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Simon's really doesn't bring anything useful to the table. One question I'm stuck with after reading is why . Why did the agents do these things? I get them being adamant on gettin…

That's an incredibly dishonest characterization of what I wrote. Please re-read the guidelines of the site, they say exactly not to do that. > saying that you should be entitled to…

No, the first case I used their website in a way that gave them a sale, which is why they have it. Why is it a straw man case when it's reality? Don't argue in bad faith, please. E…

My experience is that your description works for a certain time, since you're knowledgeable of the codebase and can guide it. But after too many iterations with not hand-holding th…

I use this. Buy a domain, set up a cloud flare pages that builds an Astro page on git push, served statically for free.

I don't disagree, but there is a sliding scale here. For instance, I wanted to buy a piece of equipment the other day from a local company for a specific usecase. I wanted to find …

> Just asking these questions underscores lack of understanding how things are usually done in Django and Python in general. No, it doesn't. It's fair to criticize the consequences…

I honestly think the wikipedia article is too complicated. My own image example here as an another attempt to explain: https://imgur.com/a/5ZQIJDb Mapping the cost of something (li…

My thesis many years ago was on multi-objective optimization using evolutionary algorithms (in my profile), and maintaining a wide pareto front was what most algorithms (like NSGA-…

I really like the ORM and the migrations, but some parts I really dislike. They're maybe not Django's fault, but how it's used most places: * Models being passed around everywhere,…

Think it depends on usage? Taking October 1st and 20th, and you want to know how many days passed, what's the right answer? If it's days lived, you would want the answer to not be …

Same, at least for smaller projects where I want some kinds of interactivity, but also a good static rendered page first and just the ease of writing, Astro+preact has been very ni…

Which straw man are you arguing against?

I also enjoy reading about how the colleagues and him genuinely like each other. So often on US forums I read a sentiment along the lines of "shut up and just do your work", but si…

As a Norwegian working for a company that expanded into Germany, I also was a bit surprised about the author claiming Germany to have a flat structure. I found it very hierarchical…

Before, only the senior cobol programmers at the company understood and knew the codebase. Now, no one does. I can see the allure of moving away from a legacy cobol system. But an …

What does it mean for building software? These games cannot become fun. There is no way to prompt it fun, and any change you try to prompt it to make will inevitably blow up someth…

I'm pretty tired of the "Y made this game in Z tokens" all over the internet last week. They look impressive, and it's cool that it's even possible, but they're useless as games. N…

Not the same. And it's not like the same scams don't exist for crypto. Even worse, many of them are automated. One bad npm install could swipe my crypto, but probably not my bank a…

Law isn't code. Intention and context matters. You don't need a precise specification to mandate something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it

In Norway ads already must specify if a person in it has been digitally altered (changed shape, smoothed skin etc). Quite funny with international ads getting these banners plaster…

> This is how most of Simon Tatham’s puzzles work, and that works well. They btw also have a feature that swaps main and secondary action when toggled, which could work here.

Almost two decades ago I used a software called Rasterbator to dither an image into dots, blowing it up to multiple A4 pages one could then decorate a whole wall with. Up close it …

Yeah, her enthusiasm is contagious.

It's factually incorrect that gopro hasn't kept up with image quality. One independent comparison I saw for instance put the gp13 in front of the others in most situations except l…