safetytrick

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by safetytrick 4mo ago
Being a junior engineer was a good time!
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by safetytrick 6mo ago
Yes, this mattered when 6 character passwords were common.
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by safetytrick 7mo ago
It's actually been useful for me to explain certain best practices now that I can show that the LLM cares. Why is this name bad? Because an llm will get confused by it and di the wrong thing half the time.
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by safetytrick 1y ago
Yes, I agree, we seem to need to feel "special". Language is really powerful, I think it's a huge part of our intelligence. The interesting part of the article to me is the focus on fluency. I have not seen anything that LLMs
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by safetytrick 1y ago
Python packaging is the least zen of python thing about python.
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by safetytrick 1y ago
I don't think changeable code is the number one priority. The goal is to solve a problem and code that solves a problem without needing to change is sufficient. Code that doesn't need to change is a really good sign that you'
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by safetytrick 2y ago
Quoted: "Likewise, you can repeat yourself but classes only have a single (duplicated, but subtly different) responsibility."
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by safetytrick 2y ago
I'm proud of my little joke on dogmas: "The only dogma I believe is that all dogmas are wrong".
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by safetytrick 2y ago
I like to phrase this kind of thought as: "The only dogma I believe, is that all dogmas are wrong".
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by safetytrick 2y ago
vim is late 1991, vi was 1976, sublime text was 2008. Just seems like garbage writing (very easily could be LLM).
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by safetytrick 2y ago
In the article the author mentions wanting to benchmark a GPU and using ChatGPT to write CUDA. Benchmarks are easy to mess up and to interpret incorrectly without understanding. I see this as an example where a subtly-wrong idea could cause
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by safetytrick 2y ago
With a dependency on a font. Wow, it's been a while since I've seen that.
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by safetytrick 3y ago
I think they are talking kilometers
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The design of Kubernetes is based on Promise Theory(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by safetytrick 3y ago|1 comments
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by safetytrick 3y ago
I forget that this has been a very popular strategy for a long time with more traditional databases.
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by safetytrick 3y ago
Who is doing this and where can I read more? What are the tradeoffs? I imagine that you get a a dataset that is significantly smaller but it is much trickier to keep a dataset in memory the way you could with MySQL. It's like having a
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by safetytrick 3y ago
It's okay to erect a fence that is less than ideal but please explain yourself.
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by safetytrick 3y ago
Whenever I am in that expedient hack mode I've started commenting to explain my dilemma. My most valuable comments typically come out at that time. Such and such can't be done right now because of such and such. Often it doesn&#x2
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by safetytrick 3y ago
An under-rated solution to this problem is saying No and having quality retrospectives. Microservices adoption has largely become a cargo cult thing. It is a part of being cool like FAANG. Instead of being cool, focus on solving your proble
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by safetytrick 3y ago
Some services just don't stop at night. Healthcare has trends but it never stops.
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by safetytrick 3y ago
It just depends on the business, b2b can be very consistent. Some workloads just have predictable behavior. I worked at a medium sized place where we had plans in place to handle the workload for our entire market on-prem (if we were ever t
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by safetytrick 3y ago
I've been patiently watching for a nice way to plug in a local development DNS resolver (patiently waiting for someone to document and script the a few tiny patterns).
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by safetytrick 3y ago
I'm a big Avro fan, it isn't easy to be good at but if you follow its rules it is so much easier to evolve than plain json is.
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by safetytrick 3y ago
Random ids require random inserts and that is bad for performance. It isn't a deal-breaker in most situations but it is a real cost that you do pay.
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by safetytrick 3y ago
ulids are beautiful little ids without many of the drawbacks and risks of other id systems. They are sufficiently unique for most work (anywhere that you don't need to actually uniquely engineer your ids) and their built in ordering an
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by safetytrick 3y ago
Sometimes I encounter those snippets and I still have a discrete memory of writing something that "I knew my future self will understand". That is especially frustrating.
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by safetytrick 3y ago
Why is this interesting here?
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by safetytrick 3y ago
You can build a toxic environment out of kindness too. You do need to coach and mentor and guide people towards the truth (regardless of if you even have it). I also just don't have time to make everyone's ignorance my problem. I
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by safetytrick 4y ago
How to write platitudes for clicks.
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by safetytrick 5y ago
This would be a really fun way to implement a "chaos monkey".

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