web007

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by web007 4mo ago
So much of the problem here is that the author blindly trusted the agent. They're enthusiastic juniors, not jaded seniors. Prompt for what you want. Get your feature working, then cut: reduce SLOC, refactor to remove duplication, updat
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by web007 5mo ago
> Backups stored on the same volume is an interesting glitch to avoid The phrasing is different, but this is how AWS RDS works as well. If you delete a database in RDS, all of the automated snapshots that it was doing and all of the PITR
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by web007 5mo ago
zstd beats gzip on both speed and size, for every compression level. If you need compatibility then gzip (pigz) or zip (7z) or bz2 (pbzip2) are the best of worse outcomes, but for Pareto front optimal speed and size you want zstd.
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by web007 5mo ago
`rclone` with AWS credentials. Go make a bucket and a key that can read/write to it. Set up your config to exclude common non-file dirs, or say "only `/Applications` and `Home` and that's about it. If it's a file th
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by web007 1y ago
There's a poop symbol on the bottom right, click it to see ways to communicate. I was surprised to learn the random messengers are other humans!
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by web007 1y ago
Curation is probably a good idea, but keeping context is probably a better idea. The referenced "I don't keep history" philosophy is madness. You won't know what thing would have been useful to keep until you need it $la
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by web007 1y ago
> LLMs are great for junior, fast-shipping devs; less so for experienced, meticulous engineers Is that not true? That feels sufficiently nuanced and gives a spectrum of utility, not binary one and zero but "10x" on one side and
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by web007 1y ago
I've had my "2038 consulting" sites since Feb 2011, but someone got epochalypse dot com registered August 2007.
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by web007 1y ago
> Storage is cheap, bandwidth is cheap, so who cares? This is a ridiculous assertion. They're both cheap in the commercial sense, but neither cheap nor infinite in the UX sense. Time and space matter in the real world. Google wouldn
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by web007 1y ago
Look up "CV dazzle" for the equivalent in the modern age, makeup effects to avoid facial detection / recognition.
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by web007 2y ago
> As an analogy, driving a car is dangerous. Whenever I drive, I could easily kill someone. But the government doesn’t force me to submit a driving plan any time I want to go somewhere. Instead, if I misbehave, I am punished in retrospec
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by web007 2y ago
Every time you get one of those surveys rank them at zero, then add "Net Promoter Score is a flawed vanity metric and shouldn't be used for business purposes" in the comment box. Sometimes I link the Wikipedia NPS "Criti
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by web007 2y ago
It's very likely zero or positive impact on the decompression side of things. Starting with smaller data means everything ends up smaller. It's the same decompression algorithm in all cases, so it's not some special / un
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by web007 2y ago
Reminds me of microwaves - one of the early uses of microwave heating was to reanimate frozen hamsters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#Discovery
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by web007 2y ago
Odds for N tickets as odd(N): odd(0) = 0 odd(1) = X, so odd(1) / odd(0) = +Inf increase in odds of winning vs 0 odd(2) = 2X, so odd(2) / odd(1) = 2x increase in odds of winning vs 1
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by web007 2y ago
It's a computer based on BSD, but with no WiFi, no BT, no screen, and no ability to play movies or games or music. And it's all programmed in C - not C++ or Rust anything similarly memory-safe-ish. So RPi, but more vague and vulne
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by web007 2y ago
A) "surely nobody has ever thought of [this] before]" says person who hasn't read https://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/ B) It's a spin on The Onion headline about school shooting
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by web007 2y ago
You mean like https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/24.04/release/ubuntu-24.... ?
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by web007 2y ago
Yes, absolutely. Paychovisual encoding can only do so much within the constraints of H.264/265. Throwing away 3/4 (half res) or 15/16 (quarter res) of the data, encoding to X bitrate and then decoding+upscaling looks far bett
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by web007 2y ago
I think they are ethical but annoying if done properly, and likely give good signal as to a candidate's skill. Planning and (voluntary) time boxing to 1-2 hours make the argument stronger, as that time could equally be spent in a 1:1 s
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by web007 2y ago
Why would someone ever take a 40Mbps (compressed) video and downsample it so it can be encoded at 400Kbps (compressed) but played back with nearly the same fidelity / with similar artifacts to the same process at 50x data volume? The w
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by web007 3y ago
The added benefit of FoldIt is to see how humans find a better answer than naive "shake" and local minima/maxima. Those methods can then be integrated into automation to get better results. So it's not just "peopl
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by web007 3y ago
Given this is (almost to the letter) how impersonally "layoffs" went at my company in January I think we could switch to AI severance and not lose anything of value.
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by web007 3y ago
The successful version of https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antonyevans/glowing-pla... This looks pretty cool, let's see how it goes!
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by web007 3y ago
Heh... I have several variants on this. My most-recent version is basically the diametric opposite of yours, make the least-readable passwords possible. https://github.com/007/dotfiles/blob/439ba7ff1d1f6dc01c4
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by web007 3y ago
I need to update the word list for this year, but same: https://007.github.io/tnetennba/
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by web007 3y ago
The good news is that it works both ways! The content is terrible -> Google demotes and/or people stop reading -> shareholder value decreases -> company disappears. Problem solved.
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by web007 3y ago
Effort is not a measure of quality or value in art. Remember: Duct tape + banana + wall + 3 minutes = incredibly valuable and controversial art. Me taking a year to paint a detailed depiction of a bowl of fruit = worthless, terrible art. Re
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by web007 3y ago
Most likely someone stopped paying the AWS bill. If you `curl -k` to avoid the HSTS problem you see that CloudFront and/or lambda aren't working either.
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by web007 3y ago
> As for "a British accent". Would an American say there's "an American accent"? Of course, just the same as British. "American accent" for foreigners usually means "Southern Foghorn Leghorn"

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