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by invaliduser 11d ago
I mainly use them as macros. Not even an advanced and smart macro system, just plain basic macros to avoid copy-pasting recurrent prompts. Is there more to them?
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by invaliduser 11d ago
I basically create a skill when I'm tired of always writing the same prompts, and then I adapt it over time. I have like 3 skills, and so far so good, most of my recent changes have been asking Claude to please stop using metaphors and
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by invaliduser 1mo ago
«It uses an architecture where everything is a plugin» Ok, that's enough for me. I have developped over the year a plugin fatigue. Every product relying on "community plugins" for their features implies it works fine the 6 fi
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by invaliduser 6mo ago
How can you come to that conclusion, given the specific examples I have given, which are tedious to write, but easy to proof-read and test?
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by invaliduser 6mo ago
For a lot of code, I switched to generating code rather than using 3rd party libraries. Things like PEG parsers, path finding algorithms, string sanitizers, data type conversion, etc are very conveniently generated by LLMs. It's fast,
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by invaliduser 6mo ago
2:320/104 represent!
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by invaliduser 7mo ago
I understand it can be difficult to label, and there's an inconveniently large grey area here, but there is a difference between plain vibe-coded software and software built with AI under the control, direction and validation of a deve
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by invaliduser 9mo ago
The first ad blocker was released in 1996 [1] and in 1999 we had a lot of shiny, blinking and very colorful ads already [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_blocking#History [2] https://www.webdesignmuse
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by invaliduser 10mo ago
Just found about this skin market/casino thing, and also that my teenage son purchased a skin for 100€, but is still pretty excited and happy about it because «its real value is around 700€». I am still processing this information.
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by invaliduser 10mo ago
I wouldn't lie even to strangers, and my point was solely about people having little to no sense of security.
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by invaliduser 10mo ago
Most people have no sense of security. They say yes to strangers if asked to plug in a USB device on their laptop. When I said no in the train to someone asking to plug their device "for charging", I was definitely the bad guy. Ju
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by invaliduser 10mo ago
In the early 2000s the video field was flooded with fast paced releases of new codecs and new codecs versions, and there was codecs implementation to downloads right and left, and people were bundling them and releasing them with names soun
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by invaliduser 10mo ago
The same thing exists on Windows, developers have to code sign their binaries. It's even worse in my experience because you have to use a token (usb key with cryptographic signing keys in it) and that's impractical if you want you
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by invaliduser 11mo ago
The main issue with this article is that it claims to be about anonymization, but reject HMAC because it's not reversible, and promotes IPCrypt because it is. Except that if it's reversible, it's not anonymization, it's
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by invaliduser 1y ago
Happened in France too. It was put in place in the late 70s, and ended in 2020. Called the «numerus clausus» (closed number, in latin) and it restricted the number of medicine students allowed in the country every year. The number of studen
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by invaliduser 1y ago
Or maybe just read the commits between now and a reasonable date far enough in the past so that if there is some hostile code injected before that point in time, then at least you will share the walk of shame with a lot of people and you ca
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by invaliduser 1y ago
Even is the AI bubble does not pops, your prediction about those servers being available on ebay in 10 years will likely be true, because some datacenters will simply upgrade their hardware and resell their old ones to third parties.
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by invaliduser 1y ago
taglines where witty one-liners posted at the end of messages, after the signature, as a way to add a bit of humor or personality. I think we also used them in fidonet echomail, but I don't remember for sure.
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by invaliduser 1y ago
But how can it be a problem? Working on a project just for fun is totally valid. Is this not «Hacker News»? For the record, this is the definition of being a hacker by Stallman: «Being a programmer doesn't mean being a hacker: it means
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by invaliduser 1y ago
1. I say both somewhat 50/50. I say SSL instinctively, and TLS when I think about it and remember we don't say SSL anymore. It's been like that for around 10 years now, before that I'd only say SSL. 2. I started programm
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by invaliduser 1y ago
I have a similar experience with providing users with excel files, but would also like to add that in a lot of business, the number 1 competition for a web application is the good old excel file (or its modern cloud version), and it's
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by invaliduser 2y ago
You are right on that, not including the UK in a European list (whatever the reasons) is a shame.
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by invaliduser 2y ago
To be fair, the non-geographical definitions that excludes Britain, actually only excludes Britain because Britain excluded itself of the European Union in 2020.
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by invaliduser 2y ago
Can you give a hint for [1] ?
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by invaliduser 2y ago
You are so right about computers, except from Raspberry Pi (UK) not much as been done in Europe. Regarding the eu cloud, it is definitely about sovereignty, specially since the CLOUD Act (H.R. 4943). In the context of the global trade war i
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by invaliduser 2y ago
Although you are from UK, so not the european union anymore, you could try getting listed on https://european-alternatives.eu/category/transactional-emai... Anyway yes, we need to better list and advertise the european
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by invaliduser 2y ago
OVH (french) is very well known and I like them a lot. Used them for domains a lot, because they are very cheap and their management is nice. I also like very much ScaleWay (french also) for price and quality of service, have used them for
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by invaliduser 2y ago
Maybe I was not paying attention, this is of course a possibility, but until at least early 2019 the react website's main page was only mentioning the class-based "stateful component" as the way to write components. https:&#
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by invaliduser 2y ago
Not primarily, as primarily it was just "we're the V in MVC", and people were using classes. The hooks came when the react team got on the "functional programming" wagon, and suddenly everything was about immutabili
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by invaliduser 2y ago
I totally concur. I migrated most of my self-hosted services from multiple rpi (I've been using several of them for years) to a single cheap Intel N100 NUC that I purchased last year: 16GB RAM/512Gb SSD for 156€, and I've bee

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