robben1234

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by robben1234 19d ago
More productive in what way? Letting agents burn tokens to produce garbage output is not productive. And letting teammates read code that wasn't reviewed by a human submitting it also isn't productive. If I work with one agent &#x
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by robben1234 10mo ago
My cluster recently started to failover every few days whenever it experiences the load to trigger scale up from 1-2 to 20+ acu. And then I also encountered errors just like op in my app layer about trying to execute a write query via read-
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by robben1234 1y ago
I work with python codebases and consider comments that answer "what?" instead of "why?" bad. LLMs tend to write comments answering "what?", sometimes to a silly extent. What I found helping for using Claude 3.
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by robben1234 1y ago
>It only becomes a crime when you're absurdly over the limit. I vividly remember my confusion learning about how many states in the US use an absolute value to turn speeding violation into a criminal charge, and namely Virginia whic
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by robben1234 2y ago
The pilot license is the largest obstacle to mass adoption, not even the price, in my opinion. For fixed wing private flying you are looking at at least hundred hours fully dedicated to new knowledge and skills at an expensive rate. That&#x
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by robben1234 2y ago
But there are already regulations and companies with their executives are being held accountable against it. Does it matter how many badges the person designing the system is wearing if it complies with regulations and passes an audit? The
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by robben1234 2y ago
Is there anything stopping those teams from deploying k8s and every possible apache product onto these machines? There's also middle ground in the form of Digital ocean's kubernetes which runs noticeably cheaper than big tech clou
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by robben1234 2y ago
Airlines always check additional documentation for people with passports that do not get visa-free entry to destination. It's a liability issue - they would have to fly that person back if they are not let in. Of course airlines do not
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by robben1234 2y ago
I don't follow how is this concerning. All people with more than one citizenship I know at least via a few handshakes use their passports exactly this way for travel. Why would a Russian citizen go through the hoops of getting a Russia
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by robben1234 3y ago
American car companies push for large vehicles because those are exempt from strict emission standards. And the rest eventually started following because the US is the most lucrative car market in the world, even if their own country has di
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by robben1234 3y ago
>The trouble is, what speed is wrong? I don't really agree that this is the "trouble". Any competent transit-related professional knows what type of driving is wrong. Even American cops know [0] that in terms of traffic th
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by robben1234 3y ago
How much of Python in the world is ran on Azure? It's my language of preference and the main professional one, along with JS/TS and Go. But if they pulled something like this I'm pretty sure I'd reluctantly pack things u
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by robben1234 3y ago
Have you looked into Mypy with the strict flag? https://mypy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/command_line.html#cmdo...
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by robben1234 3y ago
>People focus too much on edge cases when making life decisions, imo. Spending dozens of thousands on a personal people mover I would like it to enable and expand my freedoms. I.e. supporting painless weekend road trips. Fossil fuel cars
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by robben1234 3y ago
>having a phone number when traveling, when you cannot receive SMS on your US phone number (thanks verizon) Is there a good reason why carriers in USA and Canada refuse to provide free incoming sms (& calls at expense of the caller)
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by robben1234 3y ago
Funnily enough, both provincial and federal government doesn't mind contracts and applications with title "software engineer" for immigration related services. As long as work experience fulfils the NOC 2173 definition. Licen
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by robben1234 3y ago
Social media is an echo chamber for people with nothing better to do that represents a tiny part of population. In real world many industries would gladly disqualify professionals from working at the first hint of screws flying loose. Espec
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by robben1234 3y ago
Things I managed to deliver in my first year of the first startup with Django + Ajax/Vuejs were a number of multiyear multiteam developments in my second startup (scaleup) that had dozens of microservices and Angular SPA. I'm only
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by robben1234 3y ago
At some point time difference kills any productivity gain. West Coast to West Europe is barely workable even if everyone in the "secondary" zone is self-sufficient. However, hiring engineers from Latam could indeed be an option to
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by robben1234 3y ago
>just “have 7 figure on a spreadsheet of what I have managed to accumulate” 7 figure on a spreadsheet enables a lot. An unregistered savings account in one of Canadian banks (just a point of reference, not sure if US has better) currentl
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by robben1234 3y ago
>Then EU > US. In the EU most people have a shot at this, with free education and possibilities. This comparison only works at birth, or maybe up to teens. We are, most likely, working professionals here. With a degree and fairly esta
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by robben1234 3y ago
>What do you think speed limits are for then? In the presence of vulnerable bystanders or users of the road (e.g cyclists on city streets), limit serves as protection against fatal outcomes in case of an error. That's the only case
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by robben1234 3y ago
I feel that ORM might be an antipattern depending on a language. Every Java developer I interacted in my career with wanted to avoid ORMs and instead come up with a bunch of pattern-abstracted ways to write raw SQL. Every Python developer I
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by robben1234 3y ago
I mixed up pricing. Several thousands a month. But if you could buy a 192 CPUs server for just 10 grand, seems like not a bad deal. Especially if this hypothetical project is able to attract the load we are discussing for longer than a few
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by robben1234 3y ago
Whoops. Mixed up pricing. 192 vCPUs instances on-demand depending on the type indeed fluctuate around $10/hr, leading to several thousands a month. Not to forget the data transfer costs though https://aws.amazon.com/ec2
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by robben1234 3y ago
It's only boring because all the fun was removed for convenience. Just the third pedal makes it pretty much fun even at low speeds.
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by robben1234 3y ago
It's one piece of tech that makes life universally easier. Especially on car dependent continents. That being said, I'd take large European mirrors that know to go down when car is put in reverse and basic sensor over this any day
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by robben1234 3y ago
Serving a social network is not the case where you'd want just one server. Mainly due to reliability concerns, spikes in traffic and different patterns at different times. But if you like the idea of ignoring best practices, there are
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by robben1234 3y ago
>The pavement doesn't need to withstand thousands of pounds of vehicles. It has. It'd be illegal and extremely dangerous to design a city without properly functioning infrastructure for emergency services, garbage disposal, phy
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by robben1234 3y ago
Precision might be an overshoot, but providing SI measurements along the obsolete yet better sounding to NA ear units is quite nice. Since most of the weird units offer no straightforward / memorable ratio to multiply by to get a regul

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