petterroea

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by petterroea 3d ago
Sounds like you may enjoy being a QA engineer. Good QA engineers are a really really good value add to a software team and can really save our ass. Technical QA engineers understand why things break, and are easy to coordinate with when pre
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by petterroea 5d ago
For a lot of people that's a good thing
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by petterroea 7d ago
My uneducated take here is based my my friend's experience, who is an electrician. He's happy to be more flexible than the law allows him to. Work more hours, longer shifts, worse times of the day. Whatever gets the job done as go
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by petterroea 7d ago
When it first released I correctly predicted that the game was overhyped and destined to flop, making fun of friends who bought the game and ending up being disappointed. The internet historian video made me buy it, thinking it was maybe wo
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by petterroea 11d ago
Japanese websites still do this. If you buy shinkansen tickets between 23:00-05:00 you get: * JR central - you can buy, but not reserve seats, as the system actually registers your ticket at 5am * Jr east - you cannot buy. Some banks/g
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by petterroea 16d ago
Good point. I wonder how many articles discuss old games and over-analyze choices that may actually be labelled as //TODO: good enough, fix later In the actual source code
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by petterroea 16d ago
> I wonder how much space exploration could be financed by auctioning off naming rights. My favorite part about this is that since names are largely a social construct, given the right situation, we could just nullify all the paid names
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by petterroea 19d ago
Sorry for the long wait, I wasn't ignoring you, just busy. Yes, symbols were obfuscated, but Java software with obfuscated symbols is trivial to reverse, at least compared to its native counterparts. My understanding is that the bigges
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by petterroea 20d ago
Its proprietary, but trivially decompileable. Sure, maybe if the game was released today they would try obfuscating better, but the thing is that modding culture had already basically torn the game apart by the time Microsoft came around. I
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by petterroea 21d ago
When bedrock was announced I was sure Microsoft had won the os arms race and had everything they needed to make an impenetrable monopoly: * They could make bedrock moddable using .net, and make it so basically every kid interested in progra
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by petterroea 21d ago
The unlimited private repos for free tier would have happened anyways. You have to remember that this was around the time people were jumping ship from GitHub exactly because they didn't offer private repos for free. It was something m
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by petterroea 21d ago
I have never seen an acquisition be good for the users. I struggle to believe this one will be different
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by petterroea 23d ago
The whole fable thing really did the company a number. Their filters are incredibly sensitive now and I got banned for bootstrapping a react app. 13 days and still no response, and they haven't even refunded the subscription as the FAQ
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by petterroea 29d ago
I don't disagree, but consider that second hand machines are of unknown state, and often have no (or limited) warranty. Just like with a second hand car, there is a higher maintenance burden. How does an average joe know if a machine o
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by petterroea 29d ago
This will be my new go-to article whenever I talk to someone about how technology isn't a silver bullet and their thesis is that "yeah it is, we just dont have that technology yet". The use case outlined in this article shoul
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by petterroea 29d ago
Most people I know don't own enterprise computers. They are pretty pricy and visually tame - not really made for consumers. To me, buying a framework is more about ideology than them being the best at everything. You can't expect
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by petterroea 1mo ago
I'm basically unable to work on boring things without LLMs now because it just doesn't feel like a good use of my time. I am also unable to work on thinks that are mostly vibecoded, by hand, because I know the code is bad, and I k
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by petterroea 1mo ago
Whelp. This is one of the reasons I stopped believing in exposing my homelab to the internet. Everything is now on my private VPN network. It means I don't have to worry about staying up to date all the time. For something that is oste
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by petterroea 1mo ago
In my experience there's almost always a way in which things like this can be abused, which is why I lean more towards it being made illegal altogether and accepting the cost of not having mass surveillance. I am yet to find a way in w
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by petterroea 1mo ago
It's not that I disagree, but police looking up protestors license plates in order to trigger a "law enforcement looked you up" email is one hell of an intimidation tactic
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by petterroea 1mo ago
The original CTO, Martin Sandsmark, was a heavy Linux user and made some incredibly based choices for remarkable. If you look in the right places on the internet there are some really cool images of remarkable hacks he was showing off to pe
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by petterroea 1mo ago
"Oops, you are right. I shut down the spacecraft, and now it will never boot again. Here's how it happened:"
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by petterroea 2mo ago
There have been critical articles about the lice problem in Norwegian newspapers for years, so it's honestly relieving to finally see it talked about abroad. I've felt shameful whenever people talk about the "superior Norwegi
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by petterroea 2mo ago
I'm generally very critical of the idea that people are relying on ai, but the thing I didn't realize in the past and that I see many like me haven't is that the literacy of an average citizen is surprising low. I know people
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by petterroea 2mo ago
It means you aren't entitled to visit a foreign country. You aren't entitled to them letting you in. Of course in a perfect world we all trust each other and have open borders, but that's a privilege we have to work for. I&#x
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by petterroea 2mo ago
Visiting another country is a privilege, not a right.
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by petterroea 2mo ago
aw, they didn't reset weekly usage for this. oh well
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by petterroea 2mo ago
This is super cool technology, but will be abused to death
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by petterroea 2mo ago
Recently there seems to be an uptick in North-Korean attacks against developers. In addition to this type of attack, which has been going on for years, I recently get ~1 email a week from North Korean hackers. It's always a "Hello
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by petterroea 2mo ago
Settlement would mean it doesn't become legal precedence, right? This outcome seems to be the best possible for Anthropic. Over 100B$ have been invested in AI so far, venture capital can afford to pay a few billions per big company as

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