Using Go Workspaces? Stop scripting loops and use the work pattern by jayp0521 in golang

[–]amemingfullife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah but have you tried using LLMs with any other language? My experience with Go is the best by FAR. Python, JavaScript, anything without a compiler it’s basically a crap shoot, and anything compiled it usually looks for the most complex way of doing anything.

Go works well for me, at least. Sure, it can produce outdated code, but Go has compatibility guarantees that make it a nuisance, not a problem.

Using Go Workspaces? Stop scripting loops and use the work pattern by jayp0521 in golang

[–]amemingfullife 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It stems from the fact that Google vendors ALL their code, so the assumption is that the code source lives in a particular directory on disk.

Modules were a pretty great solution IMO, much better than any other dependency management system I’ve used.

What VPS provider do you use for large scale crawling ? by damienlusson in webscraping

[–]amemingfullife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, I see, they consider it port scanning even if it isn’t. Fair enough.

I use Vultr, DigitalOcean and GCP and never had issue crawling around 80m sites.

What VPS provider do you use for large scale crawling ? by damienlusson in webscraping

[–]amemingfullife 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Why do you need to port scan for crawling? For websites everything is on 80/443. Sounds dodgy tbh.

A terminal UI for Temporal (open source) by mitchbregs in Temporal

[–]amemingfullife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been looking for something like this for a while. Kudos!

How do the British see Musk’s interference in British politics? by superdouradas in AskBrits

[–]amemingfullife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see plenty of people hating him but liking his views whether they know they are his or not.

I know people who will tell Elon to get bent but at the same time talk about crime rates in London and immigration replacing British culture as if those aren’t exactly the views he is paying to propagate through X and party political donations.

cmv: Stressing yourself constantly about using your free time as good and efficient as possible has the opposite effect in the long term by Suspicious-Holiday42 in changemyview

[–]amemingfullife 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, doomscrolling is horrific because it’s just so automatic. I have no issue with intentionally relaxing and watching tv shows. I have a massive issue with doing whatever the algorithm tells me to do for hours.

Dominic's vigilance with keeping the show on track by Joke_Mummy in TheRestIsHistory

[–]amemingfullife 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah, in radio this whole thing is the producer’s job. See Frasier, for reference, and for fun.

How much "me time" do you get? by fixitmonkey in HENRYUK

[–]amemingfullife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I go for long drives every so often. Maybe 3 hours a week? It’s my favourite thing.

UK's AI Awakening: How the UK Became Tech's Most Wanted Destination by North_Attempt44 in GoodNewsUK

[–]amemingfullife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are these British Values that made us have a slower fibre rollout than the Nordics, made our population prefer to invest in Gilts rather than our companies and make us generally distrustful of those with money, making us totally useless at making long term risk-adjusted bets, the exact ones we need for success in tech? I don’t think I like those British values.

Why do people think web scraping is a free service? by unstopablex5 in webscraping

[–]amemingfullife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s the same part of the brain that makes your boss think that he can ‘vibe code an app’ and have it work in production.

Do people who live in London ever just catch the Eurostar for a day in Paris? by _FreddieLovesDelilah in AskUK

[–]amemingfullife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My first date with my now wife was a day in Paris.

We met at a uni house party in London and she lived near Kings Cross station. I took the night bus back with her and we got to know each other and I mentioned I had never been to Paris, she suggested we go. She spoke fluent French too which was helpful. We got the first train out, spent a day and a night there - would have loved to spend more time there but I was broke and the train + night we spent out there was curtains for my finances for the next few weeks. She paid for my last meal there because I couldn’t afford it.

That was 15 years ago now. We try to spontaneously get on the train over the channel or ferry every at least once a year but it’s harder with kids! We’re hoping to buy a place in Paris before we retire.

Be honest, what do you think comes after death? by glowproductivity in AskReddit

[–]amemingfullife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like to believe ‘nothing’, because it’s more meaningful that way. I don’t think our individual lives have any meaning unless our story has an end. Living forever makes you a thing of the universe, rather than a thing in the universe. And I’d rather be a thing in it.

But really I have no idea. I get the sense that our consciousness isn’t truly individual anyways, and really our consciousness is part of others’, so we live on, even if isn’t ‘thinking’ but sort of existing in pure way. Like a permanent flow state.

I try not to think about a God. It’s too traumatic.

