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Panagiotis Kanavos

@pkanavos.bsky.social

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Dad of 6. Moderator of DotNetZone, the Greek .NET User Group. Software engineer, aspiring architect, SharePoint Refugee. Not an MS MVP

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Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · 4d

It told me to use the legacy cardinality estimator in a production reporting query, for 74% improvement.... That's a lot

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · 5d

So, that's why you need the R1...

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · 6d

This used to be the only way to survive a SharePoint troubleshooting... week

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · 12d

Support? Ouch!

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · 19d

US customer enters 👍in you varchar Feedback field.....

German company importing Swedish sales data, realizing it ain't Latin1....

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · 19d

Then again, being able to run the formal spec without paying a gazillion for the spec parser is really nice

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · 19d

The trick is that LLMs make people *want* to write the formal specifications they never wanted to write in the 00s

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Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · 24d

And then Trash, @jameshoffmann.bsky.social with a manual Espresso machine I can't afford, Trash, trash, trash, @scott.hanselman.com again, trash, trash, more @jameshoffmann.bsky.social , trash, trash,...

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · 24d

I just opened it and got @scott.hanselman.com talking about how he added WiFi to his Commodore64!

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · Sep 9

As @migueldeicaza.bsky.social says every year this time "If it's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me"

No idea what that means, I can only afford Redmis

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · Sep 9

Cryptography "tutorials" and libraries around 2000 were as bad. Either fluff or useful only to academics.

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · Sep 9

Having tried the same...

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · Sep 4

Not sure he'd approve.

"Rickover's stringent standards are largely credited with being responsible for the U.S. Navy's continuing record of zero reactor accidents"

Admiral Hyman Rickover, known as the Father of the Nuclear Navy.

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · Sep 4

On the other hand, now you have the detailed Formal Specifications document you (or the product manager, customer, etc) didn't want to write

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · Sep 1

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · Aug 23

I see it and raise Ikarian melting cat Level 2.

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · Aug 22

Calling those stalagmites "scaling" is disrespectful.

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Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · Aug 22

Posts read like a troll. Why bother?

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · Aug 17

Sounds like the Great Depression tale about the speculator and the shoeshine boy

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · Aug 3

It was a comment about NRTs in general that should be blamed on Isaac Abrahams. Years ago he wrote that the way C# is, it's better to use NRTs with strict nullable checks than attempt to create Either<> or Optional<> constructs. I though that was extreme so I tried it and... He was right.

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · Aug 3

If we had DUs and exhaustive matching we wouldn't. Right now it's actually safer to treat warnings as errors and return T? instead of a custom Either<> or Optuinal<>.

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · Aug 3

I do it with bad recruiters all the time. If you don't even bother to read my profile, why should I bother responding to you?

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · Aug 3

I use Aeropress and Kingrinder P2 at both home and deserted islands. Small enough to put in a pouch, 6-kid proof and grinding is a great way to annoy the kids in the morning.

Check James Hoffman's YouTube channel too. A deeper rabbit-hole than functional, DDD and AI combined

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Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · Jul 29

You mean like this?

Panagiotis Kanavos @pkanavos.bsky.social · Jul 23

Ahh, when all new TV stations used Scala.