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I am a Full-Stack web developer with 3+ years experience and expertise in building secure, scalable web applications, adhering to software development principles and methodologies. I leverage modern tech stacks to create optimized, production-ready solutions.

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Well, as long as it wasn't stick by the silo entrance on the wall on postit we can call it an improvement, eh? I mean you have to at least remember the number of zeros required
Some progress has been made on Solitaire here, although I understand it's still not fully peer-reviewed (I think)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.12314v3
The Skills Every Software Engineer Should Learn in 2025
Installing Windows 11 on devices that don't meet minimum system requirements
An image of something is likely to be the simplest model of that thing that happened, and it has A LOT less information than a 3D model of arbitrary resolution would have.
As a relatively new senior developer who has witnessed the emergence of Copilot while progressing from Junior to mid senior and above, I completely disagree with the premise.

Junior developers have huge gaps in their knowledge, which they fill naturally by working on different parts of projects and getting their hands dirty. What's actually happening now in my company is that juniors who have been primarily using LLMs to code have a much worse grasp of the codebase, the tech stack and software engineering in general than those who don't, even if they deliver faster. Also, in a complex codebase, the number of mistakes they produce doesn't go down with time, because they're not actually learning from their previous mistakes and applying the learnings.

As a senior developer who used to use Copilot heavily, I have to admit it's a crazy performance boost when you're adding critical small changes here and there, across different codebases with different stacks, when you know what you want to do. However, I recently decided to stop my copilot subscription and go back to non-assisted coding, for multiple reasons:
1. Coding is fun
2. On a senior level, mistakes are more problematic.
3. Writing the code yourself results in much higher quality code, for me, than reviewing the LLM's code

In short, I disagree with the article
Sorry to be pedantic but WORD + ‘s = WORD + is, is not always true. If the word is a singular noun you can add an ‘s to form the possessive form of a singular noun;

Jane’s books
Amazon is ruthless for some product categories, with a lot of competition and thin margins.

For you a healthy margin might be 3$-6$, for others they're happy with 1$... and Amazon puts pressure for cheaper and cheaper prices to make their users happy, but they refuse to cut their margins :P
Why bother with DVDs when you have torrents and russian streaming sites...
Whatever the physics of the parent universe are, they either prohibit BBs (and then that universe would be ours, which it presumably isn’t) or are unlikely to affect BBs in a way that disallows creating BBs that observe a similar universe. It’s akin to “why tf I’m a human on Earth 2024 of all planets and things” argument. Well, four reasons: you’re, a human, here, now.

Even if we assume that this universe we observe as BBs is as well the parent universe, it can produce not only human BBs obviously and not only coherent experiences. Complete nonsense is normal here too.

So if a universe allows for BBs (iow, spontaneous temporary observers with state that somehow produces the me-is-observing effect), it allows for all sorts of experiences, and given enough iterations could reconstruct itself and everything imaginable and unimaginable in a sequence of arbitrary length. “You’re certainly not”doesn’t follow here. It may be or it may be not. You’re a human, here, now.
Pretty sure they have. It's just been broken long ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS
People feel like this about domains they don't know all the time. Don't allow your ignorance of an area to trick you into thinking you can't learn that area. It's just new to you!

Source: teaching beginners piano for years. Of course sheet music looks like gobbledygook, until you've spent a bit of time learning the basic rules!
So quantum computers will be relavent in some time around 2075.

How much money should we putting into something with a time horizon longer than the working careers of everyone here?
FWIW, I'm in a jurisdiction with a 10 year retention requirement, and also have had no issues getting imaging data from beyond that (on DVD, of course - one department even had a side hustle selling external DVD drives for $50 on the side; they even offered to drop the files onto a USB drive for free).
https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Code_Talker
Very good article, excellent concluding para:

> Exactly why Mangione allegedly used a 3D-printed gun in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s Thompson—whether as a political statement or in the belief that it would help him evade identification—remains far from clear. But as a coder and technologist, he may have been attracted to the idea. “This is the US. It’s not the easiest way to get your hands on a gun,” says another DIY gunsmith who spoke to WIRED but asked not to be named, in reference to 3D-printed firearms. “But he’s a techy guy, and he may have just owned a 3D printer. It wouldn’t be a bad way to make an untraceable gun.”
Never really needed one, I started the business because a few friends asked if a solution existed and all the marketing has been word of mouth. We send out a weekly analytics email to clients breaking down subscriber usage and some topics analysis, but nothing too complicated.
Help Us Rank the Best Background Removal Tools
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Current Rankings:
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UUID was a mistake :-)
> For QM it can be shown that there are no hidden variables, at least no local ones

If we assume that the experimenter has free will in choosing the measurement settings, so that the hidden variables are not correlated with the measurement settings, then it can be shown.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem#Superdetermin...

