kerblang

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by kerblang 6d ago
Would like to emphasize: Software is intangible . It fails to meet most standards of "what is real", because it exists entirely in the realm of symbols. You're at the edge of reality. To human instincts it seems like an unre
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by kerblang 6d ago
Yes the modern toolchain is super-massive . There is no pushback. Remember when deployment was trivial? My expectation is that the toolchain will expand by another order of magnitude because LLM's, not just because of what they can pr
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by kerblang 7d ago
I would not move authorization into AWS unless you want to spend hours debugging YAML & JSON blobs & templates, struggle with verification, and worse yet, transfer application superuser work onto devs & admins. (Edit: also forgo
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by kerblang 14d ago
I wonder if it would help to revoke patents that help google maintain its monopoly, assuming that's the case and it's doable by a judge/congress/someone? What exactly is the nature of its monopoly that moots competition?
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by kerblang 15d ago
Why are the toilets (and other things) melted? Is this some artifact of the photography?
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by kerblang 19d ago
Are corporate profits actually at a peak, or just their percentage share of national profit (per the article)? Not in denial about the wealth gap, just wondering where profit growth is coming from.
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by kerblang 19d ago
Not guaranteed but easy, because Windows has mnemonics, where you can associate arbitrarily nested menus with actions, and each menu can have its own mnemonic key, so that you press ALT, then, say, "k", then, maybe "m" a
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by kerblang 21d ago
You'll need to go back another 1000 years or so for Jeremiah and friends, but they were masters of the oh-now-this-time-you're-really-gonna-get-it-just-you-wait-and-see polemic. These modern-day doomers are weak
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by kerblang 21d ago
PageRank is really the beginning of popularity as proxy for authentic/truthful/accurate/etc. Then we move on to upvotes, retweets, likes, listens, views, please-please-please-subscribe-to-my-channel, reviews etc. Thus the con
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by kerblang 29d ago
Using the kids' own artwork is a cool idea.
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by kerblang 1mo ago
Why can't postgres move to thread-per-connection like MySQL? Most of us use connection pools with mysql but it's nice to have super-fast connectivity and know that load surges are handled that much better.
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by kerblang 1mo ago
Sweet Bro & Hella Jeff is still one of the worst greatest of all time http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=0...
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by kerblang 2mo ago
Some people are unable to become motivated unless there is pervasive sense of emergency. They will delay their own work to the last possible minute and pull all-nighters just for the excitement. When those people get promoted to management
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by kerblang 2mo ago
I find that easier to read than giant graph of node thingies with lines (cue ancient debates about UML...). Have wondered whether attorneys would find it easier to work in a programming language than english, once they'd learned the fo
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by kerblang 2mo ago
I would be more inclined to agree if American companies were not in a competition to be the biggest flameout and lose the most money. How is China able to afford to train models that US companies need to burn billions of dollars for? In gen
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by kerblang 2mo ago
Ever since the first programming language the goal was to make the work easier, although there are different kinds of "easy", and sometimes you end up worse off because tools don't live up to promises. The human element is &q
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by kerblang 2mo ago
Check the 2nd section of article https://github.com/clawkwork/clawk#why-a-vm A lot of people would yell "docker isn't secure!" but if you're running Docker on MacOS (and Windows, I think) you'r
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by kerblang 2mo ago
In case anyone else read the "flipped on" as "flipped the switch on" rather than "reversed course on", no, it's the latter.
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by kerblang 2mo ago
I expect that a lot of bad norms that crop up in various programming communities will get tossed out after years of dysfunction, often as a result of outsiders and younger people arriving, and stating the obvious: This doesn't make sen
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by kerblang 3mo ago
It doesn't even matter and isn't worth arguing about what emotional state the submitter obtains. I don't care if they even achieve nirvana and ascend to permanent buddhahood. What matters is that they are wasting the time &am
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by kerblang 3mo ago
It's not a lack of respect for you; it's a lack of respect for the work itself. That lack is being rewarded and encouraged. Managers will be sure to tell you how much they respect you . Ask them if they respect the work and you&#
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by kerblang 3mo ago
Important keyboard design note the author would agree with but didn't point out: Function keys are supposed to be divided into groups of four with a distinct gap between each group. This makes it much easier for the wayward touch-typis
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by kerblang 3mo ago
There is very clearly an angry backlash, even if it is a backlash against phantoms, even if people are only demanding a better liar than the previous. There are no psychological black holes; the stress builds and eventually explodes.
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by kerblang 4mo ago
... IF that's your main performance problem. I already know I'm dealing with huge perf issues caused by ORM & lazy-load semantics. I/O abuse is usually going to be so, so much worse than memory/cache issues. Java is
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by kerblang 4mo ago
Oh that version actually made sense. Going back to our newer game, I realized that I am supposed to figure out where the number given should fall on the line. A case study in modern useability - looks a lot cooler, can't figure it out.
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by kerblang 4mo ago
I feel stupid but I could not bring myself to click the "sign" button and continue gameplay. A lot of electronic contracts are done like that and... nope, not clicking it... Mmmmm.... nope.
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by kerblang 4mo ago
> One computer scientist speculated that his LLM had attained sentience. > How did he reach that conclusion? Basically, he asked “Are you conscious?”, the machine responded “Yes”, and that was that. Oh, come on now. This is referring
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by kerblang 5mo ago
There's no need to be snide
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by kerblang 5mo ago
Adjusted for inflation? edit - sorry, it is in fact adjusted, text is kinda hard to see
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by kerblang 5mo ago
This is not a writeup of "Ada is better than everything else". The author is explaining how Ada achieved safety/reliability goals that your favorite language independently evolved much later on. That is why they kept bringing

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