DanielHB

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by DanielHB 5mo ago
Oh wow, I totally forgot that "Ajax! Ajax! Ajax!" was a thing back then, that was at the beginning of my career and it was just as baffling hearing executives calling for a such a under the hood tech choice without understanding h
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by DanielHB 5mo ago
This is such a shame, finding where stuff is in a large codebase is my number 1 use for LLM. I hate it that it relies on grep so much, I can do grep better and faster myself.
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by DanielHB 5mo ago
I think a lot of this sentiment comes from the human size of modern institutions and corporations. A lot of us have lived through that small fraction of time where software engineering was done in small isolated groups working on top of sma
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by DanielHB 5mo ago
I am aware of that, which is why I said "kinda" but that was my first job out of uni and I didn't want to create a fuss.
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by DanielHB 5mo ago
Yeah, but it is technically protected by "Sigilo bancário" law: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigilo_banc%C3%A1rio Meaning you need a court order to get access to personal transfer statements and the governme
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by DanielHB 5mo ago
Mostly grumpy IT people handling small racks running VMWare in their office and taking 6 months to set up a VM for you. I am not joking.
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by DanielHB 5mo ago
Funny annecdote: I have a friend who worked at iFood (brazilian food delivery company) and apparently they moved their entire AWS stack to us-east-1 because sa-east-1 did not have enough capacity to handle the load they had. This is why iFo
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by DanielHB 5mo ago
It can't really, but public services don't necessarily need competition. In fact it can even make sense to run them at a loss. And alternate payment methods are allowed, so if there was space for a private entity to offer a better
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by DanielHB 5mo ago
When I tell that I used to withdraw cash at the ATM in one bank, cross the street, deposit the CASH in another bank ATM people think I am crazy. But I was doing monthly that circa 2014, all to avoid paying ~3 USD transfer fee (what was call
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by DanielHB 6mo ago
Yes you are correct, ~4 years ago was when they had a lot of layoffs at microsoft and github. Initially after the acquisition it was mostly fine, but after the layoffs it was a noticeable degradation in service quality and reliability.
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by DanielHB 6mo ago
Definitely not, I remember some 4 years ago some random bug in a github-supported github-action and a comment in an issue saying: "I heard the team responsible for this action was laid off, don't expect a fix". This was short
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by DanielHB 6mo ago
Microsoft is a major shareholder of OpenAI, they don't want their investment to go to 0. You don't just take a loss on a multiple-digit billion investment.
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by DanielHB 6mo ago
A pirate I was meant to be, trim the sail and roam the sea Monkey Island 3 taught me a good deal of english too. I was lucky to get a text-translated version with english voiceover. We all would avoid scurvy if we eat an orange...
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by DanielHB 6mo ago
I would expect 80% of the failures would have only one core not pass QA. I remember back in the day it wasn't that unusual for intel to sell quad core CPUs and dual core CPUs that exactly the same hardware-wise, but the dual-core ones
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by DanielHB 6mo ago
Old intel macbook pros definitely didn't last 10+ years, the overheating problems really reduced their lifetime.
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by DanielHB 6mo ago
> Bear in mind thats this 4-7% loss only counts dies that have just one broken CPU unit. There are many other failure modes as well. That just seems very very high. Is it? I thought the average for lastest-architecture chips was around 5
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by DanielHB 6mo ago
> What code is truly about is precision: code is unambiguous, even when it’s abstract. It’s easy to conflate ambiguity and abstraction—both refer to “a single statement that could have to multiple meanings.” But the meanings of an ambigu
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by DanielHB 6mo ago
I wonder if the facebook redesign also sucked a lot of manual labor and it is now mostly done so they don't need so many people anymore to maintain that product.
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by DanielHB 6mo ago
I believe the LLM would flag this kind of thing as a potential issue.
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by DanielHB 6mo ago
There is also a huge surface area of security problems that can't happen in practice due to how other parts of the code work. A classic example is unsanitized input being used somewhere where untrusted users can't inject any input
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by DanielHB 6mo ago
This actually came up with multiple companies I worked at in Sweden. Apparently the law here is quite strict that you _can_ use your computer for personal matters and that your employer is not allowed to spy on you on those matters. So they
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by DanielHB 6mo ago
Have also been using Bazzite since march on my home desktop and you are spot on. I think the main reason for average person linux being difficult these days are laptops with weird hardware configurations. I use MacOS at work and although it
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by DanielHB 6mo ago
It is absurd that there is no standardized UI toolkit, or rather that the web browser _is_ the standard with is characteristic _lack_ of user interaction idioms. The fact that there are multiple platforms for UIs* is a huge failure of the i
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by DanielHB 6mo ago
I just migrated to linux (Bazzite) in March, I have a RTX 3080. The only issue I ran into was that video stream compression is not supported on linux so I can't run 1440p 165hz with HDR on because my monitor doesn't support HDMI 2
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by DanielHB 6mo ago
I saw a teardown of an Ukrainian drone a while ago and I was surprised how similar the setup was to the IoT project I worked on. I could be setting up a good chunk of the software part of a similar system myself and I am not that specialize
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by DanielHB 7mo ago
> Atomic architecture > [...] > Each of these having only one consumer means they’re equivalent of inline code but cost us more to acquire (npm requests, tar extraction, bandwidth, etc.). It costs FAR more than dep install time. It
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by DanielHB 7mo ago
yeah I tried that for a bit but didn't manage to get multicasting to work. My internal network is fine even with the extra broadcast traffic. This is not a permanent installation, eventually I won't need the babycam anymore. I saw
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by DanielHB 7mo ago
Not really related to the topic, but I recently set up a baby-cam with ffmpeg by just telling ffmpeg to stream to the broadcast address on my home network and I can now open the stream from VLC on any device in the household. A very heavy-h
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by DanielHB 7mo ago
This stuff is used a lot in browser fingerprinting for tracking purposes. More privacy-focused browsers usually feed randomized info.
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by DanielHB 7mo ago
To encode all the atomic data and relative position of a single human cell probably would take a good chunk of all the hard drives in the world. A cell is not like a silicon chip where 99% of it is just repeating the same patterns.

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