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by arkh 2y ago
> You ask it to give you one block at a time. I think many people need to do some maintenance work on really old projects. "One block at a time", I'd like to see the LLM which will find for me the CRON script doing some da
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by arkh 2y ago
> I think it's weakening junior engineers' reasoning and coding abilities as they become reliant on it without having lived for long, or at all, in the before times. Same as StackOverflow, same as Google, same as Wikipedia for
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by arkh 2y ago
> just In my experience this word means you don't know whatever you're speaking about. "Just" almost always hide a ton of unknown unknowns. After being burned enough times nowadays when I'm going to use it I try
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by arkh 2y ago
The worst are the information blackholes created by apps like Discord or Slack. Lot of technical communities are there nowadays, lot of ideas are just out of view from anything public.
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by arkh 2y ago
> lately Reddit has been feeling really like dead Internet though. Saccharined killed. You used to be able to make some really vitriolic comments on most subs just for the lulz and only get downvoted to hell and back. But nowadays if you
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by arkh 2y ago
The problem is the people who quit because they cannot work are not those you want to lay off. Those who stay in those conditions? That's those who were not adding anything useful before.
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by arkh 2y ago
The main problem is that you may not want the state to know how many porn sites you're accessing. That's where you'd want an intermediary: you log in on porn site A => redirects to some intermediary which only needs to che
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by arkh 2y ago
> build quality Tell that to Dell and their shit trackpads and prone to death battery charging circuits. And the joy of soldered RAM so you cannot upgrade can't be overstated enough.
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by arkh 2y ago
> Archetype #1: The Entitled Veteran > They've seen initiatives come and go, leaders arrive and depart. Yup, and they may have seen the exact same initiative you're trying, in the exact same conditions, multiple times. With
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by arkh 2y ago
> While I don't disagree with your point, I think VR's issue is that most people don't want to strap things to their face. I'd go the opposite way. The problem with current VR is it is just some goggles. What you real
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by arkh 2y ago
Before social media you had sites like rotten. And if you were a teenager with access to internet you perused some of those.
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by arkh 2y ago
> Unfortunately as a nation our culture appears to have shifted away from taking personal responsibility for anything. That's as old as hierarchy. The Hillsborough disaster was in the 90s: every one tried to shift the blame. The dif
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by arkh 2y ago
Soooooo, my "totally in the works" post about how direct connection to your RDMS is the next API may not be so tongue in cheek. No rest, no graphQL, no http overhead. Just plain SQL over the wire. Authentication? Already baked-in.
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by arkh 2y ago
I guess we're not thinking of the same thing when writing about rowing. I'm thinking of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowing_(sport)#/media/File:Avi... and if you do little legwork you're
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by arkh 2y ago
> Where is the native HTML datagrid Imagine a world where instead of letting IE die, microsoft decided to add a <XLS> tag in the early 2000. The most used nocode database in the world directly in the browser. In 2000.
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by arkh 2y ago
I'd guess some data transferred between systems as a homemade CSV. Empty field = empty string, but some field is nullable so someone decided that Null would be a way to declare a null field. 20 years later and multiple systems dependin
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by arkh 2y ago
As mentioned you are wrong on this: rowing is mostly legs, some core muscle and then a little arm. As you don't have your full weight on your knees it is a good way to get started on working your legs when you're overweight.
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by arkh 2y ago
> If your job depends on some upstream bug being fixed, it increases potential tensions. Same problem with commercial software: if you need a bug fixed asap there are not a lot of solutions. At least with open source software you can for
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by arkh 2y ago
> The feeling you get when you find a smooth bit of road on a still day If you have not already you should try rowing. When you get some speed on water it feels really good.
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by arkh 2y ago
The problem is when you understand multiple languages. If a website is made by an English speaking team, as I understand English I'd like it to be English first and not a possibly broken French version. If a website is developed with F
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by arkh 2y ago
> Creativity on the web mostly died along with Flash. Even being anti flash sites at the time, I can't deny it allowed many fun experiences with browser games which look absent today.
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by arkh 2y ago
Last part of the post hints at a possible future for SPAs: wasm. No DOM modified by browser extensions so no surprise.
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by arkh 2y ago
> because one is interested in the subject and wants to do research Then you need a stable situation first. Not everyone can choose to spend years badly paid while accruing debt from tuition and renting in a high cost area. You read lik
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by arkh 2y ago
> barbed wire banners GDPR does not tell people to put banners on their website. People chose to not learn about GDPR and do "like everyone else".
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by arkh 2y ago
> GDPR has made a hell of eurosphere as well Oh noes, I can't slurp all my user data and sell / give it to whoever. How will I make money if I can't exploit people's data?
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by arkh 2y ago
> To be clear, this is an abuse of unicode and you shouldn’t do it. If your mind is wandering to practical use cases for this, shut it down. Totally not thinking about IRC clients with their own hidden commands.
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by arkh 2y ago
And I'm a lazy fucker: I want to set a temperature range and then not bother until I sell the car. Under the range? Heat it. Over? Freeze it. But a range, not a single point. So if the temperature is between min and max, the AC stays o
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by arkh 2y ago
> you set a target temp You should be able to set 2 temps. Early morning in summer: temperature is under 15°C, no need to heat over 20°C. Evening: outside is 30°C, I don't need 20°C in the car anymore but 25ish would be perfect. A 2
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by arkh 2y ago
More exactly, the bus factor = number of people who'd have to be hit by a bus to stop development. So the bigger your bus factor, the more secure your dev.
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by arkh 2y ago
> So what am I missing? Money and resume driven development. Just being a webmaster integrating a simple design could be done by "anyone" so not paying so well anymore. So came the idea: now we're not doing websites, we&#x

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