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Everyone is so focused on AI, they forget about AWS Lambda whose main attraction is it allows developers to piss on modern programming practice.
"You can't make me lint! pylint can't execute against the code I typed into the browser! You can't make me run unit tests! I typed in all the code in the browser! You can't make me format my code, black doesn't reach into lambdas!"
Every single good programming practice, AWS Lambda is there to help you piss on it.
(Yes, if you stick to docker backed lambdas or even uploading zips, you can be a professional, but that isn't why Lambda is popular with devs)
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The face or thumb login on your phone is being used by ICE, police to physically force people to login to their phone.
To protest #WashingtonPost firing all the good journalists and replacing them with MAGA hacks, I've cancelled my sub. Seems like one of the few large newspapers covering US politics without filtering it through plutocrat/kleptocrat ideological lenses is the Guardian, but I'm open to suggestions about who else is a good #WaPo substitute.
The Virginia Blue porcupine.
Quantum Fermi Estimates. How many piano tuners are in your lunch box?
First, express in scientific notation, 0.0 x 10^0, multiply this by all likely relevant factors (how many pianos can you tune in a day, did you eat that sandwich and free up some space), multiply, fix the units, and then establish some confidence intervals.
And... it's about 0. Pretty remarkably close given I didn't collect any real data.
I need to double the number of people I follow to get my feed back to the dopamine jet engine it normally is. Almost 90% of the people I currently follow came from correlating twitter to mastodon. I feel like I need to write code to find people (say by looking for people who tweet about tag xyz) Maybe this has something to do with why it feels like 1/2 of the traffic disappeared in the last year or so
@Mayowa@troet.cafe @Mayowa@tweesecake.social You have passed the Turing test. You are not a bot or an LLM. Which categories of mainstream games lend themselves to playing blind?
Ah shoot, I'm going to have to yank my xkcd-random-four library. I think it is going to fail most of the randomness tests.
Good video about the unnecessarily low comprehensibility of math content & NIST's randomness test guide.
"PEP 8100 Explicit Lazy Interpreter" will be coming to python soon.
```python
>>> fib=lambda n:n if n<2 else fib(n-1)+fib(n-2)
>>> fib(100000)
ExploitationError: I ain't doing that !@#$, you can !@#$@!#$ do it yourself.
```
If you win in sports gambling (by placing arbitration bets or just consistently winning) you will have your maximum bet limited to pocket change.
One hour isn't enough, I'll be falling back to January 2024, when times were somewhat better. Really who thought one hour would be enough.
IDEA: A text editor, where you have to write a short program to display each character. Now to write that short program, you use a series of POWERFUL macros. To write these macros, you use a series of 4 key chorded shortcuts. To speed up these shortcuts, you use mouse and keyboard automation scripts. To write these script, you use an DSL in YAML, which deskills the whole process. To create the YAML, you write a program in python to synth the YAML.
Data center painted to pretend to be an office building. 60% chance it is part of us-east-1.
Maps suggest it is not a single data center but is a constillation of data centers.
64 counterfeit Belgian dollars for $8.
Gotta put this into Excel and see if it matches economic theory, with relative interest rates and all.
No one was making blankets out of animal products. This is in the category of sugar free vodka and cholesterol free dill pickles.
Environment variables are THE MOST FLEXIBLE configuration strategy ever.
Just update your CDK code, the Docker image code. Do get 4 merge requests approved, Change Control Board, deploy to DEV, TEST, STAGE, PROD!
So easy! SO MUCH BETTER THAN A CONSTANT in the source code. GOD NO, we'd have to
Update a .py file, Do get 4 merge requests approved, Change Control Board, deploy to DEV, TEST, STAGE, PROD!
So you can SEE the most important 12th factor is environment variables!
"**The twelve-factor app stores config in *environment variables***. Env vars are easy to change between deploys without changing any code;** unlike config files, there is little chance of them being checked into the code repo accidentally;"
But doctor, the ONLY way to change an environment variable is to change code, the envvars are now CODE!
♡ 0 ↻ 0I mean, if we're going to stay in the past, let's bring back copybooks. They are a huge improvement over storing a stack of Jacquard loom cards underneath the sheep. Copybooks have 100% less sheep shit on them.
♡ 1 ↻ 0Oh, no, I should use AWS Parameter Store values?!
Okay, for OPs to update that they need to... say it with me...
Just update your CDK code, the Docker image code. Do get 4 merge requests approved, Change Control Board, deploy to DEV, TEST, STAGE, PROD!
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You see
"Savon pour les mains"
but never
"Savon pour les womains"
🤔
Rohatsu of Code: stay up all night writing code that makes no sense in the morning
Festivus of Code: Fork a project, read it, add comments with your grievances
Atheist's Society Day of Code: Pyprover and PyEprover to prove again that the Christian God doesn't exist.
Motto I saw on a shirt at the marathon
omnia bene erunt verisimile
@neurobashing kleptocrat, not sociopath. Sociopathy requires ideology, I don't think this guy has one. Kind of like the definition of "bullshit", "a complete lack of interest if what one is saying is true or not, distinct from lying where you want to put false facts into someone's head"
re: inside his head
Yeah, completely unpredictable. All of the things I'm afraid trumps administration says they will do, I can't be sure they will follow thru or change direction.
@neurobashing He fired everyone previously involved in trade negotiations, staff is now just a handful of people. The other countries didn't. So the other countries realized that they could do flattery and nonbinding howlers, like "we will pay the US a trillion dollars and buy a trillion dollars of goods (nonbinding)" and then ask for concessions from the US.
IDEA: dead letter queues for Mastodon.
