myth2018

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by myth2018 5d ago
Also: run experiments to find an "optimal" budget with the right size for your target audience. If you, e.g., set a too restrictive geographic rule, but also set a budget higher than what they manage to burn showing your ads at th
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by myth2018 1mo ago
This. For a certain class of professionals, slowness is a kind of superpower able to restrain their damage. LLMs have turned off those guardrails. On one hand, I'm not fully surprised -- LLMs are powerful tools, but of course they can
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by myth2018 3mo ago
What a nice surprise. Two days ago I glanced a book about Clipper Summer in my bookshelf and thought that it would be nice to have an environment like that for the web. Glad that someone has built it! By the way, I'm not nostalgic abou
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by myth2018 5mo ago
No, you're not. Same here.
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by myth2018 7mo ago
I was skeptical too, but decided to give it a try. It worked quite well for me.
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by myth2018 7mo ago
Take a read on this: https://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html The author, among other topics, makes a case for the creation of personalized decks. That practice has been really valuable to me.
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by myth2018 7mo ago
> I know banking apps are the typical example, but I've always wondered why My bank uses the app for 2FA, and that became a sort of a standard in Brazil, AFAIK. Mine at least gave me the option of using an RSA SecurID or sth alike w
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by myth2018 7mo ago
https://nginx.org/
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by myth2018 9mo ago
I worked for a somewhat large bank that used to do this "system analysis" job at its beginnings. Don't recall how they called this process step, but the idea was the same. Besides the internal analysts, they used to hire cons
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by myth2018 11mo ago
What a coincidence, I've just read this paper while I prepare my proposal for a PhD. I feel that the difficulties reported by the novice users were related to the peculiarities of the mainframe interfaces + the 3270 emulator. Not exact
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by myth2018 1y ago
Nowadays mostly: - Java, Python - React, Angular - Postgresql - Docker, Kubernetes
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by myth2018 1y ago
Senior dev, 22 years of experience. Almost exactly two years unemployed right now. I've done some technical leadership before but I'm not looking into it anymore, not really my thing. In general, I get very few replies, even fewer
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by myth2018 1y ago
Thank you for the clarification, that one caught me
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by myth2018 1y ago
> Likewise many companies in my slice of the industry point to one of the big leaders RTO policies as the reason to do the same This also explains other things, not only RTO. Like when the mass layoffs started about three years ago. Over
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by myth2018 1y ago
I can relate. Also, sometimes I can even invoke it on things I want to. However, I just can't turn it off when needed.
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by myth2018 1y ago
> mandate weird Brazilian Android games on the phone I bought in Brazil. Uhm, this sounds more like something from the Ministry of Culture, maybe some tax incentive for manufacturers promoting local productions. I could be wrong though.
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by myth2018 1y ago
Funny thing is that americans do that all the time, even in international settings like a coworking space full of expats. Everybody introducing themselves with a "hi, I'm from this country", except americans telling their sta
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by myth2018 1y ago
I'm in a similar situation of yours (I don't feel any kind of regret though, I just feel this is a phase and it will pass someday). Anyway, I still read (and indeed not much more than that) a lot about my passions, but taking note
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by myth2018 1y ago
Glad to hear you are well. Also because that gives me some more hope. > which seems to have some weird comorbidities I'm a bit shocked by your list of comorbidities. Not only yours, but also the one you linked to. MCAS is currently
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by myth2018 1y ago
I'm going through a similar investigation. EDS + ME/CFS are the main suspects. Could live with the symptoms for very long, but they got too severe after covid (otherwise I would probably still be living with them). Is the treatmen
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by myth2018 1y ago
Good that you brought that up: that works pretty well to me in my mother tongue. I still learn and absorb beautiful and useful patterns reading good authors. But that doesn't seem to work in other languages as well. I somehow don'
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by myth2018 1y ago
> Anecdotally, this phenomenon seems more common among English-as-a-second-language speakers That part caught my attention. As an English-as-a-second-language speaker myself, I find it so difficult to develop any form of "taste&quot
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by myth2018 1y ago
I think the biggest problem is that HTML and even HTTP weren't developed with those use cases in mind. Before WWW was a thing we already had user interfaces and the fact that current users frequently prefer those ancient, text user int
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by myth2018 1y ago
> Influencers in these areas need to have a constant stream of fresh material to stay relevant, so they’re always driving toward something new that they can produce content about I feel sad to hear that. I thought that the decrease in th
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by myth2018 2y ago
My parents work for a company using an old system using numeric IDs for menus and screens. It's currently a web app, but it seems to share a good deal of code (and a great deal of philosophy) with the previous, older version, a TUI app
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by myth2018 2y ago
Initially I thought the grandparent was just making some fun of a mistake, but I ended up learning something new. Thanks.
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by myth2018 2y ago
For some short time, that worked for me, until facebook noticed that I was spending less time on it. Then, they started to push posts from other politics-related accounts (especially from ones at the side of the spectrum I used to antagoniz
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by myth2018 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42889686
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by myth2018 2y ago
Those are interesting insights, thanks for the extensive reply
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by myth2018 2y ago
I had never heard about them. Will do some research right away, thanks

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