toonalfrink

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by toonalfrink 8mo ago
I find that function point estimation, potentially adjusted with COCOMO factors, is pretty decent. I find it strange that no one is talking about these methods
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by toonalfrink 8mo ago
I don't like it. We should be divesting from unethical businesses, not from american ones. Nationalism can be so seductive but if you engage in it you're being pulled down to "their" level. Instead, consider your true &q
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by toonalfrink 1y ago
Too vague yes
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by toonalfrink 1y ago
It is nature that demands labor for survival, not society. Society has been gradually diminishing that demand, and may theoretically be in the position to remove it entirely, but such a state of affairs has never existed.
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by toonalfrink 1y ago
There's you who insisted on a FAANG job to make 6x more than you probably need and then there's me living on 1.5k a month because I refuse to do anything that feels more than 1% useless (i.e. most things in the enterprise). I&#x27
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by toonalfrink 1y ago
In other words, MCP is RESTful (as in, it has HATEOAS) and "REST" is not
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by toonalfrink 1y ago
Prices are about communicating almost more than they are about prices...
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by toonalfrink 1y ago
Not the one you're asking, nor the one you meant to ask, but I find it rather objectionable that we are now restricting the production of new memes in academia to the ~25% that is most aligned with a moral fashion that is patently host
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by toonalfrink 1y ago
This whole answer hinges on knowing that 0 is not a positive integer, that's why I couldn't figure it out...
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by toonalfrink 2y ago
She's a physicist. LLMs are not for creating new information. They're for efficiently delivering established information. I use it to quickly inform me about business decisions all the time, because a thousand answers about those
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by toonalfrink 2y ago
Or maybe the stress-reducing effect carries over to the next day? Stress has a habit of not being randomly reset to the default value every morning when you wake up
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by toonalfrink 2y ago
To me this statement looks like, they can't really make bold statements, so they make vague ones instead
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by toonalfrink 2y ago
you either define d-day as defense or you admit that WW2 wasn't won with defense
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by toonalfrink 2y ago
Might find it beautiful, but I'm also just f'in busy. Why do you think that if I enjoyed it I would've already done it? Enjoying things is great but it's not my main desideratum for doing something
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by toonalfrink 2y ago
Location: Amsterdam Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Yes :) Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toon-alfrink/ Email: news.ycombinator.com.trial916@passmail.net Independent IT consultant an
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by toonalfrink 3y ago
Not that hard nowadays to switch to a decent developer-led neobank
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by toonalfrink 3y ago
European here. I'm honestly shocked to find out that there's anything else than the "work for money so you can live" mindset. Unless you have equity or it's a charity, of course.
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by toonalfrink 4y ago
Like, i tried all the cliche stuff and applied them religiously. None of it worked. I tried sleep restriction. It worked. I even started consuming caffeine in the evening which would usually keep me up until the morning, but now I just fall
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by toonalfrink 4y ago
Have you tried sleep CBT? Data says its the strongest intervention (set of interventions really) and it’s checked out for me. I had insomnia and it’s straight up gone (probably not as bad as your though). You should pay special attention to