CaptainOfCoit

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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
> It also creates a division between those who know and those who don't. Yeah, it's called "expertise" and it isn't as bad as you seem to think. Blogs for security professionals will use jargon and technical word
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
Codex run locally doesn't have access to any "web search" tool, but that doesn't stop it from trying to browse the web via cURL from time to time. Place hyperlinks in the documents in the repository and it'll try to
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
> In the past, the code you got was static so you had no choice but to learn it little by little if you wanted to change it. Seeing a lot of programmers being raised in the age of Stack Overflow, there was a ton of web developers who def
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
You win some, you lose some :shrug:
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
> For example, cryptography falls into precision computing. There is no room for being incorrect even by a single bit. Where as machine learning is about getting a range of answers, with tolerance for error. Doesn't both of them rel
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
Why? It's an article that explores a part of culture, and humans, and I don't see any outrageous claims or anything else? Just an author trying to understand something and writing about it. What is the sensationalist parts exactly
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
They more or less had the same goals, different ways of achieving them. - CSS reset - completely reset all browser styles to be blank essentially, across different browsers, so then you'll build your styling on common ground - CSS no
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
> If apple at least included a full system memory dump along with the backup that'd be better Wouldn't that make it easier for people to find vulnerabilities and more importantly (for Apple)? Which would allow people to find vu
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
I'm a programmer, designer and architect, so my mind immediately went to "Inversion of Control"
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
The closest to vibecoding in the 10's was to keep searching Stack Overflow for questions vaguely asking similar things as what you wanted and copy-paste things until it kind of worked.
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
> you should not make a pipe out of a coke can because of the plastic liner I'm fairly sure it doesn't make much of an health impact considering the hot smoke you pull into your lung, but when I was kid and we made pipes out of
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
Makes sense to me, lowest common denominator across people who deal with containers is probably basic docker usage. So providing instructions with docker lets people using Nomad pick it up as quickly as people who are using Kubernetes, or a
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
> for example, trying something and then reverting it shows that you did explore it True, those things tend to go into the documentation itself, checked into the codebase itself instead of being somewhat hidden inside the git history. Us
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
Could also be that mosquitos always managed to hitch a ride, but in so small numbers that they disappeared relatively quickly once they arrived, or it simply was too cold but some always appeared. But now when it's a bit warmer, the sa
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
> Why do you think it's embarassing? I don't? I said I remove it because it isn't useful to anyone, might even be adding more confusion than it solves, not because I'm embarrassed over anything.
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
All transformative inventions and innovations seems to come from similar scenarios like "I was playing around with these things" or "I just met X at lunch and we discussed ...". I'm wondering how big impact work fro
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
Compared to some other places around the world, looks pretty stable :) Take Peru as an example, they've had 5 different presidents in the last 5 years, shortest one being president for 5 days, and since Ollanta Humala (2011-2016), not
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
Yeah, pretty misleading it feels like. For background, here is the initial ideation of the "One Trillion Row Challenge" challenge this submission originally aimed to participate in: https://docs.coiled.io/blog&#x2F
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
Depends. Even something basic like "Check if the produced artifact is a valid .zip/.tar.gz" can be enough in the beginning, probably would have prevented the issue I shared before. Then once you grow/need higher reliabil
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
> just play better poker than them You really don't understand the mind of fraudsters and criminals. The reason they do what they do is because they don't want to "just be better at X than Y" and spend the effort for
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
> If you want to increase adoption, change the name: https://www.paulgraham.com/name.html > If you have a US startup called X and you don't have x.com, you should probably change your name. But they do own https
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
I promise you're not missing much, except some commits that are implementing something, reverting it, implementing it again slightly differently, fixing typos, replacing 80% of the codebase in one swoop and similar stupid and un-needed
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
Typically legal gambling has age limits by law, while the age recommendation for video games is just that, an recommendation. It isn't illegal for a 14 year old to play a game recommended to 18 year olds. Don't know how it works i
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
I'd add a fourth; "Make it easy to do backups and verify they're correct". I don't think I've ever considered a data store without that being one of my top concerns. This anxiety comes from real-life experience
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
> Ah you've never encountered /dev/null not existing yet I feel like that'd happen because of some other bug, I wouldn't consider that a bug in /dev/null :)
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
To be fair, bash won't be the only thing struggling when you end up in that state.
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
Open Source != Free, feels like the typical HN user should know this better than the average user. FWIW, the people working on this project has Mission and Vision pages on their website: https://linagora.com/en/mission
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
> Looks like there is a single commit where a majority of the code came from. I do this all the time, right before open sourcing a project. Basically while it's private, commit quality can be a bit rough, and if I want to open sourc
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
Well, as a senior developer I've deployed my fair share of crash-inducing bugs, probably something like that could be counted as "IT outage they brought on themselves" rather than outside factors.
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by CaptainOfCoit 1y ago
This is the trick. The CC'd address doesn't even have to be correct, just make sure the host/domain part is the correct official local authority, and they'll do your right really quickly.

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