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by fhd2 2y ago
Well, what's a tool? I would say: 1. It solves a problem. Doesn't have to be a completely unsolved problem, can just be a new solution. Or even just new packaging on an old solution. But it needs to solve some kind of problem. 2.
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by fhd2 2y ago
I've seen a number of startups who are stuck on .NET Framework, simply because some affordable agency built them an MVP with ASP.NET a while ago and it worked (TM) to get the business going. Then someone like me gets called into a situ
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by fhd2 2y ago
Well, from what I understand, the answer is kinda "no". Depends on the country and educational system I suppose, but I do believe professors in many places get in trouble for failing too many students. It's right there in the
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by fhd2 2y ago
It's a good move. Cash flow is king in most businesses, so pretty universally, if you increase the risk or even just the timeline of cash payouts, you get more. It's an excellent negotiation dimension for anything involving money
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by fhd2 2y ago
I can sort of relate. If you hire an expert, you need to trust them. If you don't like what they say, you're inclined to want a second opinion. Now you need to pay two experts, which is often not reasonable financially, or problem
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by fhd2 2y ago
My solution is to _only_ chat. No auto completion, nothing agentic, just chats. If it goes off the rails, restart the conversation. I have the chat window in my "IDE" (well, Emacs) and though it can add entire files as context and
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by fhd2 2y ago
Iterum | ONSITE/HYBRID (London, UK) | Full time | https://iterum.uk Iterum is a seed-stage startup revolutionising appliance management for scaled residential properties. Our platform, Iterum IQ, is addressing a critical bu
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by fhd2 2y ago
There are some gotchas, like how it can take a while (8 weeks for me last year) to get your tax number, and some (or perhaps most/all?) banks don't issue a credit card if your business account hasn't existed for at least six
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by fhd2 2y ago
Wow, a breath of fresh air. I read this before I went to sleep, hoping to wake up to some kind of revelation I might share in a comment like this, but no luck. I'm still torn. I remember writing tests in not very powerful languages lik
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by fhd2 2y ago
The sibling examples where good as well, but I think missing a major one: Consumer access. xAI can just merge their chat bot into the X/Twitter app, and suddenly they have a couple hundred million users on this thing. In a commoditised
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by fhd2 2y ago
They're the OG among big tech when it comes to abusing monopoly lower, e.g. during the first browser war.
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by fhd2 2y ago
This is drawing a line between "us" (tax paying citizens + the government) and "them" (people on benefits). I don't think it's that simple. I imagine just like with existing benefits, the majority of people wou
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by fhd2 2y ago
I totally have an angle, I consider our reputation to be our most important asset. There's a lot of devs and agencies out there. It's a whole lot harder to find good _and_ trustworthy ones. Being that is my angle. We got close to
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by fhd2 2y ago
I'd like that. Personally, I prefer to self host all my stuff. But I can't do that to our clients. I want to provide them with something that makes them independent from us, something they can just hire any random agency or freela
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by fhd2 2y ago
My company is looking into a move from GitLab to https://forgejo.org (Codeberg, essentially). Seems way easier to self host. Seems fine so much for all my team's needs.
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by fhd2 2y ago
I bet, but I'm talking about devices where the manufacturer tries to shave off every cent to price their products competitively. And then you have big meetings where you have to push back on storage being reduced by a further 2 MiB. At
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by fhd2 2y ago
I get "oh, I made a mistake" quite frequently. Often enough, it's just another hallucination, just because I contested the result, or even just prompted "double check this". Statistically speaking, when someone in a
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by fhd2 2y ago
What hardware reset typically does, in my experience, is to reinstall the last firmware you installed. Many don't even have the space to keep some original and/or safe image in addition. I'm working on one device where we del
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by fhd2 2y ago
Fair point. I didn't mean it too sound that dismissive. I'd rather not live without electricity, but if something was happening that eliminated electricity, I'd probably say "we did it before, we can do it again", t
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by fhd2 2y ago
Well, I'm not arguing "good riddance". I just optimistically think we'll manage. I wouldn't want to miss any of the things you listed, actually. I'd also prefer evidence tampering to be impossible or at least v
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by fhd2 2y ago
Strangely, I'm not even offended by the notion that an AI can replace this work I apparently do :D Though my thought here was just pure optimism in the face of something bad, not an attempt to frame a bad side effect of something good
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by fhd2 2y ago
Except when selling to your own country. But there, VAT is easy. To expand a bit on the reverse charge procedure: It means the _buyer_ pays VAT. Which makes a lot of sense in B2B, since companies need to look into what local VAT they owe an
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by fhd2 2y ago
Sounds like reasonable changes. Generally speaking, I think evidence tampering is not a new problem, and even though it's easy in some cases, I don't think it's _that_ widespread. Just like it's possible to lie on the st
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by fhd2 2y ago
No, but it's an Australian company.
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by fhd2 2y ago
I'd love to go with Hetzner (reliable for decades, well known etc), which has almost everything I need in their cloud offering, except an AWS RDS equivalent. OpenStack is probably worth a look! Sounds naive I guess, but my tech choices
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by fhd2 2y ago
As someone in Europe, I'm honestly starting to wonder if the companies whose tech I oversee aren't better off eliminating reliance on US tech companies. Hard to tell what they'll do, being strong armed by Musk and Trump, or e
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by fhd2 2y ago
I just use git (manually committing) with GitLab, their web previews of org files are mostly good enough. I also have another set of notes that I sync with my phone and laptop via Syncthing, but that stuff isn't really using the more i
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by fhd2 2y ago
What's wrong with making just one moral choice? Isn't it better than making zero moral choices? People do what they can, based on what they believe is right (which you may well disagree with), their knowledge, skills, money and ti
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by fhd2 2y ago
So you actually enjoy writing, without getting anything in return. Sounds like it'd be the good kind of blog (as opposed to content marketing, personal branding and all that hustling). If you were to publish it, maybe one person will c
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by fhd2 2y ago
Screws are probably primarily not a B2C product , and screw producers probably integrate with their customers' systems and processes in non-trivial ways. I don't know enough about screws to make this concrete. If there's no m

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