The_Fox

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Tropes – AI Writing Pattern Directory(tropes.fyi)
2 points by The_Fox 16d ago|0 comments
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by The_Fox 1mo ago
I also used to be affected by node outages on a cable network, but now I have Starlink and as long as I can generate some power, I can be online. I wouldn't go back; you might consider it.
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by The_Fox 2mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch In this context it means upon a successful backup, update a timestamp somewhere. Some other system monitors the timestamp and if it ever becomes more than for example 1
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The Coming Divide: AI-Native or Left Behind(danielmiessler.com)
3 points by The_Fox 3mo ago|0 comments
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AI enthusiasts in a race against time, AI skeptics in a race against entropy(charity.wtf)
3 points by The_Fox 3mo ago|1 comments
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by The_Fox 4mo ago
I read that post back in the day and have remembered it ever since, and used it as a basis for the process at my current employment. Thank you! (For those interested: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/03/06&#x2
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The AI Superstars Who Say a 'Vibe Slop' Crisis Is Coming(wsj.com)
6 points by The_Fox 4mo ago|1 comments
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by The_Fox 4mo ago
I view this use of AI as a type of denial of service attack. Alice sends Bob a wall of text (low effort) and Bob must parse it (high effort, yet probably no value received for the effort).
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NASA wants to know how the launch industry's chic new rocket fuel explodes(arstechnica.com)
6 points by The_Fox 6mo ago|0 comments
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by The_Fox 7mo ago
"Pacific time" is going to be so confusing though. Should have just called it Yukon Standard Time, since that's already a thing, at least informally. Cause that would not be confusing at all...
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Yukon Time Zone(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by The_Fox 7mo ago|0 comments
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by The_Fox 7mo ago
Location: Kelowna area, BC, Canada Remote: Yep Willing to relocate: Nope Technologies: Linux, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Terraform, SaltStack, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Nginx, Python, Django, apt packaging, iptables, VPNs, TC
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by The_Fox 7mo ago
It wasn't for no reason at all though. There were concerns about availability of yeast, which isn't used in sourdough. (Valid concerns or not, I have no idea.)
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by The_Fox 7mo ago
Yesterday my manager sent LLM-generated code that did a thing. Of course I didn't read it, I only read Claude's summary of it. Then I died a little inside. It was especially unfortunate because to do its thing, the code required a
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by The_Fox 8mo ago
Agreed- just a month ago I told my team to read https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev... and note how Spolsky knew the details of his application (weird date issues in Excel and VB). If
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by The_Fox 8mo ago
I installed CodeRabbit for our reviews in GitLab and am pretty happy with the results, especially considering the low price ($15/user/mo I think). It regularly finds problems, including subtle but important problems that human rev
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by The_Fox 9mo ago
I was driving home with my family from a long trip having just bought a really cool camping trailer, a 1979 Airstream. Our vehicle died on the side of the road in a rural area. The owner of the property where we stopped was mowing his lawn
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by The_Fox 9mo ago
I'm an avid HTMX user but never did I ever think "I'm using so many includes, I wish I didn't have to use include so much." What I would like is a way to cut down the sprawl of urls and views.
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by The_Fox 1y ago
This is a great quote for the topic, but the quote is normally about a bridge that barely stands. I'm chuckling at the thought of barely building something. (All in good fun, thank you.)
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by The_Fox 1y ago
I distinctly recall early in my first university programming courses the instructor saying something to the effect of "Just wait until you learn 'public static void main'". I think we had only used BlueJ until that point
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Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources(arstechnica.com)
6 points by The_Fox 1y ago|1 comments
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by The_Fox 1y ago
As someone who previously led development of a commercial VPN system, I assure you, there are about 100 ways for a VPN to go slower than the network hosting it. Unfortunately. Two cases I can think of are MTU misconfigurations and constrain
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by The_Fox 1y ago
> The rapid growth of revenue of AI model companies, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. You can't use growth of AI companies as evidence to refute the article. The premise is that it's a bubble. The growth IS the bubble, according to the
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by The_Fox 1y ago
Tufte also had a lot to say about the Challenger disaster, which predates Powerpoint but not the visual display of information. Found the chapter here: https://williamwolff.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/
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by The_Fox 1y ago
With regards to wrapping your head around heat loss- this winter some work was done on our property while there was snow on the ground. A bunch of snow got covered in dirt. In the spring, maybe three weeks after all the snow on the ground h
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by The_Fox 1y ago
Yes although somewhere there will be an `if` statement to determine if the process being started should get the complete environment or a key to get the other keys or whatever. Best to make that `if` at the highest level of the architecture
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by The_Fox 1y ago
Their own tools would need the various API keys, of course, and they did build a method to filter out those variables and managed most user code through it, but it sounds like they forgot to put Rubocop through the special method. So this r
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by The_Fox 1y ago
As a teenager I did about 4.5 minutes, as I recall, in a bucket of water. I played the trumpet quite a bit at the time, so I think my capacity was above average. It was a competition and I got first, and the second place fellow was also a t
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by The_Fox 1y ago
I too just yesterday had my first positive experience with Claude writing code in my project. I used plan mode for the first time and gave it the "think harder" shove. It was a straightforward improvement but not trivial. The spec
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by The_Fox 1y ago
Location: Kelowna area, BC, Canada Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Nope Technologies: Python, Django, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Terraform, Javascript, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Nginx, Linux, apt packaging, iptables, VPNs, TCP congestion

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