But it we are less strict on the requirement of the free will assumption, then even local hidden variables are back on the menu.
There's a JAR on every SIM and payment card and it works fine.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card
I wrote "can". As opposed to OPs "can’t". Not "is always".

I also find it hilarious that you assume I’m cut off from one of the greatest joys in life - the vast array of food, tastes and experiences available to the modern human existence. Talk about generalizing from your experience, eh?
Alright, thank you for your suggestions, I will make adjustments accordingly.
https://www.bytebase.com/sql-editor/ with data access control, dynamic data masking.
Someone keeps forcing this affirmation, apparently, in accordance with the saying that "if you repeat a lie enough times people will begin to believe it". Bernie Sanders is a centrist, allegedly, wokism is to the right of the spectrum. And big government, welfare state, regulations of every sphere of life are free market institutions. Stop farting to your own ears. Almost every US government is left-leaning because in the current climate the alternative will be a political suicide.
> and the idea of the Final Solution[0] is still somewhat alive under the Master Plan name[1].

Sorry, but that's utter bullshit. Also, I wonder how you feel about Turkey's plans to remigrate Syrian refugees back to Syria now that Assad has been deposed.
> Guess our part towards saving the planet may well turn out to be 'driving that existing ICE vehicle for just a little bit longer'...

Yep, or selling it and buying a more efficient one, so the person buying yours upgrades their less efficient car as well.
My side project is about market making in a very particular way / or niched between decentralised exchanges and centralised one. The good thing is that this industry is so big that even as a small competitor I can do a lot. I don't have a product, just a basic page that's broken here and there https://asset.plus/, my actual revenue comes from my bots trading. I am currently expanding my infrastructure, but I really have to take care of costs because servers for low latency are expensive.
Help Us Rank the Best Background Removal Tools
Hi everyone,

Inspired by ChatBot Arena (https://lmarena.ai/), we've created a background removal comparator and need your honest feedback to create a community-driven benchmark.

Current Rankings:

PhotoRoom: Elo 1025

RemoveBG: Elo 1006

BRIA RMBG 2.0: Elo 969

This ranking is currently based on approximately 1,500 votes collected between December 1-10, 2024.

How It Works: Visit our Background Removal Arena <https://huggingface.co/spaces/bgsys/background-removal-arena> to see the tools in action and cast your votes. Your participation helps refine the Elo rankings and ensures they become more and more reliable.

How You Can Help:

Vote: Compare the tools and vote for your preferred option.
Feedback: Share your experience with the voting process and the tool rankings.

Was voting easy?
Do the rankings reflect your usage?
Any suggestions for improvement?

Transparency: Our process is fully public and auditable. The code is available on Hugging Face <https://huggingface.co/spaces/bgsys/background-removal-arena>. Any feedback is welcome!

Your input is crucial in making this a valuable resource for everyone. Thank you for your support and participation!
https://ieltsielts.com/

I build simple speech shadowing exercises that help people train for IELTS Speaking. The project makes more than $500/month.
Forgot to add - I've put together a website which I will add more info & documentation to soon: https://rezible.com
"I suspect that Germany would have surrendered a year earlier if the Allies had offered some version of amnesty rather than unconditional surrender."

That assumes that rational thinking (by, in this case, the German side) is involved. There wasn't any, at the very top.
Ask HN: Successful SaaS Acquisition Story?
I'm curious if anyone here has acquired a SaaS or tiny startup/side project and wishes to share the story.
That fact that all the bonus material on DVDs (documentaries, audio commentaries, story board drawings etc) was hardly appreciated at the time until it went away in the Netflix era is something that also reminds me of movie awards.

Many film classics were only really appreciated years later, and we are left to wonder why they didn't won an Academy Award at the time while some other totally unremarkable movie took it instead. I think it's this: Often we assume that certain things (e.g. certain types of movies, DVD extras) just will be as good or better in the future, and often they do, but if they unexpectedly get worse, we realize that we did hit a high water mark in the past without noticing at the time.
creation... wow, they really love themselves by choosing that vocabulary; to create is divine, and this AI model is merely generating.
"Chicken of the Trees"-Iguana Recipe Ideas [pdf]
You should try LaserDisc :)
I'm a vendor of some packaged on-premise solution. We are using a Redis as a cache layer inside. Risk of being forced to GPL out our installer is unacceptable for us.
Data Platform vs. Data Product
Sorry if this is unsolicited feedback, but reading:

> Conduct your most crispest and productive 1 : 1s

Feels awkward to me.

