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by stephenr 8mo ago
I think the answer is probably like most things: it depends. - If the external service supports idempotent operations, use that option. - If the external service doesn't , but has a "retrieval" feature (i.e. lookup if the th
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by stephenr 8mo ago
Hey Janelle ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for Wolfies favourite chocolate cake.
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by stephenr 8mo ago
POSIX has a manual for shell. You can read 99% of it without needing to know any syscalls. I'm not as familiar with it but Bash has an extensive manual as well, and I doubt syscall knowledge is particularly required there either. If yo
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by stephenr 8mo ago
I mean that's really just a comparison to how silicon circuits work though isn't it. "Thinking rocks" vs "thinking meat sacks" isn't much of a distinction really. Conversely if you approach conversations t
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by stephenr 8mo ago
I'm not sure what's more depressing about this. NodeJS bros recreating the "curl via http request" bullshit that was the scourge of shared hosting php 20 years ago; or Deploying something to production that has never bee
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by stephenr 8mo ago
> stochastic parrots I prefer to use the term "spicy autocomplete" myself.
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by stephenr 8mo ago
> can read files in your project directory, which means a plaintext .env file is an accidental secret dump waiting to happen It's almost like having a plaintext file full of production secrets on your workstation is a bad fucking id
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by stephenr 8mo ago
> Mozilla negotiates search deals the same way Apple does for Safari. Revenue deal ≠ corporate control. Google search revenue represents about 75% of Mozilla's total revenue. Google search revenue represents about 4% of Apple's
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by stephenr 8mo ago
IF you just want a Pizza, pour some tomato ketchup on sliced bread. If you just want to pilot a 747, drive your car really fast at a skate ramp.
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by stephenr 8mo ago
I'm not a lawyer, or a licence/copyleft expert. Plenty of people who know lots more than I do about those subjects specifically recommend any reliance on AGPL projects/tools/libraries/what have you, because of the
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by stephenr 8mo ago
The repo doesn't mention a licence but the actual JS for the proof of work system mentions AGPL3, which is going to make this unsuitable for a lot of people.
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by stephenr 8mo ago
> Do you think it's not enforceable because of that definition? I think companies with millions or billions in revenue pay lawyers a lot to find loopholes in things like this. > BTPL I have no clue what that is, and I can't
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by stephenr 8mo ago
> Why don't our overworked, underpaid open-source developers license their software with something to the effect of "If you make more than $1,000,000, pay me. Because that isn't open source, and is arguably not enforceable
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by stephenr 8mo ago
> exposing you to the things you don’t know that you don’t know Or the things that it has hallucinated, or just referenced incorrectly. That's my point. You're talking about learning basic maths from a school teacher who isn&#x
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by stephenr 8mo ago
> My grade school math teachers were probably not well-versed in Calculus and Real Analysis, but they helped me learn my time tables just as well. Are you somehow equating basic multiplication to a "bad long term decision"?
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by stephenr 8mo ago
> llms can get me started really fast. Basically it distills the time taken to research something > the llm doesn't make good long term decisions What could possibly go wrong, using something you know makes bad decisions, as the
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by stephenr 8mo ago
When was the last time it wasn't a cascading failure caused by Rube Goldberg levels of interdependency on their own systems.
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by stephenr 8mo ago
> So I assume that even though QR codes are available where you live, you use your debit card with an NFC chip because it is quicker than using QR codes... Yes, I generally use my card rather than than QR unless the shop doesn't tak
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by stephenr 8mo ago
Did you miss the part where I said I use both? I'm not saying "yours" is less convenient. I'm saying the one you and I both use regularly is less convenient than anything NFC based, which I also use semi-regularly.
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by stephenr 8mo ago
Sounds a bit disingenuous then for an article to have a title that includes the phrase "break free from Google".
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by stephenr 8mo ago
It's regularly unreliable here, because it's reliant on a bank app which in turn is reliant on an internet connection, and banks here are kind of shit. It's pretty common here that people will be told they need to turn off
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by stephenr 8mo ago
I can understand relying on an OEM to provide hardware support for a given model - but I'm finding it hard to understand why they're unable to continue supporting a release just because the upstream removes support for something
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by stephenr 8mo ago
I'm not sure I fully understand this. Why are GrapheneOS releases dependant on Google releases?
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by stephenr 8mo ago
I use qr based payments regularly where I live, and in my home country I use nfc payments (watch/phone/card) essentially always, when we visit. NFC is by far more convenient and reliable.
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by stephenr 8mo ago
Why am I not surprised that the solution to one bad idea, is another bad idea. There is already a way to put html, js and styling in a single file, and it was all the rage around 1997-2000, the last time humans were routinely using shitty
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by stephenr 8mo ago
It's a dedicated log file and it's a runtime change to enable or disable the logging. Horses for courses. I'd prefer to just have a regular file I can tail or grep or whatever, out of the box.
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by stephenr 8mo ago
I prefer to just turn on query logging in the db server. I don't understand why you would use anything else.
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by stephenr 8mo ago
Can you explain how this is a better option than just enabling the general log for MySQL as needed?
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by stephenr 8mo ago
> even to know whether they've visited the site before So uh, don't do that. You don't need to notify if you use cookies for required functionality like login sessions or remembering a functional setting. If you're tr
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by stephenr 8mo ago
I mean CTOs are the same people who cargo-culted mass adoption of "the cloud" for their completely static workload, and are now cargo-culting mass adoption of "AI". I would be more surprised if these people did underst

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