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by herval 11mo ago
when a government implements 1930s style nationalism with 2020s tech - what could possibly go wrong?
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by herval 11mo ago
Gemini is great when it gets it right, but in my experience, it sometimes gives you completely unexpected results and won't get it right no matter what. You can see that in some of the examples (eg the Girl with the pearl earring one).
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by herval 11mo ago
Dropbox is just hard to trust. I used to pay for it, until they suddenly decided to shut down the photos app. Then the password app, recently. I don’t expect Apple to shut down Photos any time soon, so I find it easier to trust them with my
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by herval 11mo ago
it means that the cost of moving from X is too high (be it in terms of time, cost or lack of suitable alternatives). In the case of iCloud, for most people, it's probably a combination of convenience (no other tool is so well integrate
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by herval 11mo ago
Locked in doesn't imply "inferior", nor it has anything to do with an option being better or worse.
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by herval 11mo ago
which alternative platform exists? Onedrive is absolutely awful (it gets stuck in sync and crashes on Mac frequently), Google Drive/Photos doesn't respect your privacy and actually changes the resolution of your photos. The only a
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by herval 11mo ago
I have 1tb of data on icloud, including all my photos. Moving to a different platform is literally not an option (I was a happy Dropbox paid user until they decided to shut down the photos app, and Google Photos is a huge no no for multiple
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by herval 11mo ago
I bought the airpod pro 3 and returned it after a couple of days. It would make a loud crunching sound every time I move my mouth, probably due to the memory foam moving inside my ear canal. Never experienced anything similar on pro 1 or pr
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by herval 1y ago
Interns don’t make $300k, buddy. At the time, they made ~$6k/mo. And were forced to move to the Bay Area despite the lockdown. To get put down by a dude zooming from his mansion in Hawaii.
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by herval 1y ago
My best memory of boz is him arguing with an intern on workspace and calling them "privileged", during COVID, when the kid asked whether the company would provide some sort of cash bonus since the free meals weren't available
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by herval 1y ago
I worked with plenty of founders like this - they carry a C level title, but never stop being just an engineer or sales guy or designer. That’s all fine when you have no employees - C titles are bullshit when it’s just two bros in a dorm -
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by herval 1y ago
12+ years ago, I wrote a Chrome extension that blocked comment sections on youtube and blogs. It was time well invested. Eventually everything became social apps, so my little extension got less and less effective. I’m not looking forward t
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by herval 1y ago
Heroku is the Vercel of Rails: people will pay a fortune for it simply because it works. This has always been their business model, so it’s not really a new development. There’s little competition since the demand isn’t explosive and the ma
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by herval 1y ago
It could be one event with two database rows inserted, CQRS doesn’t have to map 1:1 to db entries. But in general, these kinds of systems are more complex than 1 or 2 writes, so relying purely on transactions isn’t very common
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by herval 1y ago
Do you mean inter-system? Intra-system would mean on the same db, so a simple transaction would do. For inter-system consistency, you’d probably need a reconciliation mechanism or some kind of 2 phase commit
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by herval 1y ago
“Lithotripsy” is the name of the kidney stone treatment. My understanding is it’s based on vibration, not ultrasound (I know, vibration is sound - my understanding is the method on the linked article uses higher frequency + intensity + sh
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by herval 1y ago
Bresson is from a time where you had 38 shots maximum, before you need to reload your camera. It takes an immense amount of attention, but also you’re statistically unlikely to take the kind of photo that you can get today (eg most of these
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by herval 1y ago
Fascinating write-up. I loved this bit of debugging: > The first time we played this game, Claude told me that the subagents had gotten a perfect score. After a bit of prodding, I discovered that Claude was quizzing the subagents like th
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by herval 1y ago
"move fast and break things"
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by herval 1y ago
That’s some true hacker device!
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by herval 1y ago
ever-bigger cars, tiny sidewalks, wide roads that take a minute to cross, the legality of turning left/right on a red light, few bike paths, mostly merged with fast highway lanes? I don't know, feels like a recipe for roadkill
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by herval 1y ago
The point you missed entirely, young padawan
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by herval 1y ago
Great writeup, but also gotta say that’s some excellent phishing
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by herval 1y ago
no, the point is LLMs will behave the same way humans you have to manage do (there's obviously differences - eg LLMs tend to forget context more often than most humans, but also they tend to know a lot more than the average human). So
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by herval 1y ago
The vast majority of managers, much like most engineers, only has to deal with “maintenance mode” throughout most of their career. Particularly common in people whose experience has been in large corporations - you simply don’t realize how
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by herval 1y ago
> effective management requires that you're able to trust that the person tells you when they've hit a snag or anything else you may need to know Nope, effective management is on YOU, not them. If everyone you’re managing is co
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by herval 1y ago
> I'm not sure that having the patience to work with something with a very inconsistent performance and that frequently lies is an extension of existing development skills. that's a basic skill you gotta have if you're lea
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by herval 1y ago
I have a relative who's in her 70s and used to be a coder. She told me she gave up coding when people introduced computers with terminals. She was used to filling out punch cards and felt like the way she worked, although constantly ev
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by herval 1y ago
Different dystopias, for sure. The average Japanese big corporation values work hours way more than the average American one, for instance. In my experience in Germany and Switzerland, the corporate moral maze is definitely not as bad as th
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by herval 1y ago
I think it’s more of a realism vs optimism take - deeply technical people focus on what can go wrong, because they know better. Which is a good thing for a technical person - the best CTOs are great because they prevent implosions, not beca

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