Etheryte

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by Etheryte 10mo ago
For me, the most important takeaway from the article was that the Passwords app supports 2FA codes! I was not aware of this, that's nice and getting rid of Authenticator is one less Google thing to worry about.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
The problem with hardware is that it's always viable soon, but not quite yet. Hardware is multiple orders of magnitude more difficult than anticipated, the fact that the richest companies in the world can't quite make it work is a
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
One of the core ideas behind LLMs is that language is not a discrete space, but instead a multidimensional vector field where you can easily interpolate as needed. It's one of the reasons LLMs readily make up words that don't exis
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
You're wrong, you've mixed up the numbers. Their general living expenses were $200/week. Their rent was $200/month, that's $200 for the whole month, not per week.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
Important to note here that the $200/week figure from 80s is the same as $830/week today due to inflation [0]. Rent and degrees specifically have gone up a ridiculous amount, yes, but as far as the rest of it goes, most students t
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
I don't find this argument convincing. You could make the same argument when you see a parent physically hitting their child, that it's not anybody else's business, but most of the civilized world agrees that you should inter
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
I see the point you're trying to make, but I'm not fully convinced it's as black and white as you make it out to be. I think we can both agree that lawfully and democratically elected leader of country A having a lawfully and
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
I think this mixes up two separate things. If you're working with Java, it's conceivable that you could probably update with some effort. If you're an aerospace engineer using software that was certified decades ago for an ex
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
Exactly, very hard to take the rest of it seriously after the VLC bit. VLC has literally never left me hanging, across I don't know how many decades. It's gonna take more than a trust me bro to challenge that.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
Because there's a metric ton of software out there that was built once upon a time and then that bit was never updated. I've seen this issue out in the wild across more industries than I can count.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
Works right up until you get an entity where the field `comments` is suddenly relevant and then you need to go change everything everywhere. Much better to use the right tool for the job, if you want JSONC, be explicit and use JSONC.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
I tick all the boxes you listed after having worked in a handful of different countries, but personally I don't really see the value add. My bank shows an overview in my main currency of choice and so do brokerage accounts. Perhaps to
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
This is neat, but I'm not really convinced this level of granularity makes sense for personal finances? Or at least it does not for me personally. I find that simply entering all my accounts into one big excel once a month more than su
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
Yes, it makes it both really simple to spot mistakes and also allows you to easily audit the whole thing after the fact. In corporate contexts it's a straightforward way to make sure your bookies are also honest, just have an external
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
The error most people make on this front is thinking that Russia is just another country with regular country goals like any other. Grow the economy, make lives better for its people over the long term, that kind of thing. But this is not t
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
I think this is exactly the point most people miss. No contribution is better than bad contribution. Most issues people file are bad. I previously worked at a major OSS company and the vast majority of bug reports are just noise. It takes t
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
For me, this is the holy grail. Every time I switch laptops, I lift all my config files and such over, but there's always so many system level configs and other things that you have to go and manually fiddle. On top of that, some apps
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
This is the story of nearly every Chinese stock ever. Their market is very different and even simple intuitions don't carry over.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
Agreed, working in the kitchen is all about figuring out how to do things in parallel without messing them up. You can chop and dice while the pot or pan is heating up, you can do the dishes while the sauce reduces, you can make a salad whi
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
That says nothing about actual legality though, just like how me saying I am the law doesn't make me the king of the world.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
I don't think the division line runs on the open-source software front here. Windows has historically offered some of the most stable APIs, meanwhile there's plenty of examples of popular open-source software with a lot of breakin
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
Literally the first result on Google gives a simple to use jammer that works out of the box. Hook up an external antenna and you're good to go. Plenty of more sophisticated options if you dig a bit more.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
This is not really accurate though. Both a Raspberry Pi and a Flipper Zero can easily and readily be turned into a signal jammer or spammer with off the shelf parts and nearly no technical skill. Modern smartphones are generally both more l
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
This completely misses the point of what sharing types is about. The idea behind sharing types is not exposing your internal backend classes to the frontend. Sharing types is about sharing DTO definitions between the backend and the fronten
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
So in short you don't share types. Manually writing them for both is easy, but also tedious and error prone.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
Pick any forex pair of your liking against USD?
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
Being slower than other mainstream languages isn't really a problem in and of itself if it's fast enough to get the job done. Looking at all the ML and LLM work that's done in Python, I would say it is fast enough to get thin
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
If there was sufficient interest in it, most performance issues could be solved. Look at Python or Javascript, big companies have financial interest in it so they've poured an insane amount of capital into making them faster.
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by Etheryte 10mo ago
That is terrifying, thank you for sharing.

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