jerhewet

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GTA V Modder Adds 235 Flock Cameras to Los Santos(frvr.com)
2 points by jerhewet 5d ago|0 comments
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by jerhewet 22d ago
Thank you for this. Bookmarked.
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by jerhewet 22d ago
> they all use ai all day to do their entire jobs I am so fucking sick of this. No, you dumbshits -- ALL of us DO NOT use LLM's to write code. Just fucking STOP assuming every developer needs the same crutch that the rest of you can
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by jerhewet 29d ago
I will never use LLM's. Never. Your cope for your own faults is very sad.
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by jerhewet 1mo ago
Adguard Home running on a Raspberry Pi. Point your router at it for DNS, works like a charm. Two years now, and it consistently blocks 48% to 54% of all the trash, including _all_ Microsoft domains.
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by jerhewet 1mo ago
> Everyone uses an agent harness to code this days No we don't. I don't care what's at stake; I will never use spicy auto-complete.
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by jerhewet 2mo ago
> picking a fight with the one company that actually seems to be trying to play > it straight in this sector (Anthropic) https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumber... Search for "Anthropic
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by jerhewet 2mo ago
I could not agree more. You might love him, you might hate him. But he was a fixture in the Golden Age of Personal Computing.
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by jerhewet 2mo ago
In my case it's Windows 7. I have to override the useragent in Firefox nowadays; Hacker News now rejects any attempts to login or browse the site if I don't fake the browser useragent.
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by jerhewet 2mo ago
Fabrice Bellard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard
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by jerhewet 2mo ago
GeoSpoof could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox 115.37.0
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by jerhewet 3mo ago
On the sites I visit often I use uBlock Origin to make fonts large enough for me to read (damn you, presbyopia!). Otherwise I use Ctrl-+ to increase the font size (Daring Fireball, for example). news.ycombinator.com## :style(font-size: 18pt
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by jerhewet 3mo ago
Have my angry upvote. :-) One of my faults is "When somebody tries to explain something I hear 'A' and everyone else in the room hears 'B'". And vice-versa. But if someone can iterate a very VERY rough cut of w
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by jerhewet 3mo ago
Wow. Possibly the worst dickover[1] I've ever encountered. [1] https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/what_is_a_dickover
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by jerhewet 4mo ago
> now that he is on the wrong side of 90, he is not that interested anymore I'm going to be 70 in November, and I can't wait to retire ... hopefully in 6 months, but chances are I'll keep working until I'm put out to
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Amazon Thinks Future of Data Centers Depends on a Technical Problem It Solved(wired.com)
3 points by jerhewet 4mo ago|0 comments
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by jerhewet 4mo ago
uBlock Origin. Right-click, Block Element, click "Create", done.
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by jerhewet 4mo ago
Microsoft Teams. The poster child for web-based UI crap.
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by jerhewet 4mo ago
Mine would be "helicopter shots" when I'm watching the evening news. I don't want to watch 45 minutes of "live coverage" from a news chopper hovering over a building on fire (or, from recent events in Los Angel
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Return on Intelligence, Part 1: Echoes(rebecca-powell.com)
9 points by jerhewet 4mo ago|0 comments
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by jerhewet 4mo ago
I stand corrected! My memory is pretty vague on this, but I was pretty sure Joel had said something very close to this in one of his blog posts in the early 2000's, but it looks like Zuckerberg was the first one to use the phrase &quot
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by jerhewet 4mo ago
Joel Spolsky. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
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by jerhewet 4mo ago
> anatomy Autonomy? [autocorrect strikes again! :-)]
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by jerhewet 4mo ago
I wish our Lambdas would spin up faster, but otherwise I've been very happy with them over the past six years. We seldom run over the free tier limits, and when we do we get a bill for a couple of dollars. Dead simple to code for, dead
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by jerhewet 5mo ago
Thank ghod I'm retiring in six months. I'm very thankful I came of age during the golden age of personal computing. I was able to own my own computer(s) and earn a living writing software on them and for them. Fifty years was a go
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by jerhewet 5mo ago
Will Atlassian be harvesting code and content from private Bitbucket repositories? The wording in their policies and FAQ's is vague, so I'd like to get a definitive (Yes / No) answer.
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by jerhewet 6mo ago
Browse to https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/the-latest-user-agent... and copy the latest UserAgent string for Google Chrome. In Firefox, about:config > general.useragent.override > new string, click +, paste
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by jerhewet 6mo ago
I have the book (and CD) on my shelf above my machines in my home office. I vaguely recall buying this at Costco, around the same time I bought the 4 volume Microsoft Press C++ series (for dirt cheap, at the time) from Costco. MS Press used
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by jerhewet 6mo ago
I like this. It should be a status. "I deficated this issue. Closed."
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by jerhewet 6mo ago
> for posterity Anyone remember this one? Microsoft Press: Learn Java Now (complete with J++ installation CD). https://www.amazon.com/dp/1572314281

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