> Conduct the most crisp and productive 1:1s

Could be more organic?
> you can't accurately forecast beyond a week

Totally wrong. You cannot generalize such a statement because it depends on the micro and macro weather conditions. A very stable situation makes it very easy to forecast one week and beyond. On the other hand, there can be situations where you cannot accurately predict the next 12 hours (e.g. cold air pool).
I'm glad it helped you!
i do two tiers of banks. direct deposit into a chase checking account. i pay down everything from here. then i transfer what’s left (minus $500) to an ally savings/invest account. lets me use ATMs and branch services with chase while having a higher savings rate with ally. if i need to pull a wad of cash out, i generally know more than a couple days ahead of time for a transfer to clear. if i wanted i could chase savings account interest rates and move from ally to somewhere else, but what a hassle. 0.5% on 100k is $500, and not worth it to me. ally’s rates are generally fine imo for me not to worry about it.

i’ve only ever hit debit card limits when trying to buy like a car. if you’re hitting cc limits, i dunno, maybe you have more liquid cash where smaller interest rate increases are worth the squeeze.

edit: ok i totally forgot i moved the bulk of my ally savings into an ally invest account holding a vanguard money market fund bc the rate was higher. this is a little less work than opening an account with another bank at least. the rate was 5.4 and is now 4.5. ally savings account is at 3.8. cds, ibonds, money market funds, these are all vehicles i never used prior to covid but have since. chasing it all around is annoying, but i only take stock maybe every 6 months. there’s diminishing returns here since everything past the efund gets invested in an index fund anyway.
What kind of solved problems are you looking?
Are you claiming manufacturing an EV emits as much CO2 as driving ICE for 100 000 km? That's really hard to believe, you need to cite your sources.
> When new codecs were created, the DVD could have been enhanced in terms of better quality,

That wouldn't work for such a mass market product made by many manufacturers, many of them cutting every corner that they can. Newer codecs often require a bit more power or memory to run so even if there was an upgrade path many players would be locked out of newer discs or disc makers would be forced to put two formas on the disc, one for better players and one for those capable of only the baseline, reducing the amount of space available for actual content.

DVD players, and consumer devices like them, are intended to be “black boxes” to the user, not something that they need to service by applying updates, and there wasn't the connectivity available back then that there is now for that to be done automatically – people would have had to bring something to the machine incurring a distribution cost. This couldn't be “just download and stick it on a USB drive” because many people didn't have much by way of Internet access at all at home, or often didn't even have a computer (or had one that wasn't recent enough to have the fancy new fangled USB thingies, and USB drives weren't the cheap throw-away trinkets they've since become). Remember: the standard was invented in 1995, first available to the public in 1996, and rose to significant adoption in the early 2000s.

You could include the update on the DVDs themselves, but that adds two problems. First there is security/stability: something could accidentally (or maliciously) brick the user device. Second is compatibility: they would have to constrain the hardware options considerably, rather than it being “anything that can run this codec” many more implementation details would need to be fixed in the standard. You also run into the earlier problem: there is a limit imposed by the lowest common denominator in hardware, either you have to dictate better hardware in the standard which makes things more expensive for the public (that would have massively slowed the early adoption) or you are only adding a little flexibility not enough for the process to be worthwhile.
The oceans have already changed over the last decades and yes, the chain reaction has very likely already started: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm_YZ2juQL4
The ranking of academic performance at 8 years old remained stable for the next 10 years. Not just the top.

If teaching had a positive effect then why would that be stable? That implies that there was no difference caused by course choices, nurturing by a better teacher, etc. so where is the growth?

And that’s my anecdote. Some studies indicate you can probably skip a decade and show up to college and catch up to your peers in no time.

I don’t think I believe instruction cannot give you useful information, but that the 3rd-12th grade knowledge is thin, artificial, and non-transferable.
FP for the Working Programmer: Why Is Null Bad?
Is there any software that let me make graphical user interface to a connected database, allows me to make data visualizations, all things automatic and interactive?
Like a node editor or spreadsheet?
could have been accommodated by putting executable codec files ON the DVD.

