I'm pretty bad at formal documentation myself, but I've been wanting to improve that lately. So as a technical writer do you have any suggestions/links to material for learning the trade or even some sort
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by gbear0 6y ago
This seems like a much more useful usecase to me than burglars, but apparently you can't manually control the device beyond automated paths, which makes this almost useless I think. But even if you could manually control the device, I&
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by gbear0 6y ago
It sounds like both flat hierarchies and namespaces won't work cause both sides have fundamental problems that can't be solved in a way that everyone agrees upon. So what about combining them and having the best of both worlds? I
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by gbear0 6y ago
I keep having the same thoughts, but I'm not sure it needs to be a full OS solution. Also a related problem that always frustrates me with input is what do I use for the help command? Is it '-h', '-help', '--h
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by gbear0 6y ago
I agree with the grandparent that hooks are a weird hack and it drives me nuts every time I have to create one and can't use a closure to precompute some stuff and have better control of the lifecycle on functions/data outside the

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