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benhurmarcel··on Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)
Only if you actually try to achieve them
benhurmarcel··on It's Not Just X. It's Y
Exactly, without talking about automated checkers or publishing policies, if a text gives readers the impression is was LLM-generated it will affect how they judge it.

Recently a contractor presented a small internal tool they made for a very specific task. The UI text gave a direct impression to be entirely LLM-generated with no human edition. It makes the entire tool look vibe-coded, affecting how we judge it. Now I question whether they even reviewed the functionality correctness, which I wouldn't doubt if the UI didn't look generated.

benhurmarcel··on Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL
I got locked out of some websites by Cloudflare Turnstile on some very standard configurations, like an iPhone on Safari, or a Windows 11 desktop with Firefox or Edge, neither with a VPN on. I never found out why.
benhurmarcel··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Now add up the engineer’s salary and you’ll find that software seats already cost more than those R&D ones.
benhurmarcel··on Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore
I often use LLMs to suggest recipes based on some criterias, but yes once you decided what you want to cook always go find some non-IA recipes for it
benhurmarcel··on Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links
And then we have the national post office sending its notifications from the scammiest-looking domain they could find: noreply@notif-colissimo-laposte.info
benhurmarcel··on The IBM-ification of Google?
It has a good title
benhurmarcel··on Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can
Can it store multiple urls for the same password now?
benhurmarcel··on Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism
I’m left handed and can use a mouse with either hand. It’s just a matter of habit.
benhurmarcel··on OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens
In his case of a large company, I’d expect that completing the useless training is necessary to get access to the tool. That’s how it worked in mine.
benhurmarcel··on EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids
If you disable your watch history, Youtube won't show you personalized Shorts anymore. Much less addictive.
benhurmarcel··on OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family
I don’t think PWA can do widgets indeed, but they can have an icon on the iOS home screen.
benhurmarcel··on OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family
I’m surprised the author went for native apps rather than a PWA for this use
benhurmarcel··on SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format
For column types there are STRICT tables now
benhurmarcel··on Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
Standard card payment that you need to autorize on your phone in your bank's app...
benhurmarcel··on Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes
Did you stop looking at cars after 2015 ? Most electric cars look very normal.
benhurmarcel··on Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March
> cite wanting things to "just work", often claiming that they "don't want making the computer work to become a second job"

I feel this way, yet I've used Linux on the desktop for a decade before, even selecting my hardware for compatibility. Yet even when using "stable" distros like Ubuntu, it did require maintenance regularly. With more hyped distros like Arch it was constant. Sure I was always able to fix it, but I had to do it.

I installed Windows back when I started having kids. I just don't have the time and mental space anymore to dedicate to fixing the OS regularly. I need to be able to let updates happen and not wonder whether I need to have 20 minutes free afterwards to fix something.

benhurmarcel··on For the first time in history, more Americans are moving to EU than vice versa
> they provide roads for lots and lots of EU transit traffic

Not for free though

benhurmarcel··on Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga
In many countries, the word “government” only refers to the executive branch
benhurmarcel··on Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race
They never claimed it was faster, but healthier
benhurmarcel··on Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition
In that case, if you stick to pre-ground coffee, just get an Oxo Rapid Brewer. It’s cheap, easy and fast to use and clean, and only requires a kettle. You’ll get decent coffee.
benhurmarcel··on Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition
I wonder how many grams of coffee beans they consider are in 1 cup though.
benhurmarcel··on Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition
Especially if you like Americanos, chances are you'll be happier with filter coffee from good beans, rather than spending it in an espresso machine.

Get an Aeropress, or Hario Switch, or Clever dripper. A kettle and some filters. For beans buy from roasters that do light/meduim roasts, and print a recent roasting date on the package/website. The only expensive item should be a grinder, look at 1zpresso Q/Air/X or Kingrinder K6 if you want to limit price.

benhurmarcel··on Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)
Done, thanks
benhurmarcel··on Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)
I don't know, I never got an invitation to Lobsters and yet I still go through it regularly. You find some interesting links and comments even if you can't participate.
benhurmarcel··on Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people
I recently had a similar experience. I wrote a 4-page specification. The person receiving it had an LLM summarize it in a few bullet points instead of reading through it. I got a proposal which doesn't match the need, and then he complained that my objections should have been mentioned in the spec in the first place (they were, but not in his LLM summary).

It's just frustrating. I'm not one that obsesses over the meaning of every word, but there's no way a summary in 10 bullet points can contain all the information from a 4-page document.

benhurmarcel··on Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind
Yes being a parent would tend to correlate to a drop in physical activities and sports
benhurmarcel··on FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages
That’s not sarcasm and it doesn’t allow any backup, it literally just to make sure you didn’t forget the PIN. It’s once a week, forever. It’s a good way to make sure people don’t activate 2FA.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/1278661612895630/

> WhatsApp will regularly ask you to enter your PIN as a reminder. As long as you don't reset the PIN, you will get a reminder once a week.

benhurmarcel··on FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages
I wonder how long does the system store those notifications
benhurmarcel··on FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages
Reminds me what Whatsapp if you set up a 2FA PIN, which forces you to type it about every week to check if you forgot it. So annoying.
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