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by almost 2y ago
If you find the idea of electromechanical arcade games delightful (and why wouldn’t you?) and you’re in London then I’d highly recommend visiting Tim Hunkin’s Novelty Automation Arcade ( https://www.novelty-automation.com/ ).
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by almost 2y ago
evil-mode has existed for years ;)
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by almost 2y ago
If you’re somewhere with a tech scene then go to meet-ups. It’s so much easier to meet people and build a network in person. Don’t be the pushy guy looking for work, they will instantly turn people off and they’ll remember that about you. J
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by almost 2y ago
The solution to certain types of programs not being suitable to write in it is just… don’t. I did various bits of freelance work on VVVV projects a while ago. Often writing C++ or C# code to interface with VVVV. Even when I was mostly stuck
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by almost 2y ago
I was a bit concerned about the cut-over from the old database on Heroku, really wanted to minimise downtime. So they helped me produce a step by step plan, test as much of it as possible, then had an engineer join me on Zoom while I made t
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by almost 2y ago
My experience with going from Heroku Postgres to Crunchy Data (specific Crunchy Bridge) has been really good. Their product has been absolutely rock solid but what really made the difference was their support. They provided a huge amount of
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by almost 2y ago
Thank you so much for linking testi.at. I’ve been looking for an affordable alternative to Litmus!
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by almost 3y ago
Django because in a word of constantly changing frameworks and approaches it’s nice to have something solid. New versions add improvements but Django is basically still the same as it has been for almost 20 years. It’s really fast to build
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by almost 3y ago
Is that a breed of cat?
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by almost 3y ago
So you're saying my cat could have lived up to 190 years if she was kept inside? Huge if true!
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by almost 3y ago
But what if it’s better for complex tasks or large programs? I also wish language home pages would show examples of what makes the language special right away but it’s not always that easy.
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by almost 3y ago
I tried Fly.io when looking to move away from Heroku. Some really cool stuff, I love their focus on multi-region apps. But it just felt like too many under documented things and edge cases and the support didn't seem like it would be t
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by almost 3y ago
PostgreSQL’s pg_trgm extension is also very useful. If you want to be able to search and find partial words etc then trigram indexes can be more useful than full text indexes. I’ve made the mistake of just chucking full text search at the p
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by almost 3y ago
Bullshit
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by almost 3y ago
I could stare at this for hours. Love the flurry of tests every hour on the hour, wonder what is happening there?
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by almost 3y ago
Exactly! The distraction of “ai safety” that focuses on made up cool sounding sci-fi risks will absolutely take us away from thinking about and dealing with these very real (and present right now) dangers.
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by almost 3y ago
The thing you’re imagining these AIs are… they’re not that. I think there’s plenty of danger but it’s the boring run of the mill new-tools-enabling-bad-things danger not the cool sci-fi super-intelligent super-beings danger that the “ai dan
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by almost 3y ago
Understanding how things work is useful and worthwhile on its own. Also while you probably can’t afford to train your own LLM you probably can afford to fine tune an existing one or to join one to another mode or lots of other things like t
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by almost 3y ago
It’s such a pity that Heroku has fallen so much. But I definitely wouldn’t run anything I cared about on Heroku these days. I ended up with my apps on NorthFlank which I’ve been very happy with. Railway also looks like a good choice, especi
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by almost 3y ago
Tables? I’ll be glad when I no longer need to use weird embedded VML just to get background images or rounded corners! The Word HTML renderer was such a weird choice and such a step backwards when it was chosen. I think this article jumps t
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by almost 4y ago
This is such a lazy article. Someone has just pulled data from GitHub and done basically nothing to else.
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by almost 4y ago
Well that’s a thing to say. Not what I actually said but absolutely a valid position. Everything has pros and cons and it’s absolutely valid to ask if the cons outweigh the pros. To deny that is just silly.
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by almost 4y ago
That is an opinion that you're absolutely entitled to have. My own opinion is that the cats out of the bag so whatever's going to happen is going to happen wrt LLMs. But trying to shut down all criticism of a new thing just becaus
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by almost 4y ago
I feel the same way about “chainsaw juggling for babies” classes at daycare centres. People are so quick to jump to “that’s dangerously” or “ouch you cut off my arm” rather than engaging with the subject and suggesting ways the babies can b
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by almost 4y ago
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by almost 4y ago
You're both wrong, Web 2.0 was about rounded corners. I know I was there!
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by almost 4y ago
I think that comparability is usually pretty important. You want want a cpu that your existing compiled programs will run on. Also compiler support, if every new revision required a new instruction set then all the compilers out here would
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by almost 4y ago
If you wish to keep tracking noted free speech absolutist (and owner of famously thick skin) Elon Musk's private jet you can do that on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@elonjet
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by almost 4y ago
Cryptocurrency people seem to think that's an argument for cryptocurrency!
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by almost 4y ago
At what point would you stop calling this 13 year old tech thing "new"? Is there some point at which that's a silly thing to say? Or is it only once everyone's thoughts on it agree with yours?

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