pmontra

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by pmontra 5d ago
Replacing a part voids warranty, this is common and well understood by everybody. I can't help thinking that they want to sell maxed out devices to max out margin.
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by pmontra 5d ago
Maybe I knew how they explained the change back then but I forgot about it. If I must take a guess now, maybe their legal office had a word with marketing about the risk of becoming a publisher, with responsibility for what their users shar
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by pmontra 5d ago
Yup. I'm also working more and more in a terminal typing English sentences to my computer. It looks like a very smart adventure game UI from the 80s. A little git log, show, diff almost always in another terminal. A customer of mine wa
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by pmontra 9d ago
I see "Jul 12, 2023, 5:56 PM GMT+2" right before "After this week's NATO summit in Lithuania..."
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by pmontra 9d ago
Map maps a value into another value. It's a function call. Easy to understand. Filter picks values according to a rule. It's a select from where condition. Maybe not as easy as map but familiar. Reduce is, what? Even the name is i
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by pmontra 11d ago
It works well enough with plain Ruby and plain Javascript. It ported a Rails 7, Vue 2, vuetify 2, vuex app to Rails 8 (ok, easy, I did it myself at least once), Vue 3, Vuetify 4, Pinia. I had to visually check the SPA, of course.
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by pmontra 11d ago
That's expected (the index out of bound). You have an array, and maybe it grows, you read a number from input, you don't check it against the size of the array because you want to torture the language, use it to get the element at
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by pmontra 11d ago
There are several ways to get hold of tech and of any other thing. Russia did not have access to the H-bomb too, until it was handed to them. Ideals or money are very effective.
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by pmontra 12d ago
When they tell you that Linux has issues with suspend, reply that Windows has issues with paste /s
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by pmontra 12d ago
The sort of things that a human developer can do better than an AI is telling a founder that it is a bad idea to use country flags to select UI languages because languages have names and don't have flags and somebody will be pissed of
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by pmontra 12d ago
The Wizard of Yendor.
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by pmontra 12d ago
The point is that it is hard to prove that that 5 days code will never break. In the eyes of a customer a feature ready in one morning and in production before evening is a truly great thing and they know that even before AIs developers wer
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by pmontra 13d ago
Sometimes it is handy when doing something like ASCII art or drawing ASCII diagrams. Imagine editing a much more complex variant of this ---- | AB | ---- Finally, Shift-INS pastes from clipboard on Linux. A keypress saved compa
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Petroleum Refining(courses.ems.psu.edu)
2 points by pmontra 13d ago|0 comments
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by pmontra 13d ago
I agree that "privacy is not the currency Google deals with." However when I run an adblocker and Blockada on Android, when I use alternatives to the YouTube app (and Google is technologically fighting them) when I don't log
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by pmontra 14d ago
I thought it was enough to add please and thank you to every prompt.
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by pmontra 14d ago
It's two totally different matters. I won't be first, second or third in the AI race. I'm not even participating in that race. I don't care who wins. However my private data are mine and I do care about them. It's G
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by pmontra 14d ago
I'm willing to pay time or money to avoid ads, not to be spied and harassed by companies making me offers to buy something that almost certainly I don't want to buy. Those companies should pay me a percent of what I make them save
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by pmontra 15d ago
Emacs does it. I don't remember which package I'm using and my laptop is out of reach now, but it leverages LSP. However my point is that I never used that functionality in the last months. I discovered today that M-. doesn't
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by pmontra 15d ago
Claude in a terminal is becoming more and more my IDE. I use emacs to do some edits or to look at some files, but orders of magnitude less than when I wrote all the code. Syntax highlighting? Yes, for readability. Completion? I noticed toda
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by pmontra 15d ago
Can you clone or sync hardware keys? Maybe they don't fail as much as computers do but they can be lost or stolen like the keys that we use to open (dumb) doors. My non hardware key is a keypass file that I update only on my laptop and
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by pmontra 15d ago
What if the old Mac is dead, stolen, lost? Those are the scenarios in which one recovers on a new machine from a backup.
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by pmontra 15d ago
Maybe a browser extension could inject JS in a tab to redefine all the WebGPU API into a noop.
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by pmontra 15d ago
Yeah, but what is a medium? Every material is basically empty space with an atom here and there. So there is not a hard boundary for a particle to instantaneously slow down from speed of light in the air to speed of light in water. Some of
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by pmontra 15d ago
Yes, I kind of discovered that in a dream, in which I extinguished a fire by teleporting away oxygen. It worked, until I stopped teleporting. The oxygen came back and the fire started again. When I eventually woke up I thought about it and
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by pmontra 16d ago
Thanks
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by pmontra 16d ago
The back button works at its best when it closes an app and it restores the one that opened the previous one. There could be no in app back button to do that. However the back button used to be an always available hardware button or a touch
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by pmontra 16d ago
Too bad that it does not seem to work on mobile. I did not find any way to move around (add arrow buttons? Are we supposed to move around?) and if I double tap I change the direction in which I am looking but not very predictably. Maybe my
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by pmontra 16d ago
Not really. That keyboard adds up size and weight and it will be used very little. Furthermore I would be tapping on it with two fingers now instead of sliding my thumb on my screen, which is faster. What I miss is a compact and light phone
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by pmontra 16d ago
This company https://nexphone.com/ has been doing something like that since 2016 but of course in a different way, by attaching the phone to a laptop shell or more simply to a USB hub.

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