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goshx··on Debugging: Indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive problems (2004)
> Quit thinking and look (get data first, don't just do complicated repairs based on guessing)

From my experience, this is the single most important part of the process. Once you keep in mind that nothing paranormal ever happens in systems and everything has an explanation, it is your job to find the reason for things, not guess them.

I tell my team: just put your brain aside and start following the flow of events checking the data and eventually you will find where things mismatch.

goshx··on Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
I don't remember him changing these rules for Trump's first term. Do you?
goshx··on Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model
I read this as Zuck kneeling to the new king and first lady (Musk). I highly doubt these changes were not influenced (forced?) by them.
goshx··on AI Guesses Your Accent
I guess I don't have my native language's accent (which I tend to hear from native English speakers).

It guessed Hebrew. My native language is Portuguese.

goshx··on Trump wins presidency for second time
He didn’t have immunity from the Supreme Court, and majority of the Senate and the House back then. Some Republicans working with him still had integrity to prevent atrocities, but they are not there anymore.
goshx··on Trump wins presidency for second time
Kudos to Elon Musk and his $44B megaphone, I guess. Money, lies, and misinformation work, folks.

You can clearly see that Kamala won due to all the illegals voting for Democrats. Oh wait.

goshx··on INNER JOIN ON vs WHERE clause (2009)
There used to be a difference, if I am correct. Many years ago, we had to rewrite a lot of implicit joins before we could upgrade MySQL because they changed the precedence of tables in implicit joins between major versions. I couldn't easily find this reference, but it was well over 10 years ago.

EDIT: 10 years ago... lol it was over 20! http://download.nust.na/pub6/mysql/doc/refman/5.0/en/join.ht... search for 5.0.12 on this page.

goshx··on How long til we're all on Ozempic?
Thank you, I’ll pay attention to that.
goshx··on How long til we're all on Ozempic?
My wife was interested in taking the Ozempic route, and I am not fond of drugs.

We then started intermittent fasting together as a lifestyle, and it's been great. Losing weight while not restricting what we eat and feeling great as our body adapts and doesn't let us overeat. I just wonder about the long-term effects, but I'd rather take this risk than a drug like Ozempic.

goshx··on Why I avoid using empty() in PHP? A Closer Look
In both examples, to check distance and price, the author should have simply used is_numeric()
goshx··on Show HN: I mapped HN's favorite books with GPT-4o
Very nice. Do you have a text format of this available?
goshx··on FB partner admits phone microphones listen to people talk to serve better ads
Fair enough, but my point is you just can’t prove either way and only add noise to the conversation. I’d like to hear from someone at say, apple or google, if the mics could be used or have been used before there were led indicators, for instance. But I guess that’s not going to happen.
goshx··on FB partner admits phone microphones listen to people talk to serve better ads
Unless you work at FB and can prove anything, with all due respect, it doesn’t matter.

Way too many people, myself included - multiple times - have experienced this. I’d hope someone who has not experienced it and does not work at the companies related to it would not be so vocal against it.

goshx··on FB partner admits phone microphones listen to people talk to serve better ads
and vehemently denied by someone here in the comments every time it comes up. Let’s see what they say.
goshx··on Obsolete Command-Line Tools of Linux
Don’t you dare touching my favorite tools :)
goshx··on Eric Schmidt deleted Stanford interview
> There are other ways to commute.

There are better places to live.

See what I did there? Not everyone has better options to commute.

goshx··on I built an ROV to solve missing person cases
I agree. I couldn't find the reference on the first few pages, so I pasted the URL to chatGPT and asked what is an ROV to get the context based on the article
goshx··on Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem
It's unbelievable that Cox offers no compensation or reward for incredible work like this.
goshx··on If A.I. Can Do Your Job, Maybe It Can Also Replace Your CEO
The same can be said for a human CEO.
goshx··on Chickens in Trees
Down in Brazil, my grandfather used to shoot salt at the thieves climbing the trees to steal the chickens.
goshx··on How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale
"Sorry, you’ve stumbled upon a temporary technical issue. Please try refreshing this page in a moment."

Have they? :) I am excited to read the article when it loads

goshx··on Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification
I used an HTML file and added JPEG magic bytes to its header:

magika file.jpg

file.jpg: JPEG image data (image)

goshx··on Elon Musk's $56B Tesla compensation voided by judge
Because I, along other shareholders, voted for the plan, which you can find here:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000119312518...

The reasons for voiding it are absurd. He did the almost impossible and met all milestones of the plan and brought TREMENDOUS value to all the shareholders.

Had he not done it, his shares would not be worth that much.

goshx··on Elon Musk's $56B Tesla compensation voided by judge
This is absurd. Elon deserves the package.
goshx··on Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks
It’s already banned in Brazil, for instance
goshx··on Twitter Now Showing Ads for Nonconsensual 'AI Undress' Apps
I see plenty of ads on X with community notes warning the users about potential scams. Elon is taking money from anyone who wants to advertise.
goshx··on Gemini AI
Meanwhile, Bard can't create images, see's more than there is on an image, and gave me this kind of response, after I was already talking about Rust:

Me: please show me the step by step guide to create a hello world in rust

Bard: I do not have enough information about that person to help with your request. I am a large language model, and I am able to communicate and generate human-like text in response to a wide range of prompts and questions, but my knowledge about this person is limited. Is there anything else I can do to help you with this request?

Doing "AI" before everyone else doesn't seem to mean they can get results as good as OpenAI's.

goshx··on Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max
2019 i7 here and I’m still very happy with it. I can’t justify the purchase.
goshx··on The Sun's Magnetic Poles Are Vanishing
"The poles of the sun’s magnetic field are fading away. But don’t panic: it’s all part of our host star’s usual 11-year cycle of activity."

I hope I saved you a click.

goshx··on Deepfakes start ringing in voters' ears
Without AI, you need someone to be the impersonator.

With AI, anyone can be an impersonator.

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