mcv

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by mcv 5mo ago
Timely topic for me. My CV had grown to 7 pages, and I kept reading everywhere that it should be no more than 2, so I asked Gemini to rewrite it. Took a lot of time, because Gemini loves to exaggerate everything, but I'm quite happy wi
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by mcv 6mo ago
Gas for heating used to be the standard but is on its way out now. My house hasn't had a gas connection for 8 years, and many people qre switching to heat pumps and other cleaner methods of heating.
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by mcv 6mo ago
Exactly my point: getting close is the hard part.
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by mcv 6mo ago
I believe that was the point of Ruby on Rails: that you really had to just create the class, and the framework would create the table and handle the ORM. Or maybe you still had to write the migration; it's been as while. That was prett
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by mcv 6mo ago
Diesel-electric subs seem to be the bane of carriers. I'm aware of Dutch, Portuguese and Swedish subs that have "sunk" carriers during exercises, and often together with a significant part of their fleet. But I do wonder what
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by mcv 6mo ago
The problem with killing a carrier is not finding it. They're not difficult to spot and not very stealthy. They're massive. The only real problem with killing carrier is getting close. They're constantly protected by a fleet
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by mcv 6mo ago
That's how I understood it. If you add a new thing (constant, route, feature flag, property, DB table) and it immediately needs to be added in 4 different places (4 seems to be the standard in my current project) before you can use it,
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by mcv 6mo ago
I once heard of a counter-principle called WET: Write Everything Twice.
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by mcv 6mo ago
I actually like them that hot. I look for 90+ saunas, and once was in one that claimed to be over 100. Although I have no idea how accurate that is. They're very bearable to me. But if they're not bearable, of course you should lo
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by mcv 6mo ago
95 is pretty hot. At commercial spas I see them start at 70, and rarely above 90.
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by mcv 6mo ago
No idea. How hot is and was your sauna? Is it possible that it's hotter than it used to be? Maybe try one that's slightly less hot? I've got the opposite problem: saunas don't seem to be able to make me sweat anymore, so
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by mcv 6mo ago
Better for the environment too.
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by mcv 6mo ago
This is mostly about game logic, where I can understand the reliance on floating point numbers. I've also seen these epsilon comparisons in code that had nothing to do with game engines or positions in continuous space, and it has alwa
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by mcv 6mo ago
DigiD used to work fine without an app. I think it still does, because I have to explicitly select using the app to log in.
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by mcv 6mo ago
The most vocal anti-mean crowd, perhaps. I eat only free-range, sustainable meat from animals that had a happy life outside, instead of being locked up into tiny boxes. A lot of meat comes from factory farms where animals are force fed in b
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by mcv 6mo ago
The US has less free speech than some other countries. Especially now, but this was always true at corporations. In the US you can be fired for anything, including speech.
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by mcv 6mo ago
Could other crops grow on that land? The crop you grow is a choice too.
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by mcv 6mo ago
Yeah, but outside the US there are also a lot of grain fed cows.
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by mcv 6mo ago
Exactly. Beef could be sustainable if it was done on a much smaller scale. But everybody wants beef, so we feed it enormous amounts of corn.
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by mcv 6mo ago
Yeah. I used to be vegetarian (I eat some meat again), and I love cheese, but I'm well aware that it's almost as bad as beef. Quitting cheese feels like a bigger sacrifice to me than quitting meat. But I've been reducing my c
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by mcv 6mo ago
Absolutely. But not all beef is grass fed. The situation would be very different if it was.
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by mcv 6mo ago
> Grass fed cattle can use land that is generally not fit for vegetation farming Can, but that doesn't mean it always is. There's lots of cattle that never even comes outside, and is fed food that humans could also eat. I recal
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by mcv 6mo ago
Feeding the world is mostly a political-economic problem. Political-economic decisions make it hard to feed everybody, when we technically have more than enough to feed everybody. But one of the decisions that make it hard to feed everybody
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by mcv 6mo ago
My son (almost 17) has turned against AI to the point that I don't dare to admit I use it at work.
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by mcv 6mo ago
"Inauthentic behaviour"? Did Simone de Bouvoir take over X?
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by mcv 6mo ago
I recently bought a Keychron, but I'm not wildly enthusiastic yet. It's very thick; much thicker than the 2002 Dell keyboard it's replacing. And the key press feels very spongy. I suspect I might prefer clacky keyboards after
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by mcv 6mo ago
Sounds like using AI as a tool is fine, but those autonomous clawbots are not. All the more reason to reject their submissions, I guess.
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by mcv 6mo ago
Or Iran, for that matter.
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by mcv 6mo ago
Didn't a court in the US declare that AI generated content cannot be copyrighted? I think that could be a problem for AI generated code. Fine for projects with an MIT/BSD license I suppose, but GPL relies on copyright. However, if
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by mcv 6mo ago
LLM agnostic? I thought they ran their own LLM. Can you use Junie with Claude, but have your payment contact only through JetBrains?

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