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by pif 5d ago
You get that when you refuse personalised ads.
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by pif 7d ago
> Discord chats, AI and social media videos A.k.a: no trustable source.
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by pif 7d ago
Mathematics is a tool. What make such understanding possible are the relentless, disciplined, often-pointless-looking collection and categorization of data of any kind, by generations and generations of selfless scientists.
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by pif 28d ago
> it’s at least a bitter awareness of the fact that the industry doesn’t care to refactor existing code Refactoring working, terrain-tested code?!? https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-shoul
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by pif 1mo ago
> They are renowned for their form of prayer that involves running for extended periods of time. Mark me as atheist!
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by pif 1mo ago
> Several times a day I'll prompt regular Claude chat to "Clone x/y from GitHub and tell me how Z works". In principle, you should not need the source code: the AI should be able to answer by examining the binaries.
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by pif 2mo ago
People still calling themselves developers and choosing a language that was created for poor programmers...
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by pif 2mo ago
OK, just forbid commencial during those 3-minute breaks. Have some other kind of entertainment organised.
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by pif 2mo ago
> About increasing teams to 48, now to 64? I still hope we Italians will eventually be able to participate again, thus I approve the 64 team formula ;-)
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by pif 2mo ago
> classic problem of "Engineering isn't shipping features fast enough" and "Sales is selling features before even consulting with engineering" That's not a problem, in the sense that there was never any poss
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by pif 2mo ago
> I think most people think of it as a free vacation. I'm shocked that someone does NOT think so!
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by pif 2mo ago
> pockmark the landscape of their knowledge with exploratory boreholes I've got a PhD in particle Physics. I develop the geometry module of machine tools. I got lost when an auntie tried to explain crochet to me.
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by pif 2mo ago
> the meaning of existence, universe, and the like And the child will be too young to accept 42 as a satisfactory answer...
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by pif 2mo ago
> Nothing works It depends on whose perspective you consider the problem. An enterprise produces software for one reason only: make money out of it. And it works great! if you are a paying customer, and if you can choose among a few diff
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by pif 2mo ago
> Or maybe you pipe into xargs and pray your filenames don’t have spaces So they wrote a new tool and posted it on HN before checking the manual about null character termination... Not trustable at all, what a waste of time!
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by pif 2mo ago
This Italian here has never heard nothing like that. Tomato sauce can be simmered for several hours, but there is no refill.
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by pif 2mo ago
The author is confusing visitors with customers. Refusing entry to 2% visitors? No, no! Forgetting about non-interesting 2% visitors? Not even a blink!
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by pif 3mo ago
Luminosity, not power!
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by pif 3mo ago
> This issue here isn't surveillance as per a signed warrant. I don't think anybody's really arguing against that. Everybody who talks about cryptography is arguing about that! With the digital technology we have, the opti
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by pif 3mo ago
> every time someone wandered a week by feet from home Remote privacy means that you don't have to move from home. > or sent a letter Which anybody could just intercept and read. > Famous authors published for a whole lifetime
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by pif 3mo ago
You see, when someone talks about "the governments" without realising that they do represent the people in a democracy, their ignorance show so much that it is difficult for them to attract any sympathy in those places where the l
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by pif 3mo ago
And any phone could be tapped with a signature by a judge.
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by pif 3mo ago
I am always surprised that people get shocked when online privacy is put at risk, as if it was a fundamental human right. REMOTE PRIVACY NEVER EXISTED BEFORE A FEW DECADES AGO! And what happened in these decades are enough for the societies
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by pif 3mo ago
> Need more than 64KB? Allocate two blocks. How is that compatible with an array and a simple implementation of the index operator?
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by pif 3mo ago
Say what you want, but a law that lets you pretend that the value of a building is based on what you ask, rather than what you can actually obtain, is a stupid law.
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by pif 3mo ago
That's as stupid as it is old. Locals would do it for a proper salary. But the same locals do not want to pay the proper salary! Turn the brain on from time to time!
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by pif 3mo ago
Which is what thay should be in any sane environments. LLMs can be wonderful tools, but they cannot be trusted.
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by pif 3mo ago
Display a warning and propose to edit instead of blocking the operation: your customers will be happier!
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by pif 4mo ago
> Why did they give it any of that?! Because they are idiots. You need to be a freaking idiit to trust AI.
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by pif 4mo ago
Spending time on your hobby is wondwerful. Expecting the world to consider your hobby important is arrogant.

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