If my high school latin teacher was to be believed, it’d be pronounced “Gaius Yulius Kaisar” give or take.

Maybe the hawk had a sweet tooth?

Santa?

It’s new compared to FAT!

If you have multiple pets that can be harder than it sounds. And if you don’t have a ton of money the good solutions (e.g. locked feeders with RFID tags) can be pricy.

Bastion.

It’s how Bugs Bunny said “moron”.

If you scale it up you can probably send more than one right? Send ten and nine work. That’s not nothing.

Cursed.

Shadow & Bone (but what I really want is the six of crows spinoff).

WoT.

Dead Boy Detectives.

“Heulyn” pronounced Hay-lynn.

The PR isn’t public yet (it’s in my fork) but even once I submit it upstream I don’t think I’m ready to out my real identity on Lemmy just yet.

I just spent about a month using Claude 3.7 to write a new feature for a big OSS product. The change ended up being about 6k loc with about 14k of tests added to an existing codebase with an existing test framework for reference.

For context I’m a principal-level dev with ~15 years experience.

The key to making it work for me was treating it like a junior dev. That includes priming it (“accuracy is key here; we can’t swallow errors, we need to fail fast where anything could compromise it”) as well as making it explain itself, show architecture diagrams, and reason based on the results.

After every change there’s always a pass of “okay but you’re violating the layered architecture here; let’s refactor that; now tell me what the difference is between these two functions, and shouldn’t we just make the one call the other instead of duplicating? This class is doing too much, we need to decompose this interface.” I also started a new session, set its context with the code it just wrote, and had it tell me about assumptions the code base was making, and what failure modes existed. That turned out to be pretty helpful too.

In my own personal experience it was actually kinda fun. I’d say it made me about twice as productive.

I would not have said this a month ago. Up until this project, I only had stupid experiences with AI (Gemini, GPT).

No love for jetbrains?

I run massive, global kubernetes clusters in AWS for a company you’ve probably heard of. There is no queue of clean VMs–not like you’re thinking anyway. And provisioning a new node can take Too Long under not-all-that-uncommon scenarios.

The next best option is overprovisioning the cluster, but even 1% overhead has big costs at this scale.

For large scale compute clusters with elastic load I absolutely care. The difference between one and five minutes of boot time when I ask for a hundred new instances to be provisioned is huge in terms of responsiveness to customer requests.

I bet pardoning the 1/6ers qualifies as giving aid and comfort.

In the US the ruling party fills lifetime judicial appointments, which means the 4 years of conservative rule can have decades of lasting impact that will thwart any progressive policies that the next leftish government tries to implement.

There is a gulf between people who are paid well for their valuable labor (even into the millions of dollars) and the capital class who primarily profit on the labor of others.

Rent seeking is a big driver of “eat the rich”.

I’m a pretty progressive guy and I don’t think there’s much in here to disagree with. The only nit I would pick is that inertia isn’t a great argument to keep things the way they are. That is, “we’ve always done it this way” isn’t a great reason to do anything.

Your framing of conservatism is in line with the Eisenhower era when we weren’t linked into this existential crisis about the concept of governance. But for the last twenty years (at least) the American right has been against the very idea that the government should govern.

The left is trying to argue about who it should serve, taking its existence as a precondition, and the right is trying to dismantle it without regard for who it serves. As a result, we’re pretty much irrecoverably talking past each other.

As a developer for 15 years: there’s no reason to put up with any bullshit in this field. They need us more than we need them. This field is mercenary as fuck.

I’ve switched jobs on average every 2 years, except for one that I went back to for a second stint and one that was just a great place to work (remote). My salary has quadrupled in those years and I’ve learned never to stick around out of fear that there isn’t something better: there always is, and if the next job isn’t the one, get another one after that (and probably another raise).