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Codex plugin (VSCode) allows consuming your "web" (ie non-api) subscription for coding/agentic tasks.

My main issue with Gemini is that business accounts can't delete individual conversations. You can only enable or disable Gemini, or set a retention period (3 months minimum), but …

The annoying bit is that the `zed` command already exists in Linux (ZFS Events Daemon) so you need to go through some extra motions to start Zed (the editor).

My preferred approach in similar situations is to ask an LLM for an initial solution or code snippet, then take over manually - no endless prompt tweaking, just stop prompting and …

I've noticed another issue: 2FA software fragmentation. Over the past 30 years, I've accumulated more than 600 online accounts (many of them dormant), with about 25-30% offering 2F…

I follow over 200 blogs, but this one has remained my favorite for years: https://ciechanow.ski/archives/ . New posts are rare - just once or twice a year - but every single articl…

Just use 42 everywhere

I'm a big fan of Greenshot. My only issue with it is that it's not available on Linux, which I use occasionally. Re Flameshot, I've tried it and it generally works well for me. My …

Never underestimate idiots in large amounts. It's a matter of "when", not "if".

A friend asked his wife to create a horse and an accountant. It took her 1hr of playing to get the former, and 3hrs for the latter. I'm still laughing.

Interestingly, DBT is still using MD5 as the default algorithm for generating row identifiers.

Any reason why Ireland isn't on the list for phone number verification?

I was bored and played around with various letter numbering schemes, like reversed order, or digits of Pi (or E), or the value of the letter multiplied by how many times it appears…

Welcome to the club. My gmail address is lastname.firstname@gmail.com and I keep receiving occasional emails for firstname.lastname@gmail.com who is actually some kind of a senior …

I propose the following challenge: find the smallest integer number that, when written in English words, equals the sum of it's letters (following gematria rules i.e. A=1, B=2 etc)…

Same here. Best piece of software, ever. Period.

Of course there is nothing wrong with using a relational database. My concern was about storing passwords in it. There is a difference between storing passwords and storing hashes …

"a large database containing more than 30 million Microsoft accounts, emails, and passwords." A database containing passwords? Why would anyone store passwords in a database is bey…

Like, with another person?

Maybe I am missing something but an invisible parachute would reveal more of a paratrooper than a visible one. Want to hide the paratrooper completely - use large, spherical parach…

Oh come on, my uncle touched a parachute once and survived so they clearly do work.

Does it always stop after going 10 layers deep?

Not to mention eons required for our optical organics to start registering the photons!

That was my first reaction too. However, unlike the no-SQL monstrosities (like Mongo), this one seems to sit on top of a proper relational database, plus it seems to follow all the…