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theflyinghorse

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About theflyinghorse

Full Stack developer

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    Comment #49039800

    The big ones for me are the actor processes sending each other messages, distributed processes where you can connect several nodes to each other very seamlessly and the processes w…

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    Comment #49037052

    I built a screen recorder for myself with LLMs. A calorie tracker. Now building this everything-webframework in Odin that's inspired heavily by BEAM's ideas (its a creative process…

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    Comment #48820965

    Reminds me - I was working for a Canadian network equipment manufacturer and at one point a client in Asia was trying to get support for a bunch of units of uor hardware (modems). …

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    Comment #48796828

    They are making more money than ever before. Maybe Meta leadership doesn’t really care about having a coherent strategy at this point. They can afford to flail around to see if som…

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    Comment #48742456

    You'd be surprised. Every software application has bugs. If customers are willing to give you money despite bugs that's a very string signal in favour of your product.

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    Comment #48738717

    That's a problem for you — the customer - not for Jeff, the VP.

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    Comment #48700393

    In the West, decline of living standards and continued decay of institutions. Probably very few organizations actually benefit from LLMs, mostly bankers. Elsewhere? who knows

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    Comment #48478131

    It probably has to do with what technology people are used to. There has been a couple of generations of web developers who have only known javascript and its ecosystem for buildin…

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    Comment #48466418

    I've seen enough degradation of the models I pay for from Anthropic to not bite. Fable will work fine for the first couple of weeks and then start degrading like previous models di…

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    Comment #48413820

    Top 1% are too divorced from the real world to have ever seen a cog.

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    Comment #48279929

    Currently rewriting nextjs app into sveltekit. It’s going surprisingly smoothly. Don’t know about svelte vs react yet BUT sveltekit is far more straightforward than nextjs has far …

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    Comment #48269519

    I don't understand why cloudflare is loved by tech people. They ARE breaking the web.

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    Comment #48269362

    Why should you posses a homestead? What value do you produce that droid can't that would make you deserving of anything at all? Why should corporations that design, manufacture and…

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    Comment #48186841

    For whatever reason zed takes forever to paste on my m1max MBP. Im talking at least 1.5s for a paste a few characters from clipboard or to duplicate a line.

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    Comment #47913338

    I am afraid to give agents ability to touch git at all and people out there let it know things about their infrastructure. 100% fault on the operator for trusting agents, for not e…

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    Comment #47667763

    HA! I Love it! It's a been a while since I felt this sort of joy exploring a new way to navigate

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    Comment #47576888

    It will take some time for Quarkus to become a significant enough presence in the market share. In my experience, for the majority of Java shops Spring Boot does just fine because …

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    Comment #47576865

    This is still relatively tame! I've seen stuff where there are layers of annotations some of which will spawn docker containers effectively bringing docker compose into java applic…

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    Comment #47576802

    You have worked at some outstanding java shops then! In my experience the article is precisely representative of Java culture even today

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    Comment #47565340

    This is very interest to me because we have accumulated a few node packages containing logic that services simply import. So in theory I could now use those node packages in elixir…

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    Comment #47336726

    UK absolutely needs to be thought of in the same way we think about Russia or Belorussia, or China.

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    Comment #46927769

    Tariffs, forcing capital into 7 very large companies instead of small startups, wage suppression through weird offshoring and immigration schemes so on and so forth. There are seem…

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    Comment #46859136

    Workflow is this: - I have emacs open for code editing/reviews/git. - Separate terminal emulator with 1-3 claudes - I work on a story by splitting it into small steps ("Let's move …

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    Comment #46783664

    Questioning immigration policy is not racism. Anti-Indian sentiment in Canada is relatively recent and happened after a decade of mass immigration that is now widely agreed has con…

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    Comment #46783596

    India as a whole is diverse. Canada is NOT getting immigrants from all of India but rather from 2 states (mostly one). Please learn about the issue first.