skinnyarms

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Long time software developer and host of the Coding Blocks podcast.
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Comment · 2 years ago
Markdown is so much easier to read and maintain in its raw form. I can't imagine trying to take meeting notes in html.

``` - [ ] Item 1 - [ ] Item 2 ```

``` <ul> <li><checkbox> <label>Item 1</label></li> <li><checkbox> <label>Item 2</label></li> </ul> ```

Comment · 3 years ago
Most mortgagers require home insurance as part of the loan terms. They will increase your monthly payment due to offset the risk of their stake in your property. It's like paying for insurance, without any of the benefits.
Comment · 3 years ago
* Copilot is great

* Great for sanity checking your plans or designs (ex: "What are the best ways of securing a multi-tenant application?")

* Great for bootstrapping a presentation or pitch (ex: "Please create a presentation outline about Istio, intended for an audience unfamiliar with Service Meshes"

* Simple questions/reminders (ex: "How can I make it so a bash script exits on error?")

edit: formatting

Comment · 3 years ago
Why not? It's a great mix of productivity and power and the Microsoft/Azure ecosystem works really well together.

You can go with dynamic languages if you're flying fast and loose, or native languages like Go/Rust if you are worried about performance but you miss out on the "enterprise" integrations of something like Java or .Net.

Speaking of Java, it's great too but the ecosystem is a jungle. It's more flexible, but that flexibility has a cost too and you'll spend a lot of time frustrated trying to figure out the right combination of configs in xml, toml, yaml, json, env, properties, etc files.

Comment · 3 years ago
I really like skaffold for stuff like this, and it's a single binary.
Comment · 3 years ago
Maven Enforcer does have a rule for duplicate class _names_ (which includes the entire namespace), but I think the author was more talking about it's enforcement of duplicate dependencies. For example, it will detect when you have different (transitive) versions of the same library referenced by your code or dependencies.
Comment · 3 years ago
Side note: Statements like that paragraph drive me absolutely batty. There have been tons of novels, novellas, movies, comics, YouTube videos, poems (yep) imagining all sorts of aspects of the singularity.

How fast it comes on How this was no warning How there was lots of warning How we shoulda known How nobody coulda known How it completely takes over society immediately About the long drawn out wars fought for it to take over society How society splits between those under it's affects, and those not How prevalent the effects are How exclusive the effects are How big, how small etc, etc, etc

There are billions of humans out there right now, imagining all manner of things, and it's irritating to me to see all the hand wringing over the "Nobody stopped to think if they should". Lots of people did, and are, asking that question.

Comment · 3 years ago
Is it working? Give "Amish abuse" a search in google, limiting people's access to communication can also make it hard for them to get help or to realize that they have access to other options a few miles up the road.
Comment · 3 years ago
You're not too far off from the arguments people made about the internet not too long ago. It's too easy to access information that could easily be incorrect...even maliciously so!

You're better off sticking to published books and journals from respectable organizations that vet their authors and review their publications!

Then again, who's in control of those printing presses? How can you trust the publishers to not push their own politics and agendas? You're probably better off finding a religious organization you can trust to help filter out the bad stuff. Help you see things through the proper perspective.

Comment · 3 years ago
Just search for "overdrive pedal" on Sweetwater and you'll see a lot of pedals that have been around for decades. Read up on the newer ones and you'll see they generally just add novelty options and variations to classic designs. You can easily find comparisons of schematics by googling, though it's not as simple as "Tubescreamer 85 vs Tuberscreamer 2023" because of various small evolutions and models. Try "tubescreamer circuit comparison" to get a good start.

Delays are another story, search Sweetwater and you'll see it's dominated by digital options that bundle things modulation, stereo effects, and loopers. You won't see the same analog options as the 80's, or many analog options at all comparatively.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
It's been a smash hit at work. There is a bit of a learning curve, but nothing compared to kubectl.

: for changing "resource" types (and a few other miscellaneous things) / for filtering shift-? to see more commands

Comment · 4 years ago
Logo is a dog, and everybody I know call it "canines"
Comment · 4 years ago
Sounds like old school server-side rendering techniques to me: php, coldfusion, classic ASP

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