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paulbjensen

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About paulbjensen

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    Comment #49167914

    That was a great read.

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    Comment #49114332

    It's only a matter of time before there are sponsors on the Yellow and Red cards...

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    Comment #48946156

    AWS revenue for 2025 was $128.7 billion, so I'd say probably a bug.

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    Comment #48869822

    Fantastic, this is brilliant. I have tried to cancel a newspaper subscription in the UK a few times, which is only possible by telephone, and they have a serious churn-reduction pr…

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    Comment #48845616

    > Our hypothesis is simple: session logs are now the most important artifact in software development, and should be stored alongside the code itself in the repository. Pi.dev has a…

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    Comment #48803093

    I’m talking about CI pipelines where you have: - Unit tests - End to End testing with Cucumber and Puppeteer (or Playwright these days) - Code Coverage analysis - Lint and formatti…

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    Comment #48793909

    Meditation is great, but there might also be other options available when it comes to dealing with the effects of context switching. For me, I find the Pomodoro technique really ef…

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    Comment #48701128

    Update: Running this in the terminal works: sudo pmset -a disablesleep 1 And if you want to revert that, run this: sudo pmset -a disablesleep 0

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    Comment #48701108

    I've just run into this issue. At first I thought that there was something wrong with the cable or the power, but now stumbled on this thread. Laptop: 13" MacBook Pro, M1 processor…

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    Comment #48672777

    Once more onto the breach…

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    Comment #48628482

    Actually, this would be amazing for distributing web games as apps for Steam or online purchase. I am going to give it a try.

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    Comment #48553399

    Great game, loved taking a peak behind the scenes and seeing it was using HTML5 canvas. Will buy the game later on, especially as it's only $5 - I guess that's a latte in the US th…

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    Comment #48460842

    Recently I got AI to help make a script to convert a CSV dump of trading activity on a trading platform for uploading into another stock trading analysis platform. Later on, I mana…

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    Comment #48450358

    I find it nuts that I can use Claude Code for $20pm - I imagine that won't last forever but have to say it is great value for money. So when I see monthly budgets in the thousands …

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    Comment #48418284

    I would say the first time I did “vibe coding”, when I tried Claude Code with Zed’s agent integration in January this year. I wanted to see if I could build an image editor for iso…

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    Comment #48417228

    Anyone who deletes Microsoft Teams deserves a raise.

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    Comment #48356917

    Looks like RedHat got compromised by a Black Hat…

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    Comment #48335246

    The Financial Times' Unhedged Podcast covered the SpaceX IPO recently and highlighted the same issues that the Danish pension fund raised concerns about. https://www.ft.com/content…

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    Comment #48300653

    Another factor was that although both SimCity 3k and SimCity 4 both had a maximum of 256x256 tiles for their cities, the scale was different. A SimCity 3000 tile edge was equivalen…

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    Comment #48290726

    Gold-plated booleans-as-a-service

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    Comment #48281762

    CircleCI right now https://gifrific.com/mick-mccarthy-stares-at-camera-and-smil...

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    Comment #48028055

    3 years ago they were touting NFTs as the next big thing. Today, not a single mention in that email. I can't help but feel that there is a superficial chasing of trends at play her…

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    Comment #47978857

    This Claudemaxxing phenomenon is amusing as hell. I've been able to get by with the $20pm Pro subscription and reap great value out of Claude Code. I feel like it really is about: …

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    Comment #47863568

    What's an $8m mistake to a company like Uber? They made $9.8bn in profits in 2024.