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by scorpioxy 7mo ago
I wasn't aware that migrating projects off Cobol has become cheap and it would only take a Claude subscription. In my experience, the problem had always been maintaining the business logic and any integrations with third-party software
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by scorpioxy 7mo ago
The text encoding stuff wasn't a small change considering what it could break, at least. And remember we're sometimes talking about software that would cost a lot of money to migrate or upgrade. I still maintain some 2.x python co
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by scorpioxy 7mo ago
I noticed this thing on Youtube in general with cover images and I've always wondered if it was the content creator that does it or Youtube's platform. I find it both depressing and understandable that this is the kind of content
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by scorpioxy 7mo ago
Thanks, I'll check out Bedrock. I was under the impression they only provide "enterprise" access as OpenRouter uses them as one of the providers but I didn't actually check. Looking at their docs now, seems I was wrong.
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by scorpioxy 7mo ago
Yeah, that's what I've been doing. But in terms of privacy policies, I have to review(and trust) 2 providers instead of 1. OpenRouter and whatever provider is used for any particular model. I agree with you that it is more conveni
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by scorpioxy 7mo ago
Besides trying to run on your own hardware, anybody have recommendations for running some decent models on one of the many "AI clouds" providers? This is for sporadic use and so maybe one of the "serverless" providers th
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by scorpioxy 7mo ago
Both of these comments are needlessly snarky. Although it is true that the RSS capability of Thunderbird has been around for quite a while, I enjoy articles that simply reflect the author's discovery or use case. Like you, I was consum
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by scorpioxy 7mo ago
I've read several reports from customers saying that their customer service is really bad. Difficult to know with online reviews of course. Does anyone have positive stories to share? I am looking at Australian hosts specifically and H
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by scorpioxy 9mo ago
Well, in general worrying about the future is not useful. Regardless of what you think, it is always uncertain. I specifically stay away from taking part in such speculative threads here on HN. What's interesting to me though is that v
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by scorpioxy 9mo ago
From what I am seeing, no one is feeling coy simply because of the cost savings that management is able to show the higher-ups and shareholders. At that level, there's very little understanding of anything technical and outages or bugs
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by scorpioxy 9mo ago
As someone who's been commissioned many times before to work on or salvage "rescue projects" with huge amounts of tech debt, I welcome that day. Still not there yet though I am starting to feel the vibes shifting. This isn&#x
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by scorpioxy 9mo ago
I would encourage you to write about it as well. It seems interesting and unconventional. I used to tinker a lot with my systems but as I gotten older and my time became more limited, I've abandoned a lot of it and now favor "gett
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by scorpioxy 9mo ago
I recently had to pay the "Microsoft tax" to Lenovo. Which felt more like an unfair punishment rather than a tax since your taxes are meant to fund public services. I kept on thinking that this feels like it should be illegal. I d
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by scorpioxy 9mo ago
Not the person you're replying to but I am confused by your comment. What would you do? You'd try and meditate. If that doesn't work, you distract yourself with something else. The mind whirling keeping you up at night is rar
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by scorpioxy 11mo ago
There are community-contributed relay servers that you can use. Check out the syncthing website, they explain how all of this works. It's a very good piece of software.
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by scorpioxy 11mo ago
Interesting to read. It would be more interesting to know if lowering those levels had a positive effect on their cardiac event outcomes over a few years. I thought it was unclear that lowering those levels makes a difference.
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by scorpioxy 11mo ago
Interesting and unsurprising. Until there are some meaningful consequences and fines for companies that treat data security so lightly then nothing will improve and customers will have to deal with the effects. I once received notice from a
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by scorpioxy 11mo ago
That's a huge topic but I would say implement a hobby project and learn by doing. Pick something you're interested in and start writing code to exercise the theoretical concepts. A small piece of advice is to make sure you're
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by scorpioxy 11mo ago
I am not confident enough to say that someone in Australia does or doesn't pay the 5%. I can ask the ATO but otherwise can't know. I am stating the range of how much it is.
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by scorpioxy 11mo ago
That's incorrect. I'll choose a couple of points to correct. For the "elective" surgery, it's false to state that they are covered by private healthcare. There was also a push to move away from the term "electi
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by scorpioxy 11mo ago
It's actually anywhere between 1%-5% depending on your income but I didn't want to get too detailed in my comment. And you'd still have the absurdly long wait times. And the out of pocket expenses. Again, not a problem if you
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by scorpioxy 11mo ago
I don't understand where you got that I am saying public health care systems are flawed. Both systems have pros and cons. And I have seen the "going to take time" phrase for quite a long time now and so don't think it ho
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by scorpioxy 11mo ago
It depends on the location and it depends on what services you're after. If you have private healthcare insurance, you get to skip the wait times at hospitals and get a choice of public or private hospitals. For clinics, it's a di
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by scorpioxy 11mo ago
Oh yes. Quite bad and I don't know if things are getting slightly better than "bad" or the media is tired of reporting about it. Up until a year or so ago, an appointment at a GP would take weeks of waiting. Specialist appoin
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by scorpioxy 11mo ago
For some definition of "large" and some definition of "impact" within an Australian context, the law firms(and legal departments) are using GenAI to produce and review legal documents. There are redundancies and less hir
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by scorpioxy 11mo ago
They can. What are you going to do? Quit? That's exactly what they would want. Much cheaper to increase the squeeze than pay redundancies. By the way, it's very similar here in Australia. I don't think there's anything a
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by scorpioxy 11mo ago
When the term "AI bubble" is used, is this referring to the idea that some businesses think that the current GenAI tools can replace humans and act as cheap labor or the amount of money being invested into this specific industry a
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by scorpioxy 11mo ago
From what I can see, it's been decreasing rapidly especially this past year. Hybrid arrangements used to be offered at 1-2 days in the office and now it's down to 1-2 days at home. I've also seen quite an increase 2024 onward
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by scorpioxy 11mo ago
That's a misleading title. A better source is at https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-03/energy-retailers-offe... Basically, it is 3 hours in the middle of the day and not everyone qualifies. If you have solar
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by scorpioxy 1y ago
Interesting question. For me, resting was similar to exercising an antagonist muscle. Or oversimplifying it, do the opposite of what you were doing. So if your day is full of focus and concentration and sedentary then do something physical

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