borplk

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by borplk 15d ago
I guess you'll have to do it with browser automation. I assume that's possible?
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by borplk 23d ago
This is cool but personally I never really understood the interest in turning a barcode into a piece of art or trying to embed images and logos into it.
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by borplk 1mo ago
I'll take the 300x slower non-vibe-coded pg, thanks!
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by borplk 3mo ago
If it's good enough to replace plain Software Engineers it's good enough to do DevOps/SRE too. There's no meaningful distinction between those categories in this context.
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by borplk 4mo ago
Gimmickmaxxing?
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by borplk 4mo ago
I don't remember 2001. But 2008 tech job market was way wayyy better than today.
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by borplk 4mo ago
Unfortunately nerds are easy to trick. Good luck convincing any other discipline to do free labour for optional donations, vibes, and "the community".
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by borplk 4mo ago
Can anyone suggest or come up with viable "use cases" of a custom LLM like this? I wouldn't mind giving it a try but ideally I'm looking for something that is not just a toy.
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by borplk 5mo ago
That doesn't justify it because the user should still be able to decide when to initiate it. People are ok with not interrupting the update if they get to choose when it starts.
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by borplk 5mo ago
I find it shocking (not really) that among the many BILLION dollar companies built on the back of Postgres there isn't enough sense to pay the salary of one dude to keep a project like this going forever.
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by borplk 5mo ago
Site appears to be down intermittently with a Django error If author sees this: Turn off Django debug mode
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by borplk 5mo ago
My observation is that people who love this stuff are not programmers so they feel like they have been empowered to automate things that they could not otherwise automate. For people who are already highly skilled in scripting/automati
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by borplk 5mo ago
Unfortunately everything is going in the opposite direction. We are in the age of AI-slop AI-everything AI-break-it AI-fix-it. Software companies are competing with each other on how low they can push the quality and still get away with it.
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by borplk 5mo ago
I think it means charging based on the value of the work to the client not just the cost of doing the work. That means if you get fast and efficient at doing something valuable for the clients you get to enjoy better margins because your co
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by borplk 5mo ago
Claude is SOOO powerful and dangerous they just had to shut it down guys :))
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by borplk 5mo ago
Does anyone have solutions or suggestions for mounting a S3 bucket as a read-only filesystem? I don't need any writes. Previously I have done a periodic script that would simply re-sync the directory which works well enough. But curiou
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by borplk 6mo ago
Holy shit I just scrolled through the status sites. Almost every single day is filled with incidents.
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by borplk 6mo ago
It's not clear that it would be a net-negative on the revenue. It could encourage more development and adoption and lead to being a net-positive for the revenue.
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by borplk 6mo ago
I realise that this is not always practical. But generally I refuse to engage or negotiate about the way I work. Especially if you have a lot of experience, you have to push back when people want to drag you in the mud and wrestle about whi
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by borplk 7mo ago
Can anyone mention how you can "save the state" so it doesn't have to train from scratch on every run?
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by borplk 7mo ago
I don't know but I'm guessing that it's because it makes it easy to give access to it to Mac desktop apps? Not sure what's the VM story with Mac but usually cloud VM stuff is linux so it may be inconvenient for some user
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by borplk 8mo ago
You have to think about the threat model. The OS itself is rarely a problem. It's all the other stuff around it such as apps, browsers, websites, etc... What is your use case? If you need a private computer to read and write you can se
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by borplk 8mo ago
Yes! I despise how the open source and free software culture turns into just free labour for freeloading million-dollar and billion-dollar companies. The culture made sense in the early days when it was a bunch of random nerds helping each
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by borplk 8mo ago
Not quite what you asked, but here are some thoughts. Do you have the sales "fire power" to sell this solution? Because it sounds like the kind of thing that governments or complicated companies would potentially buy. And they are
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by borplk 9mo ago
His whole "I love fast food and coca cola" thing is a fake persona
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by borplk 9mo ago
Simply speaking "Postgres for everything" is meant as a fool-proof default choice for the average person making an average app. It helps startups avoid tangling themselves with some bespoke/complex combination of Redis+Postgr
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by borplk 9mo ago
Yes but usually the routing is done as part of a library so the developers are unlikely to interact with the API themselves. It will just affect the internals of their routing library. Those libraries already have their own implementation o
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by borplk 9mo ago
At first glance it seems like this API would be more useful on the server side to do URL routing. What are the use cases for it on the client side?
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by borplk 9mo ago
They seem to beat their chest in every elaborate highly technical post-mortem as they report the timestamp of events down to the millisecond as if we should be impressed!
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by borplk 10mo ago
Every time they screw up they write an elaborate postmortem and pat themselves on the back. Don't get me wrong, better have the postmortem than not. But at this point it seems like the only thing they are good at is writing incident po

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