lexlash

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by lexlash 1y ago
The Home Assistant-branded ZBT-1 [0] is $30ish and, if your goal is Home Assistant, you're probably better off going that route especially now that IKEA is going all in on Thread/Matter (which the ZBT-1 supports in addition to Zig
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by lexlash 1y ago
I've introduced mithril at three different companies to audiences of non-UX engineers and it went well each time, resulting in small, static, API-driven single page applications. For my Software Engineering class, I'm able to get
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by lexlash 1y ago
Died fighting off a patent troll: https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/13/linux_ai_assistant_ki...
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by lexlash 2y ago
Saving some clicks: $10/yr for the first year, $8 for the second, $6 for the third year and onwards uninterrupted. $1/$0.80/$0.60 per month for the first/second/third year uninterrupted. I paid for the VS Code theme
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by lexlash 2y ago
I see; that's L3, L4, and L5 progression in a nutshell at Google - although leaving L3s alone doesn't _guarantee_ something will go wrong, it was more that there was no way for them to figure out optimal solutions without help tha
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by lexlash 2y ago
The most interesting thing is the timeline at the end, which shows what they were successful at and promoted for (management-type roles) and what happened when they tried to transition from SRE management to SWE IC (they fell back into mana
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by lexlash 2y ago
To be fair to her, those contributions are quite old and probably not representative of current skills.
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by lexlash 2y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "junior" here. L3 is early career, L4 is mid-career, L5 is senior. You can hit L5 on the strength of pure technical contributions regardless of business/org needs, usually. L6+ is staff, and
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by lexlash 2y ago
Yeah, as an ex-SWE, seeing this person take just over two years to get from L3 to L5 is kind of shocking.
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by lexlash 2y ago
https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Amazon,Google&track=Software... is largely accurate. An L7 at Amazon would have an easy time getting an L6 interview at Google; an L6 at Google would not have an easy time getting an L7 i
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by lexlash 2y ago
Off the top of my head: 1) glibc doesn't static link and musl requires you to understand how musl is different from glibc (DNS resolution being a favorite), so you always end up with at least that dynamic dependency, at which point mig
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by lexlash 2y ago
You don't need to run bleeding edge versions unless you feel like it; there's a stable release with rolling security patches every 6 months (current is 24.05, next will be 24.11). You don't need to keep multiple copies of eac
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by lexlash 2y ago
NixOS aside, Nix manages state _outside_ of / independent with respect to your operating system, which is why it's so damn useful. With Nix, I can build OCI images the exact same way every time; with Docker, I have to hope that th
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by lexlash 2y ago
Chiming in to say that direnv is one of the greatest projects I've ever come across and it gets damn near everything right out of the box - you can also use it without any Nix at all. (It makes a nice gateway to Nix, though; once you
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by lexlash 2y ago
Nix, and NixOS, are designed for those of us who have to clean 10,000 proverbial litter boxes every day. I use Nix fairly extensively at work; I use it very little at home, where I don't need to worry about what dependency someone took
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by lexlash 2y ago
https://www.nixhub.io/ - and I’ve seen others - make the searching easy. It’s odd to me that I rely so much on web based tools (like search.nixos.org!) to look up nixpkgs details for my commandline but eh. For a flake, you
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by lexlash 2y ago
Cheap clones of the DE-10 Nano ($99 target) are allegedly on the way along with new boards that make different tradeoffs with the pins. Should be interesting - there’s a lot of life left (PSX/N64/Saturn are all very recently added
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by lexlash 2y ago
Like `tmux -CC` and iTerm2? https://iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html
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by lexlash 2y ago
Having been down this path - asdf didn’t go far enough in creating reproducible/sealed environments, the quality of the plugins per language varied dramatically, shims made a lot of assumptions about how tools will be used, and you can
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by lexlash 2y ago
There’s some really annoying edge cases I’ve found once Xcode gets involved and graphical apps are a bit hit and miss (Wireshark failed pretty completely for me a few weeks back.) I’d still call it a major improvement over the alternatives.
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by lexlash 2y ago
That’s every solution, honestly - you’re just choosing what % of users will need help, and frankly asdf has a lot of edges. Nix’s self-contained declarative stuff is a pain to learn, certainly, when used to brew install $whatever - but it’s
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by lexlash 2y ago
In my experience, nix-darwin and home manager are a little awkward to install together (you’ll want both) and central management is…tricky. All of these being large company problems, mind - I can’t rely on the median user googling to fix is
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by lexlash 2y ago
95% of the difficulty I have at $DAYJOB is nix installation and dealing with enterprise certificate/auth crud…sadly devenv doesn’t help much there. Our pilot is quite a bit larger. Sticking to plainer flakes has made it easier for folk
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by lexlash 2y ago
Having tried asdf - among other tools - for awhile, dropping it for nix+flakes+direnv was great. Devenv seems nice (in fact it’s how I started down this path) but I haven’t found anything it does for me that I can’t get out of flakes - so f
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by lexlash 2y ago
“Guillable” says it was maybe only half way edited, at least the version I just read.
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by lexlash 2y ago
So something in the realm of Proxmox or PVC or xcp-ng? I would agree that the three things I can list here are a hard sell compared to any integrated cloud provider - they all focus on VMs and the rest is up to you, or so my experience has
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by lexlash 2y ago
At least they gave sizes in American and metric this time. Snark aside, rounds to 30mm diameter and 6.5-8.5mm height, if memory serves.
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by lexlash 2y ago
Your link discusses how to install fusefs-exfat, which is a separate package, which is what all Linux distributions did before the 2019 licensing - Android had a separate licensed kernel module, etc. I can’t speak to the current state of BS
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by lexlash 3y ago
True. I have to say I enjoy the 3’s standard strap so far - huge improvement over the 2 - but the elite strap was part of my day one order :)
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by lexlash 3y ago
Far, far more usable. You’ve got a much wider FOV and much better head tracking (6DoF vs 3DoF) and that’s before the basic improvements you get from having more resolution to play with.

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