impulsivepuppet

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by impulsivepuppet 20d ago
> I think nobody would accept their manager being an LLM this depends heavily on what is easier to do: social engineering or prompt engineering.
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by impulsivepuppet 22d ago
this isn't uniquely pythonic and JS isn't a great counterexample. https://nodejs.org/api/esm.html#importmetamain node also has __dirname and __filename from the good old days.
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by impulsivepuppet 26d ago
the frontend team can write a BFF to make all pages render server-side. there is an advocacy group for keeping oauth2 clients out of browsers which gives this idea some _political_ merit. in ways more than one, SPA is not the only solution
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by impulsivepuppet 2mo ago
what is often overlooked in corporate culture: if you take a step back, two coworkers refusing to cooperate, regardless of the reason, is a typical "corporate kindergarten" scenario for the manager to take care of. To avoid rushe
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by impulsivepuppet 9mo ago
While I circumstantially agree, I hold it to be self-evident that the "optimal amount of grift is nonzero". I leave it to politicians to decide whether increased oversight, decentralization, or "solution X" is the right
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by impulsivepuppet 10mo ago
I can't help but think that this is a "I have nothing to hide" argument. It's quite sisyphean to keep accounts perfectly segregated, therefore there's always a chance that personal information can be traced back and
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by impulsivepuppet 1y ago
Related and likely inspired by the related thought: https://www.mattmahoney.net/dc/
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by impulsivepuppet 1y ago
On the topic of working hours, flexitime is highly addicting and I cannot imagine anything that's better for a software developer. Clock in, have meetings, write code, commit, clock out. Overtime? Just leave early without asking your b
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by impulsivepuppet 1y ago
I find it quite intriguing to introduce "language-native" matrices and 2d blocks (which I still find difficult to wrap my head around.) The reason why most people would more intuitively consider a music score as multidimensional h
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by impulsivepuppet 1y ago
Looking at the software development today, is as if the pioneers failed to pass on the torch onto the next generation of developers. While I see strict safety/reliability/maintainability concerns as a net positive for the ecosyste
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by impulsivepuppet 1y ago
Org mode offers so much more than just syntax. You can use org files as a calendar, a todo/issue tracker with time accounting, a diary/knowledge base (zettelkasten, org-roam), as a literate programming tool (think jupyter code not
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by impulsivepuppet 1y ago
Since I don't often write raw SQL, I can only assume the author named their CTE `deleted_tasks` to elucidate that the query might delete multiple items. Otherwise, it makes little sense, for they intended to "pop" a single ro
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by impulsivepuppet 1y ago
I admire your deontological zealotry. That said, I think there is an implied virtuous aspect of "internet vigilantism" that feels ignored (i.e. disabling a malicious bot means it does not visit other sites) While I do not absolve
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by impulsivepuppet 2y ago
I find it hard to believe that vigilance can be opted out of, unless—sarcastically speaking—you leave the company before the lack of vigilance becomes a problem. I somewhat agree with your take but that "free lunch" is paid by a
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by impulsivepuppet 2y ago
There are more interpretations of "OO" than there are people, but the overall direction is that OO isn't a panacea for code maintainability, and some frameworks ahem Spring create a mental model at times so distant from OOP
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by impulsivepuppet 2y ago
This is mostly the case because most solutions provide more than the bare minimum of DOM rendering and event binding that a web view originally entails. Once you "accidentally" ship an entire browser inside your app, you've o
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by impulsivepuppet 2y ago
I resonate with skepticism for perhaps a different reason -- I just don't see how the censorship discussion is ever about helping China, when the whole discussion is "thinly-veiled" ritualistic anticommunism and an attention-
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by impulsivepuppet 2y ago
It might seem less credible to encounter English in a place where it’s less expected, but think of it this way: would a Yandex-developed ClickHouse database be adopted by Chinese devs if everything in it were written in Russian? There is so
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by impulsivepuppet 2y ago
blaming Neanderthals for most things is a gross over-simplification and misdirects reader's attention towards genetics. While there is some humour to it, I would be cautious of giving into unwarranted fixation towards genetics, as we n
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by impulsivepuppet 2y ago
As a worthless junior dev, thank you for the post. I am seeing a general sentiment of reluctancy towards an introduction of yet another dubious metric in an environment where "software quality" is hijacked to mean something else.
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by impulsivepuppet 2y ago
Don't tell the corporate about it, but using charcount/80, excluding newlines and whitespace is the _improved_ pseudoscience. Additionally, excluding 'imports', namespacing, and other boilerplate helps too.
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by impulsivepuppet 2y ago
Written language is like the outer skin layer, a product of a living organism consisting of dead cells. Being a good translator is to have a good sense of what those organisms are.
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by impulsivepuppet 2y ago
Using Tinder as analogy for bandmate-finding works quite well, as the end goal can be abstracted away as some "intimate relationship". Whether the mechanics of Tinder are worth parodying is another question, I need to try the app
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by impulsivepuppet 3y ago
Before ChatGPT, human language translation had a similar problem but people weren't as vocal about it. What I find frustrating that it's increasingly challenging to have DeepL translate thou -> du, as this was my go-to "ha
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by impulsivepuppet 3y ago
A strongly-related topic would be Curry–Howard correspondence, that is to say that programs and mathematical proofs have a lot in common. Proving an assertion is chaining transformations, without managing some underlying state / side-e