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by charles_f 4mo ago
> the effort to write a post This post was pretty obviously written by llm. You can assume the llm also picked the hosting platform.
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by charles_f 4mo ago
That law, voted years ago, has overwhelming public support (including mine). Source: an actual source^1 ^1: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2019PREM0103-001748#:~:text=...
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by charles_f 4mo ago
drop the battery and use either PoE or just AC
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by charles_f 4mo ago
I sent many an email from jacques.chirac@elysee.fr, the veneer of the terminal helping, my friends were quite impressed by how good a hacker I was. Good olde days when many DKIM/SPF weren't a thing yet and SMTP servers weren'
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by charles_f 4mo ago
I work on the receiving end of media processing nowadays, and the overlap of variety in formats, codecs, and configurations is frustrating. No two encoders work the same way, and they often "innovate" in fun and varied ways that a
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by charles_f 4mo ago
> In my case, I asked it to migrate my static site from using Eleventy to Hugo This blog is on medium so I guess the migration went sideways! Joke aside, nice series of tutorials, don't let the haters get to you. I think with the cu
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by charles_f 4mo ago
Hi Eric! Sounds like an interesting topic! > Why do good companies go bad I find interesting the systemic explanation of Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith in "The Dictator's Handbook"^1: In any publicly traded com
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by charles_f 4mo ago
Posted many times before: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/philipl My favourite issue being about GDPR compliance https://github.com/philipl/pifs/issues/56
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by charles_f 4mo ago
It's announced as a revolution but when you look at those benchmarks it surely looks like an iteration.
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Don't Fuck with My .bashrc(fev.al)
5 points by charles_f 4mo ago|1 comments
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by charles_f 4mo ago
I love mountain biking, and part of it is the effort it requires to get to the high trails, fitness to do multiple laps, and the quiet of being in the forest. But for the past 5-10y eMTBs became a thing and progressively became more afforda
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by charles_f 4mo ago
> Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand That's true, but they care deeply about the consequences of that: > about how AI “writes bad code,” “introduces bugs,” “creates technical debt,” or something along
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by charles_f 4mo ago
But, have you thought of the shareholders?
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by charles_f 4mo ago
I remember a moment at the very onset when chatgpt was just opened to the public. A manager sent us a congratulations text chatGPT had prepared for his kid's graduation from high school. He said that he was not much of a writer and tha
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by charles_f 5mo ago
> “If you don’t learn how to use AI, you’re going to be left behind.” I don't subscribe to that even to begin with. Learning "how to use AI" in a a dev workflow takes less than a month, just by practice. Assuming "how
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by charles_f 5mo ago
You can worked around that in Firefox by switching to focused reading
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by charles_f 5mo ago
I see, thanks for clarifying (I also know people who used to use slack internally to MS).
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by charles_f 5mo ago
It's true, though.
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by charles_f 5mo ago
Both things can be right: Claude costing too much and migrating employees to copilot, which hopefully will decrease cost as it owns the product, which will in turn increase usage and feedback. > It's the same reason Teams got so muc
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by charles_f 5mo ago
You've put in my head the picture of a jester announcing "hear! Hear! In which thereby the king allowth the forgerer so known as Tesla Mechanical Horses to discharge..."
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by charles_f 5mo ago
Self hosting a web search engine is probably quite a feat
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by charles_f 5mo ago
> its release inevitably fuels a bit of public finger-pointing Is this what's helping with that? > the most striking trend is that the community has steadily improved at Leave No Trace Probably not only? But shame and avoidance o
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by charles_f 5mo ago
What is your point there? That designated opponent made the same thing so this is acceptable or should be overlooked? Whataboutism is not useful.
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by charles_f 5mo ago
> The previous captain started a fire because another captain explained internal combustion to him at Captainpalooza 2025, and he wanted to start iterating towards that. Hey, that's agile! Such a great write-up!
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by charles_f 5mo ago
I used claude recently to generate a booklet about a system I had to ramp up on, and which is using technology I don't know. It was pretty interesting to read, especially because a) it was tailored to what I needed, b) didn't have
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by charles_f 5mo ago
It's reminding me of twitter. I occasionally open it, half of the content I see is AI garbage (and by that I mean, poor quality AI generated stuff that is obviously AI), and 95% of the replies are bots responses, which aren't even
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by charles_f 5mo ago
Article quite literally talks about tracking of cli tools you run on your own computer, half of which are to pilot products that you pay with your own money. Get off your high horse.
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by charles_f 5mo ago
It's interesting that we're so used to be tracked at this point that no one balks at being opted-in by default. A flag called DO_NOT_TRACK sounds like a good idea, but also suggests the default is CONSENT_TO_TRACK=1, and I find th
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by charles_f 5mo ago
It runs python!? I still have my ti89, and my brother's 83. My kids will learn to write text based dealer simulation in ti-basic, then 68k assembly, like real men^. ^ they're boys so that cliche works
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by charles_f 5mo ago
This is inspiring, you might have convinced me to do the same, if only for the sleep part. One thing that I'd miss is the taste though, I don't drink soda or sugary drinks, and I can't think of a replacement for the taste of

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