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gv83

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About gv83

old man yells at clouds

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    Comment #45738396

    AI good or US health system trash?

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    Comment #39988861

    given the "rebuild twitter" abundance of questions during the dreaded system design interview, it should have taken 2 weeks!

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    Comment #39883390

    I’ve never seen a server with a rolling distro tbh

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    Comment #39842755

    hey, maybe you have one of the use cases erl/el excels at; I'm not going to go against that - I also like the language and the runtime and everything. my point is just that at some…

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    Comment #39841101

    yes, Net Promoter Score about the second part of your answer; my (probably very rare) opinion is that our job is not to "work in erlang" or "work in rust", is "solve problems/autom…

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    Comment #39839142

    “Why not Elixir” is a more interesting question and I suggest you go ask it to engineering managers of polyglot organizations. They will usually bring you the super low nps from no…

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    Comment #39583706

    I agree with your sentiment - I simply don't have a specific answer or I would be a very important person as I would have "solved" one of this century hardest problem. I just belie…

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    Comment #39583011

    yeah, it was way better when you worked the fields for a duke who had dibs over your underage wife for the first night of marriage. and don't forget the round robin slave labour in…

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    Comment #39571720

    the only thing this llm craze is helping is nvidia/openai/ms war chest, and fueling the illusion that every company can finally have their developers by taking any domain expert or…

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    Comment #39571679

    let's also measure the productivity of reviewers and people in general that, at a later point, have to wade through piles of ai generated crap. last friday i had to review 2 trash …

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    Comment #39571634

    the pot calling the kettle black

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    Comment #39561033

    Bet the guys are also the ones most promoted. This is so screwed up.

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    Comment #39557094

    Yes and no, sometimes you have to shed weight and kill some older use cases to start going back fast again. But yes, maybe for smaller projects.

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    Comment #39532642

    This is also its downfall as my organization uses asyncpg and compatibility with it is still absent iirc :(

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    Comment #39532141

    open governance and trying to get users make you uncomfortable while not merging prs, bus factor 1 and starting 300 projects with the same basic model ("do things - now with pydant…

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    Comment #39531551

    I think this was a temporary drama as the names mentioned in that post are actively working on the project, so in any case ls is more open by design

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    Comment #39531419

    Modern python is basically a bucket of puke in between the Annotated crap, async/await, decorators everywhere..the elegance is gone for good. Sad.

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    Comment #39155679

    i think the problem is mostly in the relatively thin sheet of steel that isnt able to absorb and distribute to the water that much power in small amount of time. I prefer to go gra…

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    Comment #39109510

    Italian households throw the thing on the stove without such meticulous (and time expensive) ceremony every morning, so this falls under the classic “American can’t cook” gag I don…

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    Comment #39109386

    Be careful about induction at max power plus a small sealed chamber..I do it at 4-5 and it takes like 5 mins

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    Comment #39109300

    The famous “coffee for people who don’t like coffee” video that has been a running gag in Italy for months!

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    Comment #38757071

    I dont think there is a single answer like "facilitate conflict resolution", it's more of a matter of generally fitting in the corporate world, being able to build relations in tha…

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    Comment #38756308

    Programming inside a business is more about going to company parties than programming fast. And I prefer people who don’t program fast, but that program for the future of the busin…

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    Comment #38269855

    Definitely not, pdm is better behaved and less prone to random breaking changes

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    Comment #38269849

    Poetry is not stable at all. pip-tools all the way, if not…pdm please