gmassman

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by gmassman 2mo ago
Not necessarily…. As with all engineering choices there are tradeoffs involved. There can be both advantages and disadvantages to using AI to build scripts. And more likely than not you’ll need AI to help debug the scripts when they have is
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by gmassman 2mo ago
Yes my dobro is a squareneck built by Richard Deneve. It’s tuned to open G, typical for the bluegrass style. I haven’t ventured into lap steel but I have played a little when friends give me the opportunity. Personally I find acoustic instr
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by gmassman 2mo ago
I play in a band called Rare Company. We recorded an album last year and have been playing gigs around San Francisco to promote it this year. We play acoustic originals, with a style that spans bluegrass, swing, folk and rock. I play dobro
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by gmassman 4mo ago
Sudoku. Wordle is a distant second.
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by gmassman 5mo ago
Usually these were the developers who said their code didn’t need tests because it’s obviously correct/too simple to need them. And then their bug causes a crash that needs to be fixed over the weekend :/
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by gmassman 5mo ago
I guess the joke is you can scale a file system or a fish, but can only tune a file system?
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by gmassman 6mo ago
Very exciting! Congrats on the release, this will be a huge benefit to all folks building RAG/rerank systems on top of Postgres. Looking forward to testing it out myself.
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by gmassman 6mo ago
Seems like an anti-pattern to me to run AI models without user’s consent.
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by gmassman 10mo ago
I’ve been using a zenbook for about 8 years now. Hardware and battery are still surprisingly solid, although one of the hinges is starting to fail…
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by gmassman 10mo ago
Fiction can reveal a lot of real wisdom if you’re open to receiving it.
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by gmassman 11mo ago
I’ve been migrating our services off of Azure slowly for the past couple of years. The last internet facing things remaining are a static assets bucket and an analytics VM running Matomo. Working with Front Door has been an abysmal experien
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by gmassman 1y ago
The BEAM is an amazing piece of technology. It’s built to scale massive concurrent systems and has great developer ergonomics. I’ve used it with Elixir and it’s really a breath of fresh air as far as running a webserver goes. Much more flex
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by gmassman 1y ago
My band is playing a small bluegrass festival this weekend. We’ve been recording an album since last year and are starting the work of promoting it by playing more gigs!
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by gmassman 1y ago
Would we consider the calculator useful if it sometimes told us 2+2=22? Would this at all be considered a sign of creativity or abstract thought?
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by gmassman 1y ago
Nice work, both to the prompter and the promptee!
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by gmassman 1y ago
Nice work Hunter! I’m starting a hardware side project so I’ll definitely be giving the book a read. Hopefully it helps me avoid some of the common electronic pitfalls.
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by gmassman 1y ago
It’s always the year of the linux desktop!
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by gmassman 2y ago
More than 50% voted for not-Trump
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by gmassman 2y ago
Add Intune to the list of bad MS dashboards…
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by gmassman 2y ago
> Spends more time explaining why TypeScript in Svelte is problematic than actually fixing TypeScript in Svelte. Damn, that’s brutal. I mean, I never said I knew how to fix ComponentProps or generic components, just that they have issu
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by gmassman 2y ago
Morals aren’t always involved in commercial software development, and likely they never have been in any of your workplaces. However, I think it’s a gross mischaracterization to claim that morals and business don’t have any overlap. I wor
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by gmassman 2y ago
I agree with your point in general, but saying one needs to be great at using AI tools gives way too much credit to companies’ ability to identify low performers. Especially in large organizations, optics matter far more than productive out
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by gmassman 2y ago
I’ve been pretty happy with aider. I have it running in a separate tmux window and can switch between it and nvim easily.
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by gmassman 2y ago
This is a very handy postgres extension! We've been using it at my job for a couple years now to generate test datasets for developers. We have a weekly job that restores a prod backup to a temporary DB, installs the `anon` extension,
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by gmassman 2y ago
It’s been a long time since I used vscode (~5 years) so my experience may be out of date. But I recall the vim plugin missing the quickfix list and :cdo. Also there were quirks with y and p that didn’t happen when using vim (maybe extra whi
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by gmassman 2y ago
Alembic is certainly a bit of a challenge to grasp at first, especially if you want to do anything more complicated than create or alter tables. However, it does provide a great amount of flexibility if you want to implement more complex mi
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by gmassman 2y ago
I don’t want to overly generalize, but N+1 problems are very real and frequently occur in code written by more junior developers. Their impact and occurrence rate are dependent on the nature of the application though. I also think there’s a
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by gmassman 2y ago
Might as well roll your own TLS stack while you’re at it!
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by gmassman 2y ago
This pattern appears frequently in just about all programming languages. I’ve written a lot of JS and Python, and a moderate amount of Elixir, and this pattern crops up quite often. Usually it’s a side effect of complex scopes with several
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by gmassman 2y ago
From what I understand though, it’s often possible to just “look” busy without actually being productive. Seems like cranking out design docs and scheduling meetings to make yourself and your work appear important can push one up the ladder

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