jamesrr39

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by jamesrr39 1mo ago
> he's trying to commoditize his closed rivals, it's not out of principle To be fair Meta/Facebook does have quite a strong open source history; React (Native), PyTorch, Btrfs, zstd, etc. It didn't just start here wit
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by jamesrr39 1mo ago
Why only one app, and not several and choose the right one for the occasion? Mapy.com and OsmAnd are much better for trail use than Google Maps. Mapy has public transit info (depending on where you live, of course).
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by jamesrr39 1mo ago
I think Anthropic/OpenAI do have a moat in the (western) enterprise market. Chinese hosted models are a no-go, and my experience with enterprise IT departments is that they will not self-host. So far signing up with a known product (e.
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by jamesrr39 2mo ago
> Who cares? Someone cares enough to offer $111B...
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by jamesrr39 2mo ago
yes, there are questions like that (steps, ramp, etc). Also questions about road surfaces, pavement/sidewalk, etc
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by jamesrr39 4mo ago
Subjective depending on who you ask, but for me RSC is not really representative of React usage. (I believe) the vast majority of React apps (and the vast majority of dev experience in React) are front end only. I have been writing React in
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by jamesrr39 4mo ago
I tried Angular 2+ back in the day. I found it frustrating to learn as the API had changed between versions, and when searching for help you would come across a blog post/stackoverflow answer, start implementing it and realise it didn&
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by jamesrr39 6mo ago
Just knowing the personal number is not enough to do much with. To get access to services, verify who you are on when talking to companies there is a verification step, most commonly with the BankID app. Visual example: https://i
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by jamesrr39 9mo ago
> modify roborock vacuums and load up other software even. Can you provide more info/got any links? I would love to try some open source software on it
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by jamesrr39 9mo ago
Ironically we bought a Roborock (Chinese brand with close links to Xiaomi) and didn't connect it to the internet (checked this would work before we bought it). If you don't want the scheduling and other app features, and are happy
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by jamesrr39 10mo ago
The blue check symbolised (symbolises) being verified, i.e. this account belongs to who it says it does. But it doesn't carry out any/sufficient checks to actually verify that. See also: https://x.com/jesus/st
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by jamesrr39 10mo ago
Sounds like a Samsung phone... no end of dark patterns and pushing Bixby AI and whatever else. And then once you have the phone set up you get to spend the next 10 minutes uninstalling a load of pre-loadded apps that you didn't want. F
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by jamesrr39 1y ago
I live in the EU and can see value in live translation for me personally. However, I'm happy with the decision. Sure, they are not available right now. But it's worth it for the long term picture. Imagine if this would be yet anot
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by jamesrr39 1y ago
Most likely not in it's current state as it uses the `chrome.bookmarks.getTree()` API. However the Chrome-specific stuff is in this file: https://github.com/jamesrr39/chrome-bookmark-search/blob/mas... ,
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by jamesrr39 1y ago
I still bookmark websites. Just in the standard browser, not in Pocket, etc. I found searching for and finding bookmarks a pain, so made a Chrome extension to natural language search with lunr.js. It works nicely and I open-sourced it. Exte
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by jamesrr39 1y ago
0.2% > Payment service providers shall not offer or request a per transaction interchange fee of more than 0,2 % of the value of the transaction for any debit card transaction. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/
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by jamesrr39 1y ago
Hmm, many people writing Java without a PhD...
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by jamesrr39 1y ago
> Developers (often juniors) use LLM code without taking time to verify it. This leads to bugs and they can't fix it because they don't understand the code Well... is this something new? Previously the trend was to copy and pas
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by jamesrr39 2y ago
Thanks for these comments, I appreciate it. Although I would point out: > scalability [...] no company would even bother with PostgreSQL at all In my experience, you can get pretty far with Postgresql on a beefy server, and when combined
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by jamesrr39 2y ago
I have heard this a few times from different people/places, but why is it the case that at 50+ it is harder to find work? Assuming a regular retirement age, there are still many more years left in the career than a typical tech employm
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by jamesrr39 2y ago
Genuine question: I appreciate the comments about MongoDB being much better than it was 10 years ago; but Postgres is also much better today than then as well. What situations is Mongo better than Postgres? Why choose Mongo in 2025?
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by jamesrr39 2y ago
The amount of perfectly functional messaging apps Google has gone through is crazy[1]. Each Google messaging app (GTalk, Hangouts, Meet, etc) is perfectly functional, but with an endless series of migrations, why would you stay around and e
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by jamesrr39 2y ago
> Intel reserves the right to ask you to stop using the logo [...] Serious stuff!
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by jamesrr39 2y ago
At the risk of appearing low-tech, a much more simple, Goroutine-safe solution for dealing with "now-dependent" code: type NowFunc func() time.Time func getGreeting(nowFunc NowFunc) string { now := nowFunc() if now.Hour() &
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by jamesrr39 2y ago
On a larger scale: Copenhagen and Vancouver both have fully-automated metro systems (i.e. driverless systems). Presumably there are many other cities with such systems around the world, and they probably all work nicely. Fine for getting ar
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by jamesrr39 2y ago
> The future for self driving cars are closed roads where only driverless cars are allowed. Given that human-driven cars, trucks, cyclists are already on the roads and will be for quite a while to come, and pedestrians already cross it,
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by jamesrr39 2y ago
> So basically they're trying to do a "liveness" check, probably under the assumption that videos are too hard to fake (and hopefully they compare the ID documents against the video). Honestly, that seems legitimate to me.
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by jamesrr39 2y ago
Yes. See GDPR (max fine 4% of global annual revenue) or the new EU Digital Services Act (max fine 6% of global annual revenue). These are both fairly new laws, if you look at the laws they replace (which themselves may not even be that old)
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by jamesrr39 2y ago
Not just moved back there, but used the company Wi-Fi network!
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by jamesrr39 2y ago
Well, revoking credentials isn't inhumane. You can fire someone humanely and without compromising security.

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