jkoudys

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by jkoudys 2y ago
I usually ask gpt4o as my ref doc.
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by jkoudys 2y ago
The opening screen in this game is why I ended up working at IBM for 8 years.
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by jkoudys 2y ago
Yep. The problem with the story of bikeshedding is that it assumes people know bike sheds but not nuclear reactors. There are plenty of cases of people who are great at nuclear reactor design but have no idea how workers should park their b
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by jkoudys 2y ago
I was big on Rails scene when it was huge in 2008, and saw a big exodus from it. I found so many of the "Rails" problems were solved by learning two languages: ruby, and sql. People would go to crazy lengths to avoid looking at th
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by jkoudys 2y ago
Crypto "currency"
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by jkoudys 3y ago
I absolutely loved this article. Super well written with interesting insights.
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by jkoudys 3y ago
I'm the same camp. I use async/await because they exist and it's usually a good idea to use similar approaches to other devs, but I question why we even needed async/await in the first place. It's a big deal to add
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by jkoudys 3y ago
Chilled sounds pleasant. The utility of lukecold is you're saying it's cold but not cold enough.
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by jkoudys 3y ago
Probably why LotR translated so well into film, while Dune is very hard to capture in live action. The first book at least has some big battles and over the top villains to anchor the whole thing. Children of Dune is like 90% discussing rel
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by jkoudys 3y ago
Everyone gets murdered, commits suicide, transformed into crazy magic people or giant sandworms, or repeatedly dies then comes back in different forms over centuries. LotR had them do a bunch of hero shit, then everyone either went home to
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by jkoudys 3y ago
Lukecool is perfect for my wife. She gets acid reflux very easily and needs to drink ice cold water always. Needing to describe an offending glass of water as "not ice cold" is clumsy and inaccurate, but saying it's lukewarm
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by jkoudys 3y ago
What comment section are you in? People here love +0 and -0!
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by jkoudys 3y ago
A year ago these articles were about how destructive server farms for crypto mining were. Now those same servers have pivoted to "AI" and the articles about them are almost the same. Perhaps we will always find a use for this comp
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by jkoudys 3y ago
I don't see the issue in pointing out that research like this gets misrepresented and weaponized.
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by jkoudys 3y ago
Which makes this a great example of the shittiest side of "AI": not as software techniques to detect patterns and relationships, but as a method for obfuscating your sources. This software really is just saying "don't pr
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by jkoudys 3y ago
Many have covered specific learning material, but my best advice is to find a mentor. It really is a skill that's best learned by apprenticing. I new a lot of concepts and could muddle my way through them, but it wasn't until I ha
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by jkoudys 3y ago
You're saying that with the benefit of hindsight. If their dominance was broken, then retroactively they were never a monopoly.
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by jkoudys 3y ago
There are so many shit ports that have been left on the ash heap of history. The Atari 2600 port of Pac-man was pretty infamous. The worst offenders all ignored the technical requirements and were clearly led by the marketing/business
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by jkoudys 3y ago
Only us olds really appreciate how groundbreaking Commander Keen was. The NES or Game Boy, with its graphics organized into tiles and layers, could give an extremely smooth experience for a certain kind of game. PC games in the pre-gpu era
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by jkoudys 3y ago
How appropriate, you fight like a cow.
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by jkoudys 3y ago
That control system example has been what 95% of software development has been over my career. It's amazing how often devs simply won't recognize or acknowledge that they're resolving ambiguities by guessing. Ultimately every
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by jkoudys 3y ago
The cynic in me is upset at how easily exploited people are, but the optimist in me is happy at how overwhelmingly good most people are. There are scores of people out there (most of us included) who have the skills to pull something like t
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by jkoudys 3y ago
Yeah no.
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by jkoudys 3y ago
Teddy bear, teddy bear, turn around. Teddy bear, teddy bear, touch the ground. Teddy bear, teddy bear, push your shoe. Teddy bear, teddy bear, off to school. So tasty and healthy.
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by jkoudys 3y ago
No. >>> x = (x for x in [1,2,3]) >>> x <generator object <genexpr> at 0x7bebccac10>
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by jkoudys 3y ago
It's basically the same. A lot of people feel it's more pythonic to spread this out across multiple lines with understandable indentation, while comprehensions can smush it all together. But the list comprehension was already ther
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by jkoudys 3y ago
I really enjoy the comprehension syntax too, which is a bit odd at first. But it lets you think about the typical map/filter approach you'd take in JS, PHP, etc. to build a list OR an iterator in almost the same way. I started to
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by jkoudys 3y ago
Generators are great, and their comprehensions included are some of the best things about python. It's wild how many people jump straight to building a huge dataset (straight to numpy) when all they really need is a few iterators to la
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by jkoudys 3y ago
I was at IBM during peak SOAP. It was crazy how much business pushed for abstraction for abstractions sake in this domain. I'm really hoping htmx helps people get their heads on straight with REST. All these scores of devs have been wr
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by jkoudys 3y ago
I feel like this is being rediscovered right now with htmx. Servers having their responses updated to give back html markup to include.

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