lpapez

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by lpapez 20d ago
Exactly, and you need to start turning a profit before the end of that runway. Even if that means running code that is suboptimal.
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by lpapez 20d ago
This is the right way to deliver software. Produce working product first, validate the idea, stabilize the business, start generating profit, and then you can start optimizing your costs. In fact optimization is by far the easiest part of t
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by lpapez 2mo ago
Who are you and why should we listen to you banging on the drum? Memento mori.
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by lpapez 2mo ago
You are absolutely right! It was an honest mistake on my part. The absence of colour is the smoking gun.
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by lpapez 2mo ago
We are reaching levels of pettiness never considered possible previously.
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by lpapez 2mo ago
Source?
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by lpapez 2mo ago
There is a very good open source conversion tool called "Calibre". I use it all the time to convert my, erm, security backups of books I own.
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by lpapez 3mo ago
What is "good code"? If you ask your boss, it will most likely be whatever spaghetti code which ensures the contract gets signed on time. The boss doesn't care if the developer needs 10000 libraries for the submit button.
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by lpapez 3mo ago
Butcher worker protections and quality of life across all industries to (hypothethically) benefit a single one? No thanks. Why do you feel grinding insane hours would be beneficial to AI progress?
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by lpapez 3mo ago
It is a comment on the absurdity of orbital data centers. Mountaintop data centers sound absurd, but are more feasible and efficient than orbital ones in nearly every aspect.
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by lpapez 3mo ago
I use PHP. None of the language tools or constructs available to me are adequate. https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-php-singularity/
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by lpapez 4mo ago
Except that is not what the article says and you clearly missed the sarcasm.
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by lpapez 4mo ago
If the user puts glue on their pizza because a computer said so, that's a human problem. The computer generated recipes can be useful as inspiration, but of course common sense is required.
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by lpapez 4mo ago
Until Omega Star gets their act together, we have to live with this nonsense...
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by lpapez 5mo ago
Can't you simply fill that gap on your resume with something made up? "Self employed", "freelancer", "stealth startup", "confidential employer" etc. How would the companies ever know?
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by lpapez 5mo ago
Very cool research and wonderfully written. I was expecting an ad for their product somewhere towards the end, but it wasn't there! I do wonder though: why would this company report this vulnerability to Mozilla if their product is fin
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by lpapez 5mo ago
Recommendations from past workplaces and networking. Honestly never heard of anyone else being hired as a solo contributor outside those channels.
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by lpapez 5mo ago
> so why use PHP at all instead of JS like all the other vibe coders? Because there is nothing remotely close to Laravel for JS. I don't want to think about auth, job queues, mailing, cache layers, auditing etc. I want an opinionate
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by lpapez 5mo ago
>hype-driven commercial product >single-handedly keeping PHP relevant While architecture astronauts are clutching pearls, I've built multiple profitable products with Laravel without caring the slighest about the internals, both
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by lpapez 5mo ago
> Agile just finally embraced that specs are incomplete and can even be wrong because the writer of the spec does not yet really know or understand what they want. So they need working software to show the spec in action and then we can
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by lpapez 6mo ago
The US public discourse is so dehumanized today that anyone who is not "with them" is literally not a human anymore. Even within the country itself "the leftards" are considered an obstacle which can be removed if only e
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by lpapez 6mo ago
You can simply add a shell alias with whatever name you like and move on.
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by lpapez 6mo ago
Aged like already spoiled milk.
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by lpapez 6mo ago
All of those matter, making this whole situation even more unjustified.
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by lpapez 7mo ago
If you only realized how ridiculous your statement is, you never would have stated it.
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by lpapez 8mo ago
Amazing idea and execution, the sort of stuff I wish there was more of on HN.
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by lpapez 8mo ago
Sure it could have been, if you knew about SSH packet inspectors in Wireshark... The author didn't, and used a general tool to their aid - why is that unfortunate?
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by lpapez 9mo ago
Stop right there you terrorist antifa leftie commie scum! You are being arrested for thought crime!
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by lpapez 10mo ago
> So if you can sell those MT for $1-5, you're printing money. The IF is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. I understood the OP in the context of "human history has not produced sufficiently many tokens to be sent into the mac
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by lpapez 10mo ago
Surely you realize that OpenAI is not a publicly traded company?

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