ventana

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by ventana 5d ago
Your reasoning makes sense, and I was concerned in a similar way when I filed my arbitration case (for about $8k) against the manufacturer of my leased car. The so called “Lemon law” in California suggests the arbitration as the first step.
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by ventana 6d ago
For the past two years or so I've been trying to follow this philosophy too, preferring to ship (that is, publish) my hobby projects as soon as they are even remotely useful for someone, and it more or less works for something that can
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by ventana 6d ago
Not at all. For example, arrival of Uber was very visible and destructive to taxi industries in many places; I witnessed it in Moscow, Russia where I lived for a few years back then. In 2012, if you needed a quick ride from an underground s
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Half Moon Bay to end use of Flock license plate readers(coastsidenews.com)
2 points by ventana 9d ago|2 comments
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by ventana 9d ago
TL;DR: yet another California city decides to dump Flock.
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by ventana 13d ago
Here's a quote from their terms and conditions: Governing Law; Venue. All claims arising out of or relating to the AdSense Terms or the Services will be governed by California law, excluding California's conflict of laws
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by ventana 21d ago
Cops love Flock. I'm subscribed to some of the local police department accounts in social networks, and Facebook shows me more of those across the country, and I see a lot of posts like “a serious crime happened, we tracked the car
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by ventana 26d ago
Most likely it will work. It will also look very LLM-generated, “claudish”, and people will be able to tell that they are looking at the vibe-coded frontend. Inside, there will be dragons: you will probably learn that all your CSS and JS ar
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by ventana 26d ago
> You can be a software developer without ... any licensure. Don't jinx it. We are extremely lucky in this regard, and it actually looks like a rare exception.
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by ventana 27d ago
> NEGOTIATE (A2A Network) > According to YC data, a B2B company needs an aggregate 800 cold emails (factoring open, response, and conversion rates) to secure a single customer, while spam thresholds tighten to 0
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by ventana 27d ago
The paper is basically like this (spoiler alert): “Some random user on Reddit posted a picture claiming that this is the longest straight line path on water possible on the Earth. We implemented a smart algorithm to solve this problem, foun
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by ventana 27d ago
Actually, ICQ had no relation to Russia in 1990s. It was acquired by AOL in 1998, went through several rounds of enshittification and protocol changes to defeat third party clients which did not show ads, and finally landed in Mail.Ru group
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by ventana 28d ago
It's interesting that this piece stands well enough if you replace mathematics with probably any other intellectual profession, including software development or pretty much anything else. And, I lie to anyone who asks me why I’m a
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by ventana 28d ago
ICQ? Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time... a long time.
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by ventana 1mo ago
The majority of the side projects I work on just because it's fun to work on something; if people actually use it then great, but if not, the project will just wait until someone eventually comes in. With this approach, it's not “
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by ventana 1mo ago
This is a long, but well written and very reasonable document. I especially like that they acknowledge that there cannot be one-size-fits-all approach to AI in education, that they recommend against regular AI detectors, and that they encou
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by ventana 1mo ago
I would guess this is what the managers and PMs had been feeling for all those years while we developers were happy writing our code. I actually feel much more sympathy to my managers now that I'm kind of managing a team of very produc
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by ventana 1mo ago
The main question is whether you have SSN or not. If you worked for American companies from abroad, you probably filed W-8BEN and were considered a non-US person for all tax purposes, had no TIN and nothing was reported on you to Equifax or
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by ventana 1mo ago
In my 20-something years in the industry I worked for teams that claimed they use scrum, sprints, or some combination of those, multiple times; in all 100% of cases it had nothing to do with how the “real” scrum is supposed to work. The maj
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by ventana 1mo ago
I can totally imagine writing a blog post just because I want to write something, having zero interest in hearing anyone's comments on the topic. So while some blog authors want to make it easier to respond and comment to their posts,
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by ventana 1mo ago
Such places definitely exist, but it's a choice to live in a food desert vs live in a city with public transportation and walkability. There definitely exist cities in the US where you can live without a car. It's mostly a questio
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by ventana 1mo ago
Out of my 3 big tech employers, only one reported just a fact of my employment with them to the credit report, but all three reported everything to The Work Number.
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by ventana 1mo ago
Sure, not all good laws are given. Must take a good public campaign or maybe a big leak for the law like that to appear. I would think California will be one of the first states to adopt a law like that, similar to how they now forbid to as
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by ventana 1mo ago
Except in the credit report they only list your lenders and how much money you owe, and your payment history, and it's technically possible to not get any credit and have no information, or at least no recent information, in your credi
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by ventana 1mo ago
When you apply for a software job in the US and go through a background check, most of your former employments are verified through The Work Number. As an employee, I'm not aware of a way to opt out of this data collection, and I assum
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by ventana 1mo ago
As the article correctly mentions, Lisp as a concept is much older than any of the popular languages used these days; so are the attempts to get more people use it. Most of them are, unfortunately, unsuccessful, because it's probably i
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by ventana 1mo ago
For me, $3 a click would've worked for some projects, but $30 would not work for sure. Knowing that it's $30 and not $3 before the start of some campaigns, I would've saved some money. I instead paid that money to Google for
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by ventana 1mo ago
That's great! I was experimenting with Google Ads traffic to one of the websites I cared about, and even just looking at the existence of mouse move and scroll events, let alone the patterns, made me understand how many bots, or users
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by ventana 1mo ago
I know, it's just less obvious and probably not at all convincing for a person with no mathematical knowledge. Even talking about (1+1/n)ⁿ is not easy without a bunch of calculus.
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by ventana 1mo ago
Now wait until someone asks the author to prove that e or π exist. The whole reasoning they used for √2 is based on the fact that √2 is a root of a simple equation x²-2=0 which has rational coefficients; with e or π no such equation exists.

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