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groone··on Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
I switched to k6 the cli load test tool for its full js/ts scripting ability
groone··on Anything can be a message queue if you use it wrongly enough (2023)
Message becomes invisible in a regular relational database when using `SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED`
groone··on Design Pressure: The Invisible Hand That Shapes Your Code
ORM libraries have Value conversion functionality for such trivial examples https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/modeling/value-con...
groone··on OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level
You just never seen a good ORM such as Entity Framework Core
groone··on Knowing where your engineer salary comes from
My software engineer job is to destroy my own position by solving all the problems and automating the job away. I have done it multiple times over my career.
groone··on Why do transit agencies keep falling for the hydrogen bus myth?
Red hydrogen: produce hydrogen from a thermochemical reaction between water, iodine, and sulfur at a high temperature, around 900°C, using the thermal energy from a nuclear reactor.
groone··on Lithium-sulfur battery retains 80% charge capacity after 25,000 cycles
Sulfur batteries are known to be deadly toxic when lighted on fire
groone··on Why you should use Go
All of these points apply to modern dotnet as well
groone··on What do you visualize while programming?
I visualize the starting state of exposed functionality, the desired end state and the transition. Then implement the transition without forgetting to take note of everything this transition affects.
groone··on Proposal for Standardized JSX
The closest thing to this right now is solidjs. Super close to plain javascript but with tree shake build
groone··on After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL
Entity Framework Core has got you covered! Writing some LINQ and returning data in Aspnet Core API takes no time at all.
groone··on Google confirms the leaked Search documents are real
The golden times were 8-10 years ago, where you could change the order of keywords in google search and get more precise matches. Could find pretty much any obscure thing on the internet.

Then could find that article that you remember read 6 months ago by adjusting the keywords until it is on the first page.

Now it does not matter at all what you enter in the search box. No matter the inputs you get one set of results and will never find something specific.

groone··on CSharpRepl: C# REPL with syntax highlighting and intellisense
VSCode has plugin for polyglot notebooks https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/polyglot
groone··on Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
I moved to k6 - a tool meant for load tests but flexible and great for any kind of API tests. Great for any kind of scenarios as the tests are in javascript
groone··on ‘We can’t let Tesla get away with this’: why Swedish unions are fighting Musk
Every Tesla employee is a share holder. What if this model is better?
groone··on What McKinsey got wrong about developer productivity
That sounds really subjective
groone··on MyPowerbank hacks Santander bikes so London's homeless can charge their phones
I think they would rather leave some USB port available than let you wear down their chains
groone··on Tesla (TSLA) tumbles on price cuts, “appreciating asset” dream going away
Elon was talking about Tesla car with FSD. Once Tesla does their part the car would become a valuable robotaxi capable of earning itself back in 1-2 years every year for a decade.
groone··on “Typo leak” exposes millions of US military emails to Mali web operator
How about blocking outgoing mail to these domains? Let's assume there is no important e-mail business going on with Mali
groone··on Bosses want hard workers, so they’re hiring older people
Here are the latest numbers on inequality. Bottom 50% of people paid just 2.3 percent of federal income taxes. Is this something to be replaced?
groone··on Bosses want hard workers, so they’re hiring older people
I don't see how you can tear everything down and get to a better place. Tearing everything down will leave you with nothing. Endless examples of "people's republics" where the power gets concentrated and people are left with none. The total wealth has expanded with capitalism. Large numbers of people lifted out of poverty.

Yes, housing is a problem. But then fix the regulation that inhibits development of housing and makes it more expensive. And then go work in construction as houses don't build themselves. Wealth is to be created not to be redistributed until there is nothing left.

groone··on Ask HN: How has functional programming influenced your thinking?
Inheritance is a concept of OOP not programming itself. And yes I much prefer composition.
groone··on Ask HN: How has functional programming influenced your thinking?
Yeah. My functions work with data that is received in parameters. Classes are for dependency injection composition and hold state data only when absolutely necessary.
groone··on Ask HN: How to restore cognition after years of trauma? I feel slow and dumb
Same here. I started feeling much better only after 9-10 months off work (stay at home parent). Then returned to the same grind and one year later quit with a plan for a longer break. But after 7 months found a great matching job for me and wanted to go to work again.
groone··on Twitter engineers told to print out their code
In all fairness it's not stupid. Interviewers sometimes ask to show code you have written and did not pay to write it. Here the interview asks to show code you have written and been paid to write.
groone··on Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their work after burnout?
I don't really think you can aka burnout with get bored). What I experienced was losing self control, being amazed how uncooperative one's brain can be, inability to get anything done even when trying to the max to get something done. Then being amazed by one's uselessness. It is like living in debilitating pain without the actual pain.

What I think it actually was - strong negative emotions. About the tools, about the organization, about the tasks. And these emotions only got stronger over time and could not be rationalized away.

And looking back, quitting and looking for things I still like was the only solution. Need a certain percentage of work to be exceptional match with what I like to do.

groone··on Ask HN: Has anyone managed to find enjoyment in their work after burnout?
I took half a year break, then stopped the break when opportunity came to start working with the only few technologies that I still like in a company with exaggerated work life balance focus. So far so good.
groone··on A small town that saved its only grocery store by buying it
People vote each time they choose buy a good or a service. Isn't it democracy if you have the freedom to choose to whom you give your hard earned money (what is left after taxes)?
groone··on Ask HN: How do you power through burnouts?
Well, if you absolutely must continue your burnout, then don't take vacation. You will spend it dreading the return and it will make you miserable.

Try and rationalize away all the concerns about the meaningfulness of what you do. Make sure you are not operating on power saver during the day and give it all you got!

Also give it all you got in after work hours and make sure you get some positive emotions out of it regularly.

Wake up well rested in mornings with proper sleep habits.

Adjust your position in a way that situations that cause strong negative emotions are not your concern.

groone··on Porsche Taycan breaks the Guinness World Records for coast-to-coast charging
It says on the chart km/h not miles/h!
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