michael_j_x

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by michael_j_x 4d ago
imagine if a TV network served scammy ads during prime-time TV.
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by michael_j_x 5mo ago
"superpowers" is the exact name of the specific Claude code skill. The rest of your concerns is just me expressing my excitement, as until recently I was very skeptic of the whole vibe-coding movement, but have since done a comple
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by michael_j_x 5mo ago
Using your analogy, I enjoy composing music and enjoy playing music. I don't enjoy going through the notion of writing the notes on a piece of paper with the pen. I have to do it because people can't read my mind, but if they coul
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by michael_j_x 5mo ago
I really enjoy coding. I've build a number of projects, personal and professional, with Python, Rust, Java and even some Scala in the mix. However, I've been addicted to Claude Code recently, especially with the superpowers skill.
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by michael_j_x 5mo ago
If you are selling to the grid, there is probably over-supply. Prices are driven by supply and demand. If you want to avoid selling at lower prices and buying at higher, try and get a battery. Check ecoflow to get an idea of the costs.
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by michael_j_x 8mo ago
You can voice your concerns, but should not go fighting, especially at personal cost. It could be that you may be wrong in your assessment, and the project turns out to be successful, or it could be that you may have been right for the wron
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by michael_j_x 10mo ago
what guys is this? Sounds like an interesting read
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by michael_j_x 1y ago
This is such a utilitarianistic point of view, Not everyone is defined by their work, not everyone cares about how distinguishable they are from the others, or even how the others think of them, and I would even argue, that very few oligar
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by michael_j_x 2y ago
I've been working with scrapers quite a lot. I started with python requests, then to scrapy, then selenium, then selenium via undetected_chromedriver, and once that started being detected during a chrome update about a year ago, I&#x27
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by michael_j_x 2y ago
not if they have monopoly status
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by michael_j_x 2y ago
They did 2, second 1 being a repeat of the first one at Boeing's expense, cause the first one failed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Orbital_Flight_Test_2
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by michael_j_x 3y ago
Where I live it is a) very sunny almost all year round and b) very common to have PVs on your roof. I currently have 5KWH installed on my roof, I have a Nissan Leaf which I charge every day whilst I am working for home and I've paid 70
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by michael_j_x 3y ago
well, they do record my slack messages for 2-3 months, and I am ok with that, even though that's my main method of communicating with my colleagues, and includes a number of personal conversations with them. Now, if my work required me
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by michael_j_x 3y ago
Have you tried smell training (basically you sniff 3-4 different types of essential oils daily). My girlfriend lost her smell due to covid for a year or so, and got it back about a month after starting smell training
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by michael_j_x 3y ago
it's crazy that Wozniak would participate in such a service. Is he running out of money?
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by michael_j_x 3y ago
I have centralized AC and the wall-mounted control panel is located in a small storage room. I wanted to hack the control panel with an Arduino and a Raspberry pi so I can control it remotely via my Alexa. I ended up buying a switch bot [0]
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by michael_j_x 3y ago
I meant for the ATC to provide a descent estimate of when Lufthansa should be expected to enter the AERODROME TRAFFIC CIRCUIT (since you want tolink the FAA glossary) in order to land (they had them on a hold pattern for 35+ minutes). This
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by michael_j_x 3y ago
The monastic community of Mount Athos, Greece. It's free in the sense you don't pay anything, but you have to become an Orthodox monk, with whatever that entails
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by michael_j_x 3y ago
I don't disagree with you in general, but this specific fallout is not due to them being the innocent parents of a guilty son. Their reputation was mostly harmed because of their invovlement in FTX and how they benefited from it, how t
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by michael_j_x 3y ago
star citizen with its quantum economic simulator is close enough: https://www.boredgamer.co.uk/2020/04/24/star-citizens-quantu...
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by michael_j_x 3y ago
I don't understand this sim-swapping concept. Where I am from (EU country), if you need to get a new sim for your number, you have to physically go to your service provider's stores with an official proof of identity (passport or
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by michael_j_x 3y ago
For ML stuff, it was a poor mans Matlab with great C and C++ bindings
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by michael_j_x 3y ago
I am sure any place that: a. it is by the sea so that they are not flying over populated areas b. it is remote enough so that a 1000tonne methane explosion will not endanger anyone or their property and c. it is close enough to civilizati
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by michael_j_x 3y ago
worked for about a week on very specific brokers. Then they started slipping my trades. Slippage became a big issue. I still can't fathom why such a thing is legal
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by michael_j_x 3y ago
a sub-ms trading platform written in Rust to try and do arbitrage across multiple FX brokers.
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by michael_j_x 3y ago
If an IT department of a major organization has both the time and motivation to construct and publicize such a document, that speaks volumes of the incentive structure and cooperate priorities of their organization. The fact that they rele
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by michael_j_x 4y ago
I am sure the uber-drivers felt the same way when we got the first glimpse of CNN driving a car back in the mid-2010s. Almost a decade later and we have now accepted that self-driving will not happen within this decade and without another l
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by michael_j_x 4y ago
I am not sure I agree that the GUI is a good use case for async. A human interaction with the program must almost always pre-empt whatever the program was running, so I can not see how a cooperative multi-threading runtime like async Python
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by michael_j_x 4y ago
Is the job remote? If so, then if you get paid as a mid-level dev, you should perform as a good mid-level dev. Nothing more than that. Do the absolute minimum required to remain on the standard promotion path (i.e. the 1.5-2 years you said)
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by michael_j_x 4y ago
I am quite annoyed that youtube app always defaults to low quality for me, even though I ve set multiple times my preferences to be 1080p

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