Kwpolska

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by Kwpolska 7mo ago
> Engineers who know their craft can still smell the slop from miles away when reviewing it, despite the "advances" made. It comes in the form of overly repetitive code, unnecessary complexity, and a reluctance to really refact
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by Kwpolska 8mo ago
Sure, but why Moldova of all places? I've seen this form usually for places where there's a dispute for the short name, like Nice/Naughty Korea, Taiwan/West Taiwan, or Macedonia/entitled Greek government.
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by Kwpolska 8mo ago
Neither side has issued a statement about what happened, but Benj’s Bluesky post does not read like a post of someone who would have resigned due to this.
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by Kwpolska 8mo ago
Try searching for something niche. You'll get a confidently wrong and often condescending answer.
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by Kwpolska 8mo ago
The 2021 answer would be that he wrote part of this in a basic text editor, and part in a word processor that does “smart quotes”. The 2026 answer is that an AI wrote some parts.
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by Kwpolska 8mo ago
> So rather than risking sync issues uploading your 20MiB KDBX file on every minor change, you can upload just the 4KiB or so comprising that data. Why is your KDBX file 20 MiB? It seems you are storing something that is not actually a g
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by Kwpolska 8mo ago
Solving the problem of having a personal and a work GitHub account is really trivial without any extra tools. All you need is a dedicated SSH key for that GitHub account. (And why would you have a password for a ssh key on your personal mac
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by Kwpolska 8mo ago
You realise that those sites posted multiple articles per day ten years ago, long before LLMs were invented?
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by Kwpolska 8mo ago
The websites and apps probably have a system prompt that tells them to be more cautious with stuff like this, so that AIs look more credible to the general public. APIs might not.
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by Kwpolska 8mo ago
The story is credited to Benj Edwards and Kyle Orland. I've filtered out Edwards from my RSS reader a long time ago, his writing is terrible and extremely AI-enthusiastic. No surprise he's behind an AI-generated story.
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by Kwpolska 8mo ago
Of course videos disappear for copyright, ToS violations, or when the uploaders remove them. They do not disappear just because nobody watched them.
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by Kwpolska 8mo ago
Because we would miss simonw’s self-promotion blog posts.
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by Kwpolska 8mo ago
What if you have a wildcard cert for *.example.com?
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by Kwpolska 8mo ago
LibreOffice has had a ribbon for a while.
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by Kwpolska 8mo ago
This is help for the classic LibreOffice app, not the new web thing (which appears to have no settings?)
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by Kwpolska 8mo ago
I installed it from Windows Store, opened a blank text document, and the styles box appears to contain white text on a white background. I opened a blank spreadsheet, typed in something, tried to create a pivot table, and it only expanded t
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by Kwpolska 8mo ago
My debit card has specific limits, far less than all my funds. There also exist pre-paid cards, ideal for things like this.
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by Kwpolska 8mo ago
The author followed the "all other MacBooks" case, but it appears that their Mac (a 16-inch model) also has it on the other side than the instructions claim.
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by Kwpolska 9mo ago
How many users actually care about decentralization?
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by Kwpolska 9mo ago
But why would Apple, the company that famously hates backwards compatibility, make things easier for third-party accessory manufacturers, instead of making things easier for users bought into the ecosystem who had USB-C on their iPads and M
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by Kwpolska 9mo ago
Same on Android.
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by Kwpolska 9mo ago
They should show real real world metrics, like the effect of short term rentals on the housing market, or how much of the food delivery fees go to the middleman.
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by Kwpolska 9mo ago
C# can be used in both .NET Framework and modern .NET (ex-core). In fact, it is possible for a C# project to target both .NET Framework and .NET with the exact same code, or to target to .NET Standard, where the same .DLL file can be loaded
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by Kwpolska 9mo ago
Is this defense even viable if the Windows XP source code has been leaked and openly shared online, and you can find many copies of it on GitHub?
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by Kwpolska 9mo ago
Also, this is the most basic two-button mouse design, the same as all cheapo mice since the 90s, what is so innovative about it?
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by Kwpolska 9mo ago
Pretty cool! It would be great if there was a way to set coordinates manually, since Nominatim can sometimes produce mediocre results. Also, would be nice to have a way to render the same map in all themes, not just one.
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by Kwpolska 9mo ago
> No frustration. No judgment. Just iteration. [citation needed] This entire article is just meaningless vibes of one guy who sells AI stuff.
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by Kwpolska 9mo ago
EC2 pricing: https://aws.eu/ec2/pricing/on-demand/ The prices for the only region in Germany are very similar to the prices in eu-west-1 (Frankfurt), except in € instead of $, so that’s basically a 16% markup
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by Kwpolska 9mo ago
What’s difficult to use in Hetzner or DigitalOcean?
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by Kwpolska 9mo ago
Some commenters mentioned that the GraphQL API exposes the database IDs and a URL to the object directly in the schema. But the author did not know that and instead reverse-engineered the ID generation logic. This is one of many reasons why

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