sire-vc

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by sire-vc 6d ago
This is the exact problem with the Unix greybeards smug nature: no matter how low level you go you are always on top of some abstractions. Criticising people just because they don't use your choice of tools is just elitism and leaves a
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by sire-vc 9d ago
They never install packages for me and love handrolling large amounts of e.g. parsing code where a library exists. I have to keep telling them 'look for a large popular dependency' when they start writing huge functions that obvio
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by sire-vc 10d ago
I would but then I'd have to kill you.
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by sire-vc 10d ago
Border between France and Germany is a particularly well know peaceful area, especially Alsace-Lorraine.
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by sire-vc 10d ago
Somehow I feel like the biggest post-apocalyptic problem will be the loss of home equity due to uninsured damage causing a collapse of financial markets.
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by sire-vc 12d ago
If AI does solve the Riemann it will be the watershed moment when the world realises what has happened.
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by sire-vc 12d ago
The CIA certainly uses Signal, which is why privacy advocates who think the US government will go after it are idiots. Same thing for Tor.
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by sire-vc 13d ago
Supporting whatever benefits you is called a 'political position', not a conservative one.
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by sire-vc 18d ago
Our accountant told me 'he's not letting go of his claude subscription' followed by a long list of things it does for him. And my friend 'nah haven't really used AI' before his description of it clarified he st
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by sire-vc 20d ago
I dont like ads. Would you be willing to pay for content? Obviously not, stupid. This comment in general, not aimed at you.
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by sire-vc 21d ago
300 wives and 700 concubines. His taking of 'foreign wives' who turned him to idols was listed as one of the main reasons God was unhappy with him, indicating what the scribe thought about this.
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by sire-vc 23d ago
That is what was meant and based on some of what they have published it is barely a joke.
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by sire-vc 23d ago
There are little tools/optimisations that I have been wanting to do for years that I can just throw at AI now. I am almost annoyed sometimes because the little easy things I could do to 'relax' are now gone: if I am working o
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by sire-vc 23d ago
https://xkcd.com/903/
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by sire-vc 23d ago
https://xkcd.com/903/
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by sire-vc 1mo ago
Every social media site that has tried a paid option has given up or vanished because nobody pays, full stop. Whatsapp is popular because it's free and no other reason.
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by sire-vc 2mo ago
https://xkcd.com/2635/
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by sire-vc 2mo ago
If they ask to open my suitcase and I say 'no' that is suspicious. I've done a lot of travelling and have been questioned more than once: being candid and transparent has always been prudent.
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by sire-vc 2mo ago
To everyone who thinks this is somehow a violation of rights: if you were being questioned by border officers, and were asked 'Sir could you please open your suitcase', and you pressed a button that caused it to burst into flames,
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by sire-vc 2mo ago
'Is a thing' - obviously, stalled due to red tape. As an immigrant to Australia I am repeatedly amazed at how long anything involving the the government takes.
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by sire-vc 3mo ago
The more I interact with the real world and mature as a person the less respect I have for temper tantrums such as these. Even if everything you say is correct, coming across as emotional and petty just does not help your case. This just ma
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by sire-vc 3mo ago
I don't like ads either, but there are ad-free corners of the internet. If you don't like Facebook then don't use it.
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by sire-vc 3mo ago
This is the classic 'things were better back then' crap. It was easy to let people set up their own website on your platform when CSAM was unheard of. It was easy to host a website when IPv4 addresses were plentiful and free. It w
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by sire-vc 3mo ago
The LLM secret techbros don't want you to know.
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by sire-vc 3mo ago
What makes a company founded by an non-MBA have a soul? Only a true Scotsman deserves a billion dollar exit presumably.
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by sire-vc 3mo ago
'Were'? There are still people claiming that fronted isn't real coding. It is deeply embedded in human nature to define an us v them, and if skin colour is off the table substitutes must be found.
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by sire-vc 4mo ago
I had a mysterious bug related to environment variables being different in managed (csharp) and unmanaged code. I told GPT 5.4 'here is how to reproduce the bug' (it only happened when certain shells were used) and told it to &#x2
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by sire-vc 1y ago
No, however it does include a Microsoft entra/Azure AD/Microsoft 365 login for that clients tenant. It is also a newly registered domain so I can understand why it looks suspicious. The most frustrating thing is that this is all a
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by sire-vc 1y ago
I am a solo developer. I recently created a new web app for a client. Google has marked as phishing so they can't use it. Obviously I can't do anything about it except report error and wait. I'm worried if I move it to a new