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by xpil 8mo ago
Codex plugin (VSCode) allows consuming your "web" (ie non-api) subscription for coding/agentic tasks.
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by xpil 9mo ago
My main issue with Gemini is that business accounts can't delete individual conversations. You can only enable or disable Gemini, or set a retention period (3 months minimum), but there's no way to delete specific chats. I'm
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by xpil 11mo ago
The annoying bit is that the `zed` command already exists in Linux (ZFS Events Daemon) so you need to go through some extra motions to start Zed (the editor).
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by xpil 1y ago
My preferred approach in similar situations is to ask an LLM for an initial solution or code snippet, then take over manually - no endless prompt tweaking, just stop prompting and start coding. Finally (optionally), I let the LLM do a final
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by xpil 1y ago
I've noticed another issue: 2FA software fragmentation. Over the past 30 years, I've accumulated more than 600 online accounts (many of them dormant), with about 25-30% offering 2FA. As a result, I now have three separate apps for
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by xpil 2y ago
I follow over 200 blogs, but this one has remained my favorite for years: https://ciechanow.ski/archives/ . New posts are rare - just once or twice a year - but every single article is a gem.
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by xpil 2y ago
Just use 42 everywhere
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by xpil 2y ago
I'm a big fan of Greenshot. My only issue with it is that it's not available on Linux, which I use occasionally. Re Flameshot, I've tried it and it generally works well for me. My only beef is that the layout of the icons aro
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by xpil 2y ago
Never underestimate idiots in large amounts. It's a matter of "when", not "if".
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by xpil 3y ago
A friend asked his wife to create a horse and an accountant. It took her 1hr of playing to get the former, and 3hrs for the latter. I'm still laughing.
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by xpil 3y ago
Interestingly, DBT is still using MD5 as the default algorithm for generating row identifiers.
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by xpil 3y ago
Any reason why Ireland isn't on the list for phone number verification?
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by xpil 3y ago
I was bored and played around with various letter numbering schemes, like reversed order, or digits of Pi (or E), or the value of the letter multiplied by how many times it appears in the string and so on, and so forth. I got bored eventual
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by xpil 3y ago
Welcome to the club. My gmail address is lastname.firstname@gmail.com and I keep receiving occasional emails for firstname.lastname@gmail.com who is actually some kind of a senior manager in one of the major TV stations. It works the other
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by xpil 3y ago
I propose the following challenge: find the smallest integer number that, when written in English words, equals the sum of it's letters (following gematria rules i.e. A=1, B=2 etc).
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by xpil 3y ago
Same here. Best piece of software, ever. Period.
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by xpil 3y ago
Of course there is nothing wrong with using a relational database. My concern was about storing passwords in it. There is a difference between storing passwords and storing hashes and/or salts.
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by xpil 3y ago
"a large database containing more than 30 million Microsoft accounts, emails, and passwords." A database containing passwords? Why would anyone store passwords in a database is beyond my comprehension.
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by xpil 3y ago
Like, with another person?
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by xpil 3y ago
Maybe I am missing something but an invisible parachute would reveal more of a paratrooper than a visible one. Want to hide the paratrooper completely - use large, spherical parachutes. Elementary.
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by xpil 3y ago
Oh come on, my uncle touched a parachute once and survived so they clearly do work.
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by xpil 3y ago
Does it always stop after going 10 layers deep?
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by xpil 3y ago
Not to mention eons required for our optical organics to start registering the photons!
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by xpil 3y ago
That was my first reaction too. However, unlike the no-SQL monstrosities (like Mongo), this one seems to sit on top of a proper relational database, plus it seems to follow all the ol' good data modelling logic, just in a modern ish wa
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by xpil 3y ago
Whoa, this is a great resource. Never heard of it before, it looks like I'm finally able to get some proper book recommendations. Absolutely loving it. Weird though that for certain cases it spells English author names with Cyrillic al
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by xpil 3y ago
I actually enjoy Dropbox - for a flat fee of ~€10/month I get 2TB of cloud space plus the synchronization across unlimited devices. I don't mind the telemetry thing, at least not too much. However, their approach to Android is abs
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by xpil 3y ago
Same here :)))
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by xpil 3y ago
Certain operations use fewer resources when performed in the RDBMS than when performed in the application code. As your data grows significantly, you may encounter new bottlenecks, and for some of these you may need to move some of the logi
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by xpil 3y ago
Contract: 1GBps down, 200 Mbps up. Actual: 850-900 Mbps down, 180-200 Mbps up Price: €50/mth Provider: Vodafone Location: Ireland, rural area.
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by xpil 3y ago
Ah, makes sense. I rolled back to Windows 10. 11 is too scary for me.

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