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Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 7 months ago
It's not rug pulling, it's simple price anchoring. They'll degrade when it makes financial sense for them. You will pay for it. There's no way around it besides self hosting or using reality metered endpoints like openrouter.
Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
No pen a and paper? Compile it on fleshware.

It's not a question of what you can do, but where the comfort level reduction outweighs the project importance/pay.

Comment · 1 year ago
Is this true? I'm getting a feeling that most of this is adding external stucture when coding agents already provide a framework for it.

I've had moderate success in throwing a braindump at the llm, asking it to do a .md with a plan and then going with the implementation for it. Specialized thinking prompts seem like overkill (or dumbo-level coding skills are enough for me).

Comment · 2 years ago
Nope, hug of death is seems:

Failed to load module script: Expected a JavaScript module script but the server responded with a MIME type of "text/html". Strict MIME type checking is enforced for module scripts per HTML spec.

Ad infinitum for a list of a couple .js files with repeating names.

Guess we'll have to come back in a day or two to experience it in it's full glory :).

Comment · 2 years ago
Banks like that exist. mBank from Poland does in-app approve/reject - similar to what you get on an Android phone when you try logging in on a new PC.

They also send phishing warnings when they find active campaigns.

That said, plain old social engineering works well on people. Last week one small-scale influencer fell victim to a bank transfer scam. Got phoned by a bank person telling her that her account is targeted by hackers, then a cybersec police head phoned her and asked to transfer her savings to a 'secure account'.

Comment · 2 years ago
Weren't these TIL's about hearing an imaginated voice VS imagining the meaning?
Comment · 3 years ago
This is an issue with CSV numerical values stored as strings, for numbers it's a bit better. Libraries sometimes allow for a raw import that preserves the internal data type of the format, then you get proper numbers, not adjusted to locale formats.

If you do it for excel it even handles dates pretty well because they're in a numerical format and you can infer that a column is filled with dates because of the range.

The pre-internet conclusion is right. They try to keep backwards compatibility. Also, Excel doesn't handle big data well (1-2M rows) and neither do import libraries (at least in JS land).

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Or so you may think. Working with diffs / merge conflicts already exposes you to internals. Knowing that committing big binary blobs is a bad idea also could be categorized as "knowing internals". Knowing why LF/CRLF leads to conflicts (without setting .gitattributes) also is knowing git internals.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
For client-side stuff like that, there is sheetjs which has support for XLSX but there are file size limitations. XLSX is a glorified zip file and to parse it you 1st have to unzip it and then build the XLSX file.

I found that it starts to hang on XLSX files ~50MB because the spreadsheet model it produces get's a bit too big and sheetjs dies. Doing this in a web worker is a good idea because otherwise it will clog the main thread.

For CSV the story is different, because you can read a plain text file in chunks (even in JS) with FileReader and readAsArrayBuffer(file.slice(byteOffset, byteOffset + chunkSize, file.type)).

Comment · 4 years ago
This uses WebAssembly so it can preserve PNG transparency for example, which the canvas method loses.
Comment · 4 years ago
> added in sound for ambiance

The actual noise levels may have been higher. Regardless, I think the main reason is ventilation. With coal and wood heating streets were designed to act as valleys pushing air through. Also, I hard that old European cities were built with airflow in mind. Whole streets were uninterrupted with trees while some have them.

Also I heard an opinion that Wrocław is one of the most polluted cities because it got a lot of new buildings that break the airflow on main streets.

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