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Chris Pearce

@chrisryanpearce

Software Engineer, New Zealand.

It’s amazing how a Python project left to sit just seems to rot!


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I've been to Australia. That was their best dancer.


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I really enjoyed this sober look at the ways @molly0xFFF found generative AI could be useful—for proofreading, as a more dynamic dictionary, and for coding assistance—if it didn't prop up and validate a reckless, extractive, and profit-hungry industry: citationneeded.news/ai-isnt-useles…


Just walked past my son playing a FPS, recognized the level he was playing on was a clone of de_dust, a Counter Strike level. It's been 20 years, and I still recognized it. Oh my misspent youth.


Who knew so many experts on piloting large cargo ships were on Twitter?!?


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While GenAI is fun, I think its economic value is grossly over estimated, because it’s unreliable, risky and expensive to make and serve. It’s fine for creative tasks, but not (yet) autonomous agents

Airline installs chatbot. Customer gets bad information from it. Customer asks for refund. Airline says "the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions" (!). Court says no. (Whew.) Airline makes refund and turns off chatbot. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…



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An anecdote about this: When I was in college, a friend from class told me he was interested in making his own game. Over a few months, he went through some SDL tutorials, and wrote a lot of C++ code. He asked me one day if I could help him figure out a bug in a sprite animaton…

"Programmers overcomplicate everything" is a pretty common take but a programmer who overcomplicates code is actually just not a good programmer. They are either inexperienced or don't want to keep learning/improving. Simplicity comes with time, complexity often isn't deliberate.



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Let me get this straight… the Taoiseach of Ireland is saying a small developed tech-centred island off the coast of a larger country it used to be part of - should be subsumed into that country without regard to the wishes of its people?

‘We recognise China, and that Taiwan is part of China’ – Varadkar clarifies Ireland’s position ahead of Davos meetings buff.ly/3S11jPh



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I used to find it mind-boggling that some people are vehemently opposed to meritocracy. Why would you be against being rewarded for how skilled and hard-working you are? And then I read the previous sentence back and it all suddenly made sense.


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I drew this 12 months ago, as LLM code assistants were just becoming available. Has it held up?

forrestbrazeal's tweet image. I drew this 12 months ago, as LLM code assistants were just becoming available.

Has it held up?

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We had to invent AI in order to actually understand ffmpeg options


I once priced out a design using AWS Step Functions. Quickly became clear it was prohibitively expensive. Went with Lambda + S3 + SQS + DynamoDB. Cheap, and great dev ex. I think Step Functions are the problem with the serverless Prime Video case study, not serverless itself.


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one way i measure my impact as a principal engineer is the number of kafka topics i've eliminated from architecture diagrams. just a little "do we actually need that" or "what problem is this solving" dropped at the right moment does wonders.


My daughter’s phone… didn’t come with an MP3 player installed. I feel old…


I was walking the dog tonight with my daughter, saw the space station fly overhead. Was pretty cool.


New blog post for those of you struggling with a slow WordPress instance: "Solved: AMR iCal events WordPress plugin out of memory; my website is slow" blog.pearce.org.nz/2023/04/solved…


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Another meeting that could have been an email.

_workchronicles's tweet image. Another meeting that could have been an email.

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#WATCH: "Having a communal space that everyone can go to and have access to knowledge. We do tend to live in a really separate world now, so those public areas are really good." rnz.co.nz/national/progr…


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