Kwpolska

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by Kwpolska 4d ago
> The engraving was created using imagemagick, which took the user’s text and returned an “engraved” image to be overlaid on the rear of the iPod. Couldn't this be handled client-side, just overlaying plain text in gray 'Helvet
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by Kwpolska 5d ago
(The Automattic story did make it to the front page.)
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by Kwpolska 6d ago
They hope they can get away with it, because their fanboys will defend them for anything.
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by Kwpolska 6d ago
I don't trust carriers to get things right, and I don't see any benefit in switching my main card to eSIM - I inserted the physical card once when I bought the phone, and it's going to stay there until I get a new phone, simp
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by Kwpolska 7d ago
Visual Studio and Xcode take up tens of gigabytes, are updated often, and include system components. Storing them in VCS is impossible, and would be a waste of disk space.
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by Kwpolska 10d ago
Skills that are so generic that you can find them on the internet, and which you think can be replaced by model improvements, are useless, possibly even harmful, considering how much the models get clingy to the context. Useful skills descr
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by Kwpolska 13d ago
If the site defaults to system (which isn't guaranteed), very few people will need the toggle, at which point it can be omitted, or at least hidden deep in settings, and there is no need to put so much thought into its design.
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by Kwpolska 20d ago
In some software development methodologies, "spike" is a task whose goal is figuring something out instead of delivering shippable code. https://agiledictionary.com/209/spike/
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by Kwpolska 20d ago
Why would anyone still use PayPal after so many cases of accounts being banned and funds being frozen for no reason, and all the other terrible stuff they've done?
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by Kwpolska 24d ago
Or get your personal Google account permanently banned.
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by Kwpolska 27d ago
I'm wondering how much data is available in the enterprise admin panel for Claude. If you could somehow tell an employee pasted this text into the AI, that would be useful as grounds for termination.
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by Kwpolska 27d ago
In first world countries, buying from a local reseller grants you customer rights (like returning or replacing defective items).
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by Kwpolska 29d ago
Those requirements apply to direct distribution or alternate marketplaces. Developers not meeting those criteria can still participate in non-Apple distribution by submitting to an alternate marketplace.
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by Kwpolska 1mo ago
Considering Gruber's always comically butthurt about regulation, especially EU regulation, your theory seems accurate.
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by Kwpolska 1mo ago
Nah, that's just Internet Archive being Internet Archive.
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by Kwpolska 1mo ago
The author is selling "Gorton Perfected" for $20: https://shifthappens.site/store/
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by Kwpolska 1mo ago
If v4 is a ground-up rewrite, I'm not sure it deserves to inherit the community's trust in the previous version.
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by Kwpolska 2mo ago
Twenty years, but apparently no screenshots. How can they be serious about making a graphical operating system with no screenshots anywhere on their web site?
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by Kwpolska 2mo ago
If you're building a RSS reader, you'd probably want to process the data and store all relevant fields as columns for storage. Not much point to storing the XML. Entries in feeds should have a guid you can use to detect updates&#x
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by Kwpolska 2mo ago
Claude Code was writing one-off details (specific to one task) as memories, so I instructed it that memories require explicit approval before writing, and that seems to work reasonably well. That said, in my experience, Claude gets overly a
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by Kwpolska 2mo ago
Fable might be using those phrases less, but its writing is still terrible and exhausting to read.
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by Kwpolska 2mo ago
Are there no property taxes in the US? And how do you know if the price is reasonable without knowing its relationship to the property size?
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by Kwpolska 2mo ago
Pretty sure you're responding to someone talking about game development.
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by Kwpolska 2mo ago
I’m not sure if resets require that much compute, maybe a few whales will use the service a bit more right after a reset. What matters more is the money, as they’re giving away free usage, and subsidising subscription users even more.
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by Kwpolska 2mo ago
I haven't received any AI spam. You don't need an LLM to spam people. Good spam filters should be enough to get rid of spam without annoying people who email you.
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by Kwpolska 2mo ago
The author has supposedly created a company ( https://sf.tools/ ), with a broken /jobs page, and yet is developing the project under their personal GitHub account. Does not look trustworthy.
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by Kwpolska 3mo ago
On the first screen, the only "rewriting" done was s/dataroom/Room/g.
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by Kwpolska 3mo ago
> Stewart Butterfield has talked about the pressure Slack faced from large organizations in its early days wanting features that would have fundamentally changed what Slack was. The requests were reasonable on their face: more administra
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by Kwpolska 3mo ago
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/29/polish-railways-fall-victim-... tl;dr: Trains can be stopped by a transmitting a simple, documented tone sequence over analog radio.
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by Kwpolska 3mo ago
The short version is, the DOS-era Japanese character sets had replaced \ with ¥, and modern Windows still shows paths as C:¥WINDOWS if you're using the Japanese locale.

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