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Ethan

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  • Microsoft: Fully Automating Supply Chain Attacks since 2026!

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  • Why begrudgingly?

  • Microsoft: Fully Automating Supply Chain Attacks since 2026!

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  • Codeberg isn’t viable for proprietary software

  • Idiomatic Go Question

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  • IMO that’s less idiomatic Go, more just plain old clearly written code. Whenever possible, the nominal (non-error) path should stay at the same level of indentation. Indentation should be reserved (as much as is possible) for loops and atypical conditions (including errors).

  • rust blasphemy (added context)

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  • I’m still far happier with it than literally any other programming language I’ve ever used

  • rust blasphemy (added context)

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  • 😆 yeah I didn’t read it that hard

  • rust blasphemy (added context)

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  • I totally agree, that Go snippet is absolutely more maintainable. Though you forgot the curly braces and the semicolons are unnecessary.

  • rust blasphemy (added context)

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  • I’ll stick with Go TYVM

  • rust blasphemy (added context)

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  • Yes, preferring a language that’s easy to read and therefore easy to maintain over a language like Rust is definitely coping 🙄

  • Appearances can be something

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  • Since this is a hypothetical to make a point, obviously from scratch

  • Appearances can be something

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  • Maybe if you didn’t make unqualified blanket statements people would take you more seriously. If I trained my own LLM and kept it for my own personal use, in what way is that fascism? Because according to you it is, since all AI is fascism.

  • Github, the first enterprise cloud solution to reach zero nines reliability

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  • Ok…? That doesn’t change the fact that Microsoft was enshitifying the software they bought before “AI” was a thing. They didn’t suddenly start doing it when LLMs happened.

  • Your Engineers Aren't Lazy, Your Codebase Is Punishing Them

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  • There’s always room for improvement.

  • Github, the first enterprise cloud solution to reach zero nines reliability

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  • They were doing that before “AI” development was a thing

  • Your Engineers Aren't Lazy, Your Codebase Is Punishing Them

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  • If we’re talking about the Linux kernel or Netflix’s video delivery infrastructure, maybe. But the majority of developers are not working on those. And I’m still going to call it “unavoidable technical debt” because for all intents and purposes that’s what it is.

  • Your Engineers Aren't Lazy, Your Codebase Is Punishing Them

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  • If your project is easy to maintain (aka low tech debt) that means it should be easy to understand the overall structure and it should be easy to understand any given component. So a new dev should be able to quickly figure out what part they need to change and how to change that part.

    Some large, complex systems (like an OS) are unavoidably complex. Maybe it’s not fair to call that tech debt, but it’s still functionally the same thing - stuff that slows down development velocity due to difficulty of understanding. It’s just (probably) unavoidable given the domain.

    But the majority of software projects aren’t that complex. The majority of software is apps and libraries that aren’t terribly complex. Monsters like operating systems and million to billion user scale products are outliers.

  • Your Engineers Aren't Lazy, Your Codebase Is Punishing Them

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  • “How easy is it to onboard?” is functionally equivalent to “How easy is it to understand?”. The biggest factor in maintainability almost always boils down to how easy it is to understand. So, difficult to onboard almost certainly means difficult to maintain, and thus is tech debt.

  • Your Engineers Aren't Lazy, Your Codebase Is Punishing Them

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  • Anything that makes the codebase harder to maintain than it should be is technical debt.

  • "FOSS" and "GNU Linux" do not automatically mean "for the community" or "for human rights"

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  • So… are you using nothing but FOSS from activist projects? That doesn’t seem like a big pool, from what I’ve seen. Or do you mean support as in with your time and/or money?

  • After 6 Years, One of Wayland’s Most Annoying Problems is Finally Getting Fixed

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  • The ecosystem is slowly migrating to Wayland. It will probably take another decade but at some point your choice is going to be Wayland, or ancient unsupported systems.

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    The Curse of Knowing How, or; Fixing Everything | Blog

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    Is GitHub Copilot worth it to you?

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    What am I losing by not using the C# Dev Kit?

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    Why is crypto.subtle.digest async?

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    What search engine do you use?

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    What scientific journals do you recommend?

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    Self taught = no imposter syndrome?

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    Systems engineering in the software industry

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    What languages are well suited for testing SDKs written in multiple other languages?

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    Why should I use rust (as a Go enthusiast)?

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    How often does branchless programming actually matter?

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    How do you organize miscellaneous tasks?