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jufter··on California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters
> but suggesting that highly skilled tech jobs are a solution is just not realistic.

I went from homeless to six figures thanks to tech.

I think you are missing that tech is one of the few well paying industries that doesn't have socioeconomic gatekeeping with degrees.

jufter··on Why tail-recursive functions are loops
> ..kind of breaks the typical stack-trace patterns.

The expectation that iterative recursion ought to have a call stack is the problem here and wouldn't be up for debate if people had done their due diligence and read their SICP.

jufter··on Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills
There is truth to this but it's important to acknowledge that exposure therapy alone may not be sufficient for everyone and will require alternative modalities.
jufter··on A conceptual overview of asyncio
Yep. Even io_uring sends all block device commands to a backend thread pool.

I think only benefit is reduced syscall overhead.

jufter··on A conceptual overview of asyncio
Instead of adding another dependency you can just call `loop.run_in_executor` yourself: https://github.com/Tinche/aiofiles/blob/main/src/aiofiles/ba...
jufter··on Uv: Running a script with dependencies
I'm glad it was reposted so I saw it. I may actually use python for scripting now because uv makes it so easy.
jufter··on Self-taught engineers often outperform (2024)
> My thesis is that I disagree that "Self-Taught Engineers Often Outperform"

They do in FAANG.

jufter··on Show HN: ArchGW – an intelligent edge and service proxy for agents
Was going to ask how this integrates into Envoy but dug into the code it looks like proxywasm which must mean `envoy.bootstrap.wasm` ?
jufter··on Zig's New Async I/O
> how do i know that the CPU thing does not block inside my async io thing?

I think it's common sense to not interweave IO with long-running CPU, hence sans IO.

If you want to go that route, we already have solutions: goroutines and beam processes.

jufter··on Async Ruby Is the Future of AI Apps (and It's Already Here)
Aren't threads overkill for an IO workload? You can do a lot with 1 thread and epoll(7).