strus

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by strus 17d ago
You probably also never met Elon. By your logic you shouldn’t use Hacker News just like Twitter.
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by strus 17d ago
> Now his brain droppings make it into everyone’s feed by default, from what I understand. You can see only Tweets from people you follow and nothing else. As I said, you are controlling the buttons you push.
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by strus 20d ago
> And then I avoid them. Hacker News and basically everyone from YC have an official profile on Twitter: https://x.com/hackernews
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by strus 20d ago
Sir, you are controlling the buttons you push. I.e. it's up to you who you follow and what exactly you read on Twitter - just like any other social network. There are news that are circulating much faster on Twitter than anywhere else
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by strus 3mo ago
I am always baffled how many people does not know about Amphetamine.
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by strus 4mo ago
> If you don’t trust the Bun team when they release a Rust version and give it their stamp of approval, why did you trust them when they released the Zig version two weeks ago? I think you cannot make this comparison because Rust version
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by strus 5mo ago
Home distillation is very popular in Poland too. Risk of getting poisoned from it is near zero in practice. In some parts of Poland there is more home-distilled alcohol bottles at the tables during weddings than commercial ones. In many Eur
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by strus 7mo ago
> I don't think an apple watch would help there? You can authorize via Apple Watch everything you can authorize via Touch ID. You get the notification on the Watch, and you need to press the button twice to auth. I don't rememb
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by strus 1y ago
> For which country? At least one of the authors is Russian. They were giving away Helium stickers to “anyone who is in Moscow”, and not many non-Russians are traveling there nowadays.
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by strus 1y ago
Box is relevant in enterprise space. It's a very different business than Dropbox.
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by strus 1y ago
> because you can go further with fewer people Can you though? From my experience this is just a wishful thinking. I am yet to see actual productivity gains from AI that would objectively justify hiring less or laying off people.
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by strus 1y ago
I don’t think anyone is surprised.
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by strus 1y ago
Arbitrarily choose an option, but expose the fact that you've auto-resolved a conflict and allow the user to manually re-resolve. This requires even more UI work than option 1. This is what every "cloud file sharing" provid
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by strus 2y ago
Software in Japanese cars is terrible from European point of view, yet people are buying them because of the hardware (reliable engines).
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by strus 3y ago
This is great, thank you!
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by strus 3y ago
Few ambushes and you have the heavy equipment. That's how many Ukrainian volunteer groups armed themselves - on russian forces.
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by strus 3y ago
Most of these points would apply if you use phone in your car for navigation, and most of them are not a real issue (expect being a distraction maybe). Screen is good enough to be used in a sunny day, phone will easily reach more than 35 de
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by strus 3y ago
> I've been using Copilot for about a year and I can't imagine coding without it again I for example used Copilot for 2 months at work and wouldn't pay for it. Most suggestions where either useless or buggy. But I work in
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by strus 3y ago
If you worry about "staying ahead of generative AI" in it's current state, then I think you are not a good coder and you should learn more instead of worrying about that. LLMs are only good in writing new code without surroun
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by strus 3y ago
> The phone distracts from the goa So does life. I think we should lock the children in school from the beginning of the education period, without the access to the external, disctracting life. They can leave when they are 18.
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by strus 3y ago
> these are children in schoo Policies apply to secondary education, i.e. high school. You are an adult in higher grades of high school.
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by strus 3y ago
I am pretty sure that for most developers open source = source code available, and nothing else. Anegdotally I have been a professional dev for 10 years and this is the first time I hear your definition of open source.
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by strus 3y ago
> In that case, new developers just don't need to learn the old feature at all That's not true if you want to be a professional C++ dev - you will encounter projects stuck in older standards, or legacy code written in the age o
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by strus 3y ago
I think Google is scrapping websites, not using the APIs?
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by strus 3y ago
> when they started enforcing that policy. I don't have a real name on Facebook not have any of my friends. There are also a lot of fake/troll accounts on Facebook. I don't think they ever enforced that policy.
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by strus 3y ago
I’ve tried Dvorak and Colemak but went back to QWERTY. Whole software world is developed with QWERTY in mind, and it was too much PITA. Split keyboard (especially with ortholinear, column staggered layout) will give you much more benefit th
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by strus 3y ago
Carrying about climate was the zero interest rate phenomenon.
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by strus 3y ago
It's a much less chance and not comparable at all. Treating job as a family member is also not healthy.
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by strus 3y ago
Your employer will get rid of you in a blink if needed, as current layoffs show, getting too attached to your work is not healthy - no matter how passionate you are about it.
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by strus 3y ago
If changing job is a major trauma I would advice seeing a therapist. This is not a standard for most people.

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