mcluck

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by mcluck 4d ago
People have been floating this theory every time a slowdown is called for ever since GPT-2. Every time it turns out that we had not hit the ceiling. I'm sure one day we will but it's just not a reasonable position, in my opinion.
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by mcluck 5d ago
"Knowing the struggle" is/was a massive part of my enjoyment of programming. I used to love browsing Github just to see what people were building and really appreciating clever ideas or the amount of work required to make som
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by mcluck 11d ago
The title does not imply it's comprehensive. If anything, a title like that suggests that it's only scratching the surface. If I read an article like "Haskell for C# Developers" I would not expect to be an expert in Hask
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by mcluck 2mo ago
For what it's worth, I love the semantics of many indentation based languages (F# for example) but really dislike editing them. Visually scanning is much easier with braces (imo) and it's much easier to navigate braced languages w
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by mcluck 3mo ago
The article addresses both of these pretty clearly. Semantic versioning gets borked with reverts and the automatic changelog is targeting the wrong audience
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by mcluck 5mo ago
Thank goodness. It's been impossible to talk about Coq to people who don't already know what it is.
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by mcluck 5mo ago
This was my first thought. I'd like to see it running at like 10x or more to better grasp the change over time
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by mcluck 7mo ago
I think you're missing the part where interacting with strangers is also working the general socialization muscle. If you find yourself being more social in general, and give yourself the time to recharge, then you'll be better eq
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by mcluck 9mo ago
That's exactly the sorts of issues I was having. That and it somehow kept losing my encryption information so I'd lose access to all of my messages or something similarly ridiculous
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by mcluck 9mo ago
Very cool article. To really drill it home, I would have loved to see how the query plan changes. It _looks_ like it should Just Work(tm) but my brain refuses to believe that it's able to use those new indexes so flawlessly
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by mcluck 10mo ago
I've tried off and on to actually use Matrix. I was a bit of a loud supporter in the early days. Unfortunately, it looks like it still hasn't grown past the fundamental issues I was having then. It might be time to try something e
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by mcluck 1y ago
This is exactly the kind of negativity that only appears on the internet and that this study sort of shined a light on. Would you really tell this person to their face that their art sucks just because it isn't good for you?
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by mcluck 1y ago
Part of the goals of making it so tiny, as far as I understand it, is that a normal person could reasonably implement the entire thing from server to client. Going full HTTPS and HTML is a bit of a lift for a single person in a short period
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by mcluck 1y ago
False. Let the web be fun again
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by mcluck 2y ago
At least in the US, you just bite down. At best they can apply some over-the-counter lidocaine Source: I got an NFC tag in my hand
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by mcluck 2y ago
While it's true that they must comply with the STOP message, I'm not finding any proof that it must be intercepted before reaching the business. https://www.cullenllp.com/blog/fcc-adopts-new-tcpa-opt-out-r...
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by mcluck 2y ago
I actually kind of like the subset of Jira that I use. Put tickets in a project, create related tickets when I'm breaking down larger projects, expose the project as a Kanban board so we can see at a glance if the right things are bein
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by mcluck 2y ago
I would say an actively harmful TypeScript. Just a couple of days ago, I had bug in production because apparently the union of two types is not the intersection but the sum. It exploded because one type had a method that the other didn&#x27
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by mcluck 2y ago
Do you have any plans for releasing an SDK or something similar? I would love to use this as the base for something else I'm building
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by mcluck 2y ago
I'm actually in this exact position right now. The vast majority of the time I write in TS but I have a need to process a whole lot of data so I went for Rust instead. Java is too much of a headache for me, personally
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by mcluck 2y ago
I frequently hear about this abuse of estimates and even ran in to it myself when I was a more junior engineer. In my opinion, part of maturing as an engineer is learning to call your shots and properly communicate when you aren't sure
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by mcluck 2y ago
I'll go so far as to say that the original camera is pretty terrible. This looks like an excellent upgrade
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by mcluck 2y ago
> To authenticate is to prove who you are. To authorize is to grant access. We should be screaming this type of thing from the rooftops. I struggled so much with the difference until someone said something to this effect. AuthN = who you
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by mcluck 2y ago
Suicidal humor is very much a Millennial trait. They weren't the first to make those jokes but they definitely made it bigger, more common, and went beyond the standard "ugh, just kill me now" you'd hear before.
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by mcluck 2y ago
I wouldn't call out the depression bit as a Gen Z exclusive. Millennials basically invented modern, every day, gallows humor. Arguably, they're also the ones to normalize going to therapy. Not to say that things aren't bad, j
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by mcluck 2y ago
It's a tricky thing: my experience does mirror some of the "propaganda" despite coming to Europe with heavily rose-tinted glasses. I'm not going to pretend that my limited data is enough to extrapolate to the whole of th
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by mcluck 2y ago
I completely agree but have we gone full meta? Being negative about the negativity? ;)
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by mcluck 2y ago
There's a massive pile of options for writing styles in the same file as the JS. Naming stuff isn't hard when you use CSS modules. Learning and memorizing the Tailwind DSL takes just as much time as it takes to learn basic CSS. Do
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by mcluck 2y ago
Call me a caveman but the lack of an option to use AI tools offline is a massive downside to me. I am connected to the internet most of the time but I take comfort in knowing that, for most of my work, I could lose my connection and not eve
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by mcluck 2y ago
I once worked a job where I easily spent 4 times as much time fighting with Terraform files than actually writing features. This company got less than 1,000 hits per day. I think about this a lot

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