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cheeseface

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    Comment #48299469

    0.3% is definitely not a ”rounding error”. For Google it would mean roughly $650M drop in revenue.

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    Comment #46978242

    In Finland, where you can easily get 30cm or more snow, all roofs are required to stand 100-300kg/m2 by law and most roofs are less than 30 degrees (e.g. 1:2 ratio). A-frame or eve…

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    Comment #46840239

    Agree on how the platform’s have changed. However, I don’t think Reddit is an exception. Popular is often filled with content that is driven by the feelings of fear and hate. Not s…

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    Comment #46180734

    There are cases where I would start the coding process by copy-pasting existing code (e.g. test suites, new screens in the UI) and this is where LLMs work especially well and produ…

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    Comment #45884600

    > An Engineer might get the jollies designing a bridge, but the workers who work on it dont. What is this viewpoint based on? The majority of blue collar workers I know get plenty …

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    Comment #45127347

    Government pension funds are a part of it, but it’s a combination of many things, like: - The US has been a single market for a much longer time than the EU, and the EU still is no…

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    Comment #44625859

    Claude Code has worked well for me. It is easy to point it to the relevant parts of the codebase and see what it decides to read itself so you provide missing piece of code when ne…

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    Comment #44033311

    Most startups will use funds like in addition to VC funding. It allows you to increase your runway so you’re better positioned for your next funding round.

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    Comment #43469194

    Funny how the overly positive writing style makes it feel like there’s something fishy happening and that they’re trying to give it a positive spin.

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    Comment #43459222

    Haven’t used Upcloud for any larger workloads, but had a customer VPS there for multiple years. Worked well and the UI for managing servers was great.

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    Comment #43396436

    All proprietary software that runs in the cloud would vanish.

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    Comment #42918027

    I follow people mostly from the JS/TS web development community and have a pretty good balance of tech takes and some lighter life updates/humor in between. I mostly the "mutuals" …

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    Comment #42896993

    At the same time, the two photographers in my neighbourhood are doing better than ever. When it comes to memories (like newborn photos) surprisingly many people are willing to pay …

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    Comment #42686626

    The ability to control your own experience via custom feeds makes Bluesky so delightful. The new X algo made it impossible to just follow the people I wanted to.

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    Comment #42633102

    You can clone the repo and install pandoc. Then run "pandoc index.md *.md -o operating-system-in-1000-lines.epub" in "website/en/" folder and you will have a fully working ebook.

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    Comment #42429066

    In my experience 80% plus is quite common in the models sold for colder environments. E.g. Mitsubishi electric Lossnay advertises 86%.

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    Comment #42337453

    That sounds like a horrible environment to work in. How’s your senior dev retention?

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    Comment #41223683

    It’s basically the same thing as wrapping the wood into a plastic bag. When water condenses inside the plastic it has no way of escaping and starts to rot/mold the wood. When using…

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    Comment #40688382

    So for the real idea of how things are going, we would need a graph of also the total cruise miles (for FSD enabled Teslas). But this change was definitely done in order to get mor…

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    Comment #39902173

    Thanks for sharing! A great read indeed.

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    Comment #39724431

    This was a great read from an industry insider.

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    Comment #39713371

    The funny thing is that IKEA sawdust will most likely last longer than some more expensive ”drop-shipping luxury brand” described in the article.