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by tacostakohashi 9mo ago
You seem to be mixing up right-to-left and "non English". Lots of non-english languages are not RTL and work great, notably European and Asian languages. The right-to-left scripts/languages are relatively esoteric, and their
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by tacostakohashi 9mo ago
Yep, it's fairly difficult to imagine that Minnesota in the winter is overrun with problematic illegal migrants. It's almost as if... there is some other rationale at play for sending ICE there?
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by tacostakohashi 9mo ago
Totally standard / "normal" at BigCo (fortune 500, banks, etc.). At MegaCorp, there is a never ending arms race between security/compliance teams locking things down, adding approval and surveillance checks, and everyone
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by tacostakohashi 9mo ago
If anything, there were a bunch of low barrier to entry software development options like HyperCard, MS Access, Visual Basic, Delphi, 4GLs etc. around in the 90s, that went away. It feels like programming then got a lot harder with internet
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by tacostakohashi 9mo ago
Nice! Files are pretty handy. It's a bit surprising how many people seem to have forgotten they are a thing... but not that surprising, given how hard big tech have tried to uninvent them.
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by tacostakohashi 9mo ago
I also had a great time in the 90s and early 00s doing various software and tech gigs for non-software, mom & pop type outfits that just needed a bit of scripting, a web app, some network setup, etc... often found through mailing lists,
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by tacostakohashi 9mo ago
You seem to be in Europe. The problem you'll find is that Europe is composed, to a greater or lesser extent, of US proxy/vassal states. This is for historical reasons, WWII, Marshall Plan, Lend-Lease, NATO, Bretton Woods, IMF, &qu
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by tacostakohashi 10mo ago
That's nuts. I wonder if all this shoving of AI down peoples throats could trigger a bit of a backlash around vendor software updates / proprietary software in general. There's this huge infrastructure of Windows Update, chro
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by tacostakohashi 10mo ago
As far as I'm concerned, stack-first allocation _is_ the default. It's true that the default exists in my head rather than in in a compiler, though. Maybe think about whether what you propose could exist as a compiler warning, or
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by tacostakohashi 10mo ago
I'm not sure this needs to be its own language. In C/C++, this can be done by just not using malloc() or new. You can get an awfully long way in C with only stack variables (or even no variables, functional style). You can get a l
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by tacostakohashi 10mo ago
Yeah... perl at least ended up with 'use strict;' and 'my', python has nothing :(
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by tacostakohashi 10mo ago
I think it all comes down to him testing his work, attention to detail, and taking responsibility for making it work, just like anyone else. I don't really think "typo" is a useful word in this context. It's a sequence o
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by tacostakohashi 10mo ago
This is true for so many things - even driverless taxis, drone deliveries, even office jobs / AI. The narrative is that human labor is expensive super expensive, there are "skills shortages", etc etc... but in actuality, hiri
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by tacostakohashi 10mo ago
Basically, you just need a password manager. I use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeePass You can store the other details in the notes - e.g. which card / account is used for payments, what are the password reset q
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by tacostakohashi 10mo ago
Seems a bit like expect: https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect/index
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by tacostakohashi 10mo ago
Sounds a bit like ETL - extract, transform and load.
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by tacostakohashi 10mo ago
"currently all trade is dollarized" - a ridiculous and patently false assertion.
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by tacostakohashi 10mo ago
One thing I learnt eventually is: it's not a good idea do business with any party that would be impractical to sue if need be.
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by tacostakohashi 11mo ago
Probably not WhatsApp, because Meta have already stuffed their own AI there. Every product with users is now a merely channel for shoving the vendor's AI down the user's throats.
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by tacostakohashi 11mo ago
Maybe it's simplistic, but I imagine their business model revolves making money from transfers, and they're probably don't value having money sit in accounts as much as, say, a bank that's in the money-lending business.
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by tacostakohashi 11mo ago
One-man companies with no bank accounts, leases, phone bills, water bills, and are probably not very lucrative customers, or the target market for this business, especially when they consume the time of multiple customer support people.
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by tacostakohashi 11mo ago
Well, that's because somewhere between the executive team, which "gets it", and "three levels down"... somewhere between 1 and 2 levels down, there is a team that translates "security" into some compulsory
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by tacostakohashi 11mo ago
I find one 4K is good. I wouldn't bother with anything not 4K these days. I was reminiscing about how much dual monitors used to be a pretty standard thing, and definitely pretty helpful when economical monitors maxed out at 1920x1080,
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by tacostakohashi 11mo ago
I used to be drawn to this kind of (over)-optimization of operational efficiencies, I think it's kind of natural for programmers. The reality though is that for most businesses, the hard part is customer acquisition, marketing, logisti
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by tacostakohashi 11mo ago
Possibly because that would be illegal, and "someone" has decided that they don't want to end up on prison (or equivalent) for a long time. Just a thought.
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by tacostakohashi 11mo ago
This is where the confusion is: ”trying to delete a Page I own". You don't own the page. Facebook owns it. You _authored_ the page, and _gave_ it to Facebook, and now they can do anything they want with it.
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by tacostakohashi 1y ago
There's actually a simple, low-tech, decentralized solution to this problem, for those of us who like such things. It's compatible with all providers, and even works across countries. Step 1: Ask for, and obtain your medical recor
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by tacostakohashi 1y ago
Use AI to generate the review, obviously.
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by tacostakohashi 1y ago
Try it. It probably works pretty well, up to a certain point. At a big enough scale, though, with thousands of people making changes many times / day, the file becomes a single point of contention, and the logistics of updating it with
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by tacostakohashi 1y ago
Probably because those are completely different skill sets from raising capital, finding product market fit, and launching a new product as a startup without megacorp capital and marketing behind you.

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