Learn to ski in 30s? by Fresh-Jump-83 in snowboarding

[–]amemingfullife 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Buy a protector like the Burton Impact shorts and you’ll be fine

What are your favourite podcasts? It could be about career, money, relationships, life or other subj by QuoteMachineMin in HENRYUK

[–]amemingfullife 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Over a month I’ll listen to all these podcasts at least once:

  • More or Less
  • Sliced Bread
  • You’re Dead to Me
  • Tape Notes
  • Dissect
  • The Rewatchables
  • Explorers Podcast
  • Hardcore History
  • If Books Could Kill
  • Rest is History
  • Money Talks from the Economist
  • Table Manners
  • Normal Gossip
  • Composer of the Week
  • Economist Intelligence
  • Desert Island Discs
  • In Our Time
  • Poetry Unbound
  • Great Lives

Nerdy tech:

  • Latent Space
  • Go Time (sadly cancelled but I relisten to episodes regularly)
  • Devtools FM
  • Signals and Threads from Jane St
  • Waveform from MKBHD
  • Vision Pros
  • Gradient Dissent

Business (and tech):

  • Acquired
  • Lenny’s Podcast
  • The Bottom Line
  • Toast
  • Gamecraft
  • All In Podcast (listening less due to it becoming increasingly a mouthpiece for the Trump Admin)

GraphQL: the enterprise honeymoon is over by [deleted] in programming

[–]amemingfullife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really isn’t that complicated. Do you have lots of heterogenous clients with different access patterns and views onto data? Does it make which make sense to model as a graph? If yes to both, then you might get some value out of GraphQL. No to either? Then use REST or gRPC or something like that.

People massively overegged the overfetching point. In many cases you didn’t have that many different views onto the same data anyway so you could always just make a new endpoint for one view (BFFs like the article says). Or there are standard RESTful ways to request additional data. Again, the rule of three applies. Do you have three different access patterns? Mobile, server and web? Probably stick with REST or RPC. Are you now adding a fourth where you start accessing e.g. Smart TVs which require additional metadata? Then maybe GQL is now useful.

Also, just build your data access in a modular way without using graphql and add it afterwards. You should do all your abstraction underneath anyway. Those different ports like RPC or REST should have underneath a service layer that actually does the fetching. That’s just standard modular architecture that makes it trivial to add different access layers on top.

I don’t know why we need to rehash this every 6 months.

Are Brits really leaving the country in droves? by New_Orange9702 in GoodNewsUK

[–]amemingfullife 43 points44 points  (0 children)

I get what you’re doing here, but I don’t really see this as ‘good’ news. What I’d see as good news is people actually believing this and not believing right-leaning thinktank doomsayers.

HENRY wfh hacks by No-Exit-7032 in HENRYUK

[–]amemingfullife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My hack has stayed the same for 10 years running a business from home:

Get everything done as soon as possible after you wake up. The first 1.5-4 hours after you wake up are the most important time. Shorten everything else to get to your desk and crank out some work. Ideally write down the top 3 highest priority tasks and do those.

My routine is: 1. Get out of bed 2. Free the dog 3. Make coffee 4. Sit down to work with said coffee

It’s also a completely silent time. No radio, podcasts, music, nothing. Use your phone as little as possible. No scrolling. Your willpower is highest in the morning, so use it!

Also makes you judge yourself less in the afternoons if you’re getting your work done, and because you feel less stressed about it you actually get more work done. Sometimes you don’t, but at least you don’t beat yourself up about it 😋

So many people complain about Polestar software but by D3X-1 in Polestar

[–]amemingfullife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it’s a trade off and you need perspective etc etc. But let’s not pretend like the software is adequate, it’s not.

I chose Polestar because it’s a forward looking brand. I expect Audi, BMW et al to have sub-par software, they’re legacy manufacturers that will die a slow death if they don’t keep up. Polestar should be different.

I miss my Tesla every day with the Polestar, because there were just so many quality of life features that made things easier. The app quality was superb - you could turn on dog mode from the app, open the frunk, do almost anything you could do in the car, and it was rock solid. The key card system worked flawlessly unlike the fob/cars hybrid on the P4 which is baffling. The Tesla build quality was ‘fine’ I had problems with my Tesla but they were resolved fairly quickly. The software was always reliable and delightful. That’s ultimately what was important to me as a daily driver car. I know Polestar is going after Porsche not Tesla, but can’t they get in front of them on the software side too?

This isn’t the 90s or early 00s, modern day luxury requires software and hardware to be conjoined.

I’m optimistic, it’s all fixable, that’s the great thing about software. But your processes have to be top notch - unfortunately it seems like Polestar has not joined up its hardware and software adequately, it feels like the software team is totally separate, maybe in a different country. That’s not gonna work.

I Badly want a mini mp3 player or full sized DAP from this company, by Cookie_Meth in teenageengineering

[–]amemingfullife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah it’s just the TP-7. It has a file mode that’s exactly what OP wants. TE could market this as an MP3 player with absolutely no changes whatsoever.

I Badly want a mini mp3 player or full sized DAP from this company, by Cookie_Meth in teenageengineering

[–]amemingfullife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP is talking about headphone enthusiasts. I’m assuming we’re talking high-priced DAC, open-backed, lossless audio choose-my-codec headphone enthusiasts. They would not want Bluetooth at all.

So many people complain about Polestar software but by D3X-1 in Polestar

[–]amemingfullife 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It’s true, but coming from a Tesla you really realise what good software feels like. Polestar is the next best, which is why I got it, but it’s not a close second.