liampulles

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by liampulles 5d ago
Honesty does not just mean reporting facts. It also requires having an understanding of the scope of your knowledge and then endeavouring to communicate that scope effectively. At least one of those things is missing here.
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by liampulles 8d ago
The only thing I'd need and want from my office suite for AI are for it to stay in sync with a disk file. Then I can do stuff to the XLSX with Claude, and work on the spreadsheet in my spreadsheet editor. What I DONT want is for my off
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by liampulles 14d ago
Like many "cloud native ideas" there is a core 20% to the idea of feature flags that is useful to 80% of teams, and then a remaining 80% of periphery concerns that are relevant to 20% of teams (and I'm erring generously on th
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by liampulles 19d ago
So I love good old fashioned desktop-oriented websites, and the most complex thing I do on my phone is Google Maps... but I also recognize this is not true of the general population. Almost no one else except the PC gamers I know really lik
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by liampulles 20d ago
I don't bother, because again, the value is in me thinking.
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by liampulles 20d ago
One will lose the opportunity to develop domain understanding if they do not get into the weeds of thinking through the problem. I use Claude plan mode to do relatively small changes and even then I find that if I actually try and think thr
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by liampulles 25d ago
Mindset is important. If you care about the craft of programming then you can easily get into a mindset that software must be "perfect", which is almost always impossible to achieve, and so you will become continually dissatisfied
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by liampulles 1mo ago
It might be a little worse, but it will definitely be way cheaper.
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by liampulles 1mo ago
I think the main difference between me and Claude's work is that it doesn't find a needlessly complex solution offensive, and is happy to contribute that complex solution and to then move on and build further on it. After all, it
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by liampulles 1mo ago
For me, domain discoveries and elegant solutions arise out of periods of deep befuddlement, and are often a saving grace that can avoid lots of code. I'm lucky I guess that I've had enough time in this career to experience these m
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by liampulles 1mo ago
We've pivoted pretty hard from infra being cattle, haven't we?
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by liampulles 2mo ago
Wasn't Capital One founded on the premise of massive-scale market and product experimentation? Makes sense that they would design tools that match that approach.
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by liampulles 2mo ago
I love the principle of this. I hate the truncated graphs.
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by liampulles 2mo ago
The copy here says that your data is Local-only and that it can interface with Claude, Codex, or Gemini... are you running these models locally, or am I missing something?
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by liampulles 2mo ago
Great video on the subject of applying science to business and government: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf0vb4yiZR4&t=2s
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by liampulles 3mo ago
Having deno desktop do the framework handling for a bunch of popular options is an interesting choice. It seems deno is trying less to be an agnostic JS runtime, and more an "integrate everything toolkit" (not unlike Spring in the
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by liampulles 3mo ago
It's very similar to Optional types in Java.
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by liampulles 3mo ago
At a previous job, we introduced a simple Optional generic type, with JSON implementation, and it pretty much solved uncertain nil issues. Sometimes the solution is simple and boring.
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by liampulles 3mo ago
There is a core 20% to Kubernetes which is very nice, mostly being the Deployment and Service management stuff. That along with a very basic GitOps for cluster management (an infra repo for operators using Flux, applying service level yaml
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by liampulles 3mo ago
Most stupid animations I have seen introduced to UIs are done because they are stupidly effective at impressing business stakeholders, especially non-technical ones. It never fails to astound me how some people will fawn over "delightf
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by liampulles 3mo ago
*Claude Fable is relentlessly burning your dollars There, fixed it for you.
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by liampulles 3mo ago
The original Skunkworks optimizes for a low production volume of vehicles which operate in a very extreme band of performance. And yes these projects are able to deliver within budget, but they are still very expensive machines. This is tot
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by liampulles 3mo ago
Its never been quicker or cheaper to build something with bad foundational assumptions and principles. Its never been easier to add features whilst not recognizing that it comes with added responsibility. And it will never be too late to hi
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by liampulles 3mo ago
Ok, but doing manual memory management in Rust is a bit like digging a ditch with a spoon. I get that its technically possible, that does not mean it should be done outside the most exceptional of circumstances.
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by liampulles 3mo ago
There are performance reasons to handle memory allocation manually and tactically. This is why languages which deal with memory manually are not going anywhere. Whether Zig will become dominant in that space remains to be seen.
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by liampulles 3mo ago
This kind of thing is totally routine here in South Africa. Probably about a third of power cuts in my area these days are due to some kind of cable or electrical theft.
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by liampulles 3mo ago
I'll wait until they do some PAL emulation: take an NTSC source, blurrily upscale it to 576p, apply a crap deinterlacing algorithm to produce a technically progressive image, and some frame blending to get it to 25 fps. Shitorific.
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by liampulles 4mo ago
I think the 80/20 solution for reliable workflows is: - Ensure the workflow is idempotent - if it stops or fails at any point, you should be able to start it from scratch and skip / happily redo various elements. - Store the messa
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by liampulles 4mo ago
At my last company, I wrote a little tool for pretty printing our JSON logs. You pipe into it and it prints out. It's quite easy to write such a thing in Go, and useful for assigning preferred timezone conversions, and colors for your
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by liampulles 4mo ago
It's interesting to think that logging is now an undocumented API.

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