patates

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by patates 4mo ago
Life is colorful, life is cruel. Do not just hug your loved ones, hug the people who cannot hug their loved ones. A bit of kindness and a bit of sympathy go a long way. Rest in peace Rebecca. https://meyerweb.com/eric/t
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by patates 4mo ago
> Outlook is based on WebView2, and like all web apps, it’s slow Fastmail also has a web based email client, which is as fast as (if not faster than) Outlook Classic. The new Outlook is just bad. Load order is wrong, it renders everythin
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by patates 4mo ago
I miss mercurial sometimes, but we have so much tooling around git these days...
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by patates 4mo ago
Tailscale is a very well established company in the field, and if you didn't hear tailscale before, perhaps this product would not be so interesting for you, so it makes sense here. Otherwise, everything would end up being a "Th
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by patates 4mo ago
This is common practice, there was one for suez canal I think (is suez open or something like that - I cannot seem to be able to find that one though, am I hallucinating?), and there is one for rust being web ready: https://www.a
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by patates 4mo ago
To me, all seems like a bunch of words I can recognize surrounded with stuff I mostly can't recognize but can sort of work out from the context.
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by patates 4mo ago
Look I don't like to see a wall of AI slop as much as the next person (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551462 ), but "just post the prompt" is also too dismissive. AI had access to information that
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by patates 4mo ago
You hit the jackpot on security research, but you cannot take like an hour or two to at least get rid of the AI smell? Please do use AI, nothing against that, all I'm saying is please, please don't deliver this weirdness: > I d
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by patates 4mo ago
Yeah, so Norwegian it is :)
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by patates 4mo ago
I think then the AI-hype should be disregarded as snake-oil, not the tech itself. I know it sounds pretentious, but I need to say that words do matter.
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by patates 4mo ago
I love the fact that if you speak German and English, it's possible to understand a lot of Dutch text. I also love the Computer AND the Internet , allowing me to interact with and experience the world like this.
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by patates 4mo ago
> the worst infinite scroll I've ever seen making it impossible to access the footer Let's be fair, it's possible to reach the footer! You keep pressing the end key for like a minute or two and 665 requests (with embedded
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by patates 4mo ago
I have a mac with loads of ram but I cannot even justify the electricity cost when deepseek is so better than anything I can run locally (including heavy quantizations of deepseek itself) and costs pennies. It's crazy how cheap it is!
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by patates 4mo ago
> This seems like a lot of extra work Music to the ears of a workaholic :) Seriously, that'd be nice if everyone would do this (and I do it now, very strictly) but I also know how easy for one to start blurring the lines between wor
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by patates 4mo ago
Totally off-topic, but I read your profile to learn about this: https://allaboutberlin.com - you do awesome work, thank you! Now I wonder if I could help the immigrants in my area (I'm in Hesse/Hessen), thanks for the
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by patates 4mo ago
For the people here who want to do the same when they are vacation (be completely detached from work): Make it impossible for you to work! Leave your work devices behind! Log out of all accounts, remove 2FA keys after backing them up on pap
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by patates 4mo ago
Yet in node REPL: > {}+[] '[object Object]' > []+{} '[object Object]' ... because Node's REPL and some consoles pre-wrap input that looks object-ish :)
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by patates 4mo ago
> That's just not accurate. I've seen these systems run at multiple companies, and in every case they had a lot to do with skills and experience > I am an L63 but the work I was doing, was something an L60-L61 could do So yo
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by patates 4mo ago
False dichotomy. Of course not everyone has the same experience/skills, but any corporate system of putting individuals to tiers has little to do with experience/skills.
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by patates 4mo ago
Believing in that system so much to say something like that might be worse. Noting against the OP, that kind of Stockholm Syndrome can be found in my past as well.
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by patates 4mo ago
It's not just software libraries. Specs, applications (the browser!), expectations, device integrations, operating systems, etc. So much that starting from scratch seems impossible. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with you, but my
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by patates 4mo ago
I'm not against getting help from AI when writing, but at least take some time to make sure it's not place-filler slop. AI;DR: Starting from early July 2026, all associated data will be deleted 12 Months after a user license is re
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by patates 4mo ago
I like the direction of unity but this will probably be problematic when we eventually start to colonize other planets. I don't want our first settlers to feel discriminated, so please kindly make a new version with more universality -
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by patates 4mo ago
I always thought that if separating water and salt were easy, our bodies would have evolved to do it so that we'd be able to drink sea water and be fine. It must have been so expensive that searching for fresh water was worth it or the
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by patates 4mo ago
Yes, sorry for the confusion.
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by patates 4mo ago
> Juniors want this to be a chance to shine in a market that otherwise rejected them. I actually am training 2 trainees (Azubi in German) and 1 working student. All three are somewhat anxious about the future but also all are learning in
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by patates 4mo ago
I'm sorry, having a bad day?
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by patates 4mo ago
I'm talking about Ladybird, AI and its effects on communities. Stickers start conversations with people I have common interests with in unexpected places. I didn't know of this effect until I experienced it a couple of times, so t
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by patates 4mo ago
When AI first happened, I was afraid I was going to eventually lose my job. And while I've been lucky since, many did, and that hurt a lot. When people are losing something to automation, regardless of the economics of the situation, y
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by patates 4mo ago
Isn't this inline with trying to leave no money on the table? I'd hate it, sure, but it wouldn't surprise me.

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