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by allan_s 1y ago
A lot of companies I know have "kindness/empathy" in their value or even promote it as part of the company philosophy to the point it has already become a cliché (and so new companies explicitly avoid to put it explicitly) I
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by allan_s 1y ago
it's a chicken and the egg problem I think initiative like this drive a need for a more consistent, and even if slow, PHP has been deprecated/reworking its stdlib so I'm hopeful on this.
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by allan_s 1y ago
in my company we do this a LOT, what helps if having a LOT of slack channels with explicit topic name like * "incident-2025-07-28-CI-not-deploying-disk-full" * "feature-stripe-integration" * "exploration-datadog-or-
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by allan_s 1y ago
the postman in those days was not a random stranger, he was certainly the son of the Smith from the village next door that your cousin went to school with. And even if he was a total stranger at the beginning of his career, after twenty yea
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by allan_s 1y ago
remind me of https://xkcd.com/1227/
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by allan_s 1y ago
I think it's more that communities were smaller and more consistent. People didn't move that much. Your neighbors were your lifelong neighbors, and the postman was your lifelong postman, so you knew him, and your neighbors knew hi
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by allan_s 1y ago
For the 1st example, snapdom is not only faster, but actually correct, while html2canvas has some artifacts (on Linux/Firefox)
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by allan_s 1y ago
like trolleys/tramways ?
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by allan_s 1y ago
actually we know how to produce it without involving living organism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_sulfide#Industrial_pr...
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by allan_s 2y ago
first, at the end the effect is the same (XSS which can be used to extract information), the difference is "how someone can get to it" and "how you protect yourself from it" 1.to be honest you should refrain yourself fro
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by allan_s 2y ago
my point is that all your templates are at thend coded by human that make mistakes https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-6578 , you may be not using "dangerouslySetInnerHTML" directly but your depend
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by allan_s 2y ago
forbidding inline script protect you from ``` <h3> hello $user </h3> ``` with $user being equal to `<script>/* sending your session cookie out, or the value of the tag #credit-card etc. */</script&gt
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by allan_s 2y ago
note that for inline style/script, as long as you're not using `style=''` or `onclick=''` , you can use `nonce=` to have a hash and to my understanding, newly added inline script will not be tolerated, allowing
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by allan_s 2y ago
Damn, we have it good in France. It costs less than 10 euros to open a micro-company and you only need to have a separate account in your personnal bank (you dont need to open a pro account) . Of course its limited in term of revenue you c
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by allan_s 2y ago
Yes something like free bus card and N kilometers of taxi fares per month, so that : 1. People who normally take the bus are not incentivise to get their driving license /make a big accident 2. People already driving are still blt rewa
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by allan_s 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback, very interesting. In the meantime I've seen this model https://huggingface.co/FPHam/Karen_TheEditor_V2_STRICT_Mistr... , I would be interested how it compares. (though it seems specificall
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by allan_s 2y ago
Does something like this exists for firefox and opensource with local llm (one can dream) ? Or are llm fitted for this still too resource intensive ?
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by allan_s 2y ago
Is there a lot of feedback from companies that have switched to similar model ? (how much it improved churn, customer lifetime value etc.)
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by allan_s 2y ago
People have asked what app other are using and I was wondering "which apps do you think are missing" ? (it can be games or even very specific needs) as I think lot of people are like me here, we would like to hack on some "we
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by allan_s 2y ago
To be fair, anthropic and openai censor heavily on a lot of subjects 1. profanity 2. slightly sexual content 3. "bad taste" joke that is heavily linked to the fact that they are US-based company, so I guess all AI companies produc
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by allan_s 2y ago
> Also pretty sure this will make outsourcing easier since foreign engineers will be able to pick up technical skills easier Most importantly it will be easier to have your code comment, class etc. translated into English. i.e I used to
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by allan_s 2y ago
This. I understand ads are a necessary evil for some kind of product, and it allows some content to be freely accessible. BUT no the step from "ads" to "personalized ads" is not worth the loss of privacy, All the CPU tim
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by allan_s 2y ago
If you're interested in this topic and you live (or visit) Paris, you can check https://www.museecarteajouer.com/ , I've been there with my kids and it was quite nice, it goes from the first cards/tarot to po
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by allan_s 2y ago
For the "semantic web" part, what we've been using in my company recently , is the `<x-something>` tag which are valid html5 so except if there's a really fitting html5 tags (like footer, h1 , main ), we will have
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by allan_s 2y ago
something like kudo ?
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by allan_s 2y ago
I'm not saying it necessarily impedes, I'm saying that at least it's never positive, at most neutral. The fact you believe it should or not does not change the harsh reality. I'm saying that to sell to enteprise with a g
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by allan_s 2y ago
It's about probabilities and risks shifting. My understanding after selling software to enterprise is that 1. they are risk averse, they prefer a solution that will improve by 0.1% the [whatever metrics they care about] with 0% chance
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by allan_s 2y ago
You can build a resistant house on seismic ground. (I know you're being metaphoric)
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by allan_s 2y ago
Re: performance issue I used to think that performance issue in relational database was always a matter of : * missing indexes * non-used indexes due to query order (where A, B instead of B, A) But we had the case recently where we optim
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by allan_s 3y ago
Do you guys remember that blog whe a guy describe his worst project which started utterly complicated and ended with a static web page with a phone number on it ? I Think it qualifies

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