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by 9dev 2mo ago
Yeah; the common idea of dignity and self-respect is to replace the duct tape with proper engineering once you're successful though, instead of just taping ever more of it on top and pretending SQL injections aren't really a probl
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by 9dev 2mo ago
Let me convince you! :-) There are match expressions and arrow functions: $slug = $title |> trim(...) |> (fn($str) => str_replace(' ', '-', $str)) |> (fn($str) => str_replace('.&
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by 9dev 2mo ago
The WordPress codebase is a disgrace. PHP is a beautiful language by now, but they absolutely butcher it and refuse to do anything about that.
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by 9dev 2mo ago
Well, in Germany at least - if the living space differs drastically, that is at least 10%, you can lower the rent accordingly and make a demand for a refund of the entire rent you overpaid since you moved in - and you probably should also m
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by 9dev 2mo ago
And why not build data centers where the energy is?
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by 9dev 2mo ago
Try watching a bit less Fox News and talk to real people sometimes. It helps.
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by 9dev 2mo ago
…and define rules for the measurement taken, like no stairs, count areas below roof sloping or outside on balconies etc. with a lower factor, exclude shared areas and cellars/attics, and so on. Not measuring correctly, not publishing t
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by 9dev 2mo ago
Right? Germany too. I wouldn’t even have thought this could be a problem…
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by 9dev 2mo ago
That kind of emphasises the problem I was referring to; if I pick 200ms, will it stop before doing a proper optimisation because that would make it faster than that? Will it do something stupid to justify pushing from 195ms to >=200ms?
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by 9dev 2mo ago
I'm way too afraid of a "paperclip problem"-style target overfitting to use it really; how could I even describe a goal so well it doesn't sacrifice other things that are important to me? Like, if my goal is to make an e
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by 9dev 2mo ago
Eh… If I can bring prod down simply by sending CSV with a comma in a field to a prod endpoint, whoever has come up with the most naive CSV parser possible running in prod is responsible for the outage.
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by 9dev 2mo ago
…and it's also entirely in character of you representing Microsoft to not reply to my comment :-)
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by 9dev 2mo ago
The regulations and requirements are much stricter in Europe, especially around warranty, repairs, and support. There's no wiggling out of that if you sell devices around here.
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by 9dev 2mo ago
I take that comic a bit personal, to be honest - I just returned from a two-month odyssey to find a way of offering our customers a simple way of connecting our MCP Server to their Copilot Chat. Digging through a mindboggling number of docu
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by 9dev 2mo ago
Posting that here is one of the more promising ways of achieving that
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by 9dev 2mo ago
Hah. I feel very much seen by both of these comments, much more than I’m confident to admit. Something I have been struggling with all my life is deciding whether I am flawed in some way, or the other party/the environment is - because
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by 9dev 3mo ago
I absolutely despise that C convention if abbreviating absolutely every single thing as much as possible. Yeah yeah, that was necessary back in the day when memory was scarce and editors were awful, but come on those days were almost half
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by 9dev 3mo ago
This notion of "the government" is the wrong premise. The US government is (supposed to be, I should say) an elaborate system of checks and balances to enable self-correction mechanisms. The Trump administration has turned that in
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by 9dev 3mo ago
That's the malevolent version of it. The alternative might be, I also don't know this from the top of my head and could spend some time to google/ask Claude/read the documentation/familiarize myself with the concre
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by 9dev 3mo ago
So why exactly is the department of justice in contempt of congress and a judge right now, refusing to release them? Why are the names of perpetrators in the files censored, while those of victims remained clear? Why has not a single person
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by 9dev 3mo ago
We need the polar opposite of that: Laws that ensure companies can’t put unreasonable clauses in fine print or long EULAs. That’s the way it works in many EU countries, and it’s a blessing. Nobody except lawyers should have to bother with l
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by 9dev 3mo ago
> I'm not sure what you mean when you say John Deere was cheating the system. Instead of selling tractors with more powerful, but limited motors, they should have sold tractors with less powerful motors and no screw. There is no nee
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by 9dev 3mo ago
Huh! I was sure the copy-text-from-image feature in MacOS would handle this flawlessly. But the best run I managed produced the following: base64: stdin: (null): error decoding base64 input stream #!/bin/bash
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by 9dev 3mo ago
There's lots of district heating in Germany for example, but it's usually fed from either big heat pumps, bio mass plants, or heat from waste incineration plants. There's no reason to not use excess heat from data centres too
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by 9dev 3mo ago
Something I have been wondering: Why don't data centres use the excess heat for a sort of energy recuperation, turning at least some of it back into electricity?
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by 9dev 3mo ago
All other animals too. There are tons studies about the effects of New Year’s Eve fireworks on birds, for example, that are devastating. Most people just don’t care about anything but themselves. It’s disgusting me to no end.
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by 9dev 3mo ago
There is a point of diminishing returns though; the issues suggested will get speculative, or point out comment unclarity, or "defense in depth". But I agree it’s somewhat annoying to rarely get clear pushback in terms of "no
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by 9dev 3mo ago
I wouldn't underestimate the capability of European companies to build rock-solid industries on established science. We may not be the pioneers wedging new product categories into the market, but there are millions of highly qualified
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by 9dev 3mo ago
You're just blinded by propaganda. Europe has produced thousands upon thousands of interesting technology companies - it's just that very few of them are information technology companies. Claiming that something is wrong with Eu
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by 9dev 3mo ago
I don't think I implied they aren't, care to elaborate?

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