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akosma

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Computer historian • Author of https://mas.to/@deprogrammaticaipsum • Fedora & FreeBSD user • Searchable profile at https://tootfinder.ch

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krzyzanowskim, to random
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"Services" is the most misunderstood, underused, and ignored feature nobody cares. Open only by accident, and the content doesn't make sense anyway.

change my mind

akosma,
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@krzyzanowskim I made a service once for my nib2objc project; select a nib file on finder, use the service, and in your clipboard now you have the corresponding Objective-C code. It was useful! I guess I was the only one using it :)))

akosma, to random
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One of the common side effects of having to use that clusterfuck of usability that is Google Slides is that, all of a sudden, PowerPoint looks better than ever.

How you doin'

akosma, to random
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Freely downloadable ebook: "Kubernetes Patterns" by Bilgin Ibryam & Roland Huß https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/cl-oreilly-kubernetes-patterns-ebook-287622-202303-en.pdf

akosma,
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Seriously good. Highly recommended if you want to spend quality time with kubectl.

akosma, to random
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dafuq

https://www.investigatetv.com/2023/04/26/rail-profits-soar-blocked-crossings-force-kids-crawl-under-trains-get-school/

parcifal, to random
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When learning a new technology or programming language do you fully read the docs first? Or do you try and build something and keep the docs handy? What's a good approach? 🤔

akosma,
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@parcifal imho there's no "good" approach, I know people who read the docs first, others (like me) just open an editor and start hacking with the docs at hand.

akosma, to random
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BREAKING: Italy restores access to ChatGPT after OpenAI removes all knowledge about pineapple pizzas from the model. https://www.mlyearning.org/italy-restores-chatgpt-after-openai-responds-to-regulator/

akosma, to random
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“Will rich people want to live in a future built by the same people who murdered a journalist? The sober answer is yes. People care about human rights. However, most people, most of the time, care more about their prosperity even if it comes at the expense of others. Think Big Tech.” https://www.profgalloway.com/the-mother-of-all-pivots/

akosma,
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“There is merit to the suggestion that a decent strategy for success is to find the largest pile of money and stand as close to it as possible.”

🤣🤣🤣

bazscott, to random
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$19 this cost me 😱🫠🤯😭

akosma,
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@bazscott welcome to Zürich!

oh wait

akosma, to random
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In other news, even Apple employees think Siri is a bad joke. https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/27/apple-employees-siri-struggles/

akosma, to random
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This free training was floating around LinkedIn and it's quite good, I recommend. And it's free for the time being. https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/chatgpt-prompt-engineering-for-developers/

akosma,
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It's seriously good, I'm quite impressed.

carnage4life, to random
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This is the falsest statement a CFO has ever made about their company.

https://jalopnik.com/gm-says-software-will-be-as-compelling-as-carplay-1850378651

akosma,
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@carnage4life reminds me of the CEO of a Swiss watch maker announcing a smartwatch in 2014 to compete against the Apple Watch, with “a battery that would last at least 2 weeks.”

checks website nope, still not there.

jcfischer, to random German
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By accident in a wonderful greek restaurant near Acropolis with a great waiter and even better food.

Lyra Restaurant Athens
+30 21 0322 9727
https://maps.app.goo.gl/qC5NqVe5YF9ez6Nq8?g_st=ic

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akosma,
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@jcfischer 👏🏻

anderseknert, to programming
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Rather than deciding on a scripting language that only some in the organization understands and enjoys — like — consider a more inclusive option, like , which no one understands or enjoys.

akosma,
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@anderseknert I saw what you did there

santiago, to random Portuguese
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    akosma,
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    @santiago gists at GitHub?

    akosma,
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    @santiago but that’s the whole idea of gists. As a bonus, they are actual got repos.

    anderseknert, to random
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    Reminder to not use "foo", "bar" or similarly named identifiers in user-facing documentation. If you who wrote the software find it hard to come up with a real-world use case (and with that, realistic names) for a feature, how would anyone else be able to?

    Also, please don't include sections stating they're "only for people who know what they are doing". We don't know what we are doing — that's why we're reading your docs in the first place, hoping you'd tell us.

    akosma,
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    @anderseknert 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

    fasterthanlime, to random
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    Cool, so when I receive a wire transfer from the US, my bank takes away $20US because, then does currency exchange to EUR, then takes away 16€ for "bringing the money here", then another 16.10€ for the currency conversion.

    It's a good thing I'm expensive too because damn.

    akosma,
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    @fasterthanlime heh, reminds me of the first royalties cheque (yes, cheque) I got from O’Reilly… it was worth 500 USD, and the (Swiss cantonal) bank charged me… 50.

    10%.

    I asked O’Reilly to never send cheques again. They still took a commission from the wire transfer, but it was peanuts in comparison.

    akosma, to random
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    I’m so tired of SPAs, people: just render HTML in the server and send it to the browser. End of the story. Your website is not an app.

    Stop. That. Shit.

    akosma,
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    @santiago no, JavaScript was just meant to return NaN randomly, nothing else.

    akosma, to web
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    Remember the "Google Web Toolkit"? Released to great fanfare in 2006, TIL it's still maintained: the latest release was last June.

    https://www.gwtproject.org/

    akosma, to Software
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    Hi! 👋

    I'm a developer born in and living in .

    These days I publish a new article every Friday on my , and every first Monday of each month on @deprogrammaticaipsum a monthly about and society.

    Thanks for following and see you around!

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