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Do people have fun building vim macros? Vim macros are awesome because they don't involve reading manuals, memorizing obtuse key commands which you never use on a regular basis, or…

Sometimes I feel like the only sane person in the room for not wanting to have to usher the LLM through phase by phase. Every time I need to choose the next skill or cat the next e…

Yeah, this is how it factually does work, but it’s not great. That’s why so many people are having to build custom tools to fill the gaps

You have a deadline and scope (of solution) handed to you from product/management. It’s the same issue now at work.

I’ve found LLMs very good at two things: 1. Recommending paths forward, 2. Following established architecture. Your job is to be able to treat the LLM and code as sheep

Why would you do anything else? It’s still faster than me doing it as long as I’m parallelizing. I can regularly get up to 5-6 things running in parallel at the moment with no down…

$400 * 23 business days would be $9k. Sounds ballpark to me

A good interviewer won’t be looking for a single solution to the problem. I’d expect them to entertain the Google Sheets answer - it’s good signal that the candidate will consider …

Distributed systems and probabilistic data structures really should be in every undergrad CS curriculum even if just in passing for the second

It irks me that these "just use Postgres" posts only talk about feature sets with no discussion about operations, reliability, real scaling, or even just guard rails and opinions t…

The problem is that a lot of what is happening is within the executive branch's power and/or democratic. A nontrivial number of Americans support everything that has been happening…

On the other hand, no one cares about Velcro or Tupperware

100% agree. I am interested in seeing how this will change how I work. I'm finding that I'm now more concerned with how I can keep the AI busy and how I can keep the quality of out…

Where though? The only people I see moving around live in Seattle, SF, and NYC where there are tons of open positions

Location: Boston, MA, USA Remote: Yes (In-office/Hybrid also fine if local; travel is fine) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: AWS, Linux, Programming (esp. Ruby, Go, Elixir/Erl…

I really wish someone would have shared something like this with me in graduate school. Learning how to be a successful grad student took me too long to learn. In fact, I honestly …

Makes me wonder if we’ll see more emphasis on loosely coupled architecture as a result of this. Software engineers maintain the structure, and AI codes it chaos at the leaf. Simila…

Musicians picked Monster because they were reliable and had an excellent replacement policy not because of brand ego. The Darn Tough of cables at least in terms of policies

> They did it within a system of laws and regulations that government admittedly does create for fostering such wealth creation. However, this still often requires strenuous effort…

I believe the previous poster was arguing that taxation still exists at a macro level, i.e. money is sucked out of the economy. It doesn’t matter so much who paid the taxes. The we…

Part of me wonders if doubling down on taxing transactions (which tariffs is categorically) can thus work. It seems like an elegant way to avoid having to deal with wealth vs incom…

> Yes, the only thing that genuinely scares the rich is wealth taxes Why though? We’ve already established the end game if we don’t do this. It’s hard to imagine society willingly …

That's the issue right? No one knows what access they have, so you should assume the worst. They've already been claiming that they are making writes, so full write privilege isn't…

I’d like to see better controls for keeping diagram components from colliding. I’m sure that’s a nontrivial ask, but I run into poorly placed components quite frequently, and I fee…

If you are doing anything serious, then yes. OTP is a top tier framework for writing any sort of complex parallel/distributed processing. I’d pick OTP over ActiveJobWhatever any da…