speleding

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by speleding 13d ago
That balance probably depends on the human, and the context. If you are a beginner in a field the model should not assume you know what you are doing. On the other hand, for an expert it should try to work out what you mean with your vaguel
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by speleding 21d ago
There are holding companies with zero employees. They typically pay a management fee to someone.
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by speleding 21d ago
They now updated it. That bit is indeed gone.
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by speleding 1mo ago
If your app is not too large you can do CI/CD perfectly fine from your laptop. Put it in a docker container if you want to ensure it is perfectly reproducible. You still need Github as the origin repo to pull from, but the "git pa
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by speleding 2mo ago
Well, you would be surprised how many people think that blocking cookies means "no or fewer ads", even people in IT. No tracking, of course, just means it will show less relevant ads, not fewer of them. So I'm not onboard wit
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by speleding 2mo ago
There is no need to be so fatalistic. Sure, AI will upset the apple cart, especially in our little corner, but the economy is built on pricing scarce resources and even if many things become abundant, most other things will remain scarce. T
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by speleding 3mo ago
I like the proposal, but I agree they could have sold it better. This is basically a GET request that can have a body. I've found myself in need of that more than once when I did not want huge URLs with encoded data showing up in logs.
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by speleding 3mo ago
The ideal solution for all this is would be what the Japanese have: a population trained to just throw garbage in the bin instead of on the ground. I don't think I've heard any politician who is even considering measures to get th
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by speleding 3mo ago
I agree that the government should do IT in house, ideally, because it's a core business for them. The reality is that it is very hard to attract and retain good IT staff on a government salary. The people who need to manage all that i
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by speleding 3mo ago
It's important to add the context that whenever our government tries to do something by themselves it ends up late and severely over budget. So you have to weigh the risks of outsourcing to the risk of the whole thing becoming very lat
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by speleding 4mo ago
The US-made Ultra UV light source is important, but there is quite a bit more than that to a $380 million lithography machine. (Otherwise someone would have created a competitor by now.)
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by speleding 4mo ago
Most economists think that tariffs are not a good way to collect tax, because it distorts incentives far more than e.g. a tax on wealth or property.
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by speleding 4mo ago
I run a low 7 figures SaaS as well. This is the blurb I answer with when asked about SOC2 (yes, yes, AI generated): "While we follow industry best practices that align closely with the requirements of SOC2 and similar frameworks, we ha
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by speleding 4mo ago
Text based accounting is a great use case for LLMs. I was pleasantly surprised how well Codex works with ledger CLI, especially in combination with git. I wonder if this is going to give text based accounting a boost. Reviewing clearly word
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by speleding 4mo ago
> ... something you know well and is easy to read ... For this reason I tell my LLMs to use Ruby whenever possible. In one rare case where the performance of my script was critical, I told Claude to convert the working ruby script to Rus
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by speleding 5mo ago
Getting Time Machine to work reliably over a network is painful, even the old Apple-made Airport with built in TM stopped working twice a year. However, I have multiple Macs where I simply have a USB-C laptop SSD attached for Time Machine a
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by speleding 5mo ago
I agree, but this app was created in 2006. That's when IE6 was still roaming the earth. Might have been easier to get it to work as an app.
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by speleding 5mo ago
It also works fine with Ruby and the "caxlsx" gem. Codex works fine with it as also.
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by speleding 5mo ago
Reading that BBC article, how the attacker got caught while shouting at an OpenAI building, it would seem likely that this attacker is confused or deranged. Not specifically someone with deliberate evil intent. So the headline seems to be m
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by speleding 6mo ago
USB-C is decent for data transfer. It's pretty poor for power delivery: the pins are too close, so it's not rated for use in bathrooms or kitchens, and there are many more of them than needed for power delivery, making it relative
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by speleding 7mo ago
Yeah, I worked on that one. It's passable, but I don't like the aspect ratio very much, it's too wide, I rather have 40" on 16:9
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by speleding 7mo ago
Agree! I still have several (now discontinued) Philips 40 inch monitors, and that is the perfect size to do programming work. Very little scrolling needed while you work. But I would love to have a 40 inch in 4K+ instead of 2560x1600, why i
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by speleding 7mo ago
Are you saying democracy is working as intended, but you don't like the outcome?
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by speleding 7mo ago
Everybody made that exact same "slippery slope to Nazi Germany" argument when euthanasia was legalized here. That was decades ago. There have been several attempts to broaden or narrow the scope of those laws and the democratic in
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by speleding 7mo ago
Well I agree, and my hopes aren't very high of this actually happening. Our politicians tend to be clueless with anything tech related, their opinions calibrated by what they saw in Hollywood movies, where anything tech related always
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by speleding 7mo ago
I'm going to argue the other side: in Chinese cities like Chongqing they've seen a drastic reduction in crime after blanketing the city with cameras and monitoring technology. Whole categories of crime disappeared. Women and elder
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by speleding 7mo ago
I'm not very familiar with deploy tools other than Capistrano, but I would think you also do not want to have the .git directory with your entire repo inside the working directory on the production server, so I assume some kind of &quo
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by speleding 7mo ago
The article mentions .gitattributes but does not mention a super useful property you can put in that file: you can use it to specify that part of your repo should not end up on a production server. We have this line in our .gitattributes: &
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by speleding 7mo ago
… and put local African cloth producers out of business. The same happened with shoes sent to African countries by NGOs. Well intentioned, but local shoe manufacturers went out of business. The local population did not really benefit, becau
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by speleding 7mo ago
Profits = revenue - costs. Costs include depreciations and write offs of investments, and capital costs (what they pay to service debt), before you get to a taxable profit for accounting purposes. It's going to be many years before the

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