I can't believe we're going to forever have to live with people who don't speak English as a first language having their written work assumed to be done by AI. It's pretty disappointing.
Readit Newsfalconertc commented on Zero-day flaws in authentication, identity, authorization in HashiCorp Vault cyata.ai/blog/cracking-th... · Posted by u/nihsy
falconertc commented on How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast v8.dev/blog/json-stringif... · Posted by u/emschwartz
According to the guy who created JavaScript, Brendan Eich[0]:
> On Nov 16, 2008, at 11:57 PM, Peter Michaux wrote:
> > The name "JSON.stringify" seems a little too "Web 2.0" cool to me.
> Hardly. It's hacker dictionary material, old sk00l.
> > Is there any reason a more usual and serious sounding option like "serialize" was not used?
> Ugh, Web 1.0 my-first-Java-serializable-implementation anti-nostalgia vapors.
[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20100718152229/https://mail.mozi...
When the next best option is "serialize", suddenly stringify doesn't seem so bad. I would prefer a silly-sounding but immediately clear function to a more abstract concept.
falconertc commented on Making Postgres slower byteofdev.com/posts/makin... · Posted by u/AsyncBanana
Great read, and an interesting warning sign about overly-controllable configuration files. If there's no conceivable good reason to to much of this, then the ability to do so becomes bad design that fails to protect your users.
falconertc commented on Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right trytender.app/... · Posted by u/risquer
"helps couples rediscover the joy of swiping" never for a second have I felt joy while swiping
Sounds like this is not for you then. I think a lot of people have had different experiences with it than you have
Bisect is a wonderful feature. Git is full of tedium and frustration, bisect is not part of that.
Bisect is a very cool feature that I used once over 5 years ago. The collection of git tools that I use often is very small. I've found that the more experienced I got with git, the less I found myself in scenarios where I needed git's more complex tools.
unfortunately, I have a feeling that in the age of LLMs, this junior on the team will have no impetus to actually put in effort and _think_ about such a problem
We survived the age of StackOverflow. I don't see why LLM's will be the death of critical thinking where all else has failed so far.
What do you use instead???
Tools like direnv gets .env files out of repo paths and improves things a lot. You can integrate secrets management in code, but with that there's still no getting away with the assumption that some kind of auth mechanism exists in your env
falconertc commented on Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights cacm.acm.org/research/met... · Posted by u/sidcool
Sounds like a horrific place to work. Imagine the pressure
I think the joy of working at this scale makes up for that for a lot of people. There are plenty of low-stress, low-impact companies that someone that's bigtech-approved can go to
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