mbmjertan

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by mbmjertan 11mo ago
Acrobat Reader is one of the more poorly engineered programs I’ve used. And it recently asked me to sign in an account and give Adobe money to open a PDF?? Unfortunately I need to sign PDFs often (using an image of my physical signature or
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by mbmjertan 1y ago
I can’t find the measurement methodology for Brightedge’s whitepaper, which concerns me because the margin for error seems huge, but Cloudflare’s numbers do make sense. Both are however in line with my personal experience and observations r
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by mbmjertan 1y ago
Still, it’s highly location-dependent, and mileage varies drastically between countries. I’m an SWE with a background in maths and CS in Croatia, and my annual comp is less than what you claim here. Not drastically, but comparing my comp to
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by mbmjertan 2y ago
I am not surprised. A lot of people conflate GDPR with the well-intentioned but misdirected cookie directive. A lot of people blame the EU for “forcing cookie banners onto the web”, while the GDPR solely demands that you ask for consent bef
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by mbmjertan 2y ago
> can point me to where to find more about this Sorry, I’m not too familiar with English-language literature on algorithm design. I just remember this from my uni course on it :) I believe we used Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen et
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by mbmjertan 2y ago
This reminds me heavily of Perusall, which we used for a course in university. Take a look at it for “inspiration” - it might be interesting :)
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by mbmjertan 2y ago
Your solution is not an exact solution to the knapsack problem, but a (relatively well known) greedy heuristic approach towards the problem. It is a good approach towards a solution, but the knapsack problem isn’t as trivial as it seems. Fo
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by mbmjertan 2y ago
I’m currently in the middle of my month-long stay in a new and unfamiliar city - and it’s been a challenge to meet new people, especially given how unapproachable we’ve all become in the past few years. Just last night, I was wishing for so
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by mbmjertan 2y ago
This is what IntelliJ does for Java. A problem is reported whenever you have a function that throws exceptions and isn’t caught in a caller anywhere in the project, and you can jump to implementation or calls easily. However, exceptions tha
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Gssr.dev – do you know your front end feature support?(gssr.dev)
1 points by mbmjertan 3y ago|0 comments
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by mbmjertan 3y ago
Yes, this is my personal website, and a post regarding that happening without seemingly any reason. Hence the title, "Safe Browsing Troubles". I should've added more context in the description, probably.
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by mbmjertan 3y ago
Previous HN discussions claim this was an early concern: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25805294 I do not see what has changed since, apart from Google having a larger budget for fines.
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Safe Browsing Troubles(mbmjertan.xyz)
3 points by mbmjertan 3y ago|4 comments
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by mbmjertan 3y ago
Oh, that's a typo I didn't catch. Sorry for the confusion, I'm not a native English speaker so words slip once in a while.
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by mbmjertan 3y ago
Sad to hear that. It looked very promising (and an interesting concept, hence the sum ission) from the repo, but I haven't tried it out. Will check out the DBeaver plugin.
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Chat2DB: SQL client and reporting tool which integrates ChatGPT capabilities(github.com)
1 points by mbmjertan 3y ago|2 comments
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by mbmjertan 3y ago
> I think a deadline forces people, us included, to negotiate that. They didn't seem willing to do so, though. Multiple devs have commented on the lack of communication from Reddit, and they didn't seem to budge when discussing
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by mbmjertan 3y ago
Given that sama is a board member of Reddit Inc, and that this is happening after GPT-4 was trained on Reddit data, I wouldn't jump to conclude they're upset at OpenAI. SO had publicly available, no-auth-required data dumps. Thi
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by mbmjertan 3y ago
It's difficult to reply to this without implying I'm defending Kaczynski or advocating for violence. I'm not - and I wouldn't like to be misconstrued here, as I'm replying about violence in general. I would say that
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by mbmjertan 3y ago
Unfortunately speech recognition is very poor for Bosnian, and that seems to be the case here as well. I am not sure how usable it is for the described use case is, but given that it didn't understand 3/3 of my sentences at all, I