phatskat

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by phatskat 6d ago
> The outcome is that very little serious technology or influential companies come out of Europe. And salaries for things like engineer are about a third of that in the US. Sure, but plenty of companies want to operate within the EU. Whi
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by phatskat 9d ago
I really appreciated a friend reaching out to me with some PHP questions today. It was, to me, fairly basic but he was having a hard time grokking the documentation vs reading what his coworker wrote (some code using output buffering). I br
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by phatskat 18d ago
You're looking for `@vue/reactivity`[1] - looks like it provides ref, computed, watch, and some internals. Honestly, this seems pretty nifty. Most projects I'd do today would likely have more value in Vue as a whole, and it&#
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by phatskat 19d ago
Facebook and Google are probably two of the biggest players when it comes to how online advertising has been shaped.
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by phatskat 23d ago
I have a handful of mugs that I've had for decades at this point, a couple even from my parents kitchen that they used some 30 years and probably before then. And then there's thrift store mugs - sure they were almost certainly tr
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by phatskat 26d ago
> a chat window is actually HORRIBLE for many tasks. i really strongly hope this isn't what the future of software looks like I strongly concur - I don't want to "tell" the app to level the audio between several clips
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by phatskat 27d ago
I dropped Reddit after the Apollo/API fiasco and came here, and it's been a good change. I still skim Facebook occasionally for niche group stuff, by and large I just don't consider Reddit save for searches that take me there
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by phatskat 29d ago
I 100% agree. I've been working on a component library rebuild at work and accessibility is a key focus, granted I don't think that would be the case if some of our contracts didn't mandate it but it's fiiiiiine I'm
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by phatskat 29d ago
I'm too lazy to look it up, but someone on HN linked a drone test done with an AI pilot that was tasked with destroying surface-to-air missile targets (in a simulation). At one point, the human operator instructed it not to hit certain
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by phatskat 1mo ago
Thanks! Sorry about 1, I was worried I had missed it in the readme, I was hopping all over the docs pages before coming back to the post lol Very cool stuff, will be trying it out
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by phatskat 1mo ago
jj is a pretty nifty VCS - certainly worth looking in to. A lot of the concepts run parallel to Maiao I _think_, I'm still learning jujitsu myself. A couple questions: 1) what's the name about? 2) does this get wicked messy if I&#
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by phatskat 1mo ago
I'm much more attentive in some meetings when my hands aren't on the keyboard. For particularly important meetings I'll get out my knitting so that I can be close by while having something that's not failing unit tests o
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by phatskat 1mo ago
I don't do enough with finder to mind it's existence, but there's always Midnight Commander
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by phatskat 1mo ago
I will echo the flagged comment in spirit: Those are wild headings that read like an op-ed on a site covered in ads. I've said some of those things irl, and "relief pitcher" is a thing, and in solution those phrases are fine.
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by phatskat 1mo ago
This is definitely a problem the dems seem unable to rectify, and for good reason. I'm very left, and i think the democrats are awful at their jobs - or good, if it benefits them right? And that's the rub, most leftists don't
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by phatskat 1mo ago
I mean if it were me? Yep. I'm in a city that borders Canada, and pretty much anywhere i go is "the border" despite my current route to the nearest bridge being about 45 minutes. I personally feel it's a little ridiculou
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by phatskat 1mo ago
> Education in public schools has turned into AI slop being generated by poorly educated teachers. Sure, because no one (in government or school admin) wants to spend the money on more teachers. I also take issue with "poorly educat
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by phatskat 1mo ago
"Public school" in a place like Switzerland is a different world than in the US though
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by phatskat 1mo ago
I also wonder how it accounts for salaried vs hourly - I work "40 hours" each week but I know that isn't a consistent 40, it's typically less and sometimes more, but I'm always getting paid a set wage whereas an hou
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by phatskat 2mo ago
Police unions are far and away much different than any other union you might think of. Most unions are in fact good for the ir members and society - police unions are not.
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by phatskat 2mo ago
Oddly though beliefs like “the world is flat” are tied up in other beliefs that actually cause harm. Flat-earth leads to the firmament leads to Christian god did this leads to ((those people)) killed Christ and control the banks that want y
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by phatskat 2mo ago
I bought an air conditioner last year, some wal-mart “smart” AC that was affordable (we had to get three for the new house we moved in to so budget was a big concern) and it has a QR code for the companion app. I finally got around to getti
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by phatskat 2mo ago
I read it as “if your LLM is being checked by another LLM, well then you need another LLM to check the checker. And can you really trust _that_ LLM? Probably should have an LLM to check the third one, and…”
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by phatskat 2mo ago
Our PM trialed it for writing user stories and most of it was “ticket description but as gherkin stories” which is good, but it made like 2-3 stories referencing a data structure and fields we were not planning on whatsoever - idek where it
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by phatskat 2mo ago
> AI hosting for Apple Curious to see how long that lasts - YouTube and Google Maps were fairly mainstay apps for iPhones for a while, and eventually Apple cut the Maps cord to do their own thing. I don’t know if that’s from an existenti
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by phatskat 2mo ago
Considering that they had to rework things to not use the master key, I can understand the time and effort. From TFA, the DB Gateway handled all Cosmos requests, and used the master key to get an account’s private key and then forward the D
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by phatskat 2mo ago
I’ve said it in a few other places here before, but axing Apollo is the reason I’m on HN at all. I used to use Reddit daily to follow a few games and news subs, and was fairly active in a couple of those communities as a contributor. But I
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by phatskat 2mo ago
I really enjoyed Motif and the general flat clean look that came with eg TWM and co. I do have a soft spot for the candy Mac styles, and win2k is still my favorite windows release
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by phatskat 2mo ago
I’m still in the mines but I don’t know for how long. Part of my performance evaluation for the year will include a section on using AI, so I’ll be biting the bullet and using copilot for glorified autocomplete like I did when it was still
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by phatskat 2mo ago
Right? It feels akin to people who oppose social welfare and things like UBI because “people just don’t want to work.” The reality seems more like “people want to work, they mostly want to have a say in what that work is.” How many people w

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