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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
As someone who is also introverted and looking to start a business in the next few months, this is something I'm going to seriously consider.

When I'm on the consuming end of a service, I would always rather help my self than interact with a sales person or support team.

Comment · 2 years ago
I love the over-the-back-of-the-neck earbuds, specifically the ones from OnePlus that turn off if you use the magnet to turn them off. I don't think they are popular, so I've ordered a few for when they eventually stop getting made.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Not a dev, but as a DevOps engineer, I use LLMs for a few types of work:

1. A starting point for a problem I've no experience with - "How do I set up replication on a database". I won't follow it blindly, but it gives me a starting point to search online. 2. Helping me put together proposals and documentation. It's great at setting up an outline for things or rewriting my badly written things. 3. Writing regex

As for impacting jobs specifically, I havn't found any impact, yet. If anything, I've seen companies either put down blanket bans of using AI (for fear of people imputting sensitive data), outright banning the URLs on the VPN, or putting very strict policies in place with how they can be used.

Comment · 2 years ago
The author might have confused a few things, I don't think direnv and Nix are related. I've used direnv for years without touching Nix.
Comment · 2 years ago
Wouldn't a small script that lets you toggle between a QWERTY layout and a custom layout solve this problem?
Comment · 2 years ago
"Additional safeguards have been introduced – notably, in the most recent round of amendments, a 'triple-lock' authorization process for surveillance of parliamentarians ..."

Thank god, I'm glad the politicians that passed this law will be protected from it /s

Comment · 3 years ago
I use Firefox and ublock origin. I also have a Youtube premium account. When I change my firefox useragent to windows/chrome my load times go from 5-10 seconds to under 1.
Comment · 3 years ago
A little hyperbolic. Here's[0] a 64 page party manifesto from 2019.

[0] https://www.conservatives.com/our-plan/conservative-party-ma...

From the manifesto front page[1] they talk about immigration, the NHS and investing in schools and infrastructure. It's all rubbish and undelivered, but the policy is more than just Brexit. You might be thinking of UKIP?

[1] https://www.conservatives.com/our-plan

Question: Does a site exist that shows campaign promises and if they were delivered? I'm tired of voting one way and the party doing something else. I'm currently politically homeless and would like to back a party in the UK that actually does what it says.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
JIT cutlery and crockery.
Comment · 3 years ago
Isn't this the exact problem? How can websites stay afloat unless you pay for it in one way or another? I guess the choice is buy the product or be the product.

I've been paying for Kagi for 8 months and it's been fine for me. I can live with it in a way I could never live with DDG.

Comment · 3 years ago
How are "real thanks" and "thanks of the week" different?

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