weego

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by weego 2y ago
Getting Claude to extract numbers from the image of a spreadsheet someone inexplicably sent you instead of the actual spreadsheet is not the same as "being interested in AI"
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by weego 2y ago
sbt is one of the worst engineering mistakes I've ever witnessed. It was a constant source of esoteric ergonomics and frustration for no clear reason other than being the pet project of someone who really loved implicits.
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by weego 2y ago
It's hard to take anyone concerned about the 'performance ceilings' in javascript object creation seriously at this point.
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by weego 2y ago
Spreadsheets, browsers, databases. Everything is decided to be an 'abstraction' and it's someone else down the line that has to be concerned. Over the last 30 years of starting as a developer I've really lost faith that
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by weego 2y ago
"Person who broke into car aided by rogue hammer"
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by weego 2y ago
I live in rural Scotland. Every power outage in the last 10 years has been caused by land developers not reading the local utilities plans and accidentally cutting through cables.
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by weego 2y ago
They want huge tax credits for data centers that then won't employ many people or will employ visa'd migrants, but that can of worms can be kicked down the road to another administration.
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by weego 2y ago
Why is the primary sales call to action is that it's serverless if it's a hosted solution? Who cares.
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by weego 2y ago
Inspired is generous, it's an exact copy of the form.
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by weego 2y ago
I literally never want to hear other people's words as voices, or have my voice casually dumped on the Internet along with probably, over time, far too much reconstructable info about me.
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by weego 2y ago
This was a constant source of confusion for me with Akka. They seemed almost proud of how much boilerplate and how many weird implicit conversions were exposed to the developer.
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by weego 2y ago
I just believe that people shouldn't die from preventable MH conditions. You can look in from the outside with no working knowledge of the problem and think as you please.
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by weego 2y ago
I've volunteered in crisis intervention and mental health coaching for a decade or so and this is a major part of certain communities. When ED issues come up, especially in teens, concerning topics are usually (not limited to) -How to
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by weego 2y ago
It's a fun game, my only complaint is a UX / expectation issue: when I've placed a block, my natural reaction is to press space again to "enable" the next block for moving but, as it's enable by default, it loc
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by weego 2y ago
There's literally no way we would risk this process being done by anyone other than our compliance team/person. It's a pain in the ass exactly because it's critical at a level of "oops we lost our license to do busi
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by weego 2y ago
'it makes social sharing look a bit nicer' being the only benefit that can scraped from the barrel as a benefit undermines the entire premise. It's not widely adopted, it's used as an attempted growth hack in a few locat
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by weego 2y ago
Awakard at first glance I thought it said there's anal
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by weego 2y ago
Link-in-bio comes from social platforms where you're allowed 1 url in your profile but need to show many links (also in situations where some of the links may go to content that could get you banned if placed on site ie OF). I'm n
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by weego 2y ago
We've handed visual layout markup to a bunch of software engineers who don't then consider that this should not be an engineering "language" when adding new features, which pushes closer to the hands of day to day engine
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by weego 2y ago
How do you ensure the data infrastructure you’re building doesn’t get replaced as soon as you leave in the future? If this is a core conceit of the thinking then my answer is who cares? Why do you want to try and influence a situation you
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by weego 2y ago
This is self hosted. I think we'd all accept that a "self hosted Stripe" that obviously had to offload payment processing to a third party gateway could still be self hosted because the platform is, not every dependency. Volu
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by weego 2y ago
I appreciate that you've built this out and it looks very professional. It's not a service I could see wanting to pay more than just a tip for it existing. A sometimes useful VSCode extension is probably the extent of the usefulne
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by weego 2y ago
The insane leaps of theorericals this researcher is jumping too smells like desperation for funding. My own speculative leap is that this is overly biased towards finding data to fit a result.
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by weego 2y ago
It's perfectly OK for a company to release a product that isn't entirely open to all engineering aims. It's just a waste of oxygen constantly discussing this.
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by weego 2y ago
The fundamental principle here is absolute nonsense. It's the wrong end of the telescope to be looking through for this kind of engineering idea.
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by weego 2y ago
Honestly, what does it matter. We're many lifetimes away from anything. These people are trying to define concepts that don't apply to us or what we're currently capable of. AI safety / AGI anything is just a form of tec
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by weego 2y ago
You can already write your Javascript in Scala so the game is afoot.
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by weego 3y ago
The article feels like a similar insight to the founding ideas of cryptocurrencies. Engineers stumbling on foundational principles baked into other fields that software happens to be replicating.
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by weego 3y ago
The irony of people down voting the above and then reading this response on a VC run community platform is palpable. What do you think everyone's been doing during the ignore unit price era?
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by weego 3y ago
AFAIK spreading interest in the field through social media was/is part of her post doc job goals

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