julianlam

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by julianlam 7mo ago
I've noticed that too. I thought I was just posting particularly bad takes.
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by julianlam 7mo ago
This site makes my browser choke. Reader mode was the only thing that made it readable.
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by julianlam 7mo ago
Doctorow recently spoke (remotely) at FediMTL in Montreal. He laid out the stakes as usual, but added that in Canada, we are legally not allowed to reverse engineer competitor APIs, and we gave up this right as part of some free trade negot
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by julianlam 7mo ago
tasteless wafers?
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by julianlam 8mo ago
> Considering they trained their model on open-source software, the least they could do is give it to open-source maintainers for free with no time limit. Why? The resulting code generated by Claude is unfit for training, so any work pro
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by julianlam 8mo ago
> One example of this was a malformed authentication function. The AI that vibe-coded the Supabase backend, which uses remote procedure calls, implemented it with flawed access control logic, essentially blocking authenticated users and
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by julianlam 10mo ago
> Part of the value of a US passport is knowing (and everyone else knowing) that the government will go to incredible lengths to get you back.) Is this even the case anymore? The government has shown to turn a blind eye when natural disa
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by julianlam 10mo ago
When they added it (probably a decade ago now), it signalled that they completely gave up on providing a performant forum software.
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by julianlam 10mo ago
Does this version still corrupt your game file if you save at the ice cream factory lol
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by julianlam 11mo ago
Why do so many blog posts have such involved exposition, and then suddenly end? Seems like the author was building to a point and simply decided to end it early.
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by julianlam 11mo ago
If you encounter a shop that uses POST for everything then they are probably a shop that doesn't know that verbs other than GET and POST exist. ... and they don't use GET everywhere because one time Google scraped that endpoint an
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by julianlam 11mo ago
I also credit Neopets, but it was really the confluence of Neopets, MySpace, Geocities/Tripod, Xanga, etc. that really formed the base for so much of my career.
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by julianlam 11mo ago
I sold my Pixel Watch 2, but I wasn't able to get two days' worth. The sacrifices weren't worth it. Namely, you'd have to turn off the always on screen (I gave this up easily), as well as "flick to wake", which
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by julianlam 11mo ago
Thank you so much for commenting. As a parent with a child with mild-to-moderate hearing loss it is heartening to know that the hearing aid technology is progressing, and progressing well! He's been using a pair of Phonak Skys since in
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by julianlam 11mo ago
We did this ages ago at our company (back then we were making silly Facebook games, remember those?) It was by far the most fun, productive, and fulfilling week. It went on to shape the course of our development strategy when I started my o
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by julianlam 11mo ago
Hopefully NodeBB hits that mark. Inspired by phpBB and similar, federating, clean API.
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by julianlam 11mo ago
Indeed! NodeBB is exactly that, and federates over ActivityPub.
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by julianlam 11mo ago
Niche forums. Federated.
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by julianlam 11mo ago
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Fairly certain the Rebble folk know the answer they'll get from their users. I'm certain the EFF would probably be very interested in pursuing this.
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by julianlam 11mo ago
... or wait a couple weeks and get the identical item from AliExpress for £2.20
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by julianlam 11mo ago
Canadian here. Honestly, the hardest part about Canada dropping the penny is that sometimes you'll go someplace cool and see one of those penny rolling machines, and... um... there are no more pennies. But they usually have a little bo
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by julianlam 11mo ago
Sounds a lot like chickenization.
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by julianlam 11mo ago
Unintelligible audio is a failure mode.
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by julianlam 1y ago
I can't wait to build against an API whose outputs can radically change by the second! Usually I have to wait for the company running the API to push breaking changes without warning.
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by julianlam 1y ago
There was a local interface, but I don't think it had advanced scheduling capabilities.
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by julianlam 1y ago
The way I see it is... I'd rather my lawn be yellow, plants dead, than a burst pipe underground causing significantly more expensive remediation. I agree it's not likely (especially if the system is running as-scheduled), but it w
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by julianlam 1y ago
Depends on the part of the world. If you intend on turning off your furnace in Canada, you best be prepared to winterize your house too! (Lots of cottagers do this... indoor plumbing is flushed and water is turned off at the pump, etc.)
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by julianlam 1y ago
Fair — honestly my expectation would be that if it could not connect to the cloud service, I should be able to configure a schedule offline. That isn't the case, and so if the safe default is off, that definitely hampers utility, whi
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by julianlam 1y ago
Depends... the focus here isn't on convenience or utility, but on safety. The furnace defaults to on to save the water pipes. The sprinkler defaults to off to conserve water as the system is potentially unmonitored and a burst pipe cou
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by julianlam 1y ago
Sometimes all you need is a headline

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