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magic_lobster_party
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Programming@programming.dev•Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
112·1 month agoPolitics is about influencing other people. Engineering is about managing constraints. Sometimes these constraints come from other people. If you want to influence a constraint you don’t like, then you often have to influence other people (i.e. politics).
I don’t see anything strange with this.
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Programming@programming.dev•Software engineers should be a little bit cynical
171·1 month agoSpeaking up against the manager is politics though.
Dealing with uncooperative people. Most work related stress comes from other people.
People who don’t communicate what they want but it needs to be done. People who don’t listen unless it’s coming from themselves. Or people who are simply too incompetent for their job.
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memes@lemmy.world•On demand hyperloop-style water delivery
791·2 months agoIt’s wild how ideas like Hyperloop were seen as reasonable ideas 10 years ago. The naivety.
magic_lobster_party@fedia.iotoHacker News@lemmy.bestiver.se•2025 was the year Xbox died
6·2 months ago2025 was the year when Xbox was outsold by Nex Playground. Xbox is not even top 3 in yearly hardware sales anymore.
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News@lemmy.world•Dragged down by an unpopular president, Republicans are bracing for a midterm trouncing
882·2 months agoThe Democrats will find a way to completely mess up this opportunity.
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Programming@programming.dev•Testing Side Effects Without the Side Effects
7·2 months agoThis only checks that functions are called in the right order. Not that the functions are doing the right thing or if the functions are called with the correct arguments. Quite pointless testing IMO.
For example, it won’t capture cases where
cmdChargeCreditCardreturns a payment ID that exists forcmdCompleteOrderto use.Set up an in-memory database, or test against a real database. You don’t test side effects by pretending that the side effects are correct.
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Programming@programming.dev•Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat
2·2 months agoAfter you’ve cloned everything you’ll
Arc<Mutex<>>everything.
I suspect code hallucinated by AI tend to also be more difficult to fix. If the developers can’t understand the code, then it’s likely the AI itself won’t ”understand” it either.
Another crisis in software will come.
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Technology@lemmy.world•What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows
733·2 months agoLinux don’t need anything to challenge Windows. Windows is doing great on their own.
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Programming@programming.dev•Party of One for Code Review!
101·2 months agoTL;DR: this is an ad for CodeRabbit AI code review tool
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Programming@programming.dev•Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat
14·2 months agoHah, wishful thinking
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated?
9·2 months agoDealing with memory usage will likely require significant rewrites and architectural changes. It will take years.
The ”memory optimizations” we’ll see is the removal of features but charge the same price. Software shrinkflation. Will require same amount of memory though.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated?
171·2 months agoThe RAM shortage will end before any meaningful memory optimizations can be made.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Random idea: a federated alternative to Amazon Prime built from independent shops?
15·2 months agoThis is kind of how it works in countries that haven’t been infected by Amazon Prime. In Sweden for example most e-commerce is done directly from individual stores. There are aggregation sites like prisjakt which lists prices of all different stores so you can find the best deal.
It’s not perfect and maybe not as convenient as Amazon Prime, but I don’t see how a fediverse alternative could do it better.
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•What was the last dvd/cd your burned? do you still use such media?
2·2 months agoNo idea, but probably Ubuntu ~15 years ago
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Programming@programming.dev•How to start my own business?
14·2 months agoHaven’t started a company myself, but I’ve worked with a few people who have.
The common theme is that you need to involve potential clients early. Understand their wants and needs. What you learn from the first interactions will likely surprise you, and greatly reshape your product vision.
Don’t build a product in isolation for two years. That’s a sure way to make something no one wants to pay for.
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Programming@programming.dev•Nobody knows how large software products work
8·2 months agoPart of designing large systems is to make research easier. Any question regarding the code base should be easy to find the answer to. No one can keep track of all 100,000 constantly changing lines of code, so make it easy to use the code as reference.
The problem is when the system is built by Rube Goldberg fanatics.





Yes, I’m just elaborating.