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by pdimitar 5d ago
Yeah, exactly my experience. Especially ever since Fable came out, I felt paralysed, many times, about how many decisions I have to hand it. Which is 10x harder when you handed it the reins to build the PR and you practically only knew the
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by pdimitar 5d ago
The "exactly" part is the problem. Just last two weeks I had to slap Fable, three times, to stop writing 1000-2000 lines of defensive code... because of DB columns I just forgot should be NOT NULL. That was it. Nothing else. I tol
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by pdimitar 8d ago
And? Why should they not use Cloudflare? What do the EU investors do outside of demanding guaranteed profit with zero risk for them? How many are ready to absorb 10-30 years of new infrastructure investments and play the long game? If the E
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by pdimitar 11d ago
Huh? Can you show source on the "it will not compact"? Very interesting.
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by pdimitar 13d ago
> Or to search the contents of a JSON file, you would maybe use `grep`, or perhaps `jq` and a well crafted query Try https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron .
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by pdimitar 14d ago
How do you do the proxy thing?
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by pdimitar 26d ago
Sounds like their problem, not something a SaaS product should dance around. Yet they kind of did. I've limited participation in my libraries with GitHub's setting that nobody who made an account in the last 6 months can do anythi
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by pdimitar 26d ago
It's also a great opportunity for character development. Use it for that, and not for trying to overbook yourself to 300%. You don't owe the world anything at all. If you're conscientious, then give a little -- here and there
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by pdimitar 1mo ago
All being said, I have most sympathy towards engineers of all people. They don't get to call the shots, they do as they are told. 99% of the time by an extremely out-of-touch managers. Managers and executives though? Those I do blame.
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by pdimitar 1mo ago
Rust's disadvantage in adding time is mostly a one-time initial investment, in my experience. After you get comfortable and learn the important idioms, you go through the development loop quite quickly. Compilation/linking speed c
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by pdimitar 1mo ago
What kind of workplaces you people have if you can code "for fun"? I am tired of only ever being gauged by immediate usefulness. You hiring? Also when you emphasize "exactly", you are not giving any actual reasons.
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by pdimitar 1mo ago
Not hiring 20-25 year olds with social science Ph.D.-s would be a good start (don't remember where I saw that a while ago). Next: proficient engineering managers, not just people who immediately bend a knee to the middle manager. Oh wa
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by pdimitar 1mo ago
Shhh! Do you hear that? It's the collective scream of middle managers screaming in terror. Jokes aside, yes, quite correct. Even frontier models like Fable have very obvious limits.
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by pdimitar 1mo ago
Oh I agree, I am just saying that if you really did not want to spend, there are obviously options. I am thinking of promoting my super old and long-time-not-used PC with an i7-3770 and 32GB DDR3 RAM to a server and I bought a ~$45 motherbo
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by pdimitar 1mo ago
Why don't you just get a MB only for now? What mandates an entire new batch of hardware?
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by pdimitar 1mo ago
A bunch of queued and not yet picked up GHA CI runs in our org as of 18:14 UTC @ Aug 6 2026. Hope they fix it soon.
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by pdimitar 2mo ago
I generally dislike PG's articles as very tone-deaf and billionaire-having-all-the-time-in-the-world centric, but this one was okay. Figured I'll give it a chance and I don't regret it (this time; a pleasant exception, usuall
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by pdimitar 2mo ago
I don't see how you would need more and more space for media with time. You don't have to take it upon yourself to archive the entire history of Hollywood, you know. You can get _very_ far with 20TB, hell, even with just 10TB.
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by pdimitar 2mo ago
Nothing more to understand, your reading sounds exactly right to me. Rent-seekers wanting ever more income, color me surprised.
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by pdimitar 2mo ago
Cool but I would like to reuse my entire account directory and just switch accounts and nothing else. Now I just do `/logout` and then go through the login flow again because I don't want to lose access to all memories and transcr
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by pdimitar 2mo ago
The tongue-in-cheek tone aside, every good rework begins with mostly replicating the old program and only then fixing bugs. But I've seen brave reworks too. They get my standing ovation when pulled off right.
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by pdimitar 2mo ago
My comment is more or less "I get the problems and I am not seeing the market agree that there even is a problem". It's capitalism manifest: squeeze the workers as hard as you can, get the next batch when the current one gets
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by pdimitar 2mo ago
OK, find me an employer who does not require me to work 5x more and 5x faster than before and we'll not feel the cognitive decline by being able to, you know, actually stop and ingest the info with our brains, at our own pace, and form
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by pdimitar 2mo ago
I don't see the multiple dramatic comments to the effect of "this whole thing was a failure" as a level skepticism. While I am sure that one exists, I've noticed another wave of Rust hate hopping on that event which is h
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by pdimitar 2mo ago
Well, OK, you do that. Many others don't. Not sure what your comment adds except saying "not everybody allows audo-update" which is IMO redundant and obvious.
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by pdimitar 2mo ago
Take it to your employer then, not to us. We want maintainable code we can quickly onboard in, and be able to modify and extend. Your artistry is getting in the way of other people getting stuff done.
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by pdimitar 2mo ago
Yeah well, I don't even have that last part so great that you have it. I am sure it helps quite a bit.
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by pdimitar 2mo ago
Here are a few examples of what I thought was clearly understandable from my "1-10% non-determinism in LLM coding output": - Variations in code patterns used. Might be a chain if if/else-s and not a case/switch statement
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by pdimitar 2mo ago
I am not quite sure what point you are making here, admitting it plainly. I was just saying to my parent poster that their non-determinism percentages are too pessimistic. Sure the LLMs are not 100% deterministic; that's a sad fact of
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by pdimitar 2mo ago
I have found, both in my commercial and OSS work, that getting better at producing protection wards reduces the non-determinism to somewhere in-between 1-10%. Case in point: writing our own linters.

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