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by calrain 1y ago
I find that I pick companies to work with when my goals and their goals align. I visualize this alignment like two boats travelling on the ocean together, with a rope that runs between them, connecting them. When the alignment is strong, th
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by calrain 1y ago
It's important to justify the hardware upgrades of each generation of iPhone.
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by calrain 1y ago
Yes, this is just 'your code' if you're writing your own MCP code, but it's also 'Googles' code if you're using their MCP service in front of GMail. As with all code reviews, supply chain validation, CVE s
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by calrain 1y ago
This is true for any code you install from a third party. Control your own MCP Server, your own supply chain, and this isn't an issue. Ensure it's mapped into your risk matrix when evaluating MCP services before implementing them
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by calrain 1y ago
I like the analogy, but I'd adjust it a bit. Vibe Coding is you teaching a learner how to drive a car. You are in the passenger seat, and your job is to get the learner to drive the car to where you want to go. The learner has a lot of
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by calrain 1y ago
I am not sure what the site offers on landing, why would i invest the time to register? maybe provide an animated slide deck of the problem you are facing, or the challenge you are posing, and how does your site help with that. It mentions
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by calrain 1y ago
First, encode data as an image. Second, work out the best image for printing/scanning purposes. I saw some work a while ago of storing SQL extracted table data as an image, and always thought that with good compression and a good print
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by calrain 1y ago
I would expect a broad spectrum quality test, of which cyanide would be one of the components tested for.
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by calrain 1y ago
Without making generalisations, I'm trying to leverage LLM as much as possible to see how they can help. I know there is a lot of hype about LLM's and I'm genuinely interested in the niches that they can fill, and where they
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by calrain 1y ago
Will try, thanks!
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by calrain 1y ago
AI is just a tool, it's no more useful than a non-complaining junior dev that constantly needs direction, but it sure can cut out a lot of repetitive work. I am more productive using it, but that is just me.
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by calrain 1y ago
I'm taking a nuanced approach to make it more difficult to 'me too' my idea, even though I am heavily leveraging AI development. My test is to build a layered business model where the initial development is a unique solution
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by calrain 1y ago
I've been testing using AI coding agents by asking an AI acting as a software designer to build a set of kanban style cards as .md files in a directory, designing the work we talked about into cards for AI developers. It works quite we
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by calrain 1y ago
Do your job and you will always be useful, rarely valued.
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by calrain 1y ago
> A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person, or to a group of persons, while deriving no gain for himself, and possibly incurring losses. This is a good definition, one we need to talk about more and not associate i
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by calrain 1y ago
Everything!
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by calrain 1y ago
It's easy to get good productivity out of LLMs in complex apps, here are my tips: Create a directory in the root of your project called /specs Chat with a LLM to drill into ideas having it play the role of a Startup Adv
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by calrain 1y ago
This is one of those idiotic ideas I had about 30 years ago. Clearly the bar for 'idiotic ideas' has moved.
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by calrain 1y ago
...and that is how you start a career in Marketing...
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by calrain 1y ago
For me, a key difference is: - 'Streaming' means the consumer determines server utilization rates - 'Batch' means the server determines server utilization rates I much prefer Batch as the processing can be performed when
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by calrain 1y ago
I used these all the time when rolling out Windows 3.1 and 3.11 for thousands of computers back in the early 90's. You would just pick any icon that seemed relevant, with a focus on not choosing the same icon for two different applicat
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by calrain 1y ago
If that page is an example of Material 3 Expressive then it's a hard no. It is nauseating how text blocks keep moving after a scroll, and the animations are a solid 15 year step back in time. I won't be using it on any projects, a
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by calrain 1y ago
There was an interesting Kickstarter a while ago called DiceKeys https://www.crowdsupply.com/dicekeys/dicekeys that provided a physical mechanism to store the seed of a passkey. If you then purchased passkeys that supp
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by calrain 1y ago
Is there any evidence that people can notice improvements above about 220Hz? There seems to be a worthless arms race on high monitor refresh rates and there are heavily diminishing returns past 220Hz.
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by calrain 1y ago
I think they are useful as long as you use them the right way. Dig into problems, try to understand why it was solved a specific way, ask what are the con's of doing it another way, and let it know you are a learning and want to unders
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by calrain 1y ago
Just take a picture with your smartphone and email it to whomever you want. Blocking screen captures is an example of 'Security Theatre'
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by calrain 1y ago
Focus more on what is important to them. They are delivering the work, you need to understand why they don't have time to update tasks and why they don't see it as a priority. Your goal should be to understand their position, not
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by calrain 2y ago
The people have all the power, but only if they Vote
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by calrain 2y ago
For the wealthiest, there's no such thing as 'enough.' The game isn't about money anymore - it's about keeping score. When a company's lifetime profits still don't match a single executive's payout, i
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by calrain 2y ago
That Scottish tree is amazing

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