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by xfz 5d ago
Thanks for sharing and engaging with the comments. > Also, I am an IC, not a manager. I think this understates the power dynamics involved. At your level, being an IC doesn’t mean you aren’t in a leadership position, and feedback from yo
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by xfz 6d ago
Author here. I used Claude and ChatGPT Images to help me write and illustrate a book for my daughter's fourth birthday. The images were the part I had to lean on AI hardest for, and they were way more challenging than I expected: five
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Ada and the Panda: even with AI, making a picture book was no child's play(fazy.medium.com)
2 points by xfz 6d ago|1 comments
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by xfz 17d ago
Also: "...and your conversations are not shared with Meta's ad systems". I think they missed off "for now".
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by xfz 1mo ago
The pricing page is dishonest. It says prominently £4.50/month but that's for an annual subscription (£54 for 12 months is in smaller text below). If you want a monthly price you have to tab across to get the true figure of £5.40.
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by xfz 1mo ago
Not exactly news, unless this is aimed at naïve teenagers who don't know any better. Personally I stopped eating at McDonald's 21 years ago and it's the easiest thing in the world to quit (although I don't live in the US
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by xfz 2mo ago
Or just write a good covering letter and email it to yourself.
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by xfz 6mo ago
Completely agree, we can be edgy without being insensitive.
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Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code(fazy.medium.com)
115 points by xfz 7mo ago|96 comments
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by xfz 11mo ago
I have nystagmus (rapid, uncontrollable, rhythmic eye movements), so I couldn't see anything at first, just lots of small dots. I had to zoom in (Mac accessibility tool) but then I could see the effect briefly. My eyes go everywhere, b
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by xfz 2y ago
This is why the only Apple device I'll buy is a MacBook Pro, and even then if they wall it off as badly as their other products I'll reconsider.
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by xfz 2y ago
It's a great move by the Verge but I agree with the article that it doesn't go far enough. Why not offer a premium ad-free tier? For me, viewing web ads is non negotiable (print ads were much more manageable and didn't preven
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by xfz 2y ago
Sneaky paywall hidden below the fold.
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by xfz 2y ago
I've experienced this for over a decade. If I like the music I'm renting, I buy the CD and rip it to FLAC.
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by xfz 2y ago
Very well said. Just to add I have problems with my eyesight and the company I work at makes zero effort to accommodate this. It took me a while to be sure as I don't want to exaggerate, but for some tasks I reckon I'm only half a
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by xfz 2y ago
Nauseating mode is the default, you'll have to pay extra for a tolerable personality. ;) Seriously though, I'm sure it's an improvement but having used the existing voice chat I think they had a few things to address. (Perhap
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by xfz 3y ago
By the time I was born Mickey Mouse was so embedded in popular culture that it would be unreasonable to expect me to avoid the character. I certainly won't be telling my daughter to choose which characters to like depending on the stat
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by xfz 3y ago
One thing that really grates with this high percentage tip system is that it sucks the authenticity out of the relationship. I don't want someone pretending they're my friend when we've only just met, or trying too hard to pl
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by xfz 3y ago
One example: it now refuses to summarise books that it trained on. Soon after trying GPT-4 I could get it to summarise Evans DDD chapter by chapter. Not anymore. Not a surprise, but a change nonetheless.
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by xfz 3y ago
Much as I thoroughly oppose Brexit it's worth pointing out that other EU countries also made excersing the right to travel with a spouse difficult. Before Brexit I gave up trying to take my wife on a couple of business trips in the EU
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by xfz 3y ago
The last four companies I worked at have spent a fortune on SaaS, not just AWS but a host of providers for observability, management etc. They've all used Terraform extensively but always rolled their own means of deploying IaC, with s
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by xfz 3y ago
Yes, and also StackOverflow is massively impacted by ChatGPT. Many developers are already using the latter in place of SO. It makes sense for them to try and keep those developers on board.
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by xfz 3y ago
Generally agree although there's a case for "taking a different tack".
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by xfz 4y ago
I seem to remember some tapes were designed to load faster or otherwise decrease the margin of error when reading the tones, such that it wouldn't easily survive the degradation of tape to tape copying. Probably at the expense of the o
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by xfz 4y ago
It was endlessly patient until they introduced rate limiting. :)
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by xfz 4y ago
The problem is, people assume the tools they use are correct 100% of the time. An early example: http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simul... (see Bugs and limitations). More contemporary (I think):
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by xfz 4y ago
Are mathematics students allowed to use calculators, or did they ban those too?
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by xfz 4y ago
> But why do you think legislation should be the one forcing that choice on everyone, rather than the market allowing consumers to choose? I see a lot of debate about market forces vs regulation. In my view, neither one of them will solv
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by xfz 4y ago
Thankfully their UX is awful, which prompted me to switch to 1Password. It feels like they're milking a cash cow rather than trying to improve the product.
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by xfz 4y ago
Looks good, are they going to offer a hosted model? I couldn't find pricing on their website, just an email sign-up. Airtable's pricing just didn't work for me as an individual user - $$$s per month even for a simple table wi

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