chanux

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by chanux 2mo ago
Thank you, this made me feel glad I switched back to Xiaomi. Battery life Time Vibrating alarms Sleep/Step tracking Happy with these (and the ux and price)
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by chanux 2mo ago
Do you also run a blog?
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Meta CTO told employees AI gains should go into more work(thenextweb.com)
2 points by chanux 2mo ago|2 comments
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by chanux 2mo ago
It's surprisingly hard to convince supposedly trained tech professionals that `chmod -R 777 /path/to/whadever` is not a good habit.
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by chanux 2mo ago
PS: Think about the next evolution of it, the auto refresh (from the great apps Instagram and LinkedIn). Did I use the word evolution right?
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by chanux 2mo ago
Loren Brichter [1] Never thought of finding out who until you mentioned! What a small but fantastic contribution! Thanks Loren!! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull-to-refresh
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by chanux 2mo ago
> at one point they asked me to work a weekend and I already had plans, so they asked what it would take. I wanted a classic FIAT 500, so I named the price of the car: multiple thousands of pounds. The management said yes, it was their o
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by chanux 2mo ago
They tried so hard and got so far..
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by chanux 2mo ago
Just today my Pixel failed to do the right thing on "Set an alarm in 15 minutes" thanks to Gemini. This has worked reliably since Google Assistant was introduced.
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by chanux 2mo ago
> What are you going to do about it? Ah the difficult topic we don't want to talk about!
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by chanux 2mo ago
My theory is that, at some point they did a good PR job convincing many people that they are good (Maybe they were actually alright for a bit, who knows). To be honest I too saw them in good light probably since a few years before they boug
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by chanux 2mo ago
For a second, it appeared some found out. https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/south-korean-retail-inve... But it seems there's still a lot in their FA phase in the FAFO cycle.
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by chanux 2mo ago
Calamansi I got with Hokkien mee was green outside and yellow/oranage-ish inside. I assumed it's ripe since it was kinda sweet too. An aside: I used to not use the Calamansi in Hokkien Mee because I thought we don't really do
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by chanux 3mo ago
I'd assume we can rent one in this era of renting.. everything.
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by chanux 3mo ago
I really liked fly at first and still have some stuff running (still falling within free credits). I was so excited for Sprites but I guess, I was not in the target audience because: Sprites -- Stateful sandbox environments Without SSH? The
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by chanux 3mo ago
I assumed they are the same :-O
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by chanux 3mo ago
> There are so many great and useful things it can and will do to improve humanity. Caveat: Only if it also produces shareholder value
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by chanux 3mo ago
> Engineers who care about such things, often engage in acts of "benevolent noncompliance". Common workarounds are "asking for forgiveness instead of permission", secrecy, and misdirection. Without the support of a un
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by chanux 3mo ago
Hold on just a sec. Will do after throwing everything at the AI wave.
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by chanux 3mo ago
Drum it out loud. Some organizations are stuck in proverbial cobwebs of security blankets. Those who dictate what security should be have no skin in the game, the end result is just stupid. My pet hate when I still worked was "defence
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by chanux 3mo ago
I was hoping you saw the nice end of it, with a feint smile on my face. Very rude ending! PS: I laughed outside. Cried inside.
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by chanux 3mo ago
Obligatory reference to "Software as theory building" by Peter Naur.
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by chanux 3mo ago
They are trying I guess: https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/06/10/announcing-stack-overf...
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by chanux 3mo ago
What if there's only half a dev and a swarm of agents after the layoffs?
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by chanux 3mo ago
Who else had LinkedIn posts about this flashing before your eyes?
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by chanux 5mo ago
Someone up in the food chain must have big investments in AI though. The great shove down didn't just appear.
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by chanux 5mo ago
Software loose on theory[1] trying to compensate with moar md. [1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
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by chanux 5mo ago
For a company so lost, their people talk a lot about being obsessed with feedback/data in meetups (at least 2-3 years ago.) I guess the point is, with enough money they can afford to operate like this.
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by chanux 5mo ago
When I read it first, I appreciated the honesty, though probably unintended. The facade of fake niceness is tiring. This personally feels much better.
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by chanux 5mo ago
I thought this has something to do with the Peter Principle.

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