nephy

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by nephy 2y ago
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by nephy 2y ago
Can we move on to the next grift yet?
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by nephy 2y ago
True, but what percentage of phone owners will actually do this. Less than a fraction of a percent? The remaining 99 percent chuck their phone in a landfill when it gets slow.
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by nephy 2y ago
If you give an LLM a word problem that involves the same math and change the names of the people in the word problem the LLM will likely generate different mathematical results. Without any knowledge of how any of this works, that seems pre
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by nephy 2y ago
I find LLM’s to be much worse than the junior engineers I work with. I have tried copilot and I always end up disabling it because it’s often wrong and annoying. Just read the docs for the things you are using folks. We don’t need to burn t
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by nephy 2y ago
Dog no they don’t lol. My family has been in both ecosystems over the years and by far the iPhones outlast the Android phones they buy both in quality and in updates.
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by nephy 2y ago
Yeah, it’s annoying, but the polyfill is like 3 lines.
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by nephy 2y ago
I think that would probably fall outside the norm. My information might be outdated, but I was under the impression that JavaScript usually wins in most algorithm benchmarks because the JIT is so good.
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by nephy 2y ago
I literally use BigInt on the backend every single day at work lol.
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by nephy 2y ago
I’m really tired of this discourse. The JavaScript ecosystem is the lingua franca of the web. Furthermore, while a segment of the programming community has sat around complaining, JavaScript has gotten really good and continues to improve e
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by nephy 2y ago
WASM is slower than running JavaScript on V8 in almost all scenarios and will likely continue to be for a very long time. Also, many of us don’t want a compile step.
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by nephy 2y ago
The US government needs to fast track breaking up Google asap. Chrome needs to be torn from their festering lich hands, so that the web can be free of their self serving, and frankly bad, proposals.
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by nephy 2y ago
I gave up a few years ago and decided that I was willing to deal with any drawbacks of buying and playing games on consoles rather than dealing with Windows. I only have so much time to sit down and enjoy myself and I would rather not fiddl
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by nephy 2y ago
Insurance companies are best incentivized and informed to make themselves a requirement, take your money, and then resist all efforts to actually pay you when you need them.
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by nephy 2y ago
Yes, and that rethink should be that insurance of all forms is a racket.
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by nephy 2y ago
I live 2 hours away from the mountains of North Carolina. I grew up in the foothills. You have no idea what you are talking about. People aren’t rebuilding here, “over and over.” This was a climate disaster full stop. If we as a species don
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by nephy 2y ago
McDonald’s art.
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by nephy 2y ago
These projects really need to start standing up their own Gitea or Gitlab instances and mirroring to GitHub. It also cracks me up every time I see legalistic apologists on this website backing up giant corporations. A) Who cares about the l
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by nephy 2y ago
No I haven’t because it’s quite complicated. Databases are very much a solved problem. Unfortunately, this architecture is going to be nigh impossible to hire for and when it goes absolutely sideways recovery will be difficult.
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by nephy 2y ago
I’m honestly not sure what you are talking about. In my experience, Redis is super easy to run and manage in production.
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by nephy 2y ago
We didn’t want to build something complicated, so we implemented our own raft consensus layer. Have you considered just using Redis?
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by nephy 2y ago
It’s unfortunate, but they have to curb rampant shoplifting somehow. I can’t think of a better solution off the top of my head.
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by nephy 3y ago
Natural gas from the county.
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by nephy 3y ago
I have a fan with 5 speeds that sucks a lot of air. The stove is on an exterior wall and vents directly to the side of my house. I’m not really concerned about it.
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by nephy 3y ago
I assure you that I am just a normal software engineer that happens to live in South Carolina. This is a matter of practicality for me. If induction became more practical for my family, I would make the switch. The incentives just don’t add
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by nephy 3y ago
I use an electric kettle for this.
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by nephy 3y ago
Totally agree, thank you for the balanced response. Most builders where I live install gas by default. I may have considered induction if I was building from scratch, but it’s really not worth it for us right now. Especially knowing the sou
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by nephy 3y ago
As opposed to my electricity, which is mostly produced by a coal plant?
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by nephy 3y ago
No, but my electric company buried tons of coal ash that leaked into the surrounding water table.
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by nephy 3y ago
I have a gas range, gas water heater, gas logs, and gas backup heat. My gas bill is around $15 a month. My home has proper ventilation to the outside and I have no intention of converting a cheap gas bill into a high electric bill.

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