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by pbhowmic 1y ago
That's Death Valley Dinesh!! I just re-heard that episode on "Best of Car Talk"
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by pbhowmic 2y ago
I would push back against DSLs. It means year another language to learn and that is a barrier to adoption.
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by pbhowmic 2y ago
Vault. Save to Vault and make it so that team members can sync to/from Vault.
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by pbhowmic 2y ago
I am developing a Pythonic alternative to ArgoCD and FluxCD that uses no CRDs or in-cluster controllers for continuous delivery of applications to Kubernetes clusters
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by pbhowmic 2y ago
I still have one. A few years old but still works, rock-solid and what I love best is the form-factor: unobtrusive, in fact, totally hidden from view.
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by pbhowmic 2y ago
OMG! No! Having dealt with Go templates in the context of writing Helm charts, I would say this is not a a great idea. Please, invent a better templating language for Go, and then perhaps go down this path. That being said, I am not a great
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Daniel Kahneman, pioneering behavioral psychologist, dies at 90(princeton.edu)
2 points by pbhowmic 2y ago|0 comments
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by pbhowmic 3y ago
In a world where most READMEs and the like are in Markdown format I like to use Asciidoc and I like to keep the two in sync using pandoc
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by pbhowmic 3y ago
There is no protecting against pre conceived notions. If a Typescript programmer, for example, expects Python to behave like Typescript then that is on them. Typescript has types. Python has type hints. RTFM for God’s sake.
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by pbhowmic 3y ago
They have been saying recession is 6 months away for two years now.
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by pbhowmic 3y ago
I contracted for Wayfair - I left around September 2022 - and this has impacted some fine engineers with whom I had worked
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Wayfair lays off 13% of its workforce – CNN Business(cnn.com)
3 points by pbhowmic 3y ago|1 comments
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by pbhowmic 3y ago
I find it remarkable that Mercedes-Benz is near the bottom of the list.
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by pbhowmic 3y ago
I ought to warn anyone considering this: milk weed spreads like a weed. If you plant one, don’t be surprised if you get a half dozen of them in your garden by next year
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by pbhowmic 3y ago
Yes it does
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by pbhowmic 3y ago
Pandoc supports asciidoc. I have used it to convert from .adoc to.md
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by pbhowmic 3y ago
I made a volcano out of plaster of Paris. The cool bit was that for the eruption I used potassium permanganate in the volcano’s cone and poured glycerin on it to ignite the volcano.
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by pbhowmic 3y ago
In the past, I have found community - and many lifelong friendships - in a ballroom & latin dance community. Currently, I find community in hiking groups.
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by pbhowmic 3y ago
He is featured prominently in at least two of Michael Pollan’s books. HowTto Change Your Mind; and This Is Your Mind On Plants.
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A New ‘M*A*S*H’ Scene Written by ChatGPT, Read by Hawkeye and B.J(nytimes.com)
3 points by pbhowmic 4y ago|1 comments
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FCC Issues Robocall Cease-and-Desist Letter to Twilio(fcc.gov)
4 points by pbhowmic 4y ago|0 comments
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by pbhowmic 4y ago
Drinking, much like smoking, starts in the teenage years, not as an act of rebellion but as an aspirational goal of adulthood. It's something adolescents will frequently see as a marker of adulthood and reach for the marker as a way to
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by pbhowmic 4y ago
FWIW I made a career switch in my late 20s. It involved going to grad school to be able to switch to a new career. It ended badly for me though because I graduated as the Great Recession was starting but that I could not have foreseen when
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Can You Salvage Your Rug?(fivethirtyeight.com)
1 points by pbhowmic 4y ago|0 comments
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by pbhowmic 4y ago
And this article bubbles up on the day Intel lays off 20k
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by pbhowmic 4y ago
I feel much the same about django rest framework
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by pbhowmic 4y ago
Idempotency is great to have and almost always non existent. It is just infuriating as a dev to keep coming across this mirage of an idea. I don’t get to reprocess the same bill twice without bad consequences. I don’t get to ship the same o
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by pbhowmic 4y ago
I have an ex-colleague who worked at an Australian bank in America (do the math!). They still had Python 2.6 scripts. This is circa 2019.
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by pbhowmic 4y ago
I wish I had that kind of coach for my process
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Bureau of Reclamation demands water cuts as Colorado River hits dire lows – WaPo(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by pbhowmic 4y ago|0 comments

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