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by twodave 3y ago
Is programming even the hard part about programming? In all seriousness, what we would really need from an AI to start really saving me time would be for it to interview all the customers/partners involved on the project, determine the
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by twodave 3y ago
Ha, I started a little kombucha brewery as well, and ended up ditching it because it was too much work to "always have kombucha". The supplies instead now sit in my cabinet and mock me. Thanks for letting me peek into your routine
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by twodave 3y ago
How do you prioritize your time? I see a lot of similarities in us. I feel the same way about my main job, though at a smaller firm. I also consult with small businesses on the side and have had very similar experience. What I don't ha
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by twodave 3y ago
Obligatory: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...
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by twodave 3y ago
Yep, and this is because sim-jacking is actually less profitable than just finding records of people’s _past_ phone numbers and signing up for a voip service that supports sms for that number. And many of the voip providers just don’t do an
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by twodave 3y ago
I could set up pihole on my local laptop. And on my wife's laptop. And on my kids' phones. And on my work laptop. And... Or I could just set it up on one tiny server (doesn't have to be a pi, but I happen to have one that isn
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by twodave 3y ago
If you're going this far, might as well do as the author did and add a pi-hole to the mix, issue some credentials to your phone and block ads and/or other stuff via DNS everywhere you go. I also use this to remote into my work com
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by twodave 3y ago
Is this advice actually helpful? I feel like if I were considering a start-up I’d still have just as many questions after reading what amounts to, “If you want to be great, you need to … be great.”
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by twodave 4y ago
Oh man. I hit my head while riding one of those as a teenager. Ruined my whole night at the fair. Never again.
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by twodave 4y ago
Interesting undercurrent that the article presents: a Sweden with high immigration has a lot of the same problems as the United States. Maybe living in a utopia is only possible if you first ship away those pesky poor folks. /s
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by twodave 4y ago
I assume trusted hardware would include things like LIDAR and biometrics, but if you're assuming those can be beaten then it will be a different kind of arms race, for sure.
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by twodave 4y ago
Right, which leads to a place where nothing is trusted unless it came from some central authority or from some trusted piece of hardware. I'm not looking forward to the day when I have to use e.g. an Apple or Google piece of hardware o
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by twodave 4y ago
While I agree with you, the problem is far bigger than any one company in my opinion. These tools are already accessible enough to individuals that no audio or video is trustworthy, regardless of its source. I suspect we can still detect wh
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by twodave 4y ago
That’s just humanity in a nutshell. I’d be more worried if everybody had the same views.
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by twodave 4y ago
Cannot unsee the fact that this guy's name is basically stdout with some extra letters in it.
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by twodave 4y ago
It is literally MIT licensed software. It’s no more vendor lock-in than React is in the first place.
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by twodave 4y ago
I was fully expecting to see a one-liner for this article: npx create next app. I think this article overstates the disadvantages of using a framework like NextJS. If you don’t want to work on the bleeding edge, then don’t upgrade right awa
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by twodave 4y ago
It really just depends on what you're trying to do I guess. The main auth boundary for my projects is typically the server gateway/api, and that's very straightforward to set up, whether you want simple auth or role-based or
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by twodave 4y ago
Getting all your private nugets onto .NET standard 2.0 first will help immensely. You can add precompiler directives for anything strictly incompatible. After that it’s just the usual dependency hell that plagues every modern ecosystem. Als
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by twodave 4y ago
The move away from web forms has indeed been painful. Mostly because our web forms were pretty stupidly implemented, though. It’s a legitimate downer, though. It’s been a lot easier to migrate back-end services. Nullable reference types are
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by twodave 4y ago
Fortunately NextJS and .Net isn’t strictly an either/or proposition. I’ve moved most of my new front-end development to NextJS at this point and use C# for most everything behind it.
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by twodave 4y ago
Status pages aren’t for providing transparency or customer service or anything else besides enforcing contracts.
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by twodave 4y ago
You’re probably right. That pretty much also means the end of general unregulated computer use. Will we allow it? It’s going to be a sad day.
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by twodave 4y ago
Yeah, that's a bummer. Statistically speaking you're better off finishing it if you want to maximize the number of places that would be willing to hire you. That said, it can also work in your favor not to finish since it might we
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by twodave 4y ago
Right, but that'll still leave some vectors open. Like how do I know my co-workers didn't just send all their deepfakebots to this meeting instead of actually attending? How do I know it's my children facetiming me in the nur
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by twodave 4y ago
IMO the difference is eventually it's going to be a lot more difficult to spot. There's a gulf of difference between someone doing a deep-fake of Elon Musk and fooling some people (but not everyone, and certainly not any rigorous
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by twodave 4y ago
Seriously, this is what creeps me out most about the latest advances in technology. Eventually I won’t be able to trust that anything digital is authentic. Think of how much of our planet now depends on digital interactions. Some of the abu
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by twodave 4y ago
Because product execution at SO many places sucks. LLMs won’t help with that, either. They’ll just help people market their crappy products more cheaply. Woe to the marketers, however.
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by twodave 4y ago
Yeah, I can 100% understand doing that as part of a family business; when your employer is your family it's pretty much assumed they have your best interest at heart (though I realize that isn't always true), and even if you'
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by twodave 4y ago
I'd never let any of my kids work in a meat processing facility. The danger element alone with combined with unpredictable children sounds like The Jungle just waiting to happen again. Still 100 kids out of all the employees seems like

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