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  • why hard exit editor? Nano say at bottom.

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  • How many Linux distros include micro in their minimal image? Vim, emacs, and nano are good because I can connect to just about any container or Linux VM and expect to have all of them available.

    Let's say I have a test that always passes on my machine but fails in CI. If I can get a terminal on the test runner, I can open up my test code in vim, add extra logging and error handling, and rerun the test to check my fix.

    I am not going to install additional editors in a VM that will be recreated next time I push a code change. If I am setting up a development environment for long term use, I will install my favorite IDE and configuring all the bells and whistles.

  • The Junior Developer Is Going Extinct

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  • I agree. The article the article assumes that junior developers are tasked with doing tasks that senior devs will not (such as writing buggy boilerplate or something). That has not been the case with companies I worked at. When we hired a junior developer, we expected them to write the same code as everyone else, just that they would ask for help more often and would get more nit-picky code reviews. An AI could probably outdo a junior developer with a month or two of experience, but with a (junior) developer, the expectation is that if you take the time to explain to them why their code is wrong, they will never make the same mistake again.

    I agree with you that it comes down to the state of the economy. Ten years ago, I was at a company that could not hire senior devs fast enough so we had to hire junior devs and mold them into the coders we needed.

    Now I am at a company that has had a hiring freeze for several years. All new hires we are getting are back-fill: when we have someone quit, we can request a replacement. Anyone we hire needs to be able to hit the ground running and take over the previous employees responsibilities as soon as possible.

  • Recommend a distro for a just-works NAS/self hosting machine?

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  • I have used Alpine Linux at work and I don't like the fact that they only have one version of each package in their repo. First of all, that creates a risk that a given version is bad and I cannot go back to a known good version. Also, some times I explicitly want to use an old version of a package. New versions change and remove features.

  • Recommend a distro for a just-works NAS/self hosting machine?

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  • Yes, but perfectly reliable hardware is impossible and every small gain in reliability drastically increases the price. Luckily, most hardware can be "fixed" by replacing the malfunctioning part. The only part that is not easy to replace is hard drives. For data disks, I have guides giving me step by step institutions on how to rebuild off of replicas. With the OS disk, I am depending on hopes and taking notes while installing.

    Broken software is tricker to replace. I can uninstall and reinstall it, but I have to be careful to avoid catastrophic data loss. Also, broken software generally means a bad release, so I have to revert and periodically upgrade/revert to check if the issue has been resolved. And running old versions of one part of the system can cause incompatibility in other parts.

  • Recommend a distro for a just-works NAS/self hosting machine?

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  • The reason that I was favoring Greyhole over ZFS is that I want to assemble a large, redundant storage volume out of a bunch of mismatched old disks and swap them out as they fill up or fail. I know it is very possible to do it with ZFS, but it seemed to not be the general use case and complicated.

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    Recommend a distro for a just-works NAS/self hosting machine?

  • The vibecoders are becoming sentient

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  • No idea, but I am not sure your family member is qualified. I would estimate that a coding LLM can code as well as a fresh CS grad. The big advantage that fresh grads have is that after you give them a piece of advice once or twice, they stop making that same mistake.

  • The vibecoders are becoming sentient

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  • No idea, but I am not sure your family member is qualified. I would estimate that a coding LLM can code as well as a fresh CS grad. The big advantage that fresh grads have is that after you give them a piece of advice once or twice, they stop making that same mistake.

  • Me looking for the right NPM package

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  • …and Python, Java, and GoLang.

    At least with Java, many of the cornerstone packages have a corporate sponsor maintaining them.

  • If the type fits, I sits

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  • What language is that? That does not conform to duck typing.

  • Child labour with 10 years of experience, 'AI-native' accepting 250k lines of Cursor code

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  • Most people turn 18 during the last year of high school, which means that there is a very significant chance that the dev in question is still covered under child labor laws.

    Maybe it is because I grew up in the North East United States, but when I was in high school, my classmates only worked seasonal or afternoon jobs.

  • is it worth learning golang?

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  • Not sure what distributed/micro service stack you have, but Go is used a lot for Kubernetes and Terraform utilities, so the client libraries are well supported and there is a lot of sample code. Our main application is in Java, but we have a Kubernetes operator for SaaS instances and a Terraform provider to install it, both written in GoLang.

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  • For popular culture, it is a bit of a ghost town, but last I checked, many tech individuals/groups fled to Mastodon the moment Musk got his hands on Twitter. It is possible that they have moved on to BlueSky, but I have not been keeping track.

  • Are IDEs really like this ?

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  • All of those are things that have happened to me (except an IDE that could not handle externally edited files). They are very rare occurrences, but still annoying when I have to get something done.

  • Internal Server Error

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  • Could be worse. You could just have your socket disconnect because the back end process crashed.

  • Deno v. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript Trademark

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  • I agree, Oracle should abandon the JavaScript trademark… and then send them a cease and desist from using the word Java when talking about their technology.

    Calling the language JavaScript was a blatant case of trademark infringement, but when someone got permission from Sun/Oracle to use the JavaScript brand, they also got (implicit) permission to use the Java brand.

    As much as it sucks, it was always a known issue. The JS community could have standardized on JScript, ECMAScript, or some other generic name. By continuing to use the name JavaScript, the language will always be wed to the Java trademark.

  • Humble Tech Book Bundle: Math for Programmers 2024 by Manning

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  • Same. If I am reading for please, I am reading the book sequentially and love the convenience of ebooks. If I am reading a reference or text book, I like being able to quickly flip between (physical) pages and skim previous chapters for a section I want to reread.

  • Microsoft Please Fix

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  • For me, it is easier to learn to use git via CLI instead of a UI. When I first started using git, I learned a few command/flag combinations that I use every day and I barely learned anything else about git after. Everything I don't do regularly I don't remember, but have written down in a text file of incantations. It is harder to write down what buttons and what menus I have to click.

  • Advent of Open Source 2024

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  • I would be curious what the daily exercises are going to be. Is it just a 24 part tutorial on the etiquette around creating and contributing to open source projects?

  • "GitHub CI is easy", he said. "It's just bash ", he said.

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  • We have all of our build and CI in make so, theoretically, all the CI system needs to do is run a single command. Then I try to run the command on a CI server, it is missing an OS package (and their package manager version is a major version behind so I need to download a pre-built binary from the project site). Then the tests get kill for using too much memory. Then, after I reduce resource limits, the tests time out…

    I am grateful that we use CircleCI as our SaaS CICD and they let me SSH on to a test container so I can see what is going on.