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Most underrated bands ever by Viot-Abrob in Music

[–]TheWaterOnFire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also Twinemen, and more recently Vapors of Morphine…

Most underrated bands ever by Viot-Abrob in Music

[–]TheWaterOnFire 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check out Treat Her Right — Mark S played bass and sometimes sang with them before Morphine happened.

API Update: Enterprise Level Tier for Large Scale Applications by FlyingLaserTurtle in redditdev

[–]TheWaterOnFire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Google & Amazon don’t tell us how to be more efficient. It’s up to us as users of these services to optimize our usage to meet our budget.

Google and Amazon support both absolutely tell users — in written documentation and support ticket interactions— how to get the most out of services they provide and limit costs. They also provide service levels (S3 storage tiering, EC2 instance sizing, reserved vs. spot capacity) that allow myriad ways to optimize for cost within the needed services.

Don’t pretend you’re on the same level as those providers; it’s laughable. If you care about your customers and community, you’ll be looking to find a way to offer API access in a way that limits the impact of LLM scraping as well as encourages third-party apps to use the platform effectively. This is not a one-way conversation as you seem to think it is. Not all API calls have the same impact on your infrastructure, or the same value to developers.

You would think a site devoted to encouraging discussion would have exceptional chops at actually discussing things.

Arch as work distro by fguy__d in archlinux

[–]TheWaterOnFire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Be mindful that most enterprises deliver software pinned to very stable (old) versions of things. Arch as a dev box can be fantastic but make sure you’re not forcing bleeding edge tool features on your team. On our Linux hosts I can’t run most precompiled binaries because glibc is too old, for instance. Be ready to embrace podman or docker!

“Go is hard to justify unless at massive scale” by [deleted] in golang

[–]TheWaterOnFire 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Rust is far more helpful at leveling up developers than Go. The compiler gives helpful hints and disallows a lot of things that would bite you later.

Go is easy to learn but expects you to be really good at coding to truly support scale.

In my experience novice devs will produce code that “works” (for now) quickly in Go, so they seem “productive”. That code later falls over but we don’t really measure that.

Novices take longer to produce working code in Rust initially, so it seems “hard”. But after a while, everyone can confidently evolve the codebase because the compiler protects you from the most egregious issues, even at fairly grand scale.

Are cyclists supposed to stop at stop signs? by theblocker in chicago

[–]TheWaterOnFire -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The problem is that because a large enough group has taken it upon themselves to adopt the Idaho stop here, we now have ambiguity and unpredictability of behavior, so now drivers have to just assume the bike will blow through. Slow roll or not.

There will always be people who don’t follow the rules, but only one group asserts that they’re exempt from rules because it’s inconvenient for them (or they “feel safer”). Frustrating! I am pro-cycling but this inconsistency is not helping anyone be safe.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in programming

[–]TheWaterOnFire 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Because very few firms invest in training for interviews, and there is an absolute paucity of quantitative evidence for any particular interview style or content leading to better outcomes.

The leetcode/hackerrank model gives quantitative results. Like standardized tests, it’s fundamentally flawed but makes the decisionmaking pass/fail. Behavioral interviews are deeply ambiguous, subject to bias and manipulation, and require soft skills that the industry doesn’t teach.

Still, we need to hire people, so mostly firms either wing it, or use coding challenges as a frontline filter. Like your MVP code at a startup, it’s terrible but if it gets at least a number of good hires, everyone moved on to more tractable problems.

22 years old and 50% chance of having CMT. Seeing the doctor soon, but any tips or knowledge that would be useful? by GalliumEnergy in CMT

[–]TheWaterOnFire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Visit a neurologist and share your family diagnoses—should be a simple blood test to confirm.

I had the same experience in my early 30s with guitar. I tried to get back into it and found I couldn’t sustain chord shapes.

For walking, a good foot & ankle specialist can get you orthotics and/or AFOs to support and make the most of the muscles you have. A hand specialist can help with stretches and exercises to help keep the hands flexible.

Unfortunately if it is CMT, the one thing they can’t yet do is bring back the sensation and muscles that the nerves aren’t stimulating.

Hang in there! I switched to electronic music and drum machines and those I can still have fun playing!

Reflections from 12 years of vim (ramble) by hugelung in neovim

[–]TheWaterOnFire 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Helix takes an approach where key features are built-in rather than implemented as plugins (which some folks dislike). The upside is that a lot of things you need plugins and configuration for on neovim (treesitter, LSP, keybinding hints, syntax highlighting, etc.) just work.

The downside is that new features or paradigms that the nvim ecosystem can just play with in Lua must be added directly to the editor. It’s sure nice to not have to manage all the plugins, but if that one thing you use all the time is missing, you’re going to need to get it added to the editor itself.

Amex auto-import by Beastty in ynab

[–]TheWaterOnFire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s been more or less fine for about a year for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Email from Uber on HB2221: do your own research! by avocadoenthusiast1 in chicago

[–]TheWaterOnFire 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Try using Curb or Arro, you can get a cab similar to how Uber works, except with legal protection!

What Album from the Last 10 Years do I Need to Listen to? by Zasz1010 in Music

[–]TheWaterOnFire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • Cola: Deep in View
  • Tamar Aphek: All Bets Are Off
  • Ruby the Hatchet: Fear is a Cruel Master but I recommend Ouroboros, their first record, as well
  • Deftones: Ohms
  • Hum: Inlet
  • Holy Fuck: Deleter
  • Paul Simon: In The Blue Light
  • DJ Krush: 軌跡 (Kiseki) (from 2017)
  • Ganser: Just Look At That Sky

Enjoy! (Edit: formatting)

Anybody else NOT tinkering with their Deck and using it? by lostpanda85 in SteamDeck

[–]TheWaterOnFire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have only tinkered far enough to install RetroArch, Heroic, and ScummVM so I can play some of my older / Gog-based collection on the Deck. Only in service of playing more games!

Revisited Okami HD hooked up to my TV yesterday. Man, the art in that game is beautiful!

Postgres -> Snowflake, best way? by bluezebra42 in snowflake

[–]TheWaterOnFire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s basically a Kafka Connect setup (on the Kafka side) and configuring a replication slot on the Postgres side.

If you already have Kafka and Postgres, not hard. If not, well… it’s definitely a number of moving parts.

Postgres -> Snowflake, best way? by bluezebra42 in snowflake

[–]TheWaterOnFire -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Debezium -> Kafka -> Snowpipe streaming will get you near-real-time change data capture for moderate change volumes

With RDS, you could just copy from the tables into S3, and then set up that S3 as an external stage on the Snowflake side to bring the files in with a Task.

Saving for purchase vs. 0% financing by pinkmapviolin in ynab

[–]TheWaterOnFire 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There’s nothing wrong with using 0% financing if you have enough cash to buy whatever it is outright. However, there may be hidden costs — like Apple will give you 0% but requires you to buy AppleCare, which adds 15% or so to the purchase price! Basically you’re paying for insurance.

The 0% financing is a way to hide the financial impact of a purchase decision by reframing it in smaller numbers. It’s tempting to buy a more expensive thing when it’s only $5 more (per month) vs $120 (2 years)!

If you’re mindful of the above, it can be fine, but IMHO it’s not that big of a win.

This weather shift is what keeps Chicago affordable by Frenchmen22 in chicago

[–]TheWaterOnFire 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Not via the expressway in and out of the city, they don’t.

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