mwgalloway

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by mwgalloway 2y ago
Because if you’re working on anything of note, you will need to sustain, scale, and operate that software while hopefully designing for it at a high level. LLMs are not suited for those problems, at least not anytime soon
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by mwgalloway 2y ago
I’m looking forward to when the job market recovers, but I’m not looking forward to the prospect of a significant amount of future demand being in the realm of having to scale and maintain the AI slop code that’s being generated now.
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by mwgalloway 2y ago
Ok, but why should I even care about what was on this hypothetical blackboard? Do you have any real world examples with business or technical significance where this "cope with it, somehow" approach to mutability is a clear win?
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by mwgalloway 2y ago
The "world" can just as easily be conceived of as being composed of discrete immutable facts rather than global mutable state. Either way, I kind of don't think that unfalsifiable ontological premises should be an important f
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by mwgalloway 3y ago
Ruby 3.3 has made major improvements to the debugging experience: https://railsatscale.com/2023-12-19-irb-for-ruby-3-3/
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by mwgalloway 3y ago
Ruby has RBS and sorbet to support using type annotations. They are each relatively new and aren’t as clean and well integrated as Python’s implementation, but it’s not as if type annotations in Ruby don’t exist.
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by mwgalloway 7y ago
You're treating feminism as a simplistic monolith rather than a multifaceted movement across different cultural groups and sects. There are plenty of differing opinions and trends within the umbrella of feminism that don't always
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by mwgalloway 8y ago
The 'Start your free quiz' button currently is not working. Seems like there may have been an event handler at one point that is no longer functioning.
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by mwgalloway 9y ago
Can you reference that? The CoinBase support page currently says crypto is insured against security breaches on their end.
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by mwgalloway 9y ago
The majority of coins on Coinbase are in cold-storage and crypto on Coinbase is insured against this type of breach. I personally wouldn't panic to get my coins out.
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by mwgalloway 9y ago
I totally do this. I also occasionally will have something breaking and soon realize I typed 'git' randomly in the middle of a file instead of in my terminal...
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by mwgalloway 9y ago
Using used parts might be twice as much labor for one thing, you have to remove the part carefully from one phone and then install it into another one. Another is that you can't always guarantee the repair is done well if it's don
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by mwgalloway 9y ago
I definitely felt like this was addressed during my time at DBC, there was a significant emphasis on figuring out how to approach problems you haven't encountered before methodically, learning new tech stacks quickly, and how to think
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by mwgalloway 9y ago
I graduated from DBC Chicago about 7 months ago, found a job as a Rails developer at a start-up here about 3 months later (I graduated right before the holidays though). Of my cohort of about 16 people I believe only about 2 or 3 haven&#x27