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by jaza 1y ago
If it quacks like the official Signal client, there's no way for the Signal network to know that it's otherwise.
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by jaza 1y ago
Most slow queries / endpoints / things can be cached! But, of course, every time you stick a cache in front of something, now you have two problems...
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by jaza 1y ago
I've been slowly / occasionally dipping my feet into Elixir / Phoenix dev over the past year or two, building an app idea that's been floating around in my head for a while. It's a bit of a steep learning curve for
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by jaza 1y ago
Not a Scandinavian myself (Australian - halfway between the Nordic model and the US dollarocracy, and sadly sliding ever closer to the latter), so can't speak authoritatively. But I would have thought it's not so much about "
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by jaza 1y ago
> The assumption is rather that human learning is computable I don't think the assumption is even that strong! The skills that really set us humans above mere machines - i.e. causal inference, creativity, critical analysis, self-awa
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by jaza 1y ago
> 74% of 200 IT professionals surveyed worried their jobs will be replaced by AI tools Seriously? I can't speak for that 74%, but personally, I'm not worried. AI is not that smart, and my job is not that dumb. And I'm just
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by jaza 2y ago
Surely the number one suspect for having made this trade, is Trump himself (and/or his immediately family)? Nobody knew better exactly what would be announced and when, than the guy who did the announcing. Ownership could be hidden beh
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by jaza 2y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by jaza 2y ago
There are 4 big clouds? I had only ever heard of the big 3 mentioned until now (AWS, Azure, GCP). From a quick search, appears that the 4th is Alibaba Cloud.
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by jaza 2y ago
This. I got burnt by the encoding and other issues with CSV in Excel back in the day, I've only used LibreOffice Calc (on Linux) for viewing / editing CSVs for many years now, it's almost always a trouble-free experience. For
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by jaza 2y ago
Oh god. Fixing an excel spreadsheet full of crazy macros was my first job too. The nightmares still haunt me.
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by jaza 2y ago
I'm a back-end dev, I've avoided being paid to do any front-end work (and/or my bosses have avoided paying me to do any front-end work? hahaha) for getting on a decade now. So no doubt front-end devs will cringe at what I&#x2
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by jaza 2y ago
Much of the money has already been spent, the new fabs are already operational slash well into construction, so repealing it now shouldn't do that much damage. But it'll still do some damage, and it's still a stupid move, but
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by jaza 2y ago
Thanks for existing, HN! And thanks to everyone that makes it awesome. My no. 1 stop on the interwebz for going on 10 years now. Please keep being the only not-s** online community left standing.
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by jaza 2y ago
I don't like that week numbers are (documented as) mandatory. I wouldn't see myself grepping on a week number. I'd end up constantly looking up the correct week number in order to annotate each event properly, with no benefit
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by jaza 2y ago
That would be against the separation of powers doctrine inherent in all Western democracies. The job of the legislature is to write the law. The job of the judiciary is to interpret the law. Besides, when the law is ambiguous, it's ver
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by jaza 2y ago
I assume that - even though there's a strong public interest argument for it - government orgs are prone to blanket banning the release of source code, for the same primary reason that businesses are prone to doing so. That is, too hig
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by jaza 2y ago
I've still got Signal installed, but never use it, I only ever ended up chatting on it with a few ex-colleagues, who were fellow devs / nerds. I have so many WhatsApp group chats (here in Australia) that are critical for me these
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by jaza 2y ago
Yes, I see that all the time on Facebook too, top-most 10% of a thread is actual comments, bottom-most 90% is "Friend McFriendface" name reffing. It's quite annoying.
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by jaza 2y ago
About half my blog articles are technical in nature, and their purpose is primarily to serve as howto docs / "yay I built this thing" write-ups for future me, and for anyone else that's interested. I enjoy writing those
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by jaza 2y ago
From my anecdotal experience, of what my close friends share with me via DM these days, sadly it is indeed 95% video, and it is indeed 95% Instagram / TikTok / Facebook / Twitter / YouTube (in descending order). I contin
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by jaza 2y ago
I have personally met people who, like me, really don't have cash to splash; but who, unlike me, and to my surprise, have literally told me "I pay for all the streaming services every month, whether I use them or not, there's
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by jaza 2y ago
Robin Hood and his Merry Men would beg to differ.
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by jaza 2y ago
I make the streaming services work like this already. I have neither the time nor the interest in watching anything on streaming most months. I have all my subscriptions cancelled all the time. When I want to watch something badly enough on
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by jaza 2y ago
WhatsApp actually (quietly) launched their own simple event RSVP feature last year: https://faq.whatsapp.com/3313983622238973/
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by jaza 2y ago
If composable query builders have fallen out of fashion, that's news to me. I've used SQLAlchemy in Python fairly heavily over the years, it's gotta be one of the best out there, I plan to continue using it for many more year
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by jaza 2y ago
Considering that Yahoo doesn't really exist anymore, and that Yahoo Mail is just a relic of Yahoo's heyday that is somehow still hanging around, I assume nobody has bothered to actually maintain its handling of security protocols
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by jaza 2y ago
The Yahoo that built Yahoo Mail no longer exists, so actually they probably don't remember.
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Getting MapLibre working for both native and web in Expo(greenash.net.au)
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by jaza 2y ago
Fair enough. My point in penning the article was simply: "sea level rise to date has been not much, sea level rise yet to occur is a lot". I don't disagree with your argument, that "a whole lot more sea level rise"

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