A good brand would buffer compute and memory capacity by a decent factor at time of sale in order to support future codecs needs...
I like the newest design! The hook and loop for the power adapter in particular really is a great idea for something that needs to be removed so frequently.
Sounds like PowerBI
I read their questions as bad faith. But also, I am not here to research your bad takes. I will happily research my own bad takes but the onus is not on me to go prove or disprove every bad take someone makes on the Internet.

Is it possible that aliens came down from earth to steal pineapples? Does anyone have data to prove my claim?

It's patently absurd for me to expect someone responding to this to actually go make my argument for me.
did you by chance undergo any operation you never consented too?
Ironically, this article reads like illegible AI-generated slop.
Don't state schools also get money per-child in the US? They do in the UK.
Technically three times now, Israel in past few days wiped out any air force or air defenses in Syria. They moved the country basically to the level of say Afghanistan re air defenses, so they can do whatever they want. So can others.

Till current jihadists will agree with russians to have some pantsirs and S-300/400 on the ground for keeping their bases there and situation changes again. If russians can get friendly with Taliban they can be friends with anybody so thats just question of time.
Not sure I agree. They are built to last, yes, but would be a pain to get fixed if they break down. If it were me, I'd have preferred something like a Thinkpad.
Next.js and mdx – simple minimalistic blog site
No.

This is progress towards quantum computing but no where near progress towards a real practical quantum computer that could break Bitcoin's algorithms. If progress continues it could be an issue in the future, check back in next time Google publishes a paper.
It's relatively easy, take a cutting edge problem that can't be solved, hire engineers paid 500k-1m/year, put them in a fancy office for 10 years.
I think Java/JDK was closed source initially, then went open source in 2006/2007 (?), but without the TCK. The TCK was never open sourced but the JCK is now kind of "open": https://openjdk.org/groups/conformance/JckAccess/
Is battery manufacturing that bad for the environment? I mean, ICE cars still have wheels, drivetrains, chassis, doors, windows, chairs, electronics, paint and many other things, same as the EVs. The electric motor I can't imagine its worse to produce than a combustion motor. So that leaves batteries as the cause of this huge disparity on day one, that takes 100,000km of fuel consumption to overtake.

Is this with the battery tech of today, december 2024? So for EVs built in 2020 let's say, it was worse? I think there is some advancement in battery making, isn't there?
Don't give up! Induction gets easier every time, and you learn lots of tricks/recipes, like keto-ade to feel better during induction, and making oats/flaxmeal tasty for cheap & quick breakfasts. You don't have to commit to long streaks, or feel bad about sunk cost when you cheat. All that progress accumulates.

I've been in and out so often now I can happily switch between keto at home & unrestricted on vacation/occasions. At worst I get 1 day of dopiness starting carbs, and 1 day of mild cravings stopping them, but usually I don't even notice.
In your use case, you could not even use the AGPL, basically? Is that what you mean? Thanks. That would be an interesting point, but it goes over the borders of the SSPL itself. Would be more BSD/MIT vs all the rest.
I use git gui (git extensions) so I don't know bother with cli unless I have to
Lattice SDK for Interoperability and Decentralization of Modern Defense
Didn't Waymo's CEO admit self driving cars were a pipe dream a few years ago ?
Historically collecting damages were not the goal of GPL enforcement. Specific performance, or stop infringement by no longer distributing the software were the remedies. The latter is not always an option for the infringing party, and that's what submits them into compliance.
What insult?? I took the time to answer your question and this is your response?
I think we have different ideas of what it means to leave Christianity behind.

The Church of Sweden was the state church until 2000. I think the monarch is still required to be Lutheran.

The Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Denmark is the state church of Denmark.

The King of Norway was the head of the Church of Norway until 2012, and "separation ... remains incomplete" quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway .

Spain didn't separate church and state until the 1970s.

Ireland gave special status to the Catholic Church until the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution Act 1972, and Church influence over schooling remains an issue.

Charles III is the titular head of the Church of England.

"In 1984, following a revised accord with the Vatican, Catholicism lost its status as the official religion of the Italian state[3] and Italy became a secular state." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Italy

Monaco de-secularized in 2020 and now Catholic Christianity is the state church.
israel is actually reimplementing this plan right now
A Commentary on the Sixth Edition Unix Operating System [pdf]
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I don't see this happening, as it would de-throne Matt and Matt hasn't shown any "remorse", any understanding of him being the issue and that there's a clear conflict of interest. No, in fact he keeps doubling down [1] on claiming that all of his/Automattic's efforts are happening for the good of open source and the community.

[1] https://x.com/automattic/status/1866644684057248090