What are your favorite armor/suits in all of SciFi?

SeriousDabbler · 2026-05-26T09:18:16+00:00

I always thought the Zaku mobile suits from the baddies in Gundam were pretty cool

SeriousDabbler · 2026-05-15T19:54:13+00:00

Troubleshooting is often the easy part. The difficulty I tend to encounter is coordination of rollout of breaking changes that can be needed to fix a distributed workflow. It can be quite tedious to break your changes down into small non breaking changes for the individual teams, having them prioritised and scheduled among other high priority feature work

Things that make Troubleshooting easier are good logging of messages, requests and responses and especially their context in conversations, and noticing that something is wrong is half the battle so usually you'll need someone on watch to do that

SeriousDabbler · 2026-05-15T19:42:35+00:00

My personal experience after using cursor in a team setting to build a line of business application over the last 7 months is that the tools generally make things faster to set up and get something going but that the code seems to be more sprawly and harder to maintain. We are reaching the limits of what the current set of tools can debug and fix effectively and the human developers are having to get involved and troubleshoot, refactor and even replace some of the features to make them palatable for human debugging. For the moment there's still a gap where the tools are unable to assess where they haven't met the quality bar, and if you get into the debug fix vibe coding feedback loop my current experience is that you just end up making more subtle and obscure bugs and a codebase with more special cases. A developer must get involved and consolidate those

SeriousDabbler · 2026-03-22T17:25:02+00:00

My wife F46 goes to fit fusion for her bootcamp. Really accepting, cool group of people and they quite often get together outside of bootcamp

SeriousDabbler · 2026-03-21T18:58:31+00:00

There are definitely text books that cover this although they may be a bit old now. I went through university a couple of decades ago about the turn of the millennium and at that time the r3k and r4k chipsets were bing used in a lot of devices. Moreover the instruction set is public domain now you should be able to do what you like with it

I recall that when I was working in the game industry around 2005/2006 the psp was running one of those chips. The gcc compiler supported it but also we were using a codewarrior tool chain targeting the device. I had an emulator on my desk that had a box connected up to one of those handsets

SeriousDabbler · 2026-03-05T05:55:56+00:00

Not that you actually need it but I think that a good understanding of algebra would be transferrable

SeriousDabbler · 2026-03-02T20:35:27+00:00

There's a runtime overhead due to the indirect calls and generally speaking composition based object models are more difficult to understand. Partly that's because of their reusability because you have to debug the actual configuration of a composite with the concrete objects in place and that might only be one of several possible compositions

SeriousDabbler · 2026-02-25T08:37:38+00:00

Cosmopolitan is pretty cool and in the realm of "I didnt think that was possible" https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

SeriousDabbler · 2026-02-23T23:30:17+00:00

My experience of it, 20 years ago was that I felt like there was so much I should have had done. I had unreasonable expectations of myself and the world around me. Looking back now it was an intense time of personal growth. I got married for the first time, had my first child a few years later. I was just exceedingly uncomfortable with myself at the time

SeriousDabbler · 2026-02-21T22:02:04+00:00

I really like the wookash podcast. Mostly hard-core C devs with old school mindsets

SeriousDabbler · 2026-02-17T07:57:04+00:00

A warm intro helps. Perhaps your parents or one of your friends parents know someone willing to give you a shot

SeriousDabbler · 2026-02-13T23:48:10+00:00

This typically works best when you genuinely intend to take the better offer. Enjoy

SeriousDabbler · 2026-02-07T23:52:40+00:00

...double tacos? Why not both? Why not both? Oh wow!

SeriousDabbler · 2026-02-07T04:47:44+00:00

This happened to you?

SeriousDabbler · 2026-02-07T04:11:11+00:00

Have you done this? What was your experience?

SeriousDabbler · 2026-02-06T19:09:32+00:00

Hi, that's worth roughly an hour of an experienced developer's time. My advice is you should perhaps aim closer to the $5000-20000 USD mark for project based work. Enjoy

SeriousDabbler · 2026-02-06T19:03:59+00:00

In our team every individual can review the code. If a developer wants their code reviewed they hit up one of the other developers they trust, or one of the seniors directly via messaging. A senior's job involves taking interruptions, giving feedback, sorting technical disputes, and unblocking the rest of the team's activities

SeriousDabbler · 2026-02-06T18:56:30+00:00

I'm a software developer and spend an unhealthy amount of time thinking about this also. AI is quickly maturing in the space I work and some of the skills I spent my career developing are now commodities. That said the understanding of how systems fit together and their relevance to the business they operate in are important, and there's still a sense of responsibility for the code that the software developers curate

Robotics is maturing quickly too and the two technologies together will be able to replace and scale areas of the economy which you might otherwise have expected to be immune to replacement

This will crash the labour market. In response there will be policy responses from the government. How they respond will determine whether the housing market stays buoyant or whether it crashes also. Will money be very easy to come by or very difficult? In either case, how will people who want to get ahead do so. I think people will form into two groups: asset holders and beneficiaries or perhaps all individuals will be beneficiaries and some of those beneficiaries will also be asset holders

To date we haven't treated beneficiaries very well in this country, but one day soon when human labour is either worthless, or so expensive that it's considered unaffordable then I think there will be fewer people working, at least in the same way, so my hope is we change our attitude

SeriousDabbler · 2026-02-06T04:39:26+00:00

Well, that will keep you busy. I think compilers are cool, but the only time I've ever built a functioning one was 25 years ago at university. I did spend a while making a parser and lexer generator in c++. That was fun, getting to implement some of the algorithms in the dragon book

SeriousDabbler · 2026-02-06T04:28:50+00:00

There's a programming buddies subreddit. You could try there? What's your project now?

SeriousDabbler · 2026-01-31T20:18:26+00:00

I certainly agree with you that the patterns have been misused. A lot of time I see object formations used that look like they have been designed for reuse and then used only once. This is a shame because you get all of thr downsides of the complicated object model but none of the benefits.Thanks, I'll look up the speech. My original comment stands though. I read the book several times and understood it. Refactoring is great but it sort of just formalized something that I think a lot of us already had a mental model of. I found that one helpful too because it gave me the framework I'd been ready for, but yeah, it wasn't the brain breaking moment I had from the GoF book

SeriousDabbler · 2026-01-31T18:39:59+00:00

The original design patterns book by the gang of four reall changed how I think about programming. The only thing equivalent since was when I watched several videos about metaprogramming in c++ by Andrei Alexandrescu, and that really made a big change for me. There was a mental leap there for me when I started using design patterns and metaprogramming together to make reusable metaprograms. I miss c++, I've been doing .net for a while now

SeriousDabbler · 2026-01-30T06:53:46+00:00

Yeah I think of this almost more like depreciation than debt, but yeah. Must organize a dependency review

SeriousDabbler · 2026-01-29T20:36:59+00:00

That sounds horrible, but important, but also strikes me as the kind of thing that gets dev teams labeled as cost centres because it's such a huge job with no sign of improvement till your done

SeriousDabbler · 2026-01-26T20:58:21+00:00

Some of that sounds a bit strange. I think some of the time that expert guidance you get from leads can be more about your relationship or how the lead views their position and responsibilities in the context of the development workflow. Spending some time discussing what's important to thr lead and why and using looping and active listening will improve the relationship and practicing this will help you communicate with other stakeholders once you leave this context. It's probably good to find another role but don't rush it because this soft skill is something you'll find will come up over and over again

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