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by xtracto 5mo ago
At the rate we are going, we will all go back to publish HTML website like in Geocities times.
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by xtracto 5mo ago
In my view duration is not the problem, but copyright itself is. Nobody should expect to be "passively" paid for a job/effort made at a past point in time. You work 40 hours this week, you get paid 40 hours at whatever your
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by xtracto 5mo ago
I also remember SourceForge fondly, before the ad infested thing. Specially, I remember not "getting" Github at some point. Bitbucket had mercurial support, sourceforge had SVN, and all the Cool projects lived in SF (I'm tal
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by xtracto 5mo ago
Interesting. I spent 8 years in academia (2004 - 2012) before moving to Industry. But as I've aged I've thinking of going back. I made it good in Industry so I have enough to jump to Academia without worrying about money... but I
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by xtracto 5mo ago
I understand your point and clearly see that LLMs cannot be compared to audio ... but ... Back when I was a kid, music, audio and sound systems had high quality as a standard. Nowadays people listen to music mostly with bluetooth headphone
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by xtracto 5mo ago
This hit very close home. I'm a 44 year old developer, with Software Engineering Bachellors and CompSci MPhil and PhD. All my life I spearheaded "best practices" and code quality (from Fred Brooks, Joel Sposky, Martin Fowl
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by xtracto 5mo ago
Gemini, Give me examples of people that the US has retained passports pending investigations It's standard procedure in every country for some investigations.
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by xtracto 5mo ago
Funny, we now enter the era of "Made with Handcrafted Code" or "Handmade" . Same way as furniture, carpets and any other "handcrafts" are made now... or Lamborghinis
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by xtracto 6mo ago
Can AI write a problem so difficult that even AI cannot solve? Hehe
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by xtracto 6mo ago
I want to focus on the "colleagues submit thousands of AI generated lines of code for review" comment. Humanity developed Code and programming languages for people. They are supposed to provide sufficient expressiveness so that w
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by xtracto 6mo ago
Demand, markets are always driven by demand.
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by xtracto 6mo ago
Haven't you seen all the layoffs? Ive been subscribed to r/layoffs for 5+ years, and since a couple of months ago, it's been crazy noisy. My hypothesis is that companies dont want to offer cheaper nor better services. Only
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by xtracto 6mo ago
They were actually 10 haha, according to the article.
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by xtracto 6mo ago
This is important. Just a couple of days ago we found out that 4 undercover CIA agents were operating here in Mexico: https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2026/04/22/no-eran-dos-eran-c... It has been knokwn t
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by xtracto 6mo ago
Using AI is fine. The key is to use it to build processes/Systems that solve problems deterministically. Instead of "asking them" to solve the problems non-deterministically themselves. It's way cheaper and robust. As a
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by xtracto 6mo ago
This really should be the case. If AI tools are really making it easier to build stuff, we should see hordes of new startups solving all kinds of problems thar were difficult or expensive to solve before. I've been seeing this in the s
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by xtracto 6mo ago
I think this is the real news. There seems to be an ongoing attack against Checkmarx. That thing is expensive as he'll and used by lots of huge corps. I know at least one very large one in Mexico ... where the IT team is pretty useless
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by xtracto 6mo ago
So, im working in some high performance data processing in Rust. I had hit some performance walls, and needed to improve in the 100x or more scale. I remembered the famous FizzBuzz Intel codegolf optimizations, and gave it to gemini pro,
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by xtracto 6mo ago
Reminds me of Gmail's early invite only mode.
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by xtracto 6mo ago
LOL, Monterrey diet is healthy compared to the diet in the Yucatan peninsula. Tamales, Cochinita (roasted pork with herbs), salbutes, trancas. Everything of course cooked in Lard. With CocaCola on the side. So yeah, that's a strong poi
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by xtracto 6mo ago
Moreover, I'm from a very hot and humid tropical region. Its normal to ne 40°C with 80% humidity there. And you dont see people having better health or longevity (Yucatan peninsula) .
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by xtracto 6mo ago
I had a similar experience in the early 90s (im and 1981 kid). I loved going to the magazine stand and get whatever local programming magazine they had at the time. Also, I loved Linux Journal (later years) and Linux Magazine. I got a subsc
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by xtracto 6mo ago
Im in DO and tried to open an account in Heztner. It wont accept my Visa card (which is use to pay DO). So no business from me.
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by xtracto 6mo ago
Oh my. I feel for the tech team at fiverr. I'm sure it's nasty in there. Sending virtual hugs.
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by xtracto 6mo ago
Exactly , that's whyb"non public" github gists work. They are public, but not indexed anywhere "by default "
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by xtracto 6mo ago
I just looked at the google search results... Holly cow... it is bad bad bad
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by xtracto 6mo ago
"The ads are just garbage" But the interesting thing is that, statistically what they are serving maximizes their revenue. So they have the best version of what they want to do, and it keeps maximizing their objectives (profit).
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by xtracto 6mo ago
We use it heavily at my workplace. It doesn't crash at all if you use it as OLAP. But if you use it incorrectly, it will crash. It's pretty solid.
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by xtracto 6mo ago
Mercurial was there, was better and more complete. Too sad it didnt win the VCS wars.
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by xtracto 6mo ago
I had a similar thought: there surely are lots of young folks who will be all excited with this (I was back in the CVS/SVN days when git appeared). But nowadays I'm extremely lazy to attempt to learn this new thing. Git works, I

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