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danhulton

@danhulton@hachyderm.io

Software developer, entrepreneur, socialist, coffee-drinker, opinion-haver, and all-around busybody. He/him.

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danhulton, to random
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The high-speed trains in Italy are definitely fast, and modern and spacious, too. But boy oh boy could they stand to be climate-controlled a little bit. We covered a lot of ground in not nearly as much time as I'd expect, but I am sweatin'.

jdiller, to random
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Dude just drove by on his riding mower. Where did he come from? Where is he going? We’ll never know.

danhulton,
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@jdiller Well, if it hadn't been for him, I'd have been married, long time ago.

danhulton, to random
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Even at the tourist traps in Rome, you can get an excellent espresso (at the bar, not at the table) for just one euro.

One of my favorite things about this trip so far.

whitequark, to random
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today's helldivers 2 discovery: it has an unlockable revolver. makes sense, right? lots of games do.

you fire six out of six shots and reload. your character uses a speedloader. makes sense!

you fire two shots and reload.

  • if you're in a fight, your character uses a speedloader, and you lose four
  • if you're not, they reload it round by round, and you lose none

this is an incredible level of attention to detail holy shit. nobody does this!!

danhulton,
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@whitequark "Operator safety" does not appear to be a common feature in a LOT of equipment in the Helldivers universe!

danhulton,
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@azonenberg @whitequark I was scrolling and thought this post was still on the topic of Helldivers, and I was SO CONFUSED for a minute.

thedoh, to random
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Are you using story points to measure complexity or time?

They're the same thing. Complex tasks take a lot of time.

danhulton,
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@thedoh We settled on "one point is one day" and have stopped all the pretending. Life is a lot easier, estimates are a lot quicker and more useful, and -- crucially! -- it is a lot easier to see how and why we're going to slip on milestone estimates, and what we can do about it.

jk, to random
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me: hmm let’s have a look, which library should i use?

library A: it’s 1c1h. one c file, one header file

library B: to build this repo you need to install GluoOn, a fork of MoonOn, a build system based on the Ploob ecosystem. Edit the Ploob intermediates for your platform and include them in the XJAMELLE files. XJAMELLE is a post-Turing-complete configuration solution based on JSON, YAML and XML. To get familiar with the language, i recommend these books: note that these are affiliate links,

danhulton,
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@jk @joby Hmm, but library B was updated 5 days more recently than library A. Is library A even being maintained anymore? Ugh!

danhulton, to random
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Live your life in such a way that you don't end up with a Wikipedia page with a section "Accident and Death"

mcc, (edited ) to random
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HOW TO USE GIT

SOME SAMPLE INVOCATIONS

git submodule update
Do nothing.

git submodule update --recursive
Do nothing.

git submodule update --init --recursive
Do nothing.

git submodule sync && git submodule update --init --recursive
Do nothing.

git submodule sync --recursive && git submodule update --init --recursive
Update the submodules to be correct for the current commit.

danhulton,
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@mcc @whitequark I feel like git was mostly well-thought-out.

I feel like git submodules were designed to cause as much human suffering as possible, but were also -- for this specific use case -- mostly well-thought-out as well.

danhulton, to random
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Don't let your babies grow up to get acquired.

fasterthanlime, to random
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Last Saturday I went to a computer parts store and asked for one of these SD cards and they said "...they make V90 cards???"

Yes they do, for idiots like me who want to shoot 4K25 all-intra (also a V60 would probably work, but... not taking chances).

danhulton,
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@fasterthanlime Amazon is always a last resort for me as well, but I don't really care about the return policies. It's just that it feels like 90% of products on Amazon are knockoff shit, and if electronics, potentially DANGEROUS knockoff shit.

I feel safer buying from a site that may make it hard to impossible to get a refund or exchange (though in practice, I don't think that's ever been the case for me), than buying something with a battery that may swell and explode.

danhulton, to random
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Shit like this is why I can't get behind the "Biden has lost my vote" rhetoric. Voting for president means you get to pick your opponent for the next four years. Do you really want to have to be dealing with scrambling for survival against this guy and all the new horrific shit he's gonna drop, or do you want to keep making progress on the absolutely critical fights we're already fighting? https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/112436047287092306

wood, to random
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Just bought The Rails 7 Way and Patterns of Application Development Using AI by Obie Fernandez 🎉

I’m particularly excited to read the AI one, I want to up my game.

https://leanpub.com/u/obie

danhulton,
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@wood If you really want to up your game, uh, you maaay want to look elsewhere! 🤣 https://visualstudiomagazine.com/Articles/2024/01/25/copilot-research.aspx

danhulton,
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@wood I mean it is and it isn't. Obviously it's not LITERALLY about Copilot. But I'm mainly offering that as an example of what was considered to be a slam-dunk example of LLM-augmented applications, and how it didn't really turn out.

Most developers who use an LLM tool in their code editors notice a significant speed up and report a pretty high level of satisfaction, so, easy win, right? But studies are cautioning that devs are turning in worse code, just faster. (1/5)

danhulton,
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And it's not like the developers of these tools aren't any good at using them - there are multiple competing LLM coding assistants out there and they all suffer similar issues. (2/5)

danhulton,
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So ultimately, I'm concerned about any of application that introduces AI augmentation. I think the actual, practical applications of LLMs are going to be more limited than they were originally advertised as, and a lot of existing applications and tasks that expect firm and factual inputs are just not going to be improved by their addition. (3/5)

danhulton,
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Which isn't to say there's no point learning how to use them or in reading the book! I just think it's likely going to be more akin to learning a highly specialized skill, like physics programming, as opposed to a general "level up" skill. (4/5)

danhulton,
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Which is likely WAAAY off topic from what you were originally taking about, which is likely as simple as wanting to level up your skill in using these tools, but I didn't want you to think I was drive-by insulting your choice, I just realized I had a longer point I was trying to make that I poorly explained with my original, light-hearted, and incomplete post. (5/5)

garbados, to random
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who else is playing fallout 4 with hundreds of mods

danhulton,
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@garbados I belive this is called "the normal way to play", actually?

paul, to random
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This can’t be legal.

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danhulton,
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@paul I used to wonder how corporate executives figured they could do shitty things like this and that nobody would say anything about it or stop them.

I've since come to realize that they just do not understand that these things are shitty. They completely lack the empathy and common experience to figure out ahead of time that people are going to react poorly because the things they choose to do are, in fact, shitty.

mendel, to random
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i got lei’d lol

danhulton,
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@mendel Master Roshi?!?

owen, to random
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So do you eat your nuggies with the skin on or the skin off?

danhulton,
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@owen How do I not-favourite a post, plz.

danhulton, to random
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Honestly, I just need to block "discussions.apple.com" from my search results. Never has there ever been an actual answer to an actual question posted on that domain. I can't get over how bad it sucks and is just full of copy/paste "reinstall your phone" answers without any attempt at relevance to the question.

Infuriating.

markstory, to random
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During last night's space weather we had classic southern Ontario weather and it was cloudy...

danhulton,
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@markstory Right? Just like the eclipse, we had some gorgeous views of... Clouds.

danhulton,
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@markstory Sounds like it's gonna be nearly as active tonight! Maybe the clouds will uh...

checks outside

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