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·16일 전·discuss
I am always baffled how many people does not know about Amphetamine.
strus
·2개월 전·discuss
> If you don’t trust the Bun team when they release a Rust version and give it their stamp of approval, why did you trust them when they released the Zig version two weeks ago?

I think you cannot make this comparison because Rust version wasn’t in fact written by the Bun team. It wasn’t even read by them.
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·3개월 전·discuss
Home distillation is very popular in Poland too. Risk of getting poisoned from it is near zero in practice. In some parts of Poland there is more home-distilled alcohol bottles at the tables during weddings than commercial ones.

In many European countries you will be offered home-distilled drinks, you would be very unlucky to get anything else than hangover.

The problem is overblown.
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·4개월 전·discuss
> I don't think an apple watch would help there?

You can authorize via Apple Watch everything you can authorize via Touch ID. You get the notification on the Watch, and you need to press the button twice to auth.

I don't remember if it works every time, or only when MacBook is closed and connected to external display/keyboard.
strus
·10개월 전·discuss
> For which country?

At least one of the authors is Russian. They were giving away Helium stickers to “anyone who is in Moscow”, and not many non-Russians are traveling there nowadays.
strus
·10개월 전·discuss
Box is relevant in enterprise space. It's a very different business than Dropbox.
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·10개월 전·discuss
> because you can go further with fewer people

Can you though? From my experience this is just a wishful thinking. I am yet to see actual productivity gains from AI that would objectively justify hiring less or laying off people.
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·10개월 전·discuss
I don’t think anyone is surprised.
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·3년 전·discuss
How it is possible that people belived that these images are not artificially enchanced? Like it is obvious, there is no way a phone sensor can take such detailed photos of the Moon. I am surprised this was even a discussion.
strus
·3년 전·discuss
I develop desktop and embedded applications, so do a different work than distributed systems engineers, but I wonder - do you often build systems from scratch and therefore need to have all this knowledge?

Because in every job I've worked in the past 10 years, I landed in an established project, that was developed years ago, and my work was to maintanace and add new features. Most of these projects were too big and complicated for one person to know how they work in every detail - even the ones that were there for the very beginning always said something like "after all these years I don't know how half of the things are implemented".

So, from my perspective, an interview question where someone asks me to design a complex system entirely on my own, in details, is just stupid, as I am pretty sure I will never do anything like that in my life. But maybe webdev is a different story?