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Hence why I said "Not aimed at all the wonderful, sane and reasonable people of the USA." I know it's not a Europe vs USA divide, just that it pisses me off that the American news …

There's a lot to criticise of every country, but we're trying. The US is not trying (*) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement#/media/File:Pa... * Not aimed at all the wonde…

I don't mean to be divisive, but this meme-like stream of news articles and comments about Europeans being silly about air conditioning, from the drill-baby-drill nation that refus…

I've been thinking the same: the smaller the codebase, the better AI performs. So a way to scale AI is to modularize your architecture to maximize the number of leaf nodes in the d…

I misinterpreted the parent comment to mean that they won't notice it because they will be extinct!

Perhaps we are putting human intelligence on a pedestal. I have often caught myself having a supposedly original idea only to find I inherited it from something I read months befor…

Something an older and wiser programmer taught me, is to think of the infrastructure costs as a per-user cost. These numbers look enormous next to my bank balance, but if you save …

I’m talking youtube-dl and VLC player. No YouTube logos, no concept of what YouTube even is. Even the sidebar of recommendations is a dark pattern for a 3 year old. Unlike Netflix …

I considered doing the same but in the end decided I don’t want to use a platform I have to fight against, while still letting them build brand recognition to my kid. So I download…

I would guess it comes down to that the best researchers in the world want their work out in the open

I'm nearly certain that the images and the text are AI generated from other sources and perhaps tweaked a bit. The headings are the giveaway. Low signal-to-noise ratio. Google sear…

As a non-american I also thought the same. Reading a synopsis of evidence completely changed my mind [1]. Pipe bombs planted at party headquarters to divert the police, maps of tun…

Can't uninstall the browser, and occasionally it's needed for legit reasons. I quite literally can't resist drifting towards mindless scrolling apps, though I know that's hard to f…

My approach for iPhone: - Set time limits on apps. - Block App Store. - Set a Screen Time pin, then forget it. Downside: if you need to install a new app, you need to do a iTunes b…

On the flip side, putting a ticket on the backlog knowing it will never be high enough priority to be done is an effective way to manage people's feelings without outright nopeing …

Then you would love https://theuselessweb.com/

I made a tool to generate command line clients from OpenAPI definitions out of pure frustration from trying to stitch together incantations of curl commands to work with APIs. I ha…

The solution at my workplace is a bot that opens PRs to bump dependencies and automatically merges if the tests pass. It's taken a lot of workload off devs to meet security targets…

This was always my interpretation of "Flat is better than nested." from "The Zen of Python". I often run into conflict with developers who believe in the single return statement. T…

Starting with a monolith is nearly always great advice. However, monoliths tend towards spaghetti because it's too easy essentially to draw new lines on the architecture diagram by…

Strength training is so good for desk jobbers! I recommend joining some small group circuit training or CrossFit groups, where the trainers will show you how to lift correctly and …

I stopped adding salt in my cooking when I had to cook for a young baby. Pleasantly surprised to find I didn't miss it much, and pretty soon my tastebuds reset and when I eat out e…

I used to follow topics to try to answer questions. It's a great way to learn a topic in depth. But I find that the bulk of questions about {topic} have already been asked, and the…

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