jcrben

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Just another coder.

bencreasy.com github.com/jcrben twitter.com/jcrben

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Comment · 1 month ago
Does that mean you're doing work week by week that is well-scoped and planned for that week and you can't pick up the work for next week until that week happens? It just seems like mostly programmers work on things that extend out for a long time and you can kind of just throw more at the problem and pull it forward earlier
Comment · 2 months ago
One of the main reasons I don't use the app is that it makes it harder to bookmark.
Comment · 4 months ago
Section 230
Comment · 5 months ago
The depreciation of a dam versus batteries can can weigh the benefits towards dams.
Comment · 6 months ago
Their customer service is surprisingly hostile. I still use them tho since I'm using them for low stakes stuff
Comment · 8 months ago
If you hammer their free tier with lots of nonsense queries that also probably doesn't help them. Definitely don't pay them

With that said, for the free tier I tend to use grok - another provider I will never pay

Anthropic does get money from me for now

Comment · 9 months ago
Generally I'm using 'e' to go forward and 'b' to go backward
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm not involved in the initiative so I can't answer the question definitively? I provided one of the major reasons that projects get switched from C. I think it's likely to be a major part of the motivation.
Comment · 1 year ago
As a user, you may not be aware that C makes it relatively easy to create https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow which are a major source of security vulnerabilities.

This is one of the best reasons to rewrite software in Rust or any other more safe by default language.

Comment · 1 year ago
C is unsafe.
Comment · 1 year ago
362 downloads over 20 hours isn't that impressive. Not saying Anaconda isn't great. Don't have much experience with it but I hope the devs get paid for all the value delivered, which I think is largem
Comment · 1 year ago
I listen to a ton of audiobooks on oreilly which I have a subscription to from work.
Comment · 1 year ago
What was the actual risk of using SpringBoot tho?
Comment · 1 year ago
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