kaptainscarlet

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by kaptainscarlet 1y ago
One of the best things about docker that is not mentioned often enough is how it keeps your host machine clean.
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by kaptainscarlet 1y ago
The title should be the opposite imo. Why everyone should use docker
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by kaptainscarlet 1y ago
Spot on. As technically apt people, we grossly overestimate the technical ability of the average user.
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by kaptainscarlet 1y ago
Yeah companies charge as much as they can getaway with
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by kaptainscarlet 1y ago
Giving respect based on seniority is one of the major reasons why autocracies thrive unchecked in some countries as younger people are unable to hold older folks accountable.
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by kaptainscarlet 1y ago
With the recent Expo SDK 53 update that introduced a slew of breaking changes, I've been contemplating switching my app to native. I could perhaps vibe code features on both android and iOS and ship features as fast as crossplatform re
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by kaptainscarlet 1y ago
The proof is in the black eye.
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by kaptainscarlet 1y ago
LLMs are like a child with undiagnosed ADD, it is a constant roller coaster with peaks of amazement and and equally dips of disappointment.
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by kaptainscarlet 1y ago
Windsurf does it all the time like a wife of 40yrs completing your sentences. A good example is when you remove a function parameter. It automatically prompts to remove the arguments in all usages of the function, saving me a lot of time.
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by kaptainscarlet 1y ago
A lot of the optimisation I do largely consists of a series of highly educated guesses and the resulting fixes are right in 99% percent of the cases.
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by kaptainscarlet 2y ago
Double Bam
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by kaptainscarlet 2y ago
Sell it and drop Mankfest V3 lol
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by kaptainscarlet 2y ago
It makes the rich poorer but keeps the poor in the same place.
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by kaptainscarlet 2y ago
MySQL is more user friendly. Examples are, autoincrement vs postgres sequences, case sensitivity, users ans databases are straightforward on mysql vs roles, dbs and schemas on postgres. Replications are also easy to setup on mysql.
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by kaptainscarlet 2y ago
Because as tech people, we love transitive hate of technologies. We love to hate something because some blogger hates it.
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by kaptainscarlet 2y ago
That is why they say an anecdote is not data
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by kaptainscarlet 2y ago
which is perfectly fine because not everyone wants to do everything on the command line
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by kaptainscarlet 2y ago
The AI I have found the most value from is the OCR for copy paste which has been availble in Samsung phones for years. Everything else is a gimick. VoiceAI only wows you once and gets tiring very quickly.
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by kaptainscarlet 2y ago
What happens in the event that the LLM starts halucinating and driving at 100mph in the oncoming lane?
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by kaptainscarlet 2y ago
That's true. Some business models succeed in the most unexpected of ways. They can pivot and change the recipe until it works.
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by kaptainscarlet 2y ago
It's a double whammy
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by kaptainscarlet 2y ago
Node is bad but the worst I have seen is Android
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by kaptainscarlet 2y ago
I think you copy the library file and add it to you load path
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by kaptainscarlet 2y ago
That is nothing..Try building your Android project after leaving it idle for a week. Or better yet, try building you react native project you left for 2 days.
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by kaptainscarlet 2y ago
Not invented here syndrome works at first but as time progresses the internally built tools become a liability
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by kaptainscarlet 2y ago
Yeah, I would focus on a better user experience over a beautiful backend architecture.
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by kaptainscarlet 2y ago
Yeah, I would get a shutterstock image, not perfect but much better than AI images.
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by kaptainscarlet 2y ago
I learnt about intel processors on Anandtech. Everything from how the L1, L2 & L3 caches work during the time of Nehalem, Haswell, Ivybridge, Sandy bridge... the ticks and the tocks. 3D Nand, flash storage and a whole bunch of other thi
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by kaptainscarlet 2y ago
Like everything, the 80-20 rule applies. The top 20 percent earn 80% of the income
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by kaptainscarlet 2y ago
This is why I sometimes think on prem hosting is better.

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