Pxtl

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by Pxtl 5mo ago
The job of tech support is to get you off the phone and free up the call queue.
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
I had to explain so many times to infrastructure guys why it was not okay that the software they use to manage outages still returns 200s.
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by Pxtl 5mo ago
So what do you do for "okay, we need to run this script that we've decided is a necessary operation". Special account? Everything go through the build server? I've been looking for tooling for "I need to do a prod
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by Pxtl 6mo ago
The 3x5 size is pretty common in wplace, it's a good compromise.
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by Pxtl 6mo ago
> like one guy working on developer tooling for SQL Server As somebody who's been procrastinating on getting my main project off of SSDT, We can all tell.
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by Pxtl 6mo ago
I just realized that Lineage and Graphene are two separate projects.
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by Pxtl 6mo ago
Aw, another AI thing. I was hoping this was their email service.
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by Pxtl 6mo ago
Down again, now complaining about rate limit exceeded. Considering how FB was ruined by enshittification and Twitter was ruined by its new owner, I'm worried about how BSky has no apparent plan for money , and hitting a rate limit is
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by Pxtl 6mo ago
This feels like a workaround for git's contradictory ergonomics.
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by Pxtl 6mo ago
My compromise pitch, since the "You need ID from your users" ship has sailed: Companies are not liable if they have proper ID of the person who submitted the content and can provide that to a plaintiff. If they have not made a goo
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Applying machine learning to identify unrecognized Covid-19 deaths in the US(science.org)
11 points by Pxtl 6mo ago|7 comments
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by Pxtl 6mo ago
Azure PowerCopilot Live .NET
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by Pxtl 6mo ago
Except they named their local hosted version of TFS/VSTS Azure DevOps Server (where the cloud version is Azure DevOps Services). They just like branding their dev tools for whatever they're pushing at the time. In 2002 they named
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by Pxtl 6mo ago
They broke laws that programmers care about. Like, it's a company that sells AI-slop powered regulatory compliance. How many laws do you think the "fake it ill you make it and you'll never make it" AI will break? But &
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by Pxtl 6mo ago
Which is why you're reviewing changes. I haven't memorized what every line of code does, if it was worth commenting then it was confusing-enough that it needed the comment and so I'll read the comment to make sense of the co
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by Pxtl 6mo ago
As developers we have a unique advantage over everybody else dealing with the way AIgen is revolutionizing careers: Everybody else is dealing with AIgen is suffering the AI spitting out the end product. Like if we asked AI to generate the
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by Pxtl 6mo ago
> the code should explain itself. This is a good goal. You should strive to make the code explain itself. To write code that does not need comments. You will fail to reach that goal most of the time. And when you fail to reach that goa
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by Pxtl 6mo ago
Honestly the aggressive verbosity of github copilot is half the reason don't use its suggested comments. AI generated code comments follow an inverted-wadsworth-constant: Only the first 30% is useful.
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by Pxtl 6mo ago
Why not? What's wrong with honesty?
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by Pxtl 6mo ago
Right but so's the price of a Raspberry Pi. 10W running 24/7 means about 7.3 kWh/month. In my area the average kW/h costs about $0.13 CAD So a good rule of thumb is that every 10W 24/7 is about $1CAD/mo. So as
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by Pxtl 6mo ago
I'm curious - for power consumption, considering that you can get RaspPi products for so cheaply, is a discarded laptop more or less impactful on your electrical bill than a RaspPi? Like is the "free" laptop going to cost you
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
My personal "obsolete sound": The sound of an old C64 floppy drive failing a read. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JroA0Ap7zGU
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
When AI trainers are making a complete mockery of copyright law I have trouble caring about piracy in general.
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
It's just an excuse to not change things.
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
That heavily depends on the Dem primaries. I think after the unpopularity of Biden and the 2024 loss by Harris there might be more appetite to rock the boat instead of getting another establishment caretaker. However, the more radical wing
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
At this point I don't see a solution to the arms-race of autobesity besides regulation. Cars that represent a larger threat to other road users need to have that externality internalized onto the driver. Because otherwise we just get
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
Imho PHEVs were the right tool for the job before 2020 or so. The cost of batteries was so high and the lack of standardization on charging tech was too tedious. I bought a Prius Prime in 2019 and I absolutely regretted not getting a PHEV
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
I think that's the important distinction. > Israel and Iran are both destroying oil extraction and processing facilities in the gulf region This isn't like Katrina where oil infrastructure was being temporarily evacuated, shut
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
I drive a PHEV with an old AC J1772 port on it. Now that I'm comfy with "oh, install yet-another charging phone app" (a handful offer a website too) and the prevalence and backwards-compatibility of modern DC chargers and lea
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by Pxtl 7mo ago
I've always been stuck on the deb/apt system because it seems to have the best support but I probably need to move on at this point. It just doesn't work that well.

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