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by rufius 26d ago
This is an interesting idea. I was thinking about something similar in Smalltalk or Erlang the other day. Mostly building on the actor/object+mailbox concept. I didn’t actually do anything with that idea yet but may look at the idea in
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by rufius 2mo ago
IME, the LLM when used well also gets closer to correct.
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by rufius 3mo ago
Android Auto is in the vast majority of cars that also have CarPlay. What’s your point?
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by rufius 3mo ago
(without sarcasm) Is this a serious question? If so - maintainability, testability. This is old software engineering best practice at this point. You shouldn’t hyper optimize for deduplication, but it’s usually worth considering. Fewer plac
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by rufius 9mo ago
While this is true, it is often stunning to me how long it took to get to `uv run`. I have worked with Python on and off for 20+ years and I _always_ dreaded working with any code base that had external packages or a virtual environment. `u
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by rufius 10mo ago
As a Texan, I can assure you that ERCOT will find a way to add 6 layers of middlemen, over extend capacity, and generally screw it up. I watched it progressively get worse growing up. I don’t live in TX anymore, but I’ve still got family th
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by rufius 11mo ago
Wouldn’t matter if they did. There’s no penalty for getting it wrong so the human is always incentivized to say yes and then say oops if it was wrong. If there’s no feedback mechanism, verification doesn’t matter.
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by rufius 11mo ago
I think it does for a substantial portion, especially those with more traditionally aligned values. We know families, through our extended social groups, that would cringe at the Skibidi Toilet stuff. I'm not sure why? At least some pa
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by rufius 11mo ago
For sure. Im the parent of a couple Gen Alpha kids on the younger side. I showed the skibidi toilet videos to my wife and her response was a shrug and “looks like dumb videos we watched in college”. But as other posters say, not everyone wa
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by rufius 11mo ago
Well my trip to Costco make infinitely more sense. I saw these 3 foot tall dolls for sale of the camera head characters. They were titled “skibidi toilet titans” but I was only familiar with the song mashups, not the web series. Kids are al
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by rufius 1y ago
It’s more of the same. At least in my experience, much of work amounts to “yes sir. Will that be all sir?” You take the input, mostly ignore it, and move on. YMMV on that strategy, but if you are deft with it then you can dodge a lot of bul
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by rufius 1y ago
See also, the OODA loop. This lesson shows up periodically in different contexts. In the case of OODA, it was fighter pilot dogfighting training. It’s a good practice to build into different parts of life.
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by rufius 1y ago
I don’t think AI makes me 10x more productive. It does make me close to 10x less bored though. Much of production software engineering is writing boiler plate, building out test matrices and harnesses, scaffolding structure. And often, it’s
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by rufius 1y ago
Companies that don’t want to invest in new infrastructure. That’ll always be the blocker with rail. Moving humans, even a lot of them, by rail isn’t cost effective by most company’s definition outside luxury pricing. Rail wins when you need
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by rufius 1y ago
Water’s wet, fire’s hot. News at 5.
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by rufius 1y ago
All code is legacy code from day one.
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by rufius 2y ago
Probably a hard question to answer. IME, cultural norms around documentation vary pretty wildly. Some orgs I've worked for were very "wiki" driven - there's a big expectation of using Confluence or Notion to navigate doc
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by rufius 2y ago
I mean it’s Notion. That’s par for the course. What if your text editing and presentation experience was slow and laggy? That’s Notion.
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by rufius 2y ago
I mean if the joke that Google is just an Ads company with a software engineering org is true, then Oracle is just a Sales company with a software engineering org.
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by rufius 2y ago
The static site generator for my personal website. It was something I wrote in an evening. The code[0] isn’t the best but it’s been easy to extend as needed. It basically takes a couple json files for configuration, and some markdown. [0]:
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by rufius 2y ago
Another anecdote - I hate slack. Indifferent to teams, but loathe slack.
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by rufius 2y ago
Fair enough - also lol at people downvoting. It was an honest question.
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by rufius 2y ago
I’m curious what materially changed beyond Slack complaining. Microsoft has long bundled Lync/Skype-for-Business with Office 365. Hell it did that, I’m pretty sure, before Slack even existed.
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by rufius 2y ago
Is there a brief blurb about how this differs from Obsidian? Just curious mostly.
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by rufius 2y ago
Well. This sounds like it will be exciting to upgrade to.
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by rufius 2y ago
Having watched this first hand, you won’t be treated the same. Maybe that’s a good thing, but people will assume you get to do whatever you want which, generally, shouldn’t be true. It sets a strange precedent sometimes too if not well comm
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by rufius 3y ago
This blog post felt unsatisfying. I’m not sure I’ve talked to anyone in the last decade about distributed systems where: - CAP came up - all parties immediately agreed that CA was impossible I still think it’s a useful model for forcing peo
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by rufius 3y ago
Two options from my own experience: - Allocate a regular time to read the papers/articles. Accept that the list may forever grow. Bonus points if you tag the content going in so that you can prioritize a tag/topic to make progress
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by rufius 3y ago
I empathize with this. I’m similar to your son - no amount of practice ever made me faster or “more prepared”. I’ve learned to accept it and manage expectations with people. One thing I discovered about myself was for many things I have a “
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by rufius 3y ago
The time I the most Rust was the couple of years before Rust's async/await settled. I worked on what is now a large code base that processes a lot of data quickly. It was multi-threaded but no async/await. When I tried to sta

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