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by firefoxd 1y ago
In my team, it's making one dev more prolific, and everybody else work harder. The most junior dev on my team was tasked with setting up a repo for a new service. The service is not due for many many months so this was an opportunity t
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by firefoxd 1y ago
Fun fact, we had this at an old job. It was a charge code field in Jira. It was required whenever you requested work from an external team. It operated like a credit card with a set budget. If you bothered other teams a lot, you ran out of
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by firefoxd 1y ago
When it comes to images, developers tend to look for automation to resolve the format. But the optimization should come at creation time. Yes, it's a good idea to have multiple resolution to have the browser select the best size, but t
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by firefoxd 1y ago
Bad at first until the pattern emerged. Solid colors, sharp lines, is PNG. Photo, 3d, landscape, is JPEG. I'm still trying to hammer it down for juniors who default to JPEG now.
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by firefoxd 1y ago
Recently I made a small game at work called JPEG or PNG, for the front end team. Bootcamps tend to not focus on image formats at all, the results is all Figma images gets exported as PNGs and bloat the website. Devs often argue that the for
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by firefoxd 1y ago
You have a typo: * Donwload assets
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Holding Cellphone while driving is illegal, California court rules(latimes.com)
54 points by firefoxd 1y ago|73 comments
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by firefoxd 1y ago
I've created a visualizer for apache requests with the workers, queues and whatnot [0]. You can load the demo to view real traffic comic from HN earlier this year. [0]: https://www.ibrahimdiallo.com/reqvis Note: works
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by firefoxd 1y ago
At first I thought this was an Oil Gobbler[0] situation, only this time it's real! [0]: https://idiallo.com/blog/oleophage-oil-gobblers
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by firefoxd 1y ago
You might enjoy learning more about these projects from Practical engineering: https://youtu.be/5mYpQWPtfpo?si=riybniIFEjbwDMWQ
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How to Learn Anything as a Beginner(idiallo.com)
3 points by firefoxd 1y ago|1 comments
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by firefoxd 1y ago
Now that we all have stoves at home, all restaurants will be going out of business any day now.
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by firefoxd 1y ago
The great thing is you can use these AIs to work on whatever you feel is important to you. The bad news is that you will find their limitations.
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by firefoxd 1y ago
Ha! Only a few days ago, I was making the argument that the browser is the new mouse. As in no one person can build a computer mouse. You need experts in metal, plastic, transistors, lasers, etc. (Seth Godin?) The same way a web browser, wh
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by firefoxd 1y ago
I spoke about this before [0]. As engineer number one in a startup that specialized in customer service automation, I can see how they were fooled by an upward trend. The problem is the arrow plateaus at ~40%. Even humans cannot handle all
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by firefoxd 1y ago
The social etiquette argument has been thrown away with the bath water. You are now the weirdo with something to hide when you are not on Instagram or Tiktok. The term I like is Social Cooling, the subtle way in which people change their be
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by firefoxd 1y ago
Personally, I've used LLM to help me better structure my blog post after I write it. Meaning I've already written it, then it enhances it. Most of the time, I'm happy with the results at the time of editing. But when I come b
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by firefoxd 1y ago
I like simple tools like this. I hope version 2.0 will have support for arbitrary formats since phones record audio in anything but mp3.
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by firefoxd 1y ago
I worked in automated customer support, and I agree with you. By default, we automated 40% of all requests. It becomes harder after that, but not because the problems the next 40% face are any different, but because they are unnecessarily c
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by firefoxd 1y ago
> I don't know what the big deal is. Lady Justice also has scales. This comment had me spitting my coffee. How do they even come up with this.
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by firefoxd 1y ago
Now imagine it's not professional programmers writing this code. The same way it's not professional film makers making Mr Beast videos. The quality is not even part of the equation.
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Not saying it's a good idea. In fact, I watched someone on twitter debugging code. When the application errored out, he regenerated the code, including the issue in the prompt. Something else failed, the prompt was updated, and code re
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by firefoxd 1y ago
When I first heard vibe coding, it sounded like a meme, a joke. But people took it seriously. Andrej Karpathy was still in the process of defining it when the phrase took a life of its own. I'm surprised it's making it into a book
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Oh I thoroughly enjoyed this post. We were the friends and family attending my cousin defending his thesis. He spent half his time title-ing, naming, and thanking Professors, chairs, heads, and what not. When it was all over, I asked him wh
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by firefoxd 1y ago
E.M. Forster published his a bit too early in 1909. Check out "The Machine Stops" short story. Much too eerie.
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Someone has figured out how to compress images even further with LLMs. They promised to published a white paper since last year: https://getproxyai.com/blog/this-image-is-4KB /s I'll show myself out
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by firefoxd 1y ago
One thing that has been accentuated over the past few decades is the idea that you are responsible for your success. When you were poor, lacked means, or didn't have a good job, it was because the god of fortune didn't smile on
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by firefoxd 1y ago
Hold on, we aren't even good at estimating but now we know how much time we saved by vibe coding? I can't wait to read the source of this info when you share it.
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by firefoxd 2y ago
When you reach "The cliff of Irrational Arguments" you need to stop and reevaluate what is the purpose of the discussion. There was a joke about the man who was threatening to jump off a cliff. No professional could convince him o
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by firefoxd 2y ago
As soon as bots reach a page with the compressed payload, they never make another request. That's how I know it worked. Also curl, wget, or most libraries automatically decompress gzip content. Of course, Some bots just post spam witho

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