charles_f

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by charles_f 7mo ago
Write tests. Most likely those 300k lines of code contain a TESST folder with 4 unit tests written by an intern who retired to become a bonsai farmer in the 1990s, and none of them pass anymore. Things become much less stressful if you have
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by charles_f 8mo ago
I did the same mistake a few weeks ago ; my company enforces security updates and I picked the Tahoe update instead of the security one. I told myself, what the hell, might as well give it a try! I wiped my computer and reinstalled Sequoia
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by charles_f 8mo ago
Original story: https://www.theverge.com/tech/879088/dji-romo-hack-vulnerabi... Accompanying discussion on hn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47047808
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by charles_f 8mo ago
Likely a lie but also they do have tools, they're just inefficient. When you have 10 other examples that are undeniable, might as well remove the ones that can be challenged, let alone open with it, or you open yourself to very standar
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by charles_f 8mo ago
I think they're examples of the stronger lies
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by charles_f 8mo ago
One thing that I would recommend is to avoid weaving the actual lies with statements that are subject to judgement. For example, the first two rows are about the level of investment in protection tools, and are claimed as lies because of th
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by charles_f 8mo ago
Graphene is very attractive, the two things that prevent me from going are a) using your phone as a credit card, I'm too attached to that now. b) work profile does not work with rooted phones
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by charles_f 8mo ago
"I am in, you are out, you couldn't understand" Thanks for your contribution. The goal here is to enlighten each other, not expose ownership of knowledge that one has but doesn't want to share.
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by charles_f 8mo ago
As a master in commenting I would argue that this is quite smart. Indeed this might be a bot. Or maybe it's not, who knows? It's sometimes hard to tell with comments. It's just the times we live in, uncertainty is a given, mo
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by charles_f 8mo ago
It's like everything else, it depends If I ask a quote, get it, and answer only 2w later, I will probably apologize. If someone sends me a quote unprovoked, they shouldn't have any expectations of getting an answer, and if I answe
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by charles_f 8mo ago
This one has more votes and comments though
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by charles_f 8mo ago
That pink "Unicorn!" joke is something that should be reconsidered. When your services are down you're probably causing a lot of people a lot of stress ; I don't think it's the time to be cute and funny about it. ED
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by charles_f 8mo ago
While Claude was trying fix a bug for me (one of these "here! It's fixed now!" "no it's not, the ut still doesn't pass", "ah, I see, lets fix the ut", "no you dont, fix the code" loops)
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by charles_f 8mo ago
> My role as the programmer responsible for turning code into reality hasn’t changed > OpenClaw gave me the chance to become that super manager [...] A manager shouldn’t get bogged down in the specifics—they should focus on the higher
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by charles_f 8mo ago
The name of that website is interesting. I had heard of landmarks being named after politicians, laws being nicknamed after them (e.g. obamacare) or after judicial decisions, but it seems that it's usually, at least seemingly, by other
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by charles_f 8mo ago
I think that's an OS in the form of a library, like Wine for example. From what I get from the description it allows you to run programs on your real OS and make it see a cut down API to your actual system to reduce the attack surface.
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by charles_f 8mo ago
I had to re-read the email twice and concluded the same.
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by charles_f 8mo ago
I eas thinking of purposefully not paying some kind of invoice to trigger a lien but this way seems more legitimate
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by charles_f 8mo ago
Actor model is one of these things that really seduces me on paper, but my only exposure to it was in my consulting career, and that was to help migrate away from it. The use case seemed particularly adapted (integration of a bunch of remot
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by charles_f 9mo ago
Honestly I don't know - building location is probably using the same data though.
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by charles_f 9mo ago
I work on Teams (I know, I know... please don't hit me, it's not my fault) 1. I don't speak authoritatively and 2. I don't have knowledge of the whole product - there's always a rogue team here and there doing stuff
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by charles_f 9mo ago
Looks like a cool place to gather passwords, tokens and credit card numbers!
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by charles_f 9mo ago
> Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading www.agentmail.to (see the browser console for more information). I would advise to have the landing page static, or at the very least as something that can't cr
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by charles_f 9mo ago
I cut coffee for over 6 months, and one of the most significant thing it did for me is that, when I resumed, I noticed that caffeine actually helped me feel more awake and alert (while I didn't notice any effect when taking a lot of it
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by charles_f 9mo ago
But replacing it with decaf is also easier to get into.
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Show HN: A userscript to filter out LLM/AI content from HN(github.com)
2 points by charles_f 9mo ago|0 comments
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In less than a year, the resistance against returning to the office collapsed(theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by charles_f 9mo ago|2 comments
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by charles_f 9mo ago
Canada's software market was $73B in 2024. https://www.grandviewresearch.com/horizon/outlook/software-m...
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by charles_f 9mo ago
Wait so did this rollback? Initially they were about to forbid any install from non verified accounts, then allow them but just a limited number, this article seems to suggest there will just be extra steps?
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by charles_f 9mo ago
It's fun that desalination is always the first thing to pop up as an answer to that, and never water usage reduction

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