bibabaloo
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- bibabaloo parentI think you’re being a little pedantic here. Even if we assume "senior" is an arbitrary title, the article is still a useful description for how to be effective as an experienced engineer. The title is the least interesting part of it.
- Uh, sure, maybe in a professional setting where you’re getting paid. But this was unpaid volunteer work. If, as a community, we start enforcing professional grade standards on people who are just contributing their free time to give us neat toys and tools, I kinda worry it makes the whole thing the whole thing less fun or sustainable. And if that happens, we probably stop getting these free toys altogether.
- > I just think it's ironic that this advice is useless to junior engineers but unneeded by senior engineers.
That's a good way of putting it. The advice essentially boils down to "do the right thing, don't do the wrong thing". Which is good (if common sense) advice, but doesn't practically really help with making decisions.
- I feel, generally, with an aging population + rising unemployment due to AI, we'll reach a crunch point that puts governments under immense pressure to increase taxes (probably on megacorps & the wealthy) more in order to fund welfare. The most optimistic, utopian, solution would be UBI and an artisan economy, but I think we all know that capitalism isn't kind enough for that to play out so we'll probably end up with something much more dystopian.
- You don't _have_ to, I think the parent poster is just giving an example of how this can be used.
The "Zero Knowledge" part is that you can tell me "for this particular program code, I know an input that gives an output of 'foobar'" and I can be convinced that you're telling me the truth without seeing what that input actually is.
- I feel this so much. I feel like most of my job is playing politics to make sure people are happy and let them feel like they're adding value. Rather than shipping things to users to improve the product. It's honestly so depressing. Strongly considering going back to work at a small startup, to avoid having to work with these layers of middlemen that really add little to no value.
- > I know developers like to put their head in sand and pretend to the contrary, but credentials do matter. Things like security or cloud certifications and security clearances
Interesting, I've interviewed with and for a number of tech companies and it's never come up. What companies are you seeing who are interested in certs?
- Errors are composable so this isn't such a problem in practice. Most of the prod code I wrote would do something like this
use thiserror::Error; #[derive(Error, Debug)] enum Error { #[error("Could not open given decomp file: {0}")] FileOpen(#[from] std:io::Error), #[error("Compressed read error: {0}")] CompressedRead(#[from] gz::Error) } fn decomp(filename: &Path) -> Result<Vec<u8>, Error> { let fd = File::open(filename)?; // File is automatically closed by its destructor. let zd = GzDecoder::new(fd); // flate2::read::GzDecoder::new does not return an error. let mut data = Vec::new(); // Rust makes the caller allocate the buffer for reads. zd.read_to_end(&mut data)?; Ok(data) } - JetBrains IDEs have support for copilot: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/getting-started-with-gith...
- This thread covers some: https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1685088625187495936
- This thread covers some applications: https://twitter.com/Andercot/status/1685088625187495936
- If this could be simulated, can you help me understand why we couldn't have used simulation to find promising SC materials to investigate further earlier? Are there just too many permutations to investigate?
It seems to my own naive self that if LK99 is the real deal, we mostly just got lucky finding it.