petterroea

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by petterroea 11mo ago
Basically everyone I know in engineering share this resentment in some way, and the AI industry has itself to blame. People are fed up and burned out from being forced to try useless AI tools by non-technical leaders who do not understand h
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by petterroea 11mo ago
For an understanding of what Valve are doing, here is a 1 hour talk by Gabe Newell (CEO): Gabe Newell: On Productivity, Economics, Political Institutions, and the Future of Corporations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td_PGk
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by petterroea 11mo ago
It would be naive to assume they couldn't access the data from a technical perspective. I think anyone in here would think so. The problem is regular customers who aren't technical and don't have much choice but to trust clai
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by petterroea 11mo ago
In general having a chief "order" employees sounds like a red flag to me. Isn't ordering a bit authoritarian and used in leau of being able to change things in a more civil manner? If you aren't able to get people to wor
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by petterroea 11mo ago
Same, I had to learn this the hard way. In fact, I find that many (younger me included) are arrogant about *not* wanting to deal with writing due to it feeling like waste of time. But after maintaining codebases for 5+ years, you begin to a
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by petterroea 11mo ago
One of the tough pills I and probably many other developers have had to swallow when maturing is that "non-programming skills" from schools are useful and very valuable, actually. Writing is one of them. Everyone loves a programme
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by petterroea 11mo ago
A lot of computer graphics algorithms are named after their authors
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by petterroea 11mo ago
I wish the article talked more about this app India wanted to pre-install. Forcing the pre-install of apps is worrisome in general, but there's some nuance that is missed by not explaining what is being forced on the citizens. "Cy
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by petterroea 11mo ago
Frankly whenever people show me some "new SQL killer" it often looks like "SQL with extra steps". Sure, everyone is afraid of joins, but you can often engineer yourself further away from that. Document-oriented database
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by petterroea 2y ago
> The findings, however, suggest that students are more likely to draw comparisons with “Robin Hood”. This is interesting to me as it seems to suggest something I'm slowly coming to realize: In a world where many are simply pulled a
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by petterroea 2y ago
My general experience with Arch is that the up-to-date-ness is a double-edged sword, and you some times hit new bugs or incompatabilities. If it happens in nix i can simply just revert - you can select which OS build version you want to boo
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by petterroea 2y ago
I agree. If all you need is Linux on a bog standard machine and would rather spend your time doing something else than tinkering on your OS, nix is not for you. Life is short and there are lots of things to do - we all have different priori
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by petterroea 2y ago
It is completely fine that NixOS is not reproducable for me. I personally switched(from arch) because my old setup was very finicky(eGPU + optimus on the go for iGPU) and i was sick of random updates bricking stuff. I'm becoming too ol
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by petterroea 2y ago
They still handled the situation in a serious and responsible manner, clearly communicating what had happened and why. They then followed up later when the problem was fixed. To me it seems clear that they understood the seriousness of the
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by petterroea 2y ago
Thank you Bitwarden for listening. This kind of stuff gives me hope for the business model of Open Source.
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by petterroea 2y ago
With Microsoft promising to fix their shit and promising no bad user patterns in only some cases where there has been enough backlash, it's an even worse situation than being outright bad. It makes them more unpredictable. I bet it wou
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by petterroea 2y ago
Not being a security expert, this looks great at first glance and I am very happy Microsoft put in the security effort they told everyone they would. It does however raise a few discussion points: This wasn't so hard, was it? Why wasn&
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by petterroea 2y ago
It's not like people should expect or be entitled to people spending their free time providing a community replacement. But it often happens anyways, so why not protect the people who do it?
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by petterroea 2y ago
This is a great excuse to also ensure the legality of third party reverse-engineering as a legitimate and reasonable reaction to the unavailability of official support. I believe EU law already to a certain degree supports this. Just look a
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by petterroea 2y ago
I agree with you, but I feel you are implying that we should not respect robots.txt any more: https://www.reddit.com/robots.txt The idea of ignoring robots.txt when it is abused for greed sounds okay, but it would be much b
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by petterroea 2y ago
We were wrong to assume the ToS'es requiring us to hand over ownership of what we published were for technical legal reasons and would never be abused
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by petterroea 2y ago
Enshittification is at an all time high, and API access is being tightened and monetized in response to many industry factors including "freeloading" AI trainers. Cory Doctorow is right, if you want to disrupt, or make any improve
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by petterroea 2y ago
The title scared me. I was ready for a TOTP RNG generator attack, still remembering Samy's PHP RNG talk from the 2000s
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by petterroea 2y ago
I can't believe it finally happened, 10 years later. Congratulations to the team for finally finishing. In the meantime I've gotten so sick of js-isms i jumped ship and no longer want to touch it. Server-side nodejs libraries have