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by arkh 5mo ago
And remember: they don't call you a nazi because they think you are. They call you a nazi to make you a valid target.
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by arkh 5mo ago
With the factory allegory: code is stock. Stock costs and is a liability hence Lean manufacturing.
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by arkh 6mo ago
Someone(s), somewhere, is paid "big bucks" to be in charge. That's the person we should charge. If they cannot be charged for this kind of fuck-ups, then they should not be paid anything for simply rubber-stamping anything go
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by arkh 7mo ago
Yup, very parisian. Love how then they almost mock how pain (bread) is pronounced in the south-west where you won't mistake the sounds between the words un pain.
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by arkh 7mo ago
I think you have the same feeling I have with most modern sets (and especially technic ones): not blocky enough and too much smooth curved surfaces. But you can still make blocky stuffs if you want to, while being able to learn modern lego
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by arkh 7mo ago
> 'same laptop, but slightly cheaper because there's no battery in it at all' So, a simple computer? You can even choose your keyboard, mouse and screens.
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by arkh 7mo ago
You can still buy basic brick sets. With lot of nice color nowadays. Like the CLassics or Creator lines: https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/classic And for $100 you get a lot of bricks to play with and let your ima
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by arkh 7mo ago
I expected (and still expect) a lot from LLM with cross disciplinary research. I think they should be the perfect tool to find methods or results in a field which look like it could be used in another field.
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by arkh 8mo ago
But if push come to shove any other engineer can come in and debug your senior engineer code. That's why we insist on people creating easy to change code. With auto generated code which almost no one will check or debug by hand, you wa
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by arkh 8mo ago
Every modern (and not so modern) software development method hinge on one thing: requirements are not known and even if known they'll change over time. From this you get the goal of "good" code which is "easy to change c
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by arkh 8mo ago
The thing is, the Toyota methods relies on people on every level to work to improve processes. If you're an employee and know you'll be there 10 years down the line or even until you retire, you have an incentive to improve said p
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by arkh 8mo ago
Well, anyone using the product of an open source project is free to fork it and then take on the maintenance. Or organize multiple users to handle the maintenance. I don't expect free shit forever.
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by arkh 8mo ago
One thing most of those lack is an easy way to share screen. Now if anyone wants to differentiate their Discord alternative, they want to have most of discord functionalities and add the possibility to be in multiple voice chats (maybe with
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by arkh 8mo ago
Yup, I was expecting pgtune being mentioned in the article. And maybe something like HammerDB to check performances.
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by arkh 8mo ago
My question would be: what are the myriad other projects you tasked Opus 4.6 to build and it could not get to a point you could kinda-sorta make a post about? This kind of headline makes me think of p-hacking.
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by arkh 8mo ago
Isn't identity theft a problem in the US? Especially because something which was not meant to be used as ID is used as one (the SSN)?
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by arkh 9mo ago
> Like blameless postmortems taken to a comical extreme where one person is always doing some careless that causes problems and we all have to brainstorm a way to pretend that the system failed, not the person who continues to cause us p
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by arkh 9mo ago
> How do you suggest to deal with Gemini? Don't. I do not ask my mechanic for medical advice, why would I ask a random output machine?
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by arkh 9mo ago
> I would kill for a true ambi five-button mouse to replace my old Microsoft Intellimouse, but I've run into the same problem, they just don't seem to exist anymore. I was going to say Steelseries Sensei but it looks like those
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by arkh 9mo ago
> I've literally never had the thought of "how do I influence other people." Why is that considered a valuable skill? If you're a software developer you must have thought "current priorities are not right, we sho
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by arkh 9mo ago
> people simply MUST be doing self-guided experimentation And self guided exploration is a skill in itself which you have to learn. You can experiment for years and get nothing of it because you don't even measure anything. You can
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by arkh 10mo ago
> I would love to transport my motorcycle, building materials etc Just get a Renault Traffic or equivalent. I don't see any advantage pickup trucks would have against a white van when transporting anything.
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by arkh 10mo ago
Most of those attacks do the same kind of things. So I'm surprised to never see something akin to "our AI systems flagged a possible attack" in those posts. Or the fact Github from AI pusher fame Microsoft does not already us
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by arkh 10mo ago
Same thing with Symfony and its Messenger component when setup to use a database.
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by arkh 11mo ago
> Sometimes, a "bug" can be caused by nasty architecture with intertwined hacks The joys of enterprise software. When searching for the cause of a bug let you discover multiple "forgotten" servers, ETL jobs, crons all
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by arkh 11mo ago
I feel like with opensource projects those kind of "easy to fix but not priority" bugs are a really nice way to keep the door open to new contributors. You're a new coder and would like to help a project, if possible a big on
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by arkh 11mo ago
Remember that at its core GDPR was to harmonize privacy laws around the EU to ease the transfer of data between those countries.
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by arkh 11mo ago
> What's the benefit of taking down an online game for a couple of hours. Competitive MMO. Imagine some event is setup to start at some time and your guild or alliance knows they're gonna lose it and the resource it gives: DDOS
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by arkh 11mo ago
> Think about managing a park of 100~200 servers with home made bash scripts and crappy monitoring tools and a modicum of dashboards. Not even that. One repository I checked this week had some commits which messages were like "synch
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by arkh 11mo ago
20 years ago, my engineering school accepted a Chinese student directly in 2nd year due to their home university results. Middle of the year he was offered to either go back to 1st year and use the next 6 months to learn passable French or

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