So if a message wasn't funny enough, it would go on a dead letter queue so the originator can edit it and redrive it.
The AWS ECS cluster isn't happy.
I think it just needs a frito pie.
It is going to make the health checks worse, but the cluster should be happier.
Amazon SREs, I got your solution
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/aws_us_east_1_more_problems/
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@neurobashing The "Joe Rogan Act"
Joe Rogan went to Umass Boston and never finished his degree
Man goes to Mastodon, and now he's depressed.
NSF seems harsh and cruel and won't fund the PSF unless it stops trying to encourage everyone to code, especially groups that are underrepresented in the field.
Doctor says, "You should see if you employer can donate to PSF"
Man bursts into tears, "But Doctor...I work for the federal government!"
Does anyone know what the non-US exposure to the AI bubble is? Most (80-90%) of my retirement money is in non-US stocks, except some funds that are difficult to switch funds. And my house. Thanks housing crisis.
@bflipp@vmst.io I do that with chatgpt all the time. Ask him a question, pivot to more important people and then check back in in 20 minutes to see if he's still generating.
The band's name is a snake case variable, what's not to like?
What is the F in PSF?
Pumpkin Spice F_____?
IDEA: funding.yml files and the like should all mention #PSF as well.
Me as someone who should know by now
- wasn't sure if membership to PSF pays for #pypi
- what a fair "price" is for using pypi to download or host (enterprise competitors are $$$)
If the US gov't is going to add political litmus tests for supporting tech infrastructure, we need to be thinking about alternative funding.
Marathon thot. What do I want from nazis? I want them to stop being nazis. I want them to be won over the the ideas of progressives. I want criminals to be rehabilitated and rejoin society. I want independents and republicans to be won over on progressive issues. Rich people ain't going anywhere, I want them to be civic minded, limousine liberals. Guillotine isn't a choice, U think we're going from this (hand waving) to utopia directly?!
I want more people in my big political tent, not the ones the repented with the right words, not the ones that were pure monks. I've read about societies that are governed by monks, don't need the secular social media version of that.
We can't win people to our ideas if we start with:
You are wrong headed and must be exiled for the rest of your life.
♡ 1 ↻ 0I'll probably give $25 to the guy in Maine. The other choices is gerontocracy and I can't say that is working out well. Both parties have been trying it recently.
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#marinecorpsmarathon in 50 minutes. I'll make up for lackluster training in the next 50 minutes.
I'm switching to half marathons after this. Running for two hours feels like a brief training run compared to 26 miles.
♡ 1 ↻ 0Finish time 5 hours 20 min to 6 hours depending on how much I walk. And time across finish line also depends on when I get across starting line.
♡ 2 ↻ 0This sign believes in me! Not very smart sign
♡ 2 ↻ 0Horrible misunderstanding, thought this was a 26 minute race
♡ 3 ↻ 0Following the 5pm pacer.
♡ 1 ↻ 0Arm up: I'm walking
Two arms up: Wooo!
Elbows up: Canadian♡ 0 ↻ 0I wasn't detraining, it was a 6 month taper
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Focusing your political activism on things that have no real impact on the big picture is incredibly socially conservative.
I install this package by accident so many times.
If people could opt-in to at least 2 part names (user + package), I'd never install the wrong one again, because I'd have to look it up every time.
@rk If you want it in modern jargon, it's Institutions (as in Institutionalism in economics) The gist is if you **suspended** laws on murder, most people wouldn't murder any more than usual because the laws are internalized into people's heads. I think societies with the highest murder rates have 30% of all individuals who die, die from murder- from hunter/gather societies, pre-farming & also the same for Chimpanzees.
The current administration wants to suspend all the old laws and think overnight the US will become a Russian style kleptocracy. I think they will have the same problem the US had trying to bring democracy to Afghanistan. If the institutions aren't in people's heads, you get slow uptake to the new system.
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LLM assisted coding exhausts me. Unlike 90% of the people here, I enjoy using LLMs and think they're on net a good thing. I still type check, lint, and add unit tests, etc. This is a lot of work, it doesn't matter if it is artisanal handwritten or not. Once you start, you need to finish, so I have to keep all this in my head until completion. Rewriting and refactoring still happens and I have to hand diff everything. Bots are only somewhat better at editing documents.
You can't trust them to edit a document, but they can give me a new document that I can diff faster that I can fix it artisanally. The tempo is really fast, if you haven't done it it is hard to explain, sort of like, imagine if your coworkers all got back to you instantly and the ball is back in your court after 20 seconds for everything.
♡ 0 ↻ 0Anyhow, having read the discourse around here, I might as well remind people many things can be true at once
- the llms are useful, they work for me
- some people are not using them well and should get good or stop it.
- non-coding talking heads in the news are in a universe of their own (both the pro and anti LLM sorts)♡ 0 ↻ 0This is brought to you by about 20 hours a week of LLM assisted programming for the last 6-10 months, using mostly two $20 accounts and a little bit of API calls.
I think the $200 (to $1000s) spend on Claude code surely is mostly wasted tokens 'cause no one is reading the code at all. You need to keep an eye on these bots.
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Everyone can code!
Everyone can code?
repo: https://github.com/SABADAZO23/APP-de-gestion-de-inventario
( the SO question is now deleted/closed so you need a lot of rep to view it)
No: Pressure Wash Simulator
Yes: Software Developer Simulator
Install both versions of the game
What's your mental model of how you're paid for software development/techie work
Archived poll
- piece work, pay for tickets & artifacts2 votes
- hourly work, pay for time spent working3 votes
- I'm not a techie0 votes
- I work for free break room food0 votes
5 voters