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My struggle from a UNIX background in the modern "cloud" world
  • hating on k8s is very in vogue currently. simpler systems like ECS exist and are really good too.

    anybody bitching too hard about the tools today isn’t remembering 10 years ago correctly.

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    what's the highest increase in salary you've had or seen?
  • this is a conversation you usually have before the technical stuff. you’re making sure your ideal pay and their band is in sync.

    being pushy early in the process is terrible advice.

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    what's the highest increase in salary you've had or seen?
  • even then, a position may not be for a certain level so they’re can be a fairly wide band of pay depending on how the interview goes.

    i think most folks vastly overthink it. just ask for the money you want to make. either it’s in the ballpark or it’s not. all this “don’t say a number first” stuff is bullshit imo.

    you definitely do want to know if your desired pay matches their range though. that’s very important.

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    Baldur's Gate 3 is now a best-selling pre-order on PS5
  • i’m playing via geforce now, and was an early access purchase—i was a huge dos 1/2, bg 1/2?fan. i love crpgs is general. i think the thing to keep in mind is that this is a somewhat niche style of rpg.

    bg3 is as close to a perfect crpg as i’ve played. the story is great, the the companions are interesting, the options are nearly endless. it’s just everything you’d want.

    that said, this isn’t skyrim, and you don’t get your hand held with the quest tracker. there’s quite a bit going on with quests as well as all the mechanics.

    if you don’t have experience with games in this rpg genre and you don’t enjoy reading a wiki from time to time, you might want to watch some youtube first.

    overall the game is a masterpiece, but it doesn’t have as broad of an appeal as some other rpgs. if you’re already a crpg fan, then it’s basically christmas and you’ve been very good this year.

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    is it just me or GitHub is turning into some sort of LinkedIn
  • “programming” is so broad though. surely there’s room to have it be both work and a hobby ?

    i mean, it is for me and lots of folks i know.

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    is it just me or GitHub is turning into some sort of LinkedIn
  • there are tons of developers and technical folks that still find it fun and enjoyable to work on personal projects.

    i mean, how else do you build new skills or gain familiarity without stuff you don’t use at work?

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  • hey guys stop talking about the thing that i just made a post about but won’t name and therefore is not about that thing that i’m complaining about.

    if you want to see better content, create it. you’re making it worse by posting about it yourself.

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    Dolphin Emulator devs give up on Steam release
  • i can see it both ways. for technical folks, nothing beats a package manager. in terms of getting your emulator i’m front of the masses there is absolutely no question that Steam is the platform that makes that easiest.

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    coding challenges
  • i do terrible at the live challenge, and great at the take home stuff. i don’t k ow what it is about the former, but i just cannot think while someone is looking over my shoulder.

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  • functional dev environments have been the hardest part of learning cl for me. i don’t really want to use emacs, but it’s the wild west for other editors.

    setting up emacs wasnt hard per se, but emacs is just so much. i spent more time troubleshooting how to use emacs and fix issues with it than learning the language, which just makes it all a little lame.

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    Melody 0.19.0 | A language that compiles to regular expressions and aims to be more readable and maintainable
  • respectfully disagree—this is very much a regex dsl. folks still need to conceptually understand regex to use this, which begs the question about who this is for.

    the best use case i can think of is large and complicated expressions, but i’d need to see more of that to have a definitive opinion.

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    Melody 0.19.0 | A language that compiles to regular expressions and aims to be more readable and maintainable
  • i mean, you can learn the basics of matching in 30 minutes or less. that core knowledge will be broadly applicable across any tool that uses regex. things get much easier once to have a handle on the basics.

    …or you can learn this regex dsl and still have to learn regex. the difference is you’re learning a non-portable regex syntax.

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    Melody 0.19.0 | A language that compiles to regular expressions and aims to be more readable and maintainable
  • so, where’s the email address regex? that’s where this lives or dies. there is no reason to use this for extremely simple happy-path regexes.

    i’m having a tough time understanding who this is for. a beginner might think this is great, but they’re shooting themselves in the foot by adding an additional layer of abstraction rather than reading something to learn the basics.

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