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And on the "input" side, one thing that used to improve google search result was to write like you are talking to a robot. "Ruby on rails http header set function". As opposed to "…

Haha, and it's far too late to edit!

Good point. Though 4k image assets mean more that they look in 4k, not that their size is 4k. It might not be 87mb, but still way more than the couple mb I suggested.

This took me down a rabbit whole. Why can a simple single purpose app not be just a couple megabytes if not less? The popular options are electron 100MB+, or embedding python3 in y…

One thing I've done is include my redirect rules with the web application. So my links continue to work even when I change them and forget them. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…

If Hank had a Smartphone, Heisenberg would still be on the loose. What about reading poems?

Whenever I read something that's LLM generated without knowing it, and it's actually interesting, I have questions for the author. After they read my emails and reply back, I reali…

Shout out to Pixabay. I most often use them of cc0 images, though recently I had to start using their filter to exclude AI generated. Never understood the need to upload AI generat…

I call it BI Slop now [0]. It's everywhere. Usually "claude said" is used a a proxy for authority, as in there is some validity in this statement. But it's disguised as humbleness.…

I would say the AI post doesn't look bad. But I also think it defeats the purpose of the competition. The goal was to make something for your community, and the process and effort …

These are the type of problems that are completely invisible to someone who doesn't experience it. I wouldn't have even known it was a problem to solve. A few years back we played …

I feel for you, getting fired is pretty terrible, and and everyone assumes you did something bad to earn it. But you forgot to say a few things in your post: Hey everyone, I made a…

During the pandemic, my Amazon recruiter became sort of a friend. We communicated maybe over a period of a month, I joined multiple Amazon online panels and got to meet some employ…

Note that a ban doesn't mean you can't download it anymore. Just that if you do so it will be considered illegal. A competitor can simply accuse you of using a chinese model and th…

As regular reader of his blog, the David example worked for me because I felt revulsion for a second. I had to double check the URL to make sure I was reading the right blog. "When…

Content used to be a bad word, now kids want to become content creators when they grow up. I was hired at a job the very same day Google released their first Panda update[0]. This …

The hardest part of food delivery is the tip section. It's where you use all your brain power to make a decision. That's the only part I would have given me dopamine hit from prete…

In the 90s, I was running out of space on my 2GB Win95 machine. I decided to delete files. But I was not ready to part with my games which were consuming the bulk of the hard drive…

Also, if you are just getting started then read easy books. You know the 100 classics from highschool. And you after you finish a book, you can find some great analysis of those bo…