chris_engel

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by chris_engel 4mo ago
I dont know... this works out until someone approaches you and says: well we see you are using LOTS of tokens so you must be incredibly productive. Please show your results.
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by chris_engel 5mo ago
Hm. Hetzners billing stuff is highly automated - but they usually give you about a month to pay your bill if the credit card payment failed for some reason.
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by chris_engel 7mo ago
Nobody speaks about the way larger spacing between "AND THE" in comparison to the other spaces...
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by chris_engel 8mo ago
Strong disagree. Angular is cursed to the bone. It got a bit better recently but its still just making almost everything totally overcomplicated and bloated.
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by chris_engel 8mo ago
Unless someone posts a photo of the stolen car with the numberplate still on, how would you identify YOUR car that way? Its not like cars are unique pieces. Same for bikes or anything else...
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by chris_engel 1y ago
Sure, in theory Hetzner could pull the plug or access the data on my VPS. But that’s true of any infrastructure... just like someone could break into my house and steal my self-hosted server. In fact, I’d argue the physical risk of loss, th
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by chris_engel 1y ago
I am irritated that "self hosted" seems to mean "in your own house" and everyone just agrees. To me, self hosted also means I rent a machine with Hetzner and run the server software on it. Its cheap, stable, fast, secure
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by chris_engel 1y ago
i've been using llm-based tools like copilot and claude pro (though not cc with opus), and while they can be helpful – e.g. for doc lookups, repetitive stuff, or quick reminders – i rarely get value beyond that. i've honestly neve
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by chris_engel 1y ago
Sorry but the approach is too naive and the tech isnt there yet. You can't make up a couple of conversation topics and expect the LLMs to do the rest by just switching languages. People approach the same topics completely different in
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by chris_engel 1y ago
I wonder about the mentioned application in mobile devices. with mobile and tablet devices one usually has a very durable glass layer between the screen and the outside world - not sure if sound would ve able topass through that.
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by chris_engel 1y ago
Or just... put in a usb thumb drive, move the 50gb on it and call it a day?
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by chris_engel 1y ago
Hm, you cannot simulate sunlight at all with an RGB LED ring. You can create something that looks cool for our human eyes but the average plant wouldnt make it long beneath them because its basically always living in the dark; the important
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by chris_engel 1y ago
Not that I am planning to travel to the US at any point but the first thing that came to my mind was: why not just sending the phone by parcel, fly without it and pick it up later on? Even tough I find it embarassing that such hacks are nec
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by chris_engel 2y ago
Colocation, I don't know... Without questioning peoples preferences but I think at that point I'd rather look for a decent fiber network connection for my home and let that raspberry run in my own cupboard. I mean, its a RASPBERRY
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by chris_engel 2y ago
Well, it depends whats your cup of tea in terms of learning. There area a LOT of courses on Udemy on that topic (if you prefer learning from videos). I would recommend looking around on HuggingFace altough I found it a bit intimidating at t
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Stop Coding Already(parastudios.de)
2 points by chris_engel 2y ago|1 comments
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by chris_engel 2y ago
I recently wrote an article challenging the common urge to dive straight into coding when inspiration strikes. As developers, we often feel compelled to start coding immediately, but I've found that taking a step back for extensive pla
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by chris_engel 5y ago
A nice tool when you need to things with images. Reverse search, editing, hosting, more: https://imgops.com/
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by chris_engel 5y ago
They say sonos does a good job on privacy. Did I miss something? Did they finally drop their approach of GPS-locating each speaker, phoning home what you listen to every couple of minutes and bricking the speakers to avoid re-sales?
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by chris_engel 5y ago
Working 10 to 12 hours straight with only one or two half an hour breaks is no goal one should thrive for. Neither working 80 hours a week. Heck, it would even be against the law in my country and it favors companies over people... We tried
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by chris_engel 5y ago
So... how do I know the other branch was correct without tests?
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by chris_engel 5y ago
Interesting article. I fell in love with the possibilities of GLSL shaders ages ago and tried to incorporate them more into day to day web development. I wrote a library that enables to "apply" a shader from a GLSL file directly t
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by chris_engel 5y ago
Partial hydration would have been a game changer in performance of nextJS based websites. I am a bit perplexed about the new "live" feature. Its just so far away from the framework business (poof, now its an IDE), I have no words
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by chris_engel 5y ago
I strongly dislike the idea. It reduces deep knowledge to people who can pay for it. The web should be open for anyone. (yeah, Its already not like this, I know)
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by chris_engel 5y ago
And this is why you decouple your systems as good as possible. The humans in your company need to be able to just prolong premium times manually. When the customer pays in diamonds. Or you want to say thank you to someone and add half a yea
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by chris_engel 5y ago
For me, the action component advice was the worst of all. Its a "component to rule them all" which brings you closer to configuration hell. There is nothing wrong in having separate components for "Button", "BigButt
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by chris_engel 5y ago
I'm not so sure about the environmental friendlyness. Our dishwasher runs for one and a half hour in eco mode. I'd need to measure how much energy it uses in the process. It feels so inefficient and slow. I'd spend about 20 m
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by chris_engel 5y ago
This is the reason why I like Telegram so much more than WhatsApp. The fact theres an API and the possibility to write bots makes all the difference.
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by chris_engel 5y ago
Hm, you also need to consider that 5 trucks can have a much higher combined output than the 1 truck 5 times as high. The storage might scale this way but not the output when demand is high.
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by chris_engel 5y ago
Yeah thats true - so you explicitly mean CDNs that serve a single thing only. Using a CDN for your static files is just as fine as it always has been.

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