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by pmontra 4mo ago
I'm afraid that the average user still does not think about backup. Sharing with other devices, probably yes, but the two concepts are only distant cousins.
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I understand the frustration of the author but how many readers do have an old, unupgraded, maybe unupgradable epub reader? If authors want to make their work available to all readers they have to build for the least common denominator. If
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Two questions: 1. How does the AI pais taxes. Nobody in the Argentinian statal structure will miss this. It's one of the core functions of every state. 2. Who actually runs the AI, which will be a kind of Openclaw with a LLM model. Ant
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Interviews work both ways: employers select employees, employees select employers. Unfortunately often employees forget that part of the goals of an interview. An employer never forgets its goal. Of course the asymmetry stems principally fr
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Probably because it got popular as the easy Linux distro back in the 2000s and that label is sticking. I remember that I attempted to install Debian on my laptop in 2009. It was ugly. I installed Ubuntu 8.04 and it was a totally different a
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Sometimes I manage to make the ghost move on mobile but I don't understand how to do it in a consistent way. Maybe there should be a tap area of 90 degrees above the ghost (from -45 to +45) to move it upwards, 90 to the right to move i
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Games are games, work is work. I disabled every animated transitions in my desktop UI. Elements appear instantly at full size in the place they rest and disappear instantly. Reasons: 1) I'm doing that thousands of times per week, I kno
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by pmontra 4mo ago
I remember Nokia and their CEO from Microsoft.
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Email is OK. The point is that most conversations moved to other media (mainly chats) and so 90% of my mail is notifications, 9% is newsletters, 1% are real messages. They used to be 99%.
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by pmontra 4mo ago
People have to eat food so they will keep doing business no matter what. If AI cost too much, they will do it without AI. Any resource that costs too much is replaced with cheaper alternatives. AI is no exception. At worst most of the IT bu
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by pmontra 4mo ago
How do they know that you are not buying Fable and let it use by some non US national working for you? They would be in trouble, not you.
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A US company paying for Fable with a US credit card could have non US nationals working for it, or be made of only non US nationals. How would Anthropic know? So they shut down the product.
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Very few businesses can pay 1M without blinking. None of my customers. But yeah, I got the gist of it. Incumbents like moats and happily pay money to build them. Note that the pricing of Anthropic's models usually increases for new mod
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Honest question: what's garbage in that tool? I like that I can pair it with whatever editor I am using even if for 99% of the time I run it from inside emacs. I usually chat in the Claude window and it edits my files. I can also write
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by pmontra 4mo ago
A helmet has another downside: a fair number of people care about having their hairs styled and a helmet destroys that work.
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by pmontra 4mo ago
I don't known how Codex works, but we can set environment variables and point Claude CLI to deepseek. I think that before slashing prices they will slash those environment variables. After all they are not working to give a free TUI to
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Town names too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montebello_della_Battaglia Not in the Wikipedia page (but check the Italian version): it started as "Mons Belli" (Mount of the Battle) because of a battle fought
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Giving up is a wise choice: there are so many other sites to interact with. On the other side they have only one refrigerator.
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It's called a container machine but it's a virtual machine. I quote from https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/technical-... > container runs containers differently. Using t
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How is this different from Virtualbox or similar products with a shared folder with the host machine? I expected that existing virtualization tech for Macs already did that. Maybe the improvement is having nothing to configure. By the way,
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by pmontra 4mo ago
I probably had that kind of 10x moment yesterday. I spent 2.5 hours analysing a feature request and I eventually advised my customer to think very carefully about it: it might solve a problem but the implementation time is going to be long,
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by pmontra 4mo ago
The weight is important but it's only a part of what's wrong with those kind of devices. Wearing something that hides their face is something that people do at Carnival or because they must. It's antisocial. It creates a barr
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by pmontra 4mo ago
In the 80s we thought that the future of computing was clearly local, home computers, PCs, Macs, the office server (Novell, then Windows NT with disk shares) etc. Add 40 years and we are back to a centralized infrastructure with the modern
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by pmontra 4mo ago
> The things I had to learn and the informed decisions I had to make? All pointless trivia, now. A child could do it. Probably this is a hyperbole. Did you do the experiment? I expect that the child won't be able to do it. Ask an ad
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If you split the tasks for the AI in small chucks you keep the architectural control and it's not a slot machine anymore. You still read code and occasionally you write code too. Not much but it's the price to pay for the extra sp
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Which Python tooling? I know that uv is replacing pip but all of my costumers' projects still use pip. One of them installed python with asdf. I can't think about any other tool we are using except Claude, but I don't think t
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Any Rails app. A random one: Redmine. You can look at this file and browse the rest of the repository. https://github.com/redmine/redmine/blob/master/app/controlle...
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That solves the problem of keeping all the speakers in sync. I did something similar with IP tech. I put all my MP3s on a SSD connected to a 3 W ARM SoC at home. The software stack is deefuzzer + icecast + a number of different players acco
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Historically (80s/90s) I started using Perl because I didn't have to write all those malloc and free I spent years writing in C and I could perform string operations much more easily. Then in the mid 90s because of that wonderful
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by pmontra 4mo ago
Hallelujah, that's always been my position. To the static typing folks: leave my dynamically typed languages alone and go coding with something that really suit your needs. If the answer is that Python, Ruby, JS, whatever are really mu

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