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by pmontra 3mo ago
Do you mean a real Land Cruiser, like the ones that can cross deserts? I'm with you.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
Every car can brake, turn and accelerate much harder than any of us will even think to do especially turning and braking. But you pinpointed why we must not attempt to reach for the limit, not for us but for the others. And anyway a normal
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by pmontra 3mo ago
All of those companies have very compelling reasons to provide those tools for free, as in (most importantly dor adoption) no money asked and (less importantly) open source. They make money because of the number of people using those tools.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
I'm not sure what level of detail those prompts you write about have so I might misunderstand you. Before AI we had prompts called "requirements" and of course they were the starting point for reviewing code: the customer nee
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by pmontra 3mo ago
Why when I read an how to stop Claude from saying X, I grep my saved conversations and I find no occurrences of X? I wonder if I'm using it differently from anybody else. It happens with coworkers too.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
RYO is the best way to learn, if you have the time to learn. After building one own solution one is able to assess the strengths and weaknesses of what other more experienced people built. Without the learning phase those other solutions ar
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by pmontra 3mo ago
Which UX problems? When I read > Thunderbird’s robust functionality is its superpower, but a dated interface shouldn’t be a barrier to entry for newer users. I started preparing for the worst.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
Yep, I broke locate when I made my home 700. Its user could not traverse my files anymore. I had to make it run as root. A better design would be to traverse each user home with that user id but apparently it assumes that the home dirs are
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by pmontra 3mo ago
This is new to me (thanks, I'll investigate) and it's the kind of things the books of Physics at University (Computer Science) was full of, completely detached from real world experience. Then there was the book of exercises to pr
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by pmontra 3mo ago
> Eventually, I left almost all my groups behind, keeping only the ones tied to genuine relationships. That's why my only social media is WhatsApp, if that's a social media.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
This PRIDE? https://cio-wiki.org/wiki/PRIDE_Methodology
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by pmontra 3mo ago
Maybe you must harvest data from all the national Wikipedias, easier said than done. Example the page for https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castello_di_Chignolo_Po exists only in Italian and in the local dialect. I'm
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by pmontra 3mo ago
I know how it worked. Buffering (probably complicated on a pure mechanical device) or locking the keys until the dial came back to rest would still be better than rotating and misrotating the dial.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
I agree on your general idea but rotary phones were a real PITA. They were slow to operate. We jumped in a very short time to numberpad phones, which initially only replayed the analog signal of rotary phones. I'm surprised that nobody
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by pmontra 3mo ago
My experience with Claude and Ruby, Python, Javascript is similar: it's pretty good at finding the array of strings that was passed to a method instead of an array of integers. Think about record ids coming from a JSON API call. Or the
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by pmontra 3mo ago
The issue with formal proofs is that we might end up with correct code that does the wrong thing. I mean, something that the market doesn't care about. At the same time a buggy set of PHP scripts does what people care about and capture
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by pmontra 3mo ago
It's not clear how the map is built and if it is possible to contribute content. Only in my area there are dozens, possibly hundreds of castles that do not show in the map. Every city and many towns have one. Several hilltops have a ca
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by pmontra 3mo ago
If they grow desperate I have GBs of DDR2 AND DDR3 in a drawer.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
> apps that are safe by design for children How do we design such apps? Let's rule out age attestation (to allow only some age ranges) or scan of content because they are orthogonal to apps. What are the design patterns that prevent
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by pmontra 3mo ago
It makes sense to use the left hand as phone holder to be free to use the right hand to do some other activity, example: I will have my breakfast while reading HN. However I usually keep my phone with my right hand and scroll with my right
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by pmontra 3mo ago
The real title of the article is very different: "Japan's Hayabusa2 probe completes flyby of Torifune asteroid" The flyby already happened last Sunday.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
> Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. Italy did not copy it. Italy does have a lottery similar to that one but a small change made it very ineffective. Instead of printing a code on every ticket, people have to register
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by pmontra 3mo ago
Because there is nothing else left to buy. I only buy second hand cars but sooner or later I'll have to buy a post 2026 car.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
Yes, a Rails project with a Vue frontend.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
It's got only one LAN ethernet port. Do you use only wifi or did you add a switch between the router and your devices?
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by pmontra 3mo ago
Claude Pro with Sonnet 5 at $20 per month for a limit I never reach is OK. I'm using it 3 days per week full time. I'm also experimenting with DeepSeek 4 and it seems on par. Its API price is much cheaper and it's top up, not
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by pmontra 3mo ago
In soccer? I disagree. In Europe the goal is winning or at least seeing the main rivals not winning anything important. Entertainment is secondary.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
You are correct. Reader mode on Firefox shows the full article though.
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by pmontra 3mo ago
Piaggio also designed the Ape (bee) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piaggio_Ape a 3 wheel tiny pickup. It was hugely popular, but of course not as much as the Vespa because of the smaller market. I still see some of them
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by pmontra 3mo ago
Of course if we had a black hole in a lab (or one in a convenient orbit) we could run all sort of experiments, but which experiments exactly? We will start by throwing things at it and watch, obviously, but that's unimaginative. What a

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