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today on cohost i argue "simple" and "complex" are useless ways to think about software https://cohost.org/tef/post/2503472-complex-simple-good

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@c0dec0dec0de code that does real things will have code smells, because the real world smells bad

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@glyph i kinda want a better name for it but "here is an unchanging thing for the ages, constructed at great cost and effort" it fits kinda well

but it's not that pyramids are bad, it's more "software is a rule book and the game has to keep up with the players"

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@glyph the impact java has on first time python programmers cannot be underestimated

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@glyph prolog has a saying, “elegance is not optional” and it boils down to “if it’s ugly, it’s hard to debug, or inefficient” but that’s kinda about going with the grain of the language

which i do agree on

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@glyph in all honesty i feel like i'll be writing in typescript, java, C#, or similar in a few years and i won't be able to tell the difference

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@glyph either way, i think the issue is more deeply rooted, programmers learn abstractions to pass exams, and so they invent things they don’t need, to show they can

or the way in which many beginner python questions are “yes but how do i do it in one line”, or the “it’s reusable!” thing where people generalise before having an example

i guess when you write enough of it, it’s way easier to be detached and sloppy where necessary

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@glyph i kinda call it “pyramid building mentality,” where people act like software has a finished state

and arguably, a lot more software used to have an end in sight—but acting as if you write once and maintain never ends up justifying fhe wildest trade offs

on the other hand, when you see it as an experiment/or something you learn aa you build, there’s less impetus to deduplicate in the name of efficiency, or write a framework in the name of reuse

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    @lzg “it takes nothing to be kind, i should ask to speak to your manager!”

    tef, to random
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    discovering that FUSE-crimes are possible

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    so, normally to mount a fuse process, you open /dev/fuse, pass in a fd to mount(), and hey presto, fuse mount

    but this requires root, so there's a fusermount suid binary that opens /dev/fuse, and calls mount, and sends back the fds

    .... but there's a secret third, near undocumented way, where you can pass in a mount point of /dev/fd/N and god

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    @whitequark that's just your brain trying to protect you from learning about fuse

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    @whitequark i discovered this from reading through go-fuse https://github.com/hanwen/go-fuse/blob/v2.3.0/fuse/mount_linux.go

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    @whitequark the first commit is for libfuse. you pass in the /dev/fuse fd with _FUSE_COMMFD env var variable containing the fd number

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    @whitequark https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/commit/64e11073b9347fcf9c6d1eea143763ba9e946f70

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    it’s not surprising that the thing i use at work becomes the thing i use at home, but i am coming around to go,

    and much like python, the warts are surface level, so i don’t have to think too hard about working around them

    feels weird because i kinda felt like rust would fit my style of coding more, and it does in places,

    but there’s no puzzling parts to go, and having garbage collection is fantastic

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    @jonty see also: drmaciver using python

    go stinks, but i can make it work without too much effort, as long as i can hold my nose

    the removal of gopath was a big improvement, i found out how to handle json properly, and i can do crimes with reflection, and i hear the loop bug is being fixed, along with adding min and max

    it still stinks though

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    tripped up on the “go loop variables aren’t inside the loop block” closure bug and i am very “you had one job, rob pike”

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    @filippo i also saw min and max making an appearance, too

    which is also about time 🙂

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    @glyph yeeeeep https://go.dev/play/p/HFrHlaWpONm

    although python's worst feature in my mind is "default args at define time"

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    a 20 minute youtube video titled "the best of Snake from The Simpsons"

    pretty sure that's literally 100% of Snake's scenes in the entire show

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    @gsuberland you know the early mcbain stuff forms a complete show right?

    gsuberland, to random
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    there needs to be a movie metric that counts how many times a character does something contrary to their motivation (including basic preservation).

    the challenge is then to find a single horror movie from each release year that scores a zero. this is remarkably difficult.

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    @gsuberland cf "you've got hypothermia! why are you taking your clothes off!"

    also if it's set in america, you know why no-one goes to the hosptial

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    @gsuberland well that's just bad writing

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    Every once in a while I dream out loud about writing a book that explains how society works to young programmers in order to inoculate them against the self-serving "well actually" bullshit of around Silicon Valley. https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1817931.html is an example of what such a book would contain, and makes me realize that one reason I want to write such a book is that I want to be the kind of person who knows enough about things that matter to be able to.

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    @gvwilson bring back “geek social fallacies”

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    kitten

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    @sarahdal because i have high standards

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    @sarahdal these were some of the first pics i took of him, i'm aiming high https://mastodon.social/@tef/110748454578843088

    tef, to random
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    why did elon rename twitter to X?

    well, X is the opposite of NeWS

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    jokes for maybe one, two people here, come and get it

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    It's an interesting grift in a way: VC-subsidized startups changed an incumbent industry enough that its existing companies began to think that these new ideas were good business. But they never were, and it ate them from the inside. https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-07-21/column-hollywood-sag-aftra-strike-strike-silicon-valleys-magical-thinking?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

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    @ben i tend to buy the union's story more—with the rise of streaming, big places have cut residuals

    players like netflix are paying people pennies

    and yeah, the studios will just say shit like "we will use ai", but they don't have to actually believe it

    it only serves as a threat of forcing wages down

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    @ben i am 100% sure you can find one movie exec who has absolutely snorted enough coke to be on the AI hype train

    but well, the studios just don't want to pay—to the point where "please pay us on time" got the answer "no, and we never will"

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