marklubi

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by marklubi 3d ago
I'm convinced that a large reason for their apocalyptic warnings is because they're working to build moats for their businesses. Get enough bills restricting AI passed through legislation, and they can cut off or slow down any new
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by marklubi 2mo ago
I started using the term “opinionated software” a little over 15 years when I was starting a new company. I built what I wanted as a participant and a fan of the sport. Lots of other people had their opinions on it (“you’re doing it wrong
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by marklubi 2mo ago
https://github.com/jelly-org/ui It's buried at the bottom. Had to click on the "sponsoring" link, and then select the package. Feels like they should make the repository more prominent.
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by marklubi 3mo ago
Thanks for sharing the video of moving the server. I wouldn't say that I miss those days, but there's some good nostalgia there having done some things that feel pretty similar (early 2000s). Not quite to that extreme though.
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by marklubi 3mo ago
For the project I've been working on for more than 15 years, we make extensive use of the pub/sub functionality for distributing live data. Pub/sub scales well across the cluster. Publish to one, and it goes out to subscribe
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by marklubi 4mo ago
It reminds me of a rant that my friend sometimes goes on with regards to really low quality items, particularly about music... someone wrote it, someone performed it, someone mixed it, someone approved it, someone developed marketing for it
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by marklubi 4mo ago
The popping sounds from a turbo car is from the wastegate (whistling sound for a blow off value) when the system is releasing pressure from the turbo that was built up. It prevents over compression that would damage the engine.
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by marklubi 4mo ago
I was thinking a similar thing. Many of our customers have purpose use computers that rarely see physical infrastructure internet, but need a modern browser (many chose Chrome on their own, we never recommended it). They're going to g
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by marklubi 5mo ago
Documenting why is incredibly important, but also why something has not been done. The last business I started, I was coding at full steam building features that I could make work now although not optimal, so I would add comments reflecti
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by marklubi 9mo ago
> They enjoyed each other's company and bonded over these shared experiences My son competes on the national and international level in two different sports, so we do a lot of traveling. The bonding is very important, just as it is
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by marklubi 11mo ago
Haven't noticed that one. Oxidation perhaps, or maybe salt in the air based on the locations? West coast food (particularly oysters) seems to be a little bit more salty/briny.
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by marklubi 11mo ago
Similar thing with orange juice. The producers add 'flavor packs' to adjust the taste for different regions of the US. My son and I travel all over the US for various competitions, and there are certain regions where he refuses t
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by marklubi 11mo ago
This is a terrible video. Doesn't even have dates right. ECUs have been locked far before 2017. I don't like the lack of buttons/knobs for things like heat (they can be configured based on the weather though), but most of h
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by marklubi 11mo ago
They already have a monitoring system... TPMS. Four distinct IDs for every vehicle passing a location makes for a good fingerprint (they've been using this for years to estimate traffic levels) Add in something like Flock license plat
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by marklubi 11mo ago
Bought my teenage son a couple lock picking kits, he's picked almost every single lock we have in our house. I then picked up a sizable rock, and told him I could get into the house faster than he could. He didn't understand for
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by marklubi 1y ago
> He wrote Thrones explicitly to challenge Hollywood clichés Hard disagreement on that one. He wrote an epic story known as A Song of Ice and Fire (started in '96) that ended up getting out of hand and tied up with too many Goordian
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by marklubi 1y ago
> This reminds me of the internet in 2000 The thing that changed it was smartphones (~7 years later). Suddenly, the internet was available everywhere and not just a thing for nerds. Not sure that AI is quite there yet, currently trying
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by marklubi 1y ago
Similar story for me. With my work, I get pulled in a lot of different directions at seemingly random times. This helps me quickly resume what I was doing.
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by marklubi 1y ago
I can confirm this. Have a relative that works for Apple. Made the mistake of complaining in front of her about their take on sales (they make six-figures annually from my app). She went off on how much they give us (including Xcode) for
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by marklubi 1y ago
Every time there is an Xcode update, I dread installing it because it will be a whole bunch of new bugs, and I just finally figured out the previous ones.
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by marklubi 1y ago
I wish. It's on Github, but my hands are tied and I can't share them since it's someone else's property now (hooray for exits, I think). It's mostly a thought process... I have or need something (entity), lets get
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by marklubi 1y ago
Thanks for taking the time to respond. Ultimately though, most of those aren't required from the beginning, but the syntactic sugar, abstractions, and performance gains from them are amazing. You probably already know, but I'll o
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by marklubi 1y ago
> 27 years ago! Sometimes, I feel like I'm the only old guy on here. BASIC, VB6, .NET, and some Java along the way. Too many new ones to list, although that might be a whole other problem in itself.
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by marklubi 1y ago
.NET is amazing and keeps getting better. JetBrains is killing it with their IDEs and add-ons. Currently running nearly a dozen different services written in .NET running on Alpine in K8S. Started transitioning most of my code to .NET Core
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by marklubi 1y ago
C# is amazing. Decisions at the education level were made well before it went cross-platform though (FWIW, I've been using it since before v1.1). Would be interesting in what confusing syntax you're referring to. I think one of
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by marklubi 1y ago
> Outside of the mystical incantation of `public static void main(String[] args) {` I don't think it's mystical. If you don't have an instance of the class yet, you need a starting point and static fills that void (lol. I
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by marklubi 1y ago
I concur with most of your thoughts, except that Java is never going away. I might wish that it would, but here we are.
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by marklubi 1y ago
Not going to disagree. It's the sandbox that we're playing in though (dealing with, HOORAY JAVA!) since it's a class at school. Have to start somewhere, teach them better alternatives as they evolve. Not even going to broac
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by marklubi 1y ago
I fully disagree with Java as a starting point and it was an interesting conversation with the teacher. Apparently, "College Prep" courses more or less determine that Java is the language that they should use. His teacher thought
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by marklubi 1y ago
> One of the things I've tried to teach people I've mentored over the past few decades is the principle of "Sharing is better than assuming." If you know something, share it with other people. Definitely agree with th

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