wrenky

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by wrenky 1mo ago
direnv + nix flakes solved so many problems for me, I have no idea how other people work on multiple projects at the same time without getting mixed up.
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by wrenky 2mo ago
I personally love coding! unfortunately for me the agents are much faster at it and often more correct, especially after iteration. Guiding AI is more efficient currently.
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by wrenky 8mo ago
Totally anecdotal, but recently my wife had to go to urgent care for something wrong with her ankle- They send a 4-5 page sheet of arcane terms and diagnoses to her care app (relayed to me via text) and I just slammed that into gemnai and a
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by wrenky 8mo ago
The problem there is why they have such tight bottlenecks periodically- Why not just have a traditional cellar?
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by wrenky 8mo ago
They are an improvement over most languages, but the are _not_ better than sum types for the reasons listed above. Way less flexible and forces a lot more verbosity when compared to more functional languages. Hes definitely wrong on how the
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by wrenky 9mo ago
There is a good argument for never using debuggers except for core development- Once finished your logs/metrics/events should be good enough to understand what is happening in an application. If debugging your application requires
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by wrenky 10mo ago
> Our hope is that these extensions can over time be contributed to upstream OCaml. Yeah, its more just extensions to support their use cases at scale. Think of it more as bleeding edge ocmal, once they work out kinks/concerns they
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by wrenky 2y ago
I thought that too (but more New York Christmas Eve movie impressions) until I saw steam coming from manholes in Denver. Blew my mind that it was a real thing haha. In addition to the heating/cooling uses, the mint in Denver uses it to
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by wrenky 2y ago
nope you have the article right. "if you copy an existing model, you can get a pretty comparable model!" Really, [what the underlying paper]( https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19393 ) shows is how much you can improve
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by wrenky 2y ago
Surprisingly I find it does! The bulk of the time shouldn't be spent typing I agree, but often once I've mapped out what I want to do I need to type a lot. Improving my typing helped my "flow" as I made less mistakes and
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by wrenky 2y ago
I was homeschooled from 2nd - 8th grade. My elementary school was trying to put my brother on adderall and my class had sorted me into the "blue" group of readers (colors of the rainbow for reading ability). I apparently came home
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by wrenky 2y ago
Those are sources, and while curiosity is great most kids are focused on specific things not everything. Kids need direction and somebody them to focus on things they dont want to learn- like a kid who loves animals isnt going to learn math
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by wrenky 2y ago
> I don’t think I understand a subject unless I can teach it, explain it and argue both sides about why you should and shouldn’t use it. this is 100% why I write "courses" alongside my notes when learning something- forces you
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by wrenky 2y ago
One thing this article does is assume extreme functional mindset, I dont even think OOP enters into the authors mind- With that context, I think that statement isn't about object constructors but type constructors.
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by wrenky 2y ago
Man, I get that python is easy to write but maintaining deployed python code is some of the worst experiences in modern software devlopment. Less Code != less buggy or more stable code, it just means more implicit code. I contend you spend
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by wrenky 2y ago
AND holy shit I have to install another venv to run special-snowflake-3 script I will literally lose it. I literally have a folder of all the venvs I need to run one-off shit people pass me. I get the lack of wanting to compile things but t
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by wrenky 2y ago
The Fed will always fix it as _thats what the fed does_. Debt, spending, interest payments are all treasury- The stability of the system is the fed. They often work together but I'm willing to bet the fed is very unhappy with the level
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by wrenky 2y ago
Its the moderating effect of the Mediterranean! Its wild to see the temperature differences of Wisconsin, Montana, Dakota(s) compared to France & Spain. All that water helps insulate Europe even those its at a northern latitude.
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by wrenky 2y ago
Man, unless its dramatically improved in the last 5 years Sydney and Melbourne were around the same level as hell as LAX/SFO are. Sydney was particularly bad the 3 times I had to move through it haha. My average LAX traversal is much s
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by wrenky 2y ago
Seriously, that line strikes fear into my heart and I only handle rest APIs not billion dollar airplanes with actual people in them.
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by wrenky 3y ago
I think the growth of Discord partially explains it- They needed a _lot_ more SRE/Scale engineers, which causes growth in HR/Management layers. They also added a bunch of monetization stuff (discord nitro) and attempted to get mor
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by wrenky 3y ago
nope, that's essentially the problem. Snap is curated and controlled by Canonical and they are forcing the issue. The issues that both share are slow starts, larger package sizes, lack of safe ways to interact with the rest of the OS,
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by wrenky 3y ago
I think its kinda great its on the front page, I only work in backend so this looks quite appealing like ALL tech demos do. Love to see it pulled apart in comments with explanations I understand haha
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by wrenky 3y ago
"championing" it? probably not, but I'm a huge fan of the goal. Flatpack/Snap both try to take an application and isolate it from the system. Its like docker but for userspace application rather than services. Package ma
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by wrenky 3y ago
lmao right? My new hires spent the first week in corporate/domain training, then a few days getting situated, setup and stuff. Probably 2 weeks before I "expect" a PR but even then the first few tasks are a gentle introducti
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by wrenky 3y ago
I use Tcl daily for work and personally love it! Its syntax is weird but when it clicks things just make sense in a zen way. Much like getting into the groove in lisp or something, it _feels_ correct in that minute. The main problem is just
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by wrenky 3y ago
Customers dont have to guess, just pay the 15% and leave. Thats just the standard. If a company chooses to pay more, their prices go up and they cant compete. Even though its just shifting the cost from a hidden to a declared one, its enoug
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by wrenky 3y ago
Its not that employers are cheating them- Thats the job and what it pays. Most waiters/waitresses are payed below minimum wage and make up the difference with tips. Its something like $3/hr on average, its even accounted for in th
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by wrenky 3y ago
> , it's because all the devs writing shitty MPAs are now writing shitty SPAs. If this becomes popular, they will start writing shitty MPAs again It brings a tear of joy to my eye honestly. The circle of life continues, and people a
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by wrenky 3y ago
Not quite- Sales tax from sales by customers in California is being located to Cupertino. So if a customer in Fresno bought an iphone, that tax is allocated to Cupertino. Other states assess tax differently. After that fresno customer buys

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