@kerckhove_ts Ending up with clean legos is very kind of her, but did you have enough time to play with the sponge?
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Tweets about my project https://t.co/3aIkHNU7Ke, the Nix ecosystem, and other programming white rabbits I follow in too many holes. I will try @[email protected].
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My toddler and I are engaging in parallel play: She plays with legos while I play with the sponge and the dishes until they are clean.
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@owickstrom It's quite nice to do a POC of something you don't know well, just so you can decide if you want to learn more about it or not. And if you're not in a hurry, you can build bigger POCs casually on a phone while walking or something like that across multiple sessions.
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And this is like a broken record, but yes, some things it does help with (the silly scripts, the CI YAML hell, etc). I just can't seem to get it to hit my quality bar without a lot of effort, which obviously isn't the purpose.
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Maybe I'm dating and deprecating myself in a single stroke, but I genuinely struggle seeing a productivity increase from agentic coding. I try, I retry, like every 2-3 weeks. I always end up tired and slow, either from hand-holding in real time or spending hours undoing the slop.
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It sucks to be laid off and spied on and... But that's basically what they were working on, right? Spying and manipulating their users, hoarding copyrighted materials,...
Emily Dreyfuss@EmilyDreyfuss
Today I published an interview with an anonymous Meta employee who has worked at the company for over a decade and wanted, for the first time ever, to let the world know how horrible it feels to be inside. #comments" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sfstandard.com/pacific-standa…
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@kerckhove_ts You can also try subtracting two variables, with or without white space around the operator.
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An open source FPGA designed in Cologne and manufactured in Dresden: colognechip.com/programmable-l…
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They want to convince us they will do more with less. Why didn't they just do what they say, then reduce the headcount?
The quoted paragraph could start with "... Multiple human teams open merge requests [...] at a rate no human team ever did."
Agents are excuses.
Erik Meijer@headinthebox
"... Agents open merge requests in parallel, trigger pipelines around the clock, and push commits at a rate no human team ever did. Git itself wasn't designed for that load, and bolting AI onto platforms not built for agents is the biggest mistake of this era. We're doing a generational rebuild of the underlying infrastructure to handle agent-rate work as the default. Git itself is being reengineered for machine scale. The monolith is giving way to modern, API-first, composable services. And agent-specific APIs are being built so agents can act as first-class users of the platform, not as bolted-on consumers of human-shaped interfaces. The value of this 100x scale infrastructure, and the reliability and performance it provides is much higher than the generation of infrastructure in the market today. ..." about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-ac… When I tried to convince a bunch of academics at a workshop recently about designing for agents vs designing for humans, they looked at me as if I just smoked a crack pipe.
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Colleagues at work use FPGAs, ROS, and other stuff I never learned so it go me intrigued. I've found @ShawnHymel videos really cool to get a better idea of those things.
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The web is ephemeral and content we consume barely has any lifetime or accountability.
I'm building Vertex (vertexapp.io), and it is meant to change that.
Imagine archive.org but on demand.
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@lucperkins Does it mean you eval/cache the Nix expressions so it runs fast?
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I'm working on a thing that will enable you to create beautiful task runner CLIs like this in plain old Nix, with support for before/after, confirmation to proceed, aliases, scoped env vars, and more. And every task uses writeShellApplication so you get shellcheck for free.
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@krismicinski I'm also wondering if the "baseline data" are collected in the same context (same roads, same duration, amount of traffic, weather, car price, ...).
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@krismicinski You seems to say the data can be unambiguously interpreted. What if it's not about autonomous driving, but just about having lidars, or foreign workers watching the camera feed, or people being aware there's a car with no driver in it going their way,...
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This is something I used to debate with friends a lot: how much safer would computer-driven cars have to be than humans for humans to feel they're the obvious choice? In this case it seems it's mired up with the AI / jobs stuff, but the data seems clear...
Brett Winton@wintonARK
the annual social cost of cancer and auto accidents are very roughly equivalent imagine a new cancer drug came out that reduced mortality by 90% across *every* cancer And the AMA aggressively lobbied against it because of its potential suppressive impact on hospital visits and surgeries... That is the unions wrt to autonomous robotaxis right now.
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@kerckhove_ts Yes, that part is more or less well done. The part that is not done well is having a local, staging, production envs of e.g. GitLab or Jenkins or Artifactory,...
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@noteed I do that for all my deployment.
The big problem for me is that staging should be the same as prod except in all the ways that it shouldn't.
For example the staging server should talk to the staging db, not the prod db.
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DevOps is telling developers to automate stuff and make them deterministic and having multiple identical environments,... while not doing so for the infra that supports DevOps.
joachim schiele (joschie)@joschelboschel
Nix, in my mind, with the big mono-repo and source deployment is by far the biggest winner in reducing complexity and giving developers the means to try new things. In comparison, gitlab pipelines drown you in confusion because local builds are different from pipeline builds, especially if it involves artifact usage between stages like jfrog for example.
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