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So much of the problem here is that the author blindly trusted the agent. They're enthusiastic juniors, not jaded seniors. Prompt for what you want. Get your feature working, then …

> Backups stored on the same volume is an interesting glitch to avoid The phrasing is different, but this is how AWS RDS works as well. If you delete a database in RDS, all of the …

zstd beats gzip on both speed and size, for every compression level. If you need compatibility then gzip (pigz) or zip (7z) or bz2 (pbzip2) are the best of worse outcomes, but for …

`rclone` with AWS credentials. Go make a bucket and a key that can read/write to it. Set up your config to exclude common non-file dirs, or say "only `/Applications` and `Home` and…

There's a poop symbol on the bottom right, click it to see ways to communicate. I was surprised to learn the random messengers are other humans!

Curation is probably a good idea, but keeping context is probably a better idea. The referenced "I don't keep history" philosophy is madness. You won't know what thing would have b…

> LLMs are great for junior, fast-shipping devs; less so for experienced, meticulous engineers Is that not true? That feels sufficiently nuanced and gives a spectrum of utility, no…

I've had my "2038 consulting" sites since Feb 2011, but someone got epochalypse dot com registered August 2007.

> Storage is cheap, bandwidth is cheap, so who cares? This is a ridiculous assertion. They're both cheap in the commercial sense, but neither cheap nor infinite in the UX sense. Ti…

Look up "CV dazzle" for the equivalent in the modern age, makeup effects to avoid facial detection / recognition.

> As an analogy, driving a car is dangerous. Whenever I drive, I could easily kill someone. But the government doesn’t force me to submit a driving plan any time I want to go somew…

Every time you get one of those surveys rank them at zero, then add "Net Promoter Score is a flawed vanity metric and shouldn't be used for business purposes" in the comment box. S…

It's very likely zero or positive impact on the decompression side of things. Starting with smaller data means everything ends up smaller. It's the same decompression algorithm in …

Reminds me of microwaves - one of the early uses of microwave heating was to reanimate frozen hamsters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven#Discovery

Odds for N tickets as odd(N): odd(0) = 0 odd(1) = X, so odd(1) / odd(0) = +Inf increase in odds of winning vs 0 odd(2) = 2X, so odd(2) / odd(1) = 2x increase in odds of winning vs …

It's a computer based on BSD, but with no WiFi, no BT, no screen, and no ability to play movies or games or music. And it's all programmed in C - not C++ or Rust anything similarly…

A) "surely nobody has ever thought of [this] before]" says person who hasn't read https://xeiaso.net/shitposts/no-way-to-prevent-this/ B) It's a spin on The Onion headline about sc…

You mean like https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/24.04/release/ubuntu-24.... ?

Yes, absolutely. Paychovisual encoding can only do so much within the constraints of H.264/265. Throwing away 3/4 (half res) or 15/16 (quarter res) of the data, encoding to X bitra…

I think they are ethical but annoying if done properly, and likely give good signal as to a candidate's skill. Planning and (voluntary) time boxing to 1-2 hours make the argument s…

Why would someone ever take a 40Mbps (compressed) video and downsample it so it can be encoded at 400Kbps (compressed) but played back with nearly the same fidelity / with similar …

The added benefit of FoldIt is to see how humans find a better answer than naive "shake" and local minima/maxima. Those methods can then be integrated into automation to get better…

Given this is (almost to the letter) how impersonally "layoffs" went at my company in January I think we could switch to AI severance and not lose anything of value.

The successful version of https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antonyevans/glowing-pla... This looks pretty cool, let's see how it goes!

Heh... I have several variants on this. My most-recent version is basically the diametric opposite of yours, make the least-readable passwords possible. https://github.com/007/dotf…