pragmatic

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by pragmatic 5d ago
Yes, that’s where the pesticide are. Can’t get enough pesticides.
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by pragmatic 5d ago
https://www.britannica.com/story/can-apple-seeds-kill-you Also, don’t feed them to dogs especially small dogs. Highly unlikely to be a problem but people die from water poisoning so…
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by pragmatic 27d ago
“ replaced with computers and with people who know how to use them” One of those things is true…
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by pragmatic 27d ago
Ownership of something you have little control over is a great way to burn yourself out. If you constantly have to push back against the eager puppy jr dev who’s 1000% sure their vibe slop is prod ready and has proudly told the admiring cro
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by pragmatic 27d ago
And then the senior engineer burns the f#ck out. Reviewing 100 lines of Junior dev slop was bad enough. Now 1000 lines of misguided jr dev ai slop? Ugh.
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by pragmatic 1mo ago
Because everyone wants to Cargo Cult the architecture they see in Big Tech blogs. “If we build like Google, we become Google” I don’t know why a small company would want Google’s engineering problems.
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by pragmatic 1mo ago
Decent list but the ORM thing makes me suspicious. He links here as some kind of damning proof that ORMs are default bad. https://openai.com/index/scaling-postgresql/ “It’s a poor craftsmen who blames their tools.
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by pragmatic 1mo ago
Why did Uncle Boob ever have any credence or credibility? What did Bob ever ship that gives him any gravitas or authority in this area?
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by pragmatic 1mo ago
Are the examples any better? What a muddled bunch of gibberish.
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by pragmatic 1mo ago
Yes. So all you need to do is look at the code samples. Is the most non-sensical thing I've seen. So of course the junior dev parade thinks it's the gospel. Had a terrible manger who would swear by this book but couldn't cod
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by pragmatic 1mo ago
What?
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by pragmatic 2mo ago
Agent code can only be read and understood by agents. We’ve reached the point where people just can’t comprehend these giant code blobs. Feature, bug or emergent property? I don’t think the distinction matters as much as the reality. We’re
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by pragmatic 2mo ago
Could just as easily say the same thing about Bun. If one can easily swap in the next new js engine du jour…
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by pragmatic 2mo ago
$30 billion for “hundreds of jobs.” Theater to keep Mad King Trump off their back.
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by pragmatic 2mo ago
CS degree? Employable?
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by pragmatic 3mo ago
"One major trick in distributed systems is to always attempt things in the same order" This is inportant in DBs in general to avoid deadlocks by two requests taking locks in different order.
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by pragmatic 3mo ago
But you are assuming distributed transactions as soon as you have two systems participating in the transaction. It's a recipe for deadlocks and even live locks. That's a reason industry moved away from this. Bc when it works it&#x
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by pragmatic 3mo ago
Trump could care less about that. Operation Epstein Fury had one goal...
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by pragmatic 3mo ago
https://80.lv/articles/developing-microlandia-a-socioeconomi... Do you have a dev blog or anything else? This is super interesting to me as I have an idea for a game I can rapid prototype in the browser.
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by pragmatic 3mo ago
GM is running 0% interest, no payments until n deals right now. That’s usually a sign that sales are not “just fine”.
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by pragmatic 3mo ago
Yes, two decades ago. Docs was acquired (writely)
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by pragmatic 3mo ago
Somebody read/watched too much Casey Muratori.
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by pragmatic 3mo ago
It happened over Covid. All those checks to business owners and farmers. Huge slush funds. Californians used it to buy houses in smaller cities across the country. Not doubled but a windfall of cash into accounts for the wealthy none the le
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by pragmatic 4mo ago
Wheat isn’t grown in the same places that beans grow. If you can, you’re rotating beans and corn every year. (“Roundup ready” of course) Wheat is on the marginal drier land. Not that they couldn’t plant wheat there but beans are way more pr
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by pragmatic 4mo ago
No.
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by pragmatic 5mo ago
The US is All Keynes All The Time.
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by pragmatic 5mo ago
Reducing opex to invest more into capex (at least for companies that can like MSFT etc)?
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by pragmatic 5mo ago
How is he dunking on .net? I think one of his main points is server .net was (and is) great. But the UI part of it was cloudy. I see it as complimentary to the post not contradicting it.
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by pragmatic 5mo ago
The guy getting std’s from Russian girls who Warren Buffet doesn’t talk to anymore. That Bill Gates? Seems he might have other priorities these days?
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by pragmatic 6mo ago
Lot of SMBs run sql server and .net lift and shift into the cloud used to be the path of last resistance on Azure.

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