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by thinkingemote 3mo ago
We employees need to remember that most software projects fail. So the work we produce should have lower value than we give it. We also need to be motivated to stay in our jobs. Most developers like their projects and value their work. But
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Protecting your Supabase projects from NPM supply chain attacks(supabase.com)
3 points by thinkingemote 3mo ago|1 comments
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by thinkingemote 3mo ago
CoMaps is a fork/spin-off of Organic Maps, which in turn is a fork of Maps.ME
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by thinkingemote 3mo ago
Although advocating to have less empathy generally isnt considered good there are ancient and modern schools of thought that explicitly says that empathy can be bad. To understand the enemy is to some extent to start to love the enemy and t
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by thinkingemote 3mo ago
Agreed. It's telling that the ads for speed upgrades all seem to focus on families: when all are uploading and streaming maybe at the same time. The marketeers know that 1 individuals and couples are not the target market and 2 they wa
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by thinkingemote 3mo ago
I'd be interested in the rabbit hole of flow state. Also with regards to the dopamine rewards of solving a bug as motivation. Sometimes using a LLM can assist these and sometimes it can feel like cheating myself out of a good thing and
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by thinkingemote 3mo ago
If you like videos, I saw an interesting video yesterday about systems thinking, software as ecosystem particularly with AI. More of an overview but gives an insight into seeing where we might be able to experiment with different ways Its m
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Devin Desktop, Replacing Windsurf(cognition.com)
1 points by thinkingemote 3mo ago|0 comments
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by thinkingemote 3mo ago
Godot's new contribution policy: https://godotengine.org/article/contribution-policy-2026/
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Looking Ahead to Postgres 19(snowflake.com)
219 points by thinkingemote 3mo ago|133 comments
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by thinkingemote 3mo ago
> 1 Are there really people ... Why would their lives be assumed not to be "real", what even is that mindset? Yes, there are a very great many! The philosopher David Gray says that most modern thinking sees our way of life and
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Language models transmit behavioural traits through hidden signals in data(nature.com)
3 points by thinkingemote 4mo ago|0 comments
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The Venice Biennale: Canicula. Oppressive temperatures and societal suffocation(we-make-money-not-art.com)
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by thinkingemote 4mo ago
On HN many comments under many threads are about whether the submission was written by AI. You could say I have noticed a pattern in Hacker News comments! In these comments there's a common pattern where some users argue that they do n
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Why the EU rewrote its landmark AI law(theparliamentmagazine.eu)
3 points by thinkingemote 4mo ago|0 comments
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UK Home Office launches £75M 'PoliceAI' to capitalise on artificial intelligence(publictechnology.net)
39 points by thinkingemote 4mo ago|80 comments
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by thinkingemote 4mo ago
Can these colours be replicated or captured using ink, paint or traditional film photography?
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by thinkingemote 4mo ago
Alternate Reality Game - Basically a kind of online mystery game that pretends (with a wink) to be a real mystery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game
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Now You Don't: When Espionage Meets Magic(politicshome.com)
48 points by thinkingemote 4mo ago|5 comments
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Is it possible to write a kernel module which will blow the PC speaker?(lore.kernel.org)
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Production-Grade Claude/AI Skills for Ruby on Rails(github.com)
1 points by thinkingemote 4mo ago|1 comments
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by thinkingemote 4mo ago
It's easier to take a look via change of dates in google street view, they have almost 20 years coverage. You can see how the data ages and decays or doesn't because it's tied to the place it represents. Shops come and go, ch
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by thinkingemote 4mo ago
If things right now are hard to tell, it will be easier in the future to tell looking back. So, in the future lets say 2030 we can look back at the things people write in 2026 and that they swear are "my own words" and that fool a
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by thinkingemote 5mo ago
"Do you people all have brain injuries? AI writing is almost comically easy to detect" Some can't and that's fine. I also find it comically easy to detect, but it's a kind of pattern recognition, a skill that takes
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Smile vs. Poop(rivalvoices.substack.com)
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by thinkingemote 5mo ago
You should set up an actual company for this. It doesn't inspire confidence having it be just you a person and legally it's worse for you too.
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by thinkingemote 5mo ago
From the article: "When tasked with coding, writing, editing, or summarizing, ask the user up to three targeted clarifying questions. Proceed with the task once you've received answers and understand the prompt fully. If the task
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by thinkingemote 5mo ago
Recently there was a flood of articles about "students are using AI to cheat". Now there's a flood of articles about "students are anti AI". My first impression is that floods of articles do not accurately reflect t
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by thinkingemote 5mo ago
counter intuitively criminal ransomware gangs operate on trust. They have to ensure that we believe they really will shred it, otherwise no victim will ever pay a ransom ever again. Therefore one way to weaken these criminals would be to we
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by thinkingemote 5mo ago
Yes its more difficult now they are not students. Would you say that the same students who are protesting AI have used AI to graduate? Its ok either way. Edits - condensing the questions: 1) Are these protests reflective of the majority of

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