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by blowski 3y ago
My Mum visited her Dad maybe once a week at most, but even in his 80s, whenever she visited he'd make her favourite sandwiches, try to give her money, take care of her car. She died in hospital, and he was holding her hand telling her
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by blowski 3y ago
It’s outdated in the same way my 90s baggy jeans are outdated. Technically, they still work as clothing, but people find it unusual if I wear them.
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by blowski 3y ago
Or plateauing unsustainably.
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by blowski 3y ago
Sounds like you have some very complex, niche requirements. Perhaps paying an experienced human is the best solution (sleepless nights included), instead of laying yet more technical complexity on top.
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by blowski 3y ago
I imagine this is like a senior dev who says all they do is copy code from StackOverflow. There’s some amount of good social skills, humility, and expertise that forgets how simple things for them are like rocket science to others.
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by blowski 3y ago
I wonder if there were "no paper cafes" in the past, where books and newspapers were banned.
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by blowski 3y ago
I don't really understand your distinction between language and text, but it sounds intrguing. Would you be able to give more detail? I searched but couldn't find anything that seemed to explain it.
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by blowski 3y ago
Phar files still need the PHP runtime installed to run them. These files have the JS runtime embedded in them.
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by blowski 3y ago
What benefit would Google get from removing popular videos?
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by blowski 3y ago
What makes it so expensive? I’d always assumed it downloaded the .git directory statically, and the computational bits were down by the local client.
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by blowski 3y ago
Good description. And the site owner may have decided that trade-off works well for them - they are not incompetent or evil just because a few niche but noisy users have a moan.
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by blowski 3y ago
As someone who's been using PHP since the late 90s, I'm greatly enjoying this renaissance in its fashionability. Seeing multiple comments on HN genuinely recommend it is odd.
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by blowski 3y ago
In the 90s, the web was overhyped in the short run and under-hyped in the long run. We wrongly predicted 100% of people would do their shopping on the internet by 2005, but never dreamed Somali market traders would use it to discuss the pri
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by blowski 3y ago
Every few years a new technology goes mainstream and quickly changes the world around us rather fundamentally. I’ve lived through the web in 1995. Google in 2000. Web 2.0 in 2005. Smartphones in 2009. Now it’s generative AI in 2023. Every t
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by blowski 3y ago
What a fascinating list. It’s effectively guessing whether something is a business email, given that it’s blocking domains like gmail.com, outlook.com, fastmail.com, and yahoo.com.
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by blowski 3y ago
Depends on the context it’s being used. Say you’ve built a ChatGPT-powered chatbot as an MI layer on top of a database, someone could generate a prompt that exposes private data. These are the same types of assumptions which lead to SQL in
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by blowski 3y ago
They could say “support is limited to the following services”.
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by blowski 3y ago
Why would Apple only sell iPads when they can sell iPads + Macs?
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by blowski 3y ago
How would I feel? I’d be annoyed! Undermined. Why would they hire me and then belittle me with tasks someone with half my experience could do? How would I handle it? There are two answers to that. The first is “I’d quit and go and get a ne
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by blowski 3y ago
I absolutely could be wrong. Even if I spent 2 hours listening to both sides, I could still be wrong. This is my best guess, based on my own experience of being a manager. My guess is that you gave them what you thought was honest and helpf
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Tree That Owns Itself(en.wikipedia.org)
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by blowski 3y ago
> Junior programmer's bookshelf: 90% APIs and programming languages; Senior programmer's bookshelf: 80% applied psychology. https://twitter.com/jbrains/status/616228270841962496
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by blowski 3y ago
To me, it's clear this was not "because you used Firefox", albeit that was the written pretext given by the company. It's also not because they changed their mind about the React rewrite. It's far more likely they t
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by blowski 3y ago
It's hard to say, as I have almost no context except for what you can give me. I highly doubt you'd get anywhere taking legal action against them. Also, are you posting here because you're frustrated and want to rant? That&#x
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by blowski 3y ago
It sounds to me like the manager realised you weren’t a good fit for each other, and used the Firefox thing as a pretext.
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by blowski 3y ago
From your second paragraph here, I understand you were somewhat critical of the management at this company?
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by blowski 3y ago
The submission seems to suggest sending it in LaTeX to “impress” the hiring manager.
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by blowski 3y ago
If I did get it in LaTeX I would probably question how much you think about your users, rather than looking clever around other devs.
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by blowski 3y ago
> You can't say well obviously that decision was bad, but this one is good. I absolutely can and will say that. A football manager can make bad decisions and lose 5-0, and yet the same manager can then win the next game with the sam
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by blowski 3y ago
I was going to eat salad this evening, but since I ate pizza for dinner last week, I realised there’s no point in me eating healthily tonight. Of course the EU can make bad decisions in one area without precluding them making good ones in o

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