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by slotrans 8mo ago
The AI code takeover will not free engineers up to do craftsmanship. It will annihilate the last vestiges of craftsmanship forever.
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by slotrans 10mo ago
> that doesn't mean they're not useful yeah actually it does mean that
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by slotrans 1y ago
Neither. LLMs are destructive.
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by slotrans 1y ago
> We use AI-assisted responses as the first filter for email support. Literally no one wants this. The entire purpose of contacting support is to get help from a human.
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by slotrans 2y ago
> I will completely forget why I wrote it that way. This is the main reason for comments. The code can never tell you "why". Code is inherently about "what" and "how". The "why" must be expressed
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by slotrans 2y ago
Multiple times daily I encounter sites that are brutally slow not just on my beefy Android phone, but on my 3GHz+ 8-core 64GB desktop machine. You need to take performance seriously or it will just be bad. Most of the industry has chosen to
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by slotrans 2y ago
> React performance concerns in the real world are typically measured in, at worst, hundreds of milliseconds. Many years ago I worked at a wonderful company that made the terrible decision to rebuild the frontend in React. We had a perfo
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by slotrans 2y ago
It is often the case that the nifty Python thing you want to pass around uses one or more nifty Python libraries that have no C/C++/Rust/Golang equivalent (or no obvious equivalent), and so rewriting it becomes a herculean
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by slotrans 2y ago
It is funny reading the replies here. I am a database specialist and have worn the DBA had for many years. I have run MySQL and Postgres in production, both self-hosted and using managed services. Postgres wins on every single dimension tha
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by slotrans 2y ago
"Not as robust as MySQL"? Surely you're joking.
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by slotrans 2y ago
I am plausibly a person this is for. Right now I rely on TabsOutliner when using Chrome (which I only use for work). It lets me keep 400+ tabs open and stay sane. I like it so much that I've paid for it 3 times, and would have paid a 4
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by slotrans 2y ago
This is true, and in principle a good thing, but in the time since Parquet and ORC were created GDPR and CCPA are things that have come to exist. Any format we build in that space, today, needs to support in-place record-level deletion.
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by slotrans 2y ago
My Zenfone 9 has a headphone jack. No SD card slot though, which I don't need. So yeah, I voted for this position with my dollars, and will continue to do so. Any phone with mandatory AI crap is Hard Pass.
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by slotrans 2y ago
it could have been much worse, I have seen passwords leaked this way ("seen" meaning "I worked at a company where this happened and read the code with my own eyes" not just "I read it in the newspaper")
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by slotrans 2y ago
1. customer enters their address in form fields 2. those form field values are templated into a GET request to the Meta tracking pixel (or POST request to the /events endpoint, or ...) 3. profit they've made it very easy https:&#
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by slotrans 2y ago
Not sure about the goal of providing a hosted service cheaper than SQS. SQS is already one of the cheapest services on Earth. It's pretty hard to spend more than a few bucks a month, even if you really try!
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by slotrans 2y ago
"take a ticket and do the work" doesn't describe ANY software job I've ever had it's all meetings, design docs, fighting in PR comments, agile ceremonies, etc etc building things / fixing bugs is maybe 10% of t
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by slotrans 2y ago
So, parameters? You absolutely 1000% do not need an ORM to prevent SQL injection. You just need to Not Be Flagrantly Incompetent. As the psycopg2 docs say: never use string concatenation, not even at gunpoint.
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by slotrans 2y ago
ORMs are such a toxic idea, we'd be better off if we could un-invent them. Look how thoroughly this poor author's mind has been poisoned by long-term exposure. Please get out there and write some SQL. I promise it won't hurt
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by slotrans 2y ago
Those aren't the filters being used, not when there are hundreds of applications for a role. You could be the platonic ideal candidate yet be screened out in the 0th round because you didn't go to a fancy school or you're mis
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by slotrans 2y ago
You really think The New Guy can change an entire corporate culture through sheer force of will? You are literally the lowest person on the totem pole. You have ZERO social status, ZERO influence. If the rest of the org/company is cult
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by slotrans 2y ago
Yeah. 7 jobs in a row. Maybe the next dice roll will work out, or maybe I'll finally leave the industry.
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by slotrans 2y ago
"The very people who comply with and execute the GDPR consider it to be positive for their company, positive for privacy and not a pointless, bureaucratic regulation." I have been involved in multiple GDPR compliance pushes and I
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by slotrans 2y ago
Why? This stuff is garbage. Go build something that doesn't suck. They're not even trying to compete with that.
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by slotrans 2y ago
This person's style is a great sorting machine. If you don't like it, you're not going to get along with them. I like it very much. I would probably hire this person.
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by slotrans 2y ago
> The federal government can absolutely regulate both employment and contract law Where in Article I Section 8 does the Constitution grant that power?
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by slotrans 2y ago
that would be fantastic tbqh the web could be fast!
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by slotrans 2y ago
trained by the best at McKinsey
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by slotrans 2y ago
Then the maintainers of the system have failed in their duty, the evidence cannot be verified, and it must be thrown out.
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by slotrans 2y ago
Consumers don't care.

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