danieldisu (u/danieldisu)

danieldisu commented on Parrot – type-safe SQL in Gleam, supports SQlite, PostgreSQL and MySQL github.com/daniellionel01... · Posted by u/TheWiggles

LudwigNagasena · 4 months ago

SQL is barely parametrizable, so, in my opinion, the DX is much worse than using a query builder and not much better than simply using strings.

danieldisu · 4 months ago

You just have to duplicate things a bit more, but with the help of LLMs building the queries is very simple and extending them even easier

danieldisu commented on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year mahadk.com/posts/slack... · Posted by u/JustSkyfall

lordnacho · 5 months ago

What are people putting on their chat that makes them beholden to Slack? To me, the team chat app is like a terminal: it shows lines of text, but I don't expect to be able to find anything in the far future. A bit like a real-life conversation, once it's happened it turns into a vague memory. A full transcript is not that interesting.

I thought maybe integrations, but those tend to be webhooks that display an alert. Of course you don't want to have to change them, but it's limited how much pain it causes to switch to some other chat service.

If I look at the chats I'm in at the moment, moving off would be annoying, but if I got a massive bill I would certainly do it.

danieldisu · 5 months ago

I spend around 30%, if not more of my work time on Slack (collaborating with others, solving customer issues, searching, documenting)

I want that experience to be good, and not using a subpar tool like (Teams, IRC etc)

As a rule of thumb, I want to use the best tool available for the job, IntelliJ for the IDE, the best coding model (whatever that is at the time), the best Video call tool, the best monitor, the best keyboard etc

Although best is usually subjective, in some of this cases what is "best" is objectively clear, in some cases the gap between the best and the next one is small in others is huge. In the case of communication tools I think the difference is huge.

Is this needed to do my work? nope It makes working more pleasant? definitely yes

danieldisu commented on El Prado Museum – Virtual Tour museodelprado.es/visita-v... · Posted by u/thegurus

lionkor · 2 years ago

Which time of year would you recommend?

danieldisu · 2 years ago

March - early June or Mid September - November

Avoid July and August, horrible heat and most people have left the city

danieldisu commented on Meetup has been acquired by Bending Spoons meetup.com/blog/a-new-hom... · Posted by u/devops000

bdcravens · 2 years ago

Unfortunately, the heyday of technology events is in the past. Pretty much every business goes through a cycle of desperately clawing for revenue when the core business model falters.

danieldisu · 2 years ago

Yep, those tasty formation and travel budgets are also being squeezed in the quest for profits, reducing the market size for these tech events...

danieldisu commented on Google lays off hundreds working on its voice-activated assistant semafor.com/article/01/10... · Posted by u/thm

usrusr · 2 years ago

Not everyone involved, think of those poor investors!

Spot on about the contractors. The city I live in contains some of the larger data processing hot-spots of the German government (not so much in terms of large number-crunching server farms, but in terms of ever changing complicated business logic running at high volume) and there's a crazy number of consultancies serving that market and nobody else. But ironically those are the safest jobs nonetheless, because that demand could only ever go away in total state collapse.

danieldisu · 2 years ago

Working as a contractor for a public entity, I can't think of anything that I would like to do less than that...

danieldisu commented on Ideal monitor rotation for programmers (2021) sprocketfox.io/xssfox/202... · Posted by u/AndrewKemendo

LASR · 2 years ago

Tangentially related thought: Take my advice, don't go ultra-wide. Go with a large 4k. You get more pixels for cheaper.

The only ultrawide that makes any sense is the 5k x 2k resolution one. These have more pixels than a single 4K. But they are expensive.

Even then, a 16:9 5K monitor has more pixels.

I personally use 3 x 27 inch 4K - which is cheaper than a single 5k Ultra-wide and gives you a TON more pixels.

danieldisu · 2 years ago

Always focus on PPI, some rough numbers

27” 5k (5120 x 2880) -> 218 PPI

32” 4k (3840 x 2160) -> 137.68 PPI

34” 5k (5120 x 2160) -> 163.44 PPI

39,7 5K (5120 x 2160) -> 139.97 PPI

Apple Pro Display XDR 32" 6k (6016 x 3384) -> 218 PPI

danieldisu commented on Italy to seize $835M from Airbnb in tax evasion inquiry bbc.co.uk/news/business-6... · Posted by u/mindracer

cjrp · 2 years ago

Tax is paid on profit, profit happens where Airbnb choose to make it happen. Same old same.

danieldisu · 2 years ago

There are many taxes that are not paid on profit... VAT/sales taxes, property taxes and a big etc

ABNB creates externalities to the countries where it operates (increase rent prices), so it would make sense to tax them because of it.

And if they don't like the tax, they are free to stop operating in that country ;)

danieldisu commented on Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart medium.com/dartlang/dart-... · Posted by u/mdhb

ollysb · 2 years ago

That syntax does look a lot nicer and makes sense if you're going to do OO anyway. I do wonder if it's trying to shoe horn OO into functional clothing but seems practical nonetheless. Primary constructors would definitely be a welcome change.

danieldisu · 2 years ago

It is way easier for me to read than what you proposed in Typescript, more characters to write? sure but how many times do I have to write a piece of code and how many times do I have to read it?

I guess ultimately it depends on which language you are more familiar with...

danieldisu commented on Accenture would cut 19,000 jobs reuters.com/technology/ac... · Posted by u/koolhead17

hobo_mark · 3 years ago

TVC = Temporary, Vendor or Contractor

danieldisu · 3 years ago

Thanks!