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nertzy

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About nertzy

Full stack developer. Rubyist. Electronic musician.

https://nertzy.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48648738

    I just directed my cats to make a cryptocurrency.

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    Comment #48530261

    TLDR implies you didn’t read - therefore you don’t know if it’s slop. But seriously it does read well like normal thoughtful human writing, so I am on the side of it not being “AI …

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    Comment #45117556

    The editor treats edits from Claude Code as a first class citizen. You can easily review, approve, rollback, etc. Claude's changes in a curated experience that is much faster than …

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    Comment #44696235

    I am still a Yahoo! pinger as well. ~ ping yahoo.com PING yahoo.com (74.6.231.20): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 74.6.231.20: icmp_seq=0 ttl=50 time=42.366 ms ^C --- yahoo.com ping s…

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    Comment #41823287

    Isn’t it because you can generate the same content two different times and hash it and come to the same ETag value? Using UUID here wouldn’t help here because you don’t want differ…

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    Comment #40796514

    This is the only correct answer. I interviewed dozens of people this way over more than a decade. Hiring was never difficult to get right. Bonus: we self-selected for people who do…

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    Comment #39094200

    And another to experts-exchange.com of course.

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    Comment #39094192

    My favorite was when I was in college. I spent a long time trying to figure out how to get my WiFi card for my school-issued laptop working in Linux. Someone else posted a fix (wit…

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    Comment #25447911

    It’s pretty funny that anyone would complain about a Linux distribution being named after a developer’s given name. I mean, it’s Linux .

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    Comment #25003869

    Maybe find a law office willing to take on the case for the chance at a cut of the penalty?

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    Comment #23772689

    I read it as that blogspot.in was registered via Mark Monitor and that MM made a big mistake here.

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    Comment #23295558

    I used to work on a software development team with James Somers and I can attest that he is both a great writer and able to handle criticism, valid or otherwise. I think he would a…

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    Comment #19893002

    Yes, this is why developers should use URI-building libraries instead of direct string manipulation to modify URIs. If I visit an HTML page with a link to “.evil.com/people/123” an…

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    Comment #19801198

    > "The lingering uncertainty in the social control of risky technology is how to control the institutional forces that generate competition and scarcity and the powerful leaders wh…

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    Comment #19739092

    Here’s what could have happened: March 20: Confirmation of receipt of issue, boilerplate response detailing expected next steps And as far as we know, this might have actually happ…

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    Comment #19015011

    I was hoping that this was a clone of the Atari game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaboom!_(video_game)

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    Comment #13004898

    I use MacDown[1], a macOS open source visual Markdown editor. You can select from several styles, toggle features such as GitHub-flavored on and off, and then save as PDF. I'm not …

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    Comment #4623555

    Reminds me a bit of Topple by ngmoco http://topple.ngmoco.com http://topple2.ngmoco.com Although yours has more of a puzzle feel to it.

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    Comment #926370

    Aren't the map results organic? Just because they're displayed in a different form doesn't make them any less organic.