copperroof

Vcs are some of the dumbest people I have ever interacted with. Full stop no exceptions. They are luck, confirmation bias and survivor bias weaponized.

Well this just created a lot of work for me. Everything’s turning to shit at an alarming rate.

No I have a few privacy plugins/adblock but they all work fine with YouTube normally. I tried disabling everything. All the standard debugging tests.

The most irritating thing for me now is that YouTube doesn’t work in my browser anymore. Clearly being a/b tested because sometimes it does, and sometimes it spews out thousands of console errors and doesn’t load anything.

I use this kind of opinion as my idiot bat signal now. It’s so obviously untrue when someone starts spouting this nonsense you know they are a very feelings based decision maker.

lol. All the competent folks I knew left. They bled talent like crazy with return to office. Everyone figured that was the point of it… all that’s left of the groups I worked with there is morons and sycophants from top to bottom.

When I last compared it to mypy a few months ago adding typechecking to an old project that had types but I had for some reason never actually run a typechecker on it:

* Was overwhelmingly slower than mypy

* Had a few hundred more false positives. I gather from reading their philosophy afterward that this was on purpose. Rigid dogma > doing the right thing in the circumstance in their opinion.

* Did not find any actual bugs, whereas mypy identified 3 errors that lead to fixing real issues AND had fewer false positives, due to its better understanding of python code.

* Comically overweight with its typescript dependency.

My first impression of it was of a very low quality, over engineered project prioritizing noise over signal. Looking forward to trying out the astral typechecker as well.

I’ve gotten 0 production usable python out of any LLM. Small script to do something trivial, sure. Anything I’m going to have to maintain or debug in the future, not even close. I think there is a _lot_ of terrible python code out there training LLMs, so being a more popular language is not helpful. This era is making transparent how low standards really are.

Yes, I read this post and was actually emotionally affected by a post about coding. I was surprised how sad I felt. I’ve been around for a long time but this truly feels like the best era if you like gluing trash to other trash and shipping it.

You only need to implement it yourself if you’ve catastrophically fucked up the concurrency model on the client or sever side and they can’t respond out of band of whatever you’re waiting on.

Personally I’ve been finding that the more context I provide the more it hallucinates.

That's a great analogy. I would add that since I left every single smart person in my extended network that worked there has left. As far as I can tell all my former teams are held together with jr devs and bubblegum.

I just want a hacker news no-LLM filter. The site has been almost unusable for a year now.

There’s no chance anyone at google will ever listen to a customer.

Nothing.

I charge it when I shower.

I’m so glad I left. The execs there are comically incompetent.

All this person has done is illustrate a sociopathic inability to understand other peoples’ experiences. Nothing they have said is remotely interesting and is an obvious no from my perspective. The only situation I’d even pick up a phone or answer the door is the neighbor. That would be a no thanks. The fact that they keep pushing and clearly think their juvenile worldview applies to everyone reinforces my original statement. It’s wild to me people can say these things with a straight face.

I know nothing whatsoever about readability but this almost makes me ill to read. Very unsettling.

It’s wild to me people can say things like this so confidently. I’ve said no to everything my entire life. I don’t care what you’re offering, I’m already seething with rage that I have to talk to you. If I want something I’ll look for it same rules as avoiding phishing.

This drives me nuts. When I first got the original fire tv it was fast and had no ads. I could easily recommend it. Now it’s stuffed to the brim with ads and is incredibly slow. When this one dies I’ll likely not buy a hardware device from Amazon ever again.

No. Speak for yourself.

Agreed. In my experience to do well in large companies you need 2 properties and nothing else.

1. Constantly complaining. This is like a high-visible fake proxy for "high quality".

2. Highly opinionated. In order to get your 3rd rate projects through you need to fight tooth and nail for whatever arbitrary set of things you are pushing.

Engineering prowess and the properties from the article are nowhere on the list. The vast majority of principal+ engineers and essentially all upper management I have worked with have these two traits. When you run into an exception it's a blast of fresh air and a wonder they got past senior engineering roles. As a disclaimer my sample size is 2 companies.

You forgot Amazon eating paste in the corner.

If they are they should stop.

It causes so many entirely unnecessary issues. The conda developers are directly responsible for maybe a month of my wasted debugging time. At my last job one of our questions for helping debug client library issues was “are you using conda”. And if so we just would say we can’t help you. Luckily it was rare, but if conda was involved it was 100% conda fault somehow, and it was always a stupid decision they made that flew in the face of the rest of the python packaging community.

Data scientist python issues are often caused by them not taking the 1-3 days it takes to fully understand their tool chain. It’s genuinely quite difficult to fuck up if you take the time once to learn how it all works, where your putbon binaries are on your system etc. Maybe not the case 5 years ago. But today it’s pretty simple.

This is a very incorrect and overly prescriptive view based on your, to use your own term, narrow experience. I vastly prefer meetings and collaboration to be remote. People who dominate in person meetings due to their body language and personality are not nearly ad oppressive over zoom.

I would make the exact opposite claim. Since Covid and working from home the quality of my teams’ collaboration and decision making quality has gone through the roof. Quality of promotions has gone up significantly, you’re no longer rewarded for just being the loudest monkey in the room with an opinion. The only metric that has suffered in any measurable way is onboarding and mentoring young engineers who do not yet know how to learn. You have to be much more active and sensitive to their state. In general I look back at that era of my career as archaic. Everyone that wants to go back to that way of working seems dinosaurs who operate on their feelings rather than the data of how quality work is done.

An automated one would be red 100% the time.

On the filesizes I was working with (log files) both silver surfer and GNU grep would lock up and crash. Ripgrep handled the same thing in _seconds_. The difference in speed is staggering you may not think the speed bothers you, but I can't go back after installing ripgrep. Its the difference between my mind wandering waiting for a search to complete, versus instantly seeing the results and not losing a train of thought.

I wound up going back to pandora recently. I had started using Spotify really late (2021) and couldn’t understand any of the praise it had.

Most of the write ups show you everything all at once. I spend maybe a minute or so a week updating or tweaking something. Over decades this is a lot of customization and If I did a write up on it it would look like a lot of work.