stephenr

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by stephenr 7mo ago
After 20 years of freelancing and being asked to join an existing project (literally have only ever had I think 1 client-paid greenfield project) the biggest challenge is usually finding that projects biggest WTF points. There's alwa
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by stephenr 7mo ago
I can't imagine anyone I've worked with in 20 years of freelancing/contracting who would work for a fixed amount per month without also having a fixed number of hours per month, including any meetings.
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by stephenr 7mo ago
> This is so painful... I can't help but wonder who they're trying to target with such inane slogans. The people who think that spicy autocomplete actually has an understanding of the slop it's churning out for them.
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by stephenr 7mo ago
Or congratulate yourself on being divested long enough that they don't think you're coming back?
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by stephenr 7mo ago
And who is writing the terraform configs?
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by stephenr 7mo ago
> a lot of companies will be perfectly fine with, some compute, object storage and a managed rdbms. Right, and who or what causes those services to be provisioned, to be configured, etc.?
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by stephenr 7mo ago
> That seems like a you problem. I dunno man, it wasn't me having a breakdown in public because I forgot to update a biller after I cancelled my card.
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by stephenr 7mo ago
I mean, the context here is that a company stopped providing services after a bank cancelled a credit card they had been charging. For all they know, your legitimate charges were the fraudulent charges that triggered the cancellation. I can
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by stephenr 7mo ago
For some reason parent is using the word "expired" when they really mean "cancelled by the issuing bank".
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by stephenr 7mo ago
But any serious deployment of "cloud" infrastructure still needs management, you're just forcing the people doing it to use the small number of knobs the cloud provider makes available rather than giving them full access to t
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by stephenr 7mo ago
I am absolutely not the target market for this, however I have some comments from what I could look at quickly on a phone: - a good chunk of data seems to be passed around in associative arrays; It would be much easier to understand, and en
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by stephenr 7mo ago
> This is what Mac zealots do: they put blindfolds on and pretend like Mac hardware is above and beyond the laws of physics and PC laptops can’t possibly satisfy the same priorities that Macs do. And this is what people with some kind of
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by stephenr 7mo ago
There is one pretty simple change developers can make to protect against "prompt injection" though.
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by stephenr 7mo ago
I doubt Microsoft policies allow a subsidiary of a subsidiary to do things which highlight the shortcomings of the middle subsidiary.
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by stephenr 7mo ago
In theory machine vision could extract the coordinates overlayed in the frames of the video. You're unlikely to get good data from all frames automatically due to the changing background but I'd have thought you could get enough g
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by stephenr 7mo ago
Essentially the same scenario, same response.
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by stephenr 7mo ago
This might well be cultural but if anyone I was considering eating a meal with, sent me a link to choose where I want to eat rather than just asking, I'd immediately lose any interest in eating with them.
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by stephenr 7mo ago
I never suggested those things are exclusive to a Mac. The comment I replied to said > Anyone who cares about value isn’t getting a non-base model Mac. And then proceeded to suggest a very specific model which has several limitations com
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by stephenr 7mo ago
Not necessarily - you just need a display that has USB-C input and supports USB-PD.
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by stephenr 7mo ago
It's also possible to make a comment on the internet that clearly identifies the context of what you're saying, rather than implying something is a universal truth.
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by stephenr 7mo ago
> But if you’re going to try to fix that How about just stop interfering in the rest of the world. Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan. What's next for the electric boogaloo treatment? Korea or Vietnam? Where would you like to lose the next po
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by stephenr 7mo ago
Don't be so cynical. It's because he's a child rapist and wants a distraction. The poll numbers are a secondary concern at best.
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by stephenr 7mo ago
> Anyone who cares about value isn’t getting a non-base model Mac. They are buying the silver shiny thing or their company is paying. Or they value things differently than you do. Like screen brightness. Or external IO. Or more than 64GB
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by stephenr 7mo ago
Car door windows often have a significant frame of several cm and it's still quite easy to have your fingertips touch the glass while closing it. On a laptop I would imagine it's actually more likely that fingertips would touch th
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by stephenr 7mo ago
> Nano-texture is worth the upgrade if you are on a macbookpro whatever M<cpu> and dont have it. Oh really, it's universally better? > For those of us with astigmatism it's really night and day experience. Oh. So i
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by stephenr 7mo ago
> I don't see why I would want magsafe on my phone at this point. I've been charging my 13 Pro exclusively via MagSafe for a couple of years... out of necessity. The charging port has... an issue... and I've yet to get it
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by stephenr 7mo ago
You're going to have to be more specific if you want anyone to know which side you're talking about.
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by stephenr 8mo ago
I still don't understand why you'd push it into google sheets rather than just exporting a csv, or even a local spreadsheet file. It's not like you can't import those into google if you are a sucker for punishment.
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by stephenr 8mo ago
I'm not sure which is more hilarious, calling Google docs "a format you fully control" or referring to a process that relies on Google docs and either OpenAI or Gemini "local".
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by stephenr 8mo ago
> the syntax is not intuitive even knowing the simpler forms of redirection The MDN page for arrow functions in JS has, I shit you not, 7 variations on the syntax. And your complaint is these are not intuitively similar enough? call >

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