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by earthnail 1y ago
Because untrustworthy websites can piggyback on the brand name. "Download ffmpeg here: sudo bash -c ..." And then the installation script from our malicious site installs ffmpeg just fine, plus some stuff you have no idea about. A
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by earthnail 1y ago
Wow, super cool. When I finally scrolled through it and the buy me a coffee link showed, I simply thought “take my money!” :D
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by earthnail 1y ago
Edit : just tried it for serving a fastapi. It's fantastic. Instant TLS via Let's Encrypt. There may be other webservers that are equally easy, but this one is certainly easier than Apache or ngninx, which I used so far. Love it.
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by earthnail 1y ago
I finally started migrating our app from Heroku to Hetzner. Started by moving Postgres, and boy, what a difference in performance. I pay 1/5th of what I previously paid, and performance is through the roof. Like, as if we had rewritten
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by earthnail 1y ago
Because the server types you get for the price of a single Heroku dyno are incredibly beefy. And suddenly you need a lot less dynos. Which is quite important if you start managing them yourself.
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by earthnail 1y ago
There are internal reasons as well. Letting go of people can be highly disruptive and create uncertainty in your team. It’s a very unpleasant job that can also go wrong, especially if you have to fire loads. Then there’s the perverse incent
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by earthnail 1y ago
In vscode you can click on various assets, like images or audio files, and then view them right inside vscode. If you work with datasets, the ability to inspect them is crucial. Yes ofc I can use Finder instead but in vscode I just cmd+p.
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by earthnail 1y ago
I absolutely love the idea of Zed, and I'm regularly giving it a go. Typing in Zed really feels better than VSCode. It's hard to describe, but impossible to discard once you've used it for a short while. Unfortunately, ther
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by earthnail 1y ago
This is absolutely fantastic. I really can't wait for the final course to be live. It's in the "shut up and take my money" category. I had so much fun with the nanoGPT videos.
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by earthnail 1y ago
Free Palestine. There, I said it. Although I think it's a rather dumb slogan, and doesn't even remotely do the situation justice. Seriously though, the notion that free speech is impaired in Germany is completely ridiculous and ju
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by earthnail 1y ago
Germany has a pretty consistent climate. Doesn't really matter where you live. Of course, that's an oversimplification, but if you're new to Germany and wonder "oh, what's the weather going to be here?", the an
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by earthnail 1y ago
I just wrote up the solution for a combinatorics problem in Typst. It was my first time using it. Wow, it is so smooth, it's unbelievable. After this little exercise I'm 100% sold. For homework-like tasks, Typst is so much easier
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by earthnail 1y ago
You got the last paragraph wrong. They need to negotiate with rights holders on the revenue split. They’re hoping that the virality aspect will be more important to rights holders than money alone, but they will of course also give money to
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by earthnail 1y ago
I once had my bank close my account because of a mistake they made (I can provide the background but it’s just a facepalming story). That meant my Bank ID was closed down, too. I asked for an appointment with the bank to resolve it but was
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by earthnail 1y ago
Unfortunately the solution presented in the article is locked to a closed cloud offering. I have nothing against those, Firebase for example is like that, but I dislike the fact that it’s hidden. “It’s just an sqlite extension”, oh and it s
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by earthnail 1y ago
I remember seeing tons of mockups for how KDE 4 should look like. One was absolutely stunning but I can’t find it anymore. I remember a mostly flat theme with the idea that an app’s settings could be on the backside of a window. The dock wa
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by earthnail 1y ago
It's always the option key that gives you more options. As silly as it sounds, that's the logic behind it, and it's consistently implemented.
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by earthnail 1y ago
I'm not a fan of Liquid Glass at all, but I just tried KDE again and it's certainly not there yet. Breeze has a ton of weird design decisions, rounded corners in things like list selections that don't work, and even basic und
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by earthnail 1y ago
You no longer need inner city parking, and people will be more willing to jump on public transport to skip traffic because you are not bound by the location of your own car anyway.
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by earthnail 1y ago
Yeah, agree the UI is not great, but after using it for a week I feel it's actually... fine. Probably because I use a lot of third-party apps who don't use the new design.
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by earthnail 1y ago
Why is it a terrible language? Genuinely curious question.
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by earthnail 1y ago
This is amazing. I wouldn't have thought that AI is this good in niche topics. Very impressive experiment and write up. Still, I can't help but think we should bet on sth like Mojo instead for the long run.
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by earthnail 1y ago
Wow, that’s a very different experience to what I had with the CEO. Haven’t met a nicer, more honest and supportive CEO. Not saying your experience wasn’t as you describe it, just want to say that I personally rate him highly and was surpri
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by earthnail 1y ago
I work a lot with syncing code for mobile apps, and use sqlite for local dbs on the app, which I guess is fairly standard. UUIDs make sync protocols much easier to write.
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by earthnail 1y ago
It would be amazing if it could display UUIDs. SQlite doesn't support them natively, but many people store them as binary blobs. Jetbrains products realize that these binary values are UUIDs and let me edit them easily.
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by earthnail 1y ago
It seems we need a system where these failures are visible earlier. If you consider the current economy a strategy game, our game dynamics incentivise bad short-term optimisation. We can blame the MBAs, but we really should see how we can p
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by earthnail 1y ago
Not until alternative stores become competitive. Realistically they have such a monopoly thar you end up in a chiclen and egg situation. Their monopoly is so large that noone wants to distribute via small alt stores, meaning alt stores neve
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by earthnail 1y ago
In all fairness, not even Lambda Labs offers workstations with RTX6000 server variants.
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by earthnail 1y ago
The analogy is a good analogy. It is used to demonstrate that a larger workforce doesn’t always automatically give you better results, and that there is a set of problems that are clear to identify a priori where that applies. For some prob
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by earthnail 1y ago
Wow, Ommer’s students never fail to impress. 37x faster for a generic architecture, ie no domain specific tricks. Insane.

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