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by jwr 8mo ago
> depending on how best is defined in the given context That is a big hedge there. I found over time that many of my objectively correct and informative posts on Reddit get downvoted because the truth is sometimes inconvenient (don'
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by jwr 8mo ago
Having moved to Mastodon, I also recovered some faith in the Internet (of old). You control your timeline. You are not the consumer being fed stuff, you choose what you want to see. As a side note, I keep hearing people recommend threads, b
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by jwr 8mo ago
I actually use (and pay a subscription for) Windy, which is local (EU) and has data from a multitude of providers (some of which aren't free). My comment was a critique of a launching approach that I find annoying, because I would neve
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by jwr 8mo ago
If you'd like to quickly understand OAuth, I found this guide to be very helpful: https://alexbilbie.github.io/guide-to-oauth-2-grants/
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by jwr 8mo ago
This is country-dependent, I think. In Poland, for example, schools and kindgergartens still pressure parents to sign consent forms allowing them to post images of kids on Facebook. "For promotional purposes". Everybody signs. Wel
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by jwr 8mo ago
Doesn't seem to be available in the EU. Yet another US-only app with US-only weather, I guess, like countless others… "Obsessing" over your icons and user interface won't make your app useful to people you explicitly do
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by jwr 8mo ago
Anthropic is walking a very thin line here. The competition between models is intense and the only differentiator right now is the so-called harness that gets put over them. Anthropic needs a niche and they tried to find one by addressing d
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by jwr 8mo ago
> companies who will claim to recycle your products or donate them to good causes in other countries, but actually they’ll just end up on eBay or even in some cases being injected back in to retail channels Isn't that good though? U
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by jwr 8mo ago
Interesting. I wonder if that's one of the reasons Claude Code works so incredibly well for me with Clojure — I use clojure-mcp tools, which provide structured editing, and the model uses that to edit.
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by jwr 8mo ago
Again with the "99.9%" argument. This is always the beginning of a path towards dumbing things down. "99% of users…, 99% of sites…, in 99% of cases…" — this is always how these things begin. Also, was the padlock really
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by jwr 8mo ago
I really dislike this trend that unfortunately has become, well, a trend. And has followers. Namely, let's simplify to "reduce noise" and "not overwhelm users", because "the majority of users don't need…&q
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by jwr 8mo ago
A visit to Tokyo does wonders for broadening one's world views :-)
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by jwr 8mo ago
> I've found it tough to talk about being a solo bootstrapper though. People don't seem all that interested in it [...] I think you've hit the nail on the head (solo bootstrapper here): People are not interested because A)
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by jwr 8mo ago
I'm glad the roads are small. Smaller roads cause slower driving (well researched). As for the cities, it is unsustainable to use cars as the primary mode of transportation within cities. We do want to make cities greener and largely c
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by jwr 8mo ago
As a European: nice, but why is it so BIG? How is that monster called "mid-size"? Why would one want to haul so many tons of extra metal around just to transport one's behind?
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by jwr 9mo ago
I was actually very interested until I realized that this doesn't run on my computer… I get the sandboxing, etc, but a Docker container would achieve the same goals.
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by jwr 9mo ago
It was longer than 10 minutes, I'd say 15-20 minutes this time. They should be much quicker, I would expect <5 minutes.
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by jwr 9mo ago
Congratulations, you did very well! And I mean it, as someone who has experience building hardware (also in China), you came out pretty much unscathed and did extremely well for a first timer. Good job!
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by jwr 9mo ago
I find it a bit annoying that the last place where I can learn about an Anthropic outage is the Anthropic Status page.
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by jwr 9mo ago
Funny thing is, if we were to revive it now, it might end up as a pretty nice place, given that all the dumb crowds now have their 4chans, reddits, phpBBs, facebooks, instagrams, etc.
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by jwr 9mo ago
> I don't care if I sound old and salty when I say this: I miss phpBB I'll one-up this: I miss USENET. I never understood how anyone could like phpBB, compared to USENET news readers, it was a chaotic mess. But USENET, that was
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by jwr 9mo ago
This changed a lot over the last year, with an absolute seismic shift with Opus 4.5 (I've been trying regularly).
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by jwr 9mo ago
Relying on EXIF is a good thing. But if you limit yourself to ONLY using EXIF, you can't group images, make one image in a group the primary image, assign common metadata to the entire group, etc. All turned out to be essential in my p
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by jwr 9mo ago
The title of this submission is misleading, that's not what they're saying. They said it doesn't show productivity gains for inexperienced developers still gaining knowledge.
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by jwr 9mo ago
I successfully use Claude Code in a large complex codebase. It's Clojure, perhaps that helps (Clojure is very concise, expressive and hence token-dense).
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by jwr 9mo ago
> EV have much higher emissions of micro plastics and pfas (or variations thereof) due to increased tier degradation I find those claims highly suspect: I own an EV and haven't had to change the tires more often than I did on a gaso
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by jwr 9mo ago
Aperture doesn't run on newer MacOS systems. I keep and old Mac laptop with an old OS just to run Aperture so that I can access my archives.
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by jwr 9mo ago
Sigh. After Apple suddenly discontinued Aperture, which left users like me with huge complex photo archives hanging, I will never trust any professional software tool from Apple again. It is a disaster that I still haven't fully recove
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by jwr 9mo ago
Not really, because I no longer remember. I only remember bugs and frustration. But I looked at my code quickly and found this: ;; Let's render radio buttons ourselves. Because of bugs in React and Chrome, radio buttons mysteriously st
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by jwr 9mo ago
I might be wrong, but I thought the situation in Kraków improved significantly several years ago due to the efforts of local administration, so much that we were jealous here in Warsaw. Has it worsened again since then?

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