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by fmbb 5d ago
> it's all moving quite fast. Where are the revolutionary software products?
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by fmbb 8d ago
No lag time for popular services. Always faster than e.g. GitHub’s or Chat GPT’s status pages.
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by fmbb 8d ago
Correction: you don’t _have_ to, but technological advancement is faster if you do.
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by fmbb 9d ago
But the comment says ”we were building packet sniffers” … and needed mirroring as part of that.
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by fmbb 10d ago
Nothing beats downdetector.com anyway. Always quicker!
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by fmbb 10d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Mosquito
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by fmbb 12d ago
> you have not optimized for quality, extensibility, customer experience, or maintainability A ”software design” document does not optimize for either of those.
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by fmbb 13d ago
> How is this dissimilar to controlling the media in the past? In the same way dynamic personalized pricing in the supermarket is different from supermarkets being able to set prices before.
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by fmbb 1mo ago
You are deleting the document from your computer. In some instances this could be a file on disk. But it does not have to be.
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by fmbb 1mo ago
Producing more tokens means charging more money to solve a given task.
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by fmbb 1mo ago
Do you believe this is a significant part of the increased GutHub traffic, people’s personal software?
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by fmbb 1mo ago
Snake oil salesmen of all kinds make money all the time. What does that have to do with providing value?
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by fmbb 1mo ago
Thanks for sharing. It was a fun read, and relatable.
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by fmbb 1mo ago
I don’t think launching Go today would have been better than 15 years ago. Standard ML is a perfect programming language from the 90s. It unfortunately does not have a great eco system of packages.
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by fmbb 1mo ago
There is no disconnect and your comment does not attempt to explain why this is some sort of contradiction.
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by fmbb 1mo ago
It’s find for actions and workflows as long as you do no interpolation and logic. Better move as much of that as possible into your own scripts. And your scripts can be portable between forges, and even run locally!
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by fmbb 1mo ago
They should replace the unicorn image with a horse or at least a zebra during ongoing incidents.
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by fmbb 1mo ago
There is not simply one government in the US. It seems the federal executive admin is censoring government websites of all levels and branches of government.
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by fmbb 1mo ago
> by decomposing problems and identifying optional solutions and weighing the solutions based on various risks, trade-offs and tolerances. This is how all people solve problems. Now everyone are not great at all parts, but this really is
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by fmbb 2mo ago
Maybe it just means more people are pushing some envelope (their own) faster and more often than before. In the aggregate everyone maybe learns on average about as much new stuff in a year anyway. There _are_ still humans out there talking
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by fmbb 2mo ago
A phone is my server now.
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by fmbb 2mo ago
I haven't read Hatchet, is it about fictional technology or real technology?
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by fmbb 2mo ago
Its the biggest button. They did not read the text to agree. It was the fastest way to get the banner to go away. Sometimes they force you to confirm multiple times if you click ”none” or ”minimal”.
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by fmbb 2mo ago
Is Kimi K3 subsidized as hard as the other models out there?
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by fmbb 3mo ago
> When an employer can confiscate someone's passport and one can only leave the country with their authorization, it is slavery. This happens in Europe as well. It is not legal, but it is the only way the Scandinavian berry market w
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by fmbb 3mo ago
Why does it matter for some Python implementation if the Google C++ implementation has a lazy or eager parser? The important part of protobuf is the spec of the wire format. That is what makes the standard an interop format. Personally I al
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by fmbb 3mo ago
> For example, I would argue that for someone with no experience, figuring out how to copy a file from one folder to another is easier in Windows Explorer than learning how to use cp. I don't believe this. If you find a person (well
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by fmbb 3mo ago
The Blue Lagoon is more like using waste cold than waste heat.
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by fmbb 3mo ago
make no mistakes
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by fmbb 3mo ago
How are you staying ahead?

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