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by whstl 2mo ago
I recently had a non-techie doing this kind of stuff as well. Sending me a bunch of JSON files generated by Claude and saying "here's the JSON files you need", not understanding that JSON can have different shapes. It's
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by whstl 2mo ago
Careful: Work Visa is not the same as Residence Permit. They check during the KYC process via mobile phone camera, and will reject people without a residence permit (Aufenthaltserlaubnis, Blue Card, etc), and they claim several things, from
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by whstl 2mo ago
I fired a report for doing that. It was quite easy to explain why to HR. They were just an interface between me and Claude. No productivity lost.
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by whstl 2mo ago
I do have a credit card for emergencies but I haven't used in years. It's in the drawer, I didn't even integrate it with Apple Pay. My Girocard has Maestro integration, so I can use it overseas, but no number. Apparently this
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by whstl 2mo ago
AFAIK, it's actually the "not-really-banks" that don't have Girocard: N26, Revolut, bunq, Vivid, Trade Republic, Wise, Tomorrow, Openbank. All the traditional large ones seem to have AFAIK. Off topic but I really hate N2
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by whstl 2mo ago
I had a situation where my mortgage took money from my account, but used the wrong company/reference name. I didn't know what it was so I clicked a few buttons in the app and the money was back instantly. That was on Commerzbank.
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by whstl 2mo ago
Paypal (as an example) only asks for the name and IBAN and they do identity verification themselves, by depositing (!) a small amount of money on your account. But yeah, it's a very high-trust society. Of course any charge can be rever
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by whstl 2mo ago
I've been in a situation where I had to work directly with a good CEO (plus board, C-Levels, and a lot of middle-management) and problematic middle-management was the actual problem. It was almost like parody: - CEO wanting people to l
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by whstl 2mo ago
That's more useful than a lot of actual bosses.
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by whstl 2mo ago
I will always be grateful for his performance as Gabriel Knight, my favorite game of all time. Not only he was one of the pioneers in the medium, but the performance itself is still one of the greatest of all time.
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by whstl 2mo ago
I remember when Imgur tried to become a self-contained community. Reddit users would post an image in Imgur and the "community" would reply complaining about the lack of context, judging appearances or just being mean in general.
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by whstl 2mo ago
Luxury!
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by whstl 2mo ago
I had my ad blocker turned off temporarily and it was a strange experience.
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by whstl 2mo ago
It's mutually beneficial to everyone involved, Apple, the blog, the user. No leaked email address, no need for anyone to store password, people using iCloud instead of Gmail. What they're asking, for it to cost zero, sounds perfec
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by whstl 2mo ago
They're only useful for programming because version control, command+Z and "deploying a new version" exists. Take that away and you'll barely be able to make an app that display a pigeon riding a bicycle (or whatever you
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by whstl 2mo ago
This is also a big problem at companies. Previous company had full payments/accounts team, a few QAs, a couple accountants and SRE working on the automation of a specific payment edge case that was normally handled through support, and
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by whstl 2mo ago
I have the same experience as you regarding progressive migrations, having done quite a few from C and C++ semi-recently. Often progressive migrations are impossible, due to a "unit" being almost the whole program, by having too m
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by whstl 2mo ago
Just ask AI to write Jira tickets and call it a day. The point isn’t to serve customers anymore, it’s to use AI for AI sake because investors want, because they have FOMO. I’m only half joking. I have seen PMs attempting that and getting fi
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by whstl 2mo ago
Haha, yeah. Reddit for the longest time hasn't allowed me to browse certain subreddits without the app. I basically ignore search results from it. As the sibling poster mentioned, might depend on location, but it DOES happen.
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by whstl 2mo ago
The important difference IMO is in the small vs big libraries culture. Lots of languages have a bad stdlib but don’t fall into the trap of having thousands of micro libraries. The reason people do it is because it brings clout and money. Ju
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by whstl 2mo ago
I used to answer this with "I'm not listening to that, not even my parents send me voice messages" but it was called uncivil by some people, so now I just say "I can't listen to that right now" and never li
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by whstl 2mo ago
So they're pulling a Reddit, basically. "The app is great because the website is heavily degraded".
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by whstl 2mo ago
I was agreeing! You said it yourself: "Vibe writing vs AI assisted writing". The people complaining are talking about vibe-writing or heavily-AI-assisted writing. EDIT: My point is, most people taking the "anti-AI" stanc
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by whstl 2mo ago
Maybe you’re defending something that nobody here has a problem with. Using AI to rephrase things is perfectly fine.
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by whstl 2mo ago
> Theoritically yes. In practice: I get the feeling this is the whole disconnect. People have high expectations from AI but haven't really been on the receiving end of a massive amount of text/code generated by it. We recentl
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by whstl 2mo ago
Yep. Those things are never a coincidence.
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by whstl 2mo ago
This is dangerous advice on so many levels. “Is math” and “Either works or not” is only true with formal specifications and formal verification, which dwarfs the cost of producing said software.
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by whstl 2mo ago
I love to hate on Github/Microsoft as much as the next person, but considering the insane amount of code being pushed to it every day, I'd say they're doing quite well.
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by whstl 2mo ago
Product Manager using Jira AI to hallucinate tickets, epics, metrics and roadmap. Even the numbers were completely made up. There were too many incidents of “this doesn’t look right” in the same week, so when their boss did a thorough check
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by whstl 2mo ago
It’s not as if he was advertising to the world that he wasn’t really working.

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