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mattdmrs

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    Comment #47814971

    I don’t know about ChatGPT, but in Claude Code I _have_ been able to do a side-by-side comparison of API-based metered billing vs subscription billing, in the same UI. You just swi…

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    Comment #41334403

    I like how you compared car drivers to toddlers in terms of behaviour change

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    Comment #41316740

    Compared with the other examples you gave, I think one of the differences with micro- and nanoplastic and their growing bioaccumulation, is that if/when we discover that some level…

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    Comment #39856822

    Honestly curious: what makes you hate it so much?

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    Comment #37112586

    Let’s not forget about how the new Dart 3’s patterns can help with parsing and validating JSON: https://dart.dev/language/patterns#validating-incoming-json

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    Comment #37112545

    At our company, out of the 8 engineers I hired, only 2 had specific experience with our backend (Elixir) or frontend (Flutter) stack. I hired for apparence of talent, experience in…

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    Comment #33985581

    I’d go further: Reading someone else’s writing is akin to mind reading.

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    Comment #33838493

    How do you even force weight lost?

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    Comment #24164686

    Or recycle it. Don’t pollute the rivers!

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    Comment #18076191

    Looks awesome! Quick note about the landing page: the GIF captures in the "How it works" section are a bit vertically stretched, weirdly pixellated and really too quick to understa…

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    Comment #18076042

    Disclaimer: I have a company and I've started a few in the past. My take is that the loyalty a company has towards a given employee cannot be the same, simply because it lacks the …

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    Comment #18066808

    They’re not selling t-shirts, but conference badges AND they’re already profitable from their email app. Quite a feat for a 3-person shop.

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    Comment #17606271

    That, and plastic material making up much of that load. Dumping large quantities of wood =/= dumping large quantities of styrofoam.

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    Comment #6755479

    > I feel like many people miss out on the V part of MVP ... and rightfully so. Unlike "minimum" or "product", people's interpretation of "viable" is so subjective, it will end up b…

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    Comment #6668405

    > If you’re a programmer and this offends you, consider how much more value you could create if you didn’t spend half your time as a glorified PSD->HTML translator. As the author s…

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    Comment #6571189

    It works wonders with touch enabled devices like smartphones and tablets

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    Comment #6571186

    Definitely, he should use something like a ladder. Shouldn't be too hard for him given he did the balloon thing.

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    Comment #6571074

    For the video simulations you're suggesting, they would have to slow everything down for us to see the difference, which would kind of break the realism they showed until then. Als…

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    Comment #6569816

    What we know is that it seems possible, when looking at the system externally, for them to perform MITM attacks. What we don't know is if their system internally makes it possible …

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    Comment #6568732

    One can argue that science will always have a hard time constructing an accurate model for predicting weather, because of its inherent humongous complexity and nonlinear behavior: …