ElFitz

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by ElFitz 3y ago
I’ve never understood Plaid. Given what they do, they can’t possibly encrypt the credentials they’re given, let alone hash them, can they? And considering how most banks are set up, we are talking about the user’s only set of credentials. W
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Web browser did drastically simplify delivery and deliverability though. Not that there wouldn’t have been alternatives had web apps not become a thing. It’s just more user-friendly than most current open alternatives (eg apt-get), and more
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Even without that. I won’t go into details, but they went out of their way quite a few times, without me having to pay a dime, and no defect whatsoever was involved. But perhaps I’m just lucky.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Being fluent in another language than English, I’ve always wanted to take my blog multilingual. It’s been years now. And Ghost’s internationalisation support is still a joke.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
That can’t beat those using YouTube as a low-cost backup platform. For those who missed it: https://gizmodo.com/backup-data-on-youtube-hack-white-noise-...
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by ElFitz 3y ago
They could care about being left with something that is qualitatively worse than what burned down during our time because people chose to cut corners. Now, does using a powersaw instead of a handsaw produce qualitatively worse results? I h
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Most likely. But many would not need to live with the existential dread of perhaps ending up living under a bridge some day. Or skipping meals just to make rent. Perhaps some would not need to give up on their lives and education by getting
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by ElFitz 3y ago
The first thing that comes to mind is that rents would quickly adjust to extract as much money as possible from someone on UBI. And any increase on UBI would just lead to an increase in rent prices. People working while on UBI would squeeze
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Do they prefer covering for shareholder value? Who wants to pay people simply for having, or being able to borrow, the money to buy shares? Or put money in a VC fund? Do they perhaps prefer covering for execs bonuses? It’s really weird how
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by ElFitz 3y ago
One could argue the ethical imperative isn’t towards the building itself but towards future generations.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
That’s the whole point of these "agents", and things like LangChain or LlamaIndex. Haven’t gotten around to that part yet, it seems it could help.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Perhaps the "focus mode" different home screens feature could do the trick?
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Oh, you’re definitely right. And it made me smile. I just thought that some examples, some of which most people would be able to relate to, some outlandish but real nonetheless, could help drive the gp’s point home.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
So feedback would be gifts in the same sense as a Christmas gift. Sometimes you get a GameBoy Color. Sometimes you get a terribly ugly hand-knitted sweater from your grandma. Sometimes you get a shitty prank from your crap uncle who think h
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by ElFitz 3y ago
> I mean, I think Norway has been pretty responsible with their North Sea windfall. I don’t think one can really especially criticize them too much for anything they’ve done with Statoil/Equinor or their public petroleum fund. And t
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Is this "you" a generic one, or directed towards me specifically?
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by ElFitz 3y ago
It really depends on what your reference is. Compared to the average American? No, indeed, you wouldn’t. Compared to the CEOs and major shareholders of the biggest companies out there? Yes, one could make the argument. There’s a bigger fina
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by ElFitz 3y ago
We have 30 years fixed rates in Europe. And most people here would consider taking out a variable rate loan to be a stupid move. In fact, people in France are usually surprised and shocked whenever they learn of some random city nearby near
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Just have a look at the size of all of English Wikipedia. Or all of StackOverflow. And these are seemingly huge services. And yet…
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by ElFitz 3y ago
> to finally enforce the correct French language standards once and for all. *the one and only true and perfect French language standard When you look at the Académie Française's history and origins, it’s quite jarring. I will never
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by ElFitz 3y ago
And their brains. Just to be safe.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Personally, being forced into some specifics topics only made me less inclined to put any effort or have interest in them. Some people have an innate interest in some topics. Some don’t. Some that don’t can develop one if properly prompted
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Oh! Thanks! It's interesting. I'm not familiar enough with closure, and I can't tell how well it handles distributed states, but I'll try to play around with it. Thank you!
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Exactly! The first obvious risk that comes to mind is that nothing can be made that correctly takes into account everything it might some day be required to be able perform, so it can easily be done wrong and would probably need to be very
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Or how many extra hoops not directly to what you have to get done you have to jump through to get "it" done, whatever "it" is. ie, rebasing a branch and fixing 10 tests because your 5 days old PR hasn’t been reviewed and
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by ElFitz 3y ago
I remember a former manager, telling me that being the only software engineer they had ever worked with, I had been my own benchmark. And that it was only when I was gone, and they started working with other software engineers, that they re
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by ElFitz 3y ago
I often wonder about some sort of unified distributed system, encompassing frontend & backend into a single whole. One where user input is just something the system can ask and wait for, no matter which frontend or client it comes from.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
While I agree, I’d say I find SwiftUI easier and more intuitive than React. And Combine often much more frustrating than Rx.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
> My wireless set is a pair of quietcomfort 35's I got in 2026 We’ve found the time traveler!
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by ElFitz 3y ago
I honestly fail to see the outrage here. Mild annoyance, perhaps?

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