berkes

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by berkes 3mo ago
I've worked on a complex bookkeeping SAAS. Our "CVS" im- and export was the most used feature by far. Yet it was implemented on a thursday afternoon by a junior, using the first "library" that popped up in a google
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by berkes 3mo ago
Give that engineer a raise and an official title of "chaos monkey". On the scale of AWS, you want your production system to be poked at and pushed against. Obviously not something to implement out of the blue in your production if
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by berkes 3mo ago
> The service needs to bill "credits" When talking about e2e tests, it matters where the e's are. If they are at the public interface of "the service", then, indeed, you'd test against "credits". B
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by berkes 3mo ago
> Almost all of them have one number that appears four times, and one or two that appear three times To me that looked suspiciously like string-handling in a weakly typed language. Like when you do `"100" + 1` in JavaScript, or
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by berkes 3mo ago
I was merely re-iterating the marketing from Apple on why they charge the 30%. I personally think it's a lie at best, or a scam (on multinational level) at worst. I've always been convinced that regulation should force companies
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by berkes 3mo ago
Mistral has released some very good, very useful open models. It's European, that's also non-Chinese.
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by berkes 3mo ago
> Down to the manufacturer of the whole product you're buying. In case of an app, what is the "product" you are buying? Because according to Apple, they add a lot of "value" by ensuring the software is safe, perf
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by berkes 3mo ago
I find this hard to believe, since Google Play store requires much less info, and doesn't disclose it to consumers (AFAIK). Did the EU specifically demand this from Apple? Did they specifically require that consumers must be able to co
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by berkes 3mo ago
> due to your political bias. That's a wild accusation. Unless you happen to know me, but I don't think you do. "Lobbying to reduce taxes" was a part of an example. The big problem is their "lobbying for greater
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by berkes 3mo ago
That government has the monopoly of violence against the company too. They can easily strongarm the company into harming me. With private security companies, private jails, private utilities, the harm both can and will do, is practically th
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by berkes 3mo ago
> If I need to pay someone 300k to make the model and infrastructure I was arguing for the existing AI-companies that already make and offer niche models. Like Mistral. But AFAICS, all AI companies have and offer such models. So all you
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by berkes 3mo ago
The General Models' business-model is also looking more weak every iteration. Costs of simple tasks grow extensively: OCR with "Mistral OCR" at $4 per 1000 pages vs OCR with Opus 4.8 at sometimes¹ $1 per "page". Or
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by berkes 3mo ago
Companies fall under the government. So what a company harvests (to sell more toilet bowl cleaner), is accessible to the government it falls under. By that logic, you should fear companies at least as much as their governments when handin
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by berkes 4mo ago
All AI companies are working on models with specialisms. Which are really good at one task. Mistral is just a bit more forward about this. I guess because they don't need/want to "wow" an audience with generalist user-fa
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by berkes 4mo ago
I'd imagine the (aggressive) caching of the favicon by browsers makes it a challenge, but you could generate the favicon dynamically, then have JS extract the sequentially. Basically streaming arbitraily large content to a webpage via
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by berkes 4mo ago
An SVG can embed raster images: base64 encoded bytes. So you could layer this experiment: favicon is svg, that contains encoded raster, whose bytes are encoded html. At the very least it would make a mindboggling CTF step.
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by berkes 4mo ago
In the Netherlands there's an official government agency that allows a simple mail or report: https://www.ncsc.nl/en/report-an-incident-to-ncsc-nl I presume more countries have this, not sure about the US though (
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by berkes 4mo ago
Same here. I tried content-types, user-agent, but no luck. I'm not sure what the user-agent of `req` is, but the default `node-fetch/1.0` does make the response json. They are a 307, but the result is a png. I presume the original
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by berkes 4mo ago
Probably my reference is tainting this then. I come from Perl, PHP (both of which, at that time, had nonexisting or terrible package managing - CPAN, PEAR), then Ruby, with gems and now Python, Typescript/Javascript. Starting with Ruby
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by berkes 4mo ago
That's the default. One can also statically bind that libc.so.6 quite easily. Though that's not the default. edit: Ironically, that makes shipping the binary a tad harder, since this "linux" version won't "magi
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by berkes 4mo ago
"Written in Rust" signals some common attributes. Fast, Safe, Lightweight, Statically linked (plop a precompiled binary in ~/.local/bin and run it), few/shallow dependencies, senior developers, "Done" soft
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by berkes 4mo ago
> Rust even doesnt do the static binary file by default. Huh? It does. Only libc is dynamically linked, by default, which --iirc-- all programs will commonly need anyway. All the rest is statically linked. In fact, it takes some hoop-ju
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by berkes 4mo ago
> AI Art isn't Art Why? (And who are you to dictate what art is and what isn't?)
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by berkes 4mo ago
I know of https://usbguard.github.io/ But I remember that on Linux changing some /etc/udev file helped me with some naggy bug long ago. I worked temporary in an office with several wonky USB keyboards. Whenever so
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by berkes 4mo ago
What Bluetooth profile would allow "more" than a HID?
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by berkes 4mo ago
They can fix it. They have certainly figured out how. But their "killer feature" is not that you don't receive spam, it's that the mail you send isn't flagged as spam by their fellow oligopolists. We're now at
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by berkes 4mo ago
Have you considered collecting all the literals into domains, but ship them by default? I could, for example, imagine using roto in some of my current work on svg and visuals generation. In which case I'd be greatly helped with literal
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by berkes 4mo ago
I'm author of a rust based task manager (not (yet) FLOSS, unfortunately), where we needed "pluggable task sources" (jira, github, trello, etc). In our setup, the "sources" are more like configuration. Whereas the co
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by berkes 4mo ago
Capacity may indeed be a reason for requiring advance bookings. But it doesn't explain the ridiculous security (scanning gates, had to take off my hat and belt, insulin pump was inspected), the prohibition of "professional" p
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by berkes 5mo ago
Certainly. But many of yhose foundations are wrong. Mostly, because they were designed and implemented in a way that cemented them in place. Is HTML the right abstraction for UI toolkit? If not, can we ever move towards an alternative that

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