TheCapeGreek

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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
Fully agreed. In my view, effective coding agent use boils down to being good at writing briefs as you would for any ticket. The better formatting, detail, and context you can provide BOTH on an outcome level and a technical architecture le
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
>Chronic over-legislation will crush from its own weight. Ideally, yes. I think the reality however will be that most "perpetrators" will be ignored, and anything else will be easy wins and collateral damage to small site opera
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
By that logic any cleaning detergent also can't remove blood, sweat, or other bodily excretions from any surface?
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
Worry about working with Laravel, PHP, and probably a database first. Worry about DevOps in a year or two. You don't need a 100% complete project to get hired, but you definitely need more than a few models and a controller. E-commerce
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
I always hear this "writing code isn't the bottleneck" used when talking about AI, as if there are chosen few engineers who only work on completely new and abstract domains that require a PhD and 20 years of experience that a
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
Tests breaking when you change things is... kind of the point?
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
I think neither StackExchange nor HackerNews are probably the right place where you'll find help with this. I'm sure there are plenty of Laravel peeps lurking around here, but HN's format isn't great for code review. Fin
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
CityMapper for more cities. Found it super helpful for getting around London. Would be great for somewhere like Athens. Google Maps decently supports this as well, bit CityMapper UX is better for the task.
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
I've dabbled in at least trying the absolute basics of the popular DEs. Cinnamon, KDE, Gnome, whatever Ubuntu's current thing is called, Pop's Gnome spinoff, XFCE. Think I tried Budgie for like a minute too. The one I stuck w
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
Being a tech & privacy evangelist to non-technical friends & family becomes exhausting after a time. Sometimes, you just want to be a person with other people, not a tech person.
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
Are you asking for how to get things shipped to you from places that don't ship internationally/to you? One service I've heard of and seen recommended here and there is Aramex Global Shopper. Basically you ship things to them
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
Honestly, these days I save links in my Obsidian vault. I have an "Inbox" file as a raw dump of thoughts, links, todos, ephemeral notes etc, and every once in a while I revisit links living in there and categorise them into the ap
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
*For the North American perspective
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
Everyone has their own strategy. Why is it so difficult for half the people replying in this Show HN to accept that some people still want to use social media as social media and not just throw all of it out?
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
If you get addicted to these feeds, you'll just find other ways to them once they're off your phone. I take a hybrid approach - keep uninstalled by default most of the time, engage a browser extension for web to keep me in place,
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
I keep Instagram to keep in touch with friends abroad. I keep Facebook because certain communities and events only happen there. For some of us, it is plain better to only block short form video.
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
Hmm yes, a perfect system isn't in place so clearly it's far better to have nothing at all.
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
Humans are social creatures. If you truly don't have the same desires as most - friendship, companionship, even career gain - then sure, it's purposeless. But why are you even in this thread then? If you clearly are actively dis-
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
It's on purpose! Quirks of the group kind of thing.
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
Fake it till you make it. "Be yourself" is not wrong, but it's not specific enough. You can be perfectly authentic, but that doesn't mean being socially uncalibrated. Get good at being sociable, then blend that with yo
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
Agreed, it feels risky to just be associated these days, even if it's "adjacent" groups that explicitly don't want to be part of the "mechanical" side of improving social skills like "classical" PUA.
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
Woah, where is 20k buying a comfy life these days? Genuinely curious. I'm supposed to be in the third world but COL has become ridiculous in the last few years. I felt similarly to you not long ago, sometimes still do. Honestly right n
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
You're going to have to add more context about what information you're looking for here. Are you a US citizen looking to work from Africa, or are you an African looking for remote US work? I can offer some info for the latter. It&
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
Where'd all the remote Laravel gigs in Europe, Middle East and Africa go? I'm your guy. Worked as IC and tech lead, meetup organiser for various PHP related meetups over the years, passionate about the Laravel ecosystem. Prefer: R
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
I had to try and argue down a "qualified IT support" person on a flight yesterday discussing ChatGPT with the middle aged technologically inept woman next to me yesterday. He was framing this thing as a global connected consciousn
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
All of the "you can anonymously and safely hold tons of wealth that can't be taken from you" points you make fall apart when the following two are true: - For the majority of financial transactions you might want to make, fia
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
I think it's perfectly legible? man-choker would just be a choker (you know, the accessory usually for women) with some tech on it, in this case to accept a command to check with another bio-device if the glucose spike of more expensiv
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
I guess everyone outside of the JS ecosystem, that has auth baked into the framework for decades, is just doing it wrong and riddled with hackers in their systems?
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
Yes, you can find stories of this happening here or there. Install `whois` on your system and use it to query for domain existence instead.
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by TheCapeGreek 1y ago
UK has started doing it too. EU I've seen is still friendly to timezone alignment instead of regional, but seems to just be less aware at all that people outside of EU might want to apply. The remote hype has died down, political winds

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