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Well, you would be surprised how many people think that blocking cookies means "no or fewer ads", even people in IT. No tracking, of course, just means it will show less relevant a…

There is no need to be so fatalistic. Sure, AI will upset the apple cart, especially in our little corner, but the economy is built on pricing scarce resources and even if many thi…

I like the proposal, but I agree they could have sold it better. This is basically a GET request that can have a body. I've found myself in need of that more than once when I did n…

The ideal solution for all this is would be what the Japanese have: a population trained to just throw garbage in the bin instead of on the ground. I don't think I've heard any pol…

I agree that the government should do IT in house, ideally, because it's a core business for them. The reality is that it is very hard to attract and retain good IT staff on a gove…

It's important to add the context that whenever our government tries to do something by themselves it ends up late and severely over budget. So you have to weigh the risks of outso…

The US-made Ultra UV light source is important, but there is quite a bit more than that to a $380 million lithography machine. (Otherwise someone would have created a competitor by…

Most economists think that tariffs are not a good way to collect tax, because it distorts incentives far more than e.g. a tax on wealth or property.

I run a low 7 figures SaaS as well. This is the blurb I answer with when asked about SOC2 (yes, yes, AI generated): "While we follow industry best practices that align closely with…

Text based accounting is a great use case for LLMs. I was pleasantly surprised how well Codex works with ledger CLI, especially in combination with git. I wonder if this is going t…

> ... something you know well and is easy to read ... For this reason I tell my LLMs to use Ruby whenever possible. In one rare case where the performance of my script was critical…

Getting Time Machine to work reliably over a network is painful, even the old Apple-made Airport with built in TM stopped working twice a year. However, I have multiple Macs where …

I agree, but this app was created in 2006. That's when IE6 was still roaming the earth. Might have been easier to get it to work as an app.

It also works fine with Ruby and the "caxlsx" gem. Codex works fine with it as also.

Reading that BBC article, how the attacker got caught while shouting at an OpenAI building, it would seem likely that this attacker is confused or deranged. Not specifically someon…

USB-C is decent for data transfer. It's pretty poor for power delivery: the pins are too close, so it's not rated for use in bathrooms or kitchens, and there are many more of them …

Yeah, I worked on that one. It's passable, but I don't like the aspect ratio very much, it's too wide, I rather have 40" on 16:9

Agree! I still have several (now discontinued) Philips 40 inch monitors, and that is the perfect size to do programming work. Very little scrolling needed while you work. But I wou…

Are you saying democracy is working as intended, but you don't like the outcome?

Everybody made that exact same "slippery slope to Nazi Germany" argument when euthanasia was legalized here. That was decades ago. There have been several attempts to broaden or na…

Well I agree, and my hopes aren't very high of this actually happening. Our politicians tend to be clueless with anything tech related, their opinions calibrated by what they saw i…

I'm going to argue the other side: in Chinese cities like Chongqing they've seen a drastic reduction in crime after blanketing the city with cameras and monitoring technology. Whol…

I'm not very familiar with deploy tools other than Capistrano, but I would think you also do not want to have the .git directory with your entire repo inside the working directory …

The article mentions .gitattributes but does not mention a super useful property you can put in that file: you can use it to specify that part of your repo should not end up on a p…

… and put local African cloth producers out of business. The same happened with shoes sent to African countries by NGOs. Well intentioned, but local shoe manufacturers went out of …