koliber

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by koliber 5mo ago
If a behavior is undefined, the theoretical answer to this could be anything, including -123, 500, or 0. We are just lucky that the compilers choose a more sane version of undefined behavior in practice.
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by koliber 5mo ago
I don't. But many others do. The only thing that let's banks and other companies know that you are dead is a piece of paper called a Death Certificate.
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by koliber 5mo ago
A doctor friend of mine once joked that it would be really cruel to issue a death certificate for someone who is alive. This seems to be a soft version of that. The only thing that would be crueler is to revoke someone's birth certific
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by koliber 5mo ago
What you are talking about is in a large part authentication. You can do authentication using an external service and still have your user table locally. You can also do authorization locally with a local session table while leaving authent
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by koliber 5mo ago
Many engineers with a long career have probably thought about becoming a manager at one point. A large portion of them decided to stay in the IC (individual contributor) track because they did not like some of the aspects of being a manager
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by koliber 5mo ago
She is a woman. There are so many shades of gray in freedom of speech. In free European countries the police are also not at the door of outspoken government critics. If you are alluding to dictatorial European countries like Russia and Bel
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by koliber 5mo ago
Lately I keep hearing the same thing over and over: the things that are good for managing a team of devs are good for LLMs. Good test cases. Clear and concise documentation. CI/CD. Best practices and onboarding docs. Managing LLMs is b
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by koliber 5mo ago
Bad UI plagued software development since ages immortal. The reason is not AI. Good UI design is a skill (or art?) and not an afterthought. But most people do not see it that way and that is why things are the way they are.
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by koliber 5mo ago
Most small companies don’t need AI to be more efficient. They need Excel. I’ve already had two cases where a friend asked me to show them how AI can help them run their company better. In each case it turned out that they needed Excel. Spec
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by koliber 6mo ago
A long time ago a vast majority of people on earth were farmers. They used relatively simple tools like scathes. Over a few centuries better tools and technology made it so that <5% of the population in rich countries are farmers. They u
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by koliber 6mo ago
Is it like CSS for HTML?
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by koliber 6mo ago
After looking at it for 1 minute, it seems that this is to markdown what CSS is to HTML. How accurate is that?
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by koliber 6mo ago
There was a time when there were no separate names for blue and green in the Japanese language. Some languages right now have concepts of fundamental colors like navy blue and light blue, where English rolls it into a single "blue&quot
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by koliber 6mo ago
Correct. Order-of-magnitude-wise, it's roughly the same as the alternatives. In the context of writing a new service for a new company, you should not spend one second thinking about whether your technical choices will allow you to ser
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by koliber 6mo ago
postgres is great and is also a good default choice. It needs a bit more setup than sqlite. Unless I need a capability that postgres provides, I go with sqlite. It just works.
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by koliber 6mo ago
Apple should build this, and start giving away free Macs subsidized by idle usage.
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by koliber 6mo ago
Communicating with an attorney is protected by privilege. In this case it seems they ruled that researching your case is not protected by privilege. What about drafting communications with an attorney? Is a draft email that has not yet been
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by koliber 6mo ago
The reality is that things will be blazing fast in any language if you save things by PK in HashMaps.
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by koliber 6mo ago
Backups are super-simple as well. I'm also a convert.
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by koliber 6mo ago
I love this article as it shows how fast computers really are. There is one conclusion that I do not agree with. Near the end, the author lists cases where you will outgrow flat files. He then says that "None of these constraints apply
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by koliber 6mo ago
A while back, at a company I used to work at, we did intros of new hires. This was one of the questions. One person shared that they do composting and worm farming. That was memorable. Sharing here since it's about as interesting and n
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by koliber 6mo ago
Tyranny of majority is a thing. It's something mature democracies are aware of and have the ability to defend against. We're in an interesting spot here and the tension is tangible.
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by koliber 7mo ago
I have a friend whose grandma wrote a book about their family. She printed 50 or so copies of it. Not a chart-topping best seller, but each one is a cherished collector's item. Right now, my wife and I are sticking to annual photo albu
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by koliber 7mo ago
> human will instantly answer "I don't know" instead of yelling a random number. Seems that you never worked with Accenture consultants?
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by koliber 7mo ago
haha. No, actual human here. My point is that some people find this stuff valuable. You're not the target audience.
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by koliber 7mo ago
Most people don’t read Aristotle. If thousands of wannabe philosophers can paraphrase some of his ideas and make them accessible to the masses, that’s a net plus. If they can stroke their vanity along the way, even more people win. It’s muc
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by koliber 7mo ago
Never had a deepfake. I am recruiting in Poland, they say that they're Polish, have very Polish names, but they are clearly not Polish and not in Poland. It's easy enough to spot their resume's if you know what you're lo
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by koliber 7mo ago
I’ve had the call terminate with such candidates after frankly stating that they are from North Korea and lying about everything. The person in front of the camera would try to maneuver out of it and then the call ended as if someone pulled
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by koliber 7mo ago
Picking the starting point is very important. "optimization" is the process of going from that starting point to a more performant point. If you don't know enough to pick good starting points you probably won't know enou
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by koliber 7mo ago
Most of the time things will work as they are supposed to and arbitrage will work as a damper. Every once in a while you'll get a self-reinforcing loop and then it will work as an a run-away amplifier.

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