mcv

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by mcv 3mo ago
Debouncing exists for a reason. Sometimes when a button is clicked twice, you want it executed twice, sometimes you don't. Distinguishing which is better in which situation is not trivial. At the very least, you should consider which i
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by mcv 3mo ago
Yeah, flow state is not the same, and I miss it. I've stumbled into a couple of different ways to work with AI, each with their advantages and disadvantages: * Ask it to solve the issue and trust the results. You're outsourcing yo
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by mcv 3mo ago
> Start from the opposite assumption: the people before you were not fools. I always do that. I used to assume they knew better than I. I've been wrong a lot about that.
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by mcv 3mo ago
That's not what I'm doing. I'm pointing out some of the benefits of the EU, and I'm sure you've seen that this was not the only benefit I listed. Of course the influence of lobbying is still bad, and the EU should t
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by mcv 3mo ago
There's the lack of customs charges for items from other European countries. The common market is a really big advantage. There's the Euro, and in the past, the EU did a fairly decent job at holding large corporations accountable,
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by mcv 4mo ago
Thank god. It's so hard to tell these days.
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by mcv 4mo ago
You kid, but Bezos said practically the same thing. That human need for water shouldn't hold AI back.
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by mcv 4mo ago
Yeah, Libertarian is better. The first use of Libertarian was in the phrase Libertarian Communism. That, Libertarian Socialism and Anarchism are what the far ends of that bottom left corner is mostly about, although there is progressive lib
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by mcv 4mo ago
I just received my new MacBook yesterday. Today it's more than €700 more expensive than what I paid.
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by mcv 4mo ago
Well, the email providers. And that could easily include Google without you even realising. It's true that email isn't quite as insecure as it used to be (it was once compared to shouting your message at someone and expecting them
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by mcv 4mo ago
I still have a gmail address that looks in no way like a name, and that's not stopping me from receiving some really weird misdirected email. Often my random collection of characters with some dots in between (apparently Gmail ignores
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by mcv 4mo ago
Unencrypted sensitive data in an email is a really bad idea. I hope they never do that. Although what I would really like, and think is long overdue, is an extension to email that normalises encryption and sender verification. It's rid
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by mcv 4mo ago
Yeah, but any site that uses signup email addresses to send spam should be immediately blacklisted. Sending spam to potentially legitimate email addresses is a really bad idea and should destroy any credibility you may have had.
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by mcv 4mo ago
It doesn't even refer to all Americans. Just the wealthy ones. And even that is increasingly reduced to just the wealthy ones who support Donald Trump.
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by mcv 4mo ago
And to me, it's specifically that that third party is Peter Thiel. Not the guy I want to trust with my data.
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by mcv 4mo ago
Is everything becoming columnar? Parquet stores data per column instead of per row because it improves compression. I get that. Arrow apparently is columnar, and now DuckDB also gets its efficiency by treating data as columns instead of row
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by mcv 4mo ago
This aligns very closely with my own views on software architecture. I've often wondered if I should be a software architect, but I often get the impression that architects sit in their ivory tower producing documents rather than code.
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by mcv 4mo ago
It's definitely a sign that popular packages should be moved from AUR to the official repository. I've got some stuff from AUR simply because it's something I need and that's where it is, and I never really verify it&#x2
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by mcv 4mo ago
It's still surprising someone was able to infect so many packages. But I admit I don't really know how AUR works. Can anyone with access simply update anything? Do packages not have owners who check contributions?
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by mcv 4mo ago
Chat Control is not law. Of course there are some people inside the EU pushing for privacy violation, just like there are everywhere else, but it's not law. For now, the law protects privacy, and Microsoft violated it. That is the issu
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by mcv 4mo ago
You mean these specific Danish EU civil servants were the ones pushing chat control? Or are we actually talking about completely different people? Not every European is the same person.
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by mcv 4mo ago
The EU should fine such intentional violations with a billion euros per violation. That would stop this immediately and force cloud providers to split off their European side into separate companies that don't fall under US law.
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by mcv 4mo ago
I have to agree. I'm working on a complex technical proposal that's a bit too far outside my expertise (I tend to submit it to actual experts for a more thorough review). I've worked with Opus and Gemini to review it and work
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by mcv 4mo ago
You've got to be the person with the idea. I'm currently doing that. I spent the past year working on a frustrating project where everybody else did everything wrong, so now I'm building it on my own, hoping to sell it to the
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by mcv 4mo ago
I would definitely like an AI that helps me avoid dark patterns and enshitification. Is there a browser that automatically solves annoying captchas for you?
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by mcv 4mo ago
I haven't seen the livestream, but I just heard that they intend to have their AI automatically change your passwords on websites if it considers them insecure, which sounds to me like the worst idea for AI so far, and that bar is high
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by mcv 4mo ago
While more readable code is certainly nice, this article ignores the major advantage of XSLT being XML: you can use XSLT to generate XSLT. And while that sounds like just a funny gimmick, it has real practical applications: If you've g
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by mcv 4mo ago
> The schedule times are more of a guideline: "You know you'll eventually get there, because there are one or two trains per hour in the big cities." If a train is canceled, you simply take the next one – ticket inspectors
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by mcv 4mo ago
From what I understand, the original franchisee wanted to sell the store because they wanted to leave the US (for "political reasons"; I suspect they don't want to live in Trumpland anymore, but that's pure speculation).
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by mcv 4mo ago
It seems they closed the store rather than give back the lego. That seems like a win of sorts, because I'm sure it hurts B&M to some degree, but it's not getting the stolen lego back. I've now also seen part 2, in which t

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