Alex_L_Wood

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by Alex_L_Wood 9mo ago
Well, he still is a terrorist symphatizer, just rich now.
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by Alex_L_Wood 9mo ago
I am also betting on this. Google used their dumb bots in support since time immemorial, but now these dumb bots are supercharged by LLMs. Except they are still as dumb as before. I still remember trying to get my Google Play account unbann
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by Alex_L_Wood 9mo ago
Ignoring any constructive responses as "hasbara" is something that is actively harmful to any potential peaceful resolution of the conflict.
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by Alex_L_Wood 10mo ago
It also doesn’t help that definition of who “staff engineer” is varies wildly by the company.
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by Alex_L_Wood 10mo ago
No lists? Have you ever actually lived in Germany and had to interact with its’ healthcare system?
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by Alex_L_Wood 10mo ago
A knife then.
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by Alex_L_Wood 11mo ago
Not sure if Kotlin is non-mainstream, but being able to use the vast Java libraries choice and a much nicer syntax are great boons.
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by Alex_L_Wood 11mo ago
This is pretty impressive, wow! I always wanted to build a toy HTTP requests framework just to better understand the tools I’m working with, and here you are building the full thing.
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by Alex_L_Wood 11mo ago
This reminds me of eGolf, and, I think, this is the right way to go for electric cars. They shouldn’t be apps on wheels, they should be cars, but with an electric motor.
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by Alex_L_Wood 1y ago
Suuuure.
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by Alex_L_Wood 1y ago
And yours is also "you are using it wrong" in the spirit. Are they doing the same thing? Are they trying to achieve the same goals, but fail because one is lacking some skill? One person may be someone who needs a very basic thing
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by Alex_L_Wood 1y ago
Good. I remember the times when there was a weekly new framework that would absolutely revolutionize the web frontend development. Mobile development forums were having all-out wars regarding MVP vs MVVM vs VIPER vs ... vs ... yadda yadda.
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by Alex_L_Wood 1y ago
It's funny how I encountered a problem which went exactly the opposite way! We initially introduced a rate limiter that was adequate for the time, but with the product scaling up it stopped being adequate, and any failures with 429 wer
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by Alex_L_Wood 1y ago
My pet peeve is when streaming services only allow me to watch something in the language of the country I live in. I'm sorry, but why? Why would I want to watch a 1988 movie with horrible German dub?
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by Alex_L_Wood 1y ago
The more I look into MCP, the less I understand the hype. It's an OK API that describes how to fetch list of tools and resources and retrieve them, somehow this is supposed to be the standard for AI and environment communication, and..
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by Alex_L_Wood 1y ago
We all as humans are hardwired to prefer greedy algorithms, basically.
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by Alex_L_Wood 1y ago
Maybe this will finally cause designers to ditch Figma. It's a fantastic tool for designers, but it's complete shit for developers.
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by Alex_L_Wood 1y ago
Ah, yes, Israel famously publicly declaring that its' holy mission is to destroy Iran. Happened so many times, yes.
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by Alex_L_Wood 2y ago
What? No, you will not. You could get fined for seeding some popular stuff, but even then no one is knocking on your door, it'll probably come in the form of a letter, and even then it's not a guarantee.
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by Alex_L_Wood 2y ago
Honestly, same. I'm building a small BE for a small startup with a friend of mine, and while sometimes I have these urges that I should migrate everything to K8S / Docker Swarm, so far the setup with three small VMs of API server