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The only way to make check whether a LLM output is true is to do the work (to have it dkne by a real person). For tasks that are trivial to verify, it's ok: a code compiler will ru…

Ah, perfect! Thanks

"Microsoft Bing Copilot has falsely described a German journalist as a child molester, an escapee from a psychiatric institution, and a fraudster who preys on widows. Martin Bernkl…

That's exactly the kind of resource I was looking for, to help friends (and myself!) with the basics of using a computer for programming.

Hi! Ask me "what have you done yesterday?" and I need a few minutes to remember and sum it up. For daily scrum meetings, that's not ideal. That's not ideal for sprint retrospective…

I agree! That's why I set up my own thing. I don't care about analytics at all, so I just wrote a simple build system doto generate some very basic HTML redirects. It isn't perfect…

That was unclear for me too, so I opened an issue (the very first of the project, yay!). The instructions have been updated, they might be a bit clearer now: direct contributions t…

That's an interesting and depressing story. Do you have some sources about them hiring models? They are not obvious to find on the Internet

I stumbled upon this piece and found out some nasty stuff about the Brave web browser.

This piece puts into words the way I manage personal projects!

I think the website could use an "about" section, with some examples. At first glance I thought it was an alternative to wetransfer, but it isn't!

It's quite hard to create something that works optimally on a first try. I think I never managed to do so! The first schema was slow, but hey, it worked, good job! That is a huge f…

I just tried it, I love it! Thanks! I work in software testing: this is my new capture tool because it will save me a lot of time.

Yep, you still have to deal with all kind of people when you do OS, and that isn't always nice. I once made a PR to a project I use a lot at work. The PR was about the documentatio…

Damn! That's the kind of thing my company could sell to its clients. And that's exactly what I'm going to tell my colleagues! Thanks a lot

I really hope that Intel wakes up: struggling with fab processes is not their biggest problem, their marketing strategy is. There are some really talented engineers in there, but t…

I work as a tester for a some websites: I test the GUI and the REST APIs used by the smartphones apps. These tools make my work a lot easier (they might not be the best for your sp…

I don't mind the "-gates" : issues are bound to arise. The only way to avoid "-gates" is to stop producing and selling anything at all. Modifying a manufacturing process to correct…

Bad news: Apple takes us for fools, again. this sucks. Good news: many businesses and influencers (iFixit, Louis Rossman, Linus Tech Tips ...) are talking about it. This is bad pre…

That is a compelling argument. Be careful with the terms of use though, they can hide a few surprises. Example: in Vectary's terms of use[1] I interpret the section 4.6 as "backing…

Oops! Sorry for the huge typo in my comment. "they having only some portions of their needs met" should be read "they are fine with having only some portions of their needs met". (…

I agree with the author : start simple, then use more complex tools when and if you need to. I believe it is true about infrastructure, and about features and code as well. When my…

I had my doubts about Rust. I knew it was a powerfull tool, but I thought it was too hard to learn, to complex, and that it was reserved for heavily resources-constrained environme…