mavamaarten

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by mavamaarten 1y ago
I feel like that's great advice for people working on their own side projects. But... I'm employed? I mean surely it translates to "go on vacation" but it's pretty useless advice for days where you simply have to wo
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by mavamaarten 1y ago
Right? I mean I love what they're doing. But at the same time please, stop claiming to be holy angels trying to build an archive for historical purposes. You're a terrific piracy site, period.
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by mavamaarten 1y ago
Meh.. I had some Gilfoyle (from the show Silicon Valley) vibes. Except part of the funniness is how cringe he is and how cool he thinks he is. This is just.... Meh
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by mavamaarten 1y ago
The problem for me: a non-python developer, is that I just don't know what to do, ever, to run an existing script or program. It seems every project out there uses a different package manager, a different version of python, a different
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by mavamaarten 1y ago
Time to cut out the middle man (Apple / homebridge) and speak to HA directly? I didn't check the capabilities of Pebble, but knowing HA, there's probably a way.
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by mavamaarten 1y ago
I agree to a point. But I also would like to point out how alarming your take is. I mean you can easily compare this to trades and construction. Would you want a house that's built in a week by cheap foreign workers that don't kno
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by mavamaarten 1y ago
Yeah. In the same vein I also don't distribute my app in the Play Store in certain countries. I realize it completely sucks for them, but it's purely a business decision. Certain countries are just very vocal in terms of negative
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by mavamaarten 1y ago
Yeah. I just need to babysit it too much. Take copilot, it gives good suggestions and blows me away sometimes with a block of code which is exactly what I'd type. But actively letting it code (at least with gpt4.1 or gpt4o) just doesn&
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by mavamaarten 1y ago
I would never. I would never do such an interview. But I would absolutely never ever work for a company that doesn't value people enough to even have a real conversation with them. Sure "it saves hiring managers time" but tha
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by mavamaarten 1y ago
That's exactly the one I searched first!
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by mavamaarten 1y ago
It's almost-white light gray on almost black. What are you on about?
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by mavamaarten 1y ago
Especially because 99,9999% of the time I don't even care about any of the special cases, and I just want to show a simple date to a user. And still, you regularly run into issues, because our API or a third party did something silly
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by mavamaarten 1y ago
Honestly, my biggest programming pet peeves are not really technical but social. Constantly working on moving targets, being responsible for both fleshing out and building these moving targets, having to estimate work and then being told th
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by mavamaarten 1y ago
I also think many comments are a bit too eager in claiming "oh just publish the code" and "oh just let users host X". It's obviously not that simple. The biggest one for me is that single player games should still b
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by mavamaarten 1y ago
Agreed. Some use it as a knowledgebase and issue tracker and forum and chatroom in one. I absolutely despise it for that use case. I mean I use it for voice chatting with friends while gaming too and it's fine for that. But if I have t
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by mavamaarten 1y ago
If the flash was better, the product wouldn't fail so quickly. It's really a combination of poorly designed electronics, and a software bug wasn't there, the fault wouldn't have popped up so early.
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by mavamaarten 1y ago
You go with the cabbage, goat, wolf and lion all together!
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by mavamaarten 2y ago
Except that he launches them from a proper launching site whilst hiding in a bunker/shelter, rather than standing around the thing in flip flops.
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by mavamaarten 2y ago
Probably very dependent on location and your friend group. In my case, everyone I knew had a PS3 and I was pretty much the only one with an Xbox360. Only some had a Wii. Before that, only PS1's and PS2's were around. (Belgium)
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by mavamaarten 2y ago
I've just recently switched to Qwant from Google. It serves all my purposes perfectly, except for programming queries unfortunately. Google seems to be better at bringing up a variety of stackoverflow and blogposts relevant to my searc
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by mavamaarten 2y ago
I'm so sad that ePaper displays are still so expensive. They'd be perfect for splashing some home assistant driven goodness around my house. But the tiny ones are too tiny for my taste, and the big ones too expensive.
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by mavamaarten 2y ago
Oh yeah this is very much the case. Every time I ask ChatGPT something simple (thinking it'd be a perfect fit for an LLM, not for a google search) and it starts searching, I already know the "answer" is going to be garbage.
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by mavamaarten 2y ago
We extensively use Maestro in our testing setup. We test our Android (+ Android TV) and iOS apps on a couple of different emulators, and use it to take a bunch of screenshots to generate diff reports. The only thing we don't like so fa
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by mavamaarten 2y ago
It's a basic trajectory control system (using ANPR cameras), combined with a red light camera. They read your license plate twice in different locations to determine how long you took to drive a section of road. They're very commo
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by mavamaarten 2y ago
They did try this approach. There's big concrete flower boxes in many places to create some artificial hindrances. It hinders your vision, causes people to swerve, it's annoying to give way. And worst of all: it slows people down
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by mavamaarten 2y ago
Agree, but also disagree. Our neighboring town has a beautiful system in place. It tracks your average speed over +- 100m. If you speeded, you get a fine and even better: the light always turns red and you have to wait for a minute. If you
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by mavamaarten 2y ago
It's not legal where I live (Belgium), it can be legal if you have a driveway and only film your driveway, and if you declare that camera in some database. But since I don't have a driveway, it films the street, I am aware that th
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by mavamaarten 2y ago
I live next to a school, so there's a low speed limit (30 km/h). Still, people drive like race drivers and the city hasn't ever responded to the residents' hopes of introducing a speed camera. I wanted to have some data
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by mavamaarten 2y ago
It's exactly the automated scanners that I'm scared of. But there I feel the same: an up to date nginx server, Serving some pages over port 80/443 doesn't feel like a huge target on my back.
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by mavamaarten 2y ago
Can you easily use your services on mobile devices that way? I currently reverse proxy every service I need through nginx, but I kinda feel like this isn't enough security-wise. I did blacklist most countries and don't expose any

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