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by dirkc 8mo ago
Speculation - Starship is a dead end all of this is a play to inflate IPO prices for SpaceX during the AI bubble. Then cash out and start a new private space company?
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by dirkc 8mo ago
We used to call the 1.44MB (3.5inch) disk stiffies, since they are rigid, while the physically bigger disks we used to refer to as floppies. And they used to fail all the time, especially when you had something that spanned more than a sing
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by dirkc 8mo ago
I don't rely on stars as the main signal of quality, but very low stars could stop me from looking into the things that I do use as a signal: - number of contributors - open issues - merged and unmerged PRs - commit histo
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by dirkc 8mo ago
This is one of my pet peeves! No one should normalize the idea of piping curl output to bash.
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by dirkc 8mo ago
Installing any 3rd party dev dependency without sandboxing should terrify you. These supply chain attacks are not hypothetical. Trusting other devs to not write malicious code has led to a surprisingly small number of incidents so far, but
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by dirkc 8mo ago
I love it when people mess around with AI to play and experiment! The first thing I did when chatGPT was released was probe it on sentience. It was fun, it was eerie, and the conversation broke down after a while. I'm still curious abo
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by dirkc 8mo ago
That's an interesting take. I've never really thought of it that way before, but I think you are right that you'll have an easier task running an HTML file with embedded JavaScript from 15+ years ago in a browser than running
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by dirkc 8mo ago
these days TFM is generated from a prompt in any case
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Ask HN: Do we want engineers to care less about users?
5 points by dirkc 9mo ago|1 comments
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by dirkc 9mo ago
It's not that I don't want to pay for good tools. I don't want to invest time and effort into tools that I have to pay for. If a tool requires payment, someone is gatekeeping access to that tool. Even if prices and terms seem
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by dirkc 9mo ago
I've played with/built a few browser based encryption tools. What always bothers me is that it boils down to "trust me, I won't send your data anywhere" in a tool with the primary function of sending and receiving d
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by dirkc 9mo ago
I've had similar experiences, but also good experiences where the person reached out/replied and we had a conversation. I suspect for some of the non-engaging posts it's just throwing it out there, inexperience or part of the
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by dirkc 9mo ago
Nice, I did something similar for a university project, but my results weren't great. Although that has been almost 20 years ago. It's been a while since I've seen mention of "genetic algorithms".
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by dirkc 9mo ago
https://www.thebacklog.net - a blog, with some other content
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by dirkc 9mo ago
sometime I say "push buttons for a living" instead of typing :) Can also describe my job as 'endlessly deliberate over the placement of pixels'
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by dirkc 9mo ago
I sometimes joke and say that I type for a living, not entirely untrue. But I've found that sometimes people are offended if I answer their question evasively
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by dirkc 10mo ago
If you decrypt the content on the client side using an expensive decryption algorithm the scraper needs to spend the computing resource to decrypt.
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by dirkc 10mo ago
I agree with (c) - I can't quite pinpoint it, but I've had that feeling myself several times.
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by dirkc 10mo ago
I was quite surprised to see grocery stores with my name on it :)
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by dirkc 10mo ago
I recently had a trip to NL and was very surprised to see jobs for children being advertised there!
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by dirkc 10mo ago
That approach might be at odds with the market, but I don't think it's at odds with learning. I strongly dislike duolingo - it's gamification kept me pre-occupied for a while without noticing that I wasn't making any pro
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by dirkc 10mo ago
I'm not 100% against AI, but I do cheer loudly when I see things like this! I'm also left wondering about what other things you could do? For example - I have several friends that built their own programming languages, I wonder wh
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by dirkc 10mo ago
I 100% agree. I didn't even bother to think about the security implications - why worry about security implications if the whole things seems like a bad idea? In retrospect I should have given it more thought since React Server Compone
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by dirkc 10mo ago
Story time - A few years back I had to update a company linkedIn page, couldn't find who was admin and the normal process was broken somehow - can't remember the exact details. Found an obscure reference to a support page where yo
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by dirkc 11mo ago
This could also be an anti-pattern for hiring - getting people with Amazing Web Service (tm) certification and missing out on candidates with a solid understanding of the foundational principles these services are built on
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by dirkc 1y ago
Does uv use a sandbox or do process isolation? I've switched to running any and all python projects in Docker as a way to ensure that low effort supply chain attacks doesn't easily get everything in my home dir. So even if I use u
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by dirkc 1y ago
If you are using it for your project, wouldn't you necessarily have to use it for your Docker setup as well?
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by dirkc 1y ago
I'd like to nit-pick a little about the title. They replaced a $500/mo bill with a $55/mo server. And at the same time increased what they could do before - run 5 extra staging environments! While saving $445/mo isn&#x27
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by dirkc 1y ago
I've been using Docker containers for quite some time to do web dev work. The one thing I haven't yet set up is doing mobile dev in a docker environment. Does devbox support mobile development - Flutter or ReactNative?
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by dirkc 1y ago
Would you say you do things you'd normally do 3 times faster? Or does it help you move past the things you'd get stuck on or avoid in the past, resulting in an overall 3x speedup?

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