mdekkers

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by mdekkers 3y ago
> The tradeoff here is to decouple services in order to allow them to be developed somewhat independently of each other. Monoliths remove the overhead of network requests but they present their own challenges. You have a lot of implicit
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by mdekkers 3y ago
I got the Musso Stella 5030. Worth it. :) I didn’t see the Whynter when I was shopping around, not sure if it is sold in the EU?
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by mdekkers 3y ago
I absolutely love NFS and pay for the support option even though I don’t need it, simply to support them. Everything about that service is simply ace.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
One of the many reasons why I will never work in an office again.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Background: https://huggingface.co/blog/starcoder2
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StarCoder 2(github.com)
2 points by mdekkers 3y ago|1 comments
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by mdekkers 3y ago
This is the same in most of Europe. I invested in a gourmet catering class ice cream maker, and delved into the fine art and chemistry required to make the perfect ice cream. Making the perfect batch of ice cream takes a few days but it is
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Shein probably has the return site or handling agent throw most of it in the trash, which is terrible.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Never demo anything unrehearsed, or where you cannot predict the outcome with a very high level of confidence
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> this strategy aims to leverage digital advancements to optimize customer flow and manage demand effectively. They have a typo in “increase profits”
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Yes! It was complete with a complete GUI, browser, networking stack, ISDN dialler, everything there :)
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by mdekkers 3y ago
As I said, all my chronic stress can immediately be resolved with a large amount of money, since the lack of is the direct cause of that stress. I appreciate the “money doesn’t buy happiness” advice, even if it comes from someone that was f
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Fond memories of being completely blown away by the QNX disk that came with some magazine
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> The issue isn’t the doctors, it’s that society, or even just the human condition, often makes it impossible to eliminate the source of chronic stress. Indeed, all my chronic stress can immediately be solved with large quantities of mon
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by mdekkers 3y ago
I was considering signing up for the pro plan. Now I won’t even give them my email. I tried the model and it is genuinely nice, but this is a huge red flag.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> grep filename.txt “thing I want” > grep “thing I want” filename.txt. …every time
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Take them to whatever the Swedish equivalent of the small claims court is. You are in the EU, the court will have a field day.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> just last night had to mash the brakes after seeing an old man with walking canes emerge from the glare of an oncoming cars lights right in front of me while doing 70kph on a country road. You should always adapt your speed to the prev
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by mdekkers 3y ago
NASA: “Here are some idea around Nuclear propulsion in space” HN: > It's about as realistic as propelling the vehicle with unicorn farts.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
I have bought Skyrim a few times, for different platforms and some special edition stuff
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by mdekkers 3y ago
I’ll have one, thanks
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Counter-Counter point, those studies were not of very high quality. Very small groups, and the “hard to read font” was Comic Sans which isn’t actually hard to read, just different. Also, Comic Sans is well known to be the butt of all font j
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Also see https://www.lemmingsforums.net/index.php?topic=5306.0 for info on where to find and play Lemmings!
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> They do not take security and privacy seriously Anything specific about the privacy angle?
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Can you be more specific? I exclusively use Kagi, and I am a heavy search user. I have not noticed anything like what you are mentioning.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> An average American from the 1950s was already living better than a king from a few hundred years ago. Arguably, the average “Westerner”, including Americans, from today does not live better than their 50s counterparts.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Salt is genuinely awesome, I think it far outshines other tools in the same space. Unfortunately the project has never done a great job communicating that, and the acquisition by VMWare, and subsequently Broadcom do not fill me with hope. I
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Rands is awesome, and “Managing Humans” is just about the best management book I own.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> The lack of a backlight was surprising This is common across electronic notepads. The lighting adds a thickness to the screen that would mean the input device would hover over the “paper”, instead of writing directly on it, which would
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by mdekkers 3y ago
I spent a lot of time looking for a digital notepad, and the RM2 was high up on my list. I ended up buying a Supernote recently for exactly the reasons you mention in your post. Remarkable just come across as a really shitty company with a

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