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kohbo··on What's your favorite RSS feed reader?
I self-host FreshRSS. I prefer the feeds to be pulled from a server rather than locally from a browser. This lets me check out news feeds from work without worrying about my computer pinging websites IT doesn't like.
kohbo··on AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products
Might be a good philosophy for a hobbyist, not (usually so) for a business.
kohbo··on The Dying Web
Without knowing the specifics of what the administrator has in mind, it sounds like something easily solved with a reverse proxy.
kohbo··on The Dying Web
They did create a fund though. What you're equating to Mozilla is actually the Mozilla Foundation.
kohbo··on NASA inspector general gives damning assessment of Boeing's quality control
Sadly, this is a problem that is permeating the aerospace industry. Maybe SpaceX has been immune, at least for now.

My first-hand experience at 2 large aerospace contractors is that QA resources have been a smaller and smaller portion of the contract budget.

The last companies I worked for had zero software QA. After two years of scraping together what I could, I eventually gave up.

kohbo··on I hate the Gemini 'Dear Sydney' ad more every passing moment
I love this. I know this isn't exactly self-reflection but it's interesting to think about the type of self-reflection that is completely objective.
kohbo··on No one expects young men to do anything and they respond by doing nothing (2022)
Mass stabbings then
kohbo··on Never ask a candidate to rate themselves out of 10
I like this reasoning but would rather ask this question about a technology rather than a language. That may just be my particular field, though.
kohbo··on Pwning a Brother labelmaker, for fun and interop
I love this idea. It never even occurred to me to try something like this but that just makes stumbling on comments like yours even better.
kohbo··on The case against morning yoga, daily routines, and endless meetings
This is a very non-ADHD mindset
kohbo··on The Raspberry Pi 5 Is No Match for a Tini-Mini-Micro PC
Those low price ones are never available. The cheapest 4b I see right now is $60. Which isn't bad, but not $35.
kohbo··on Spam, junk, slop? The latest wave of AI behind the 'zombie internet'
You skipped over the one that is perfect for LLMs, determining the purpose of intent in the message.
kohbo··on Cars are less colorful than they were 20 years ago: study
Costs extra to get anything besides shades of black and white in most cases too
kohbo··on Cars are less colorful than they were 20 years ago: study
Costs extra for non-standard colors too
kohbo··on Feynman’s Razor
How come you're avoiding every contraction, except "can't"?
kohbo··on Cancel Adobe if you are a creative under NDA with your clients
I have multiple personal apps that I've side loaded on my Pixel Fold. This hasn't come up for me. Are you sure there isn't more to this story?
kohbo··on Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects
> Agile tries to mitigate that by allowing teams to be able to react more easily to changing requirements.

This often breaks down into a practice where maintaining requirements is not given enough priority and in very short time the actual product has deviated from the documented requirements to the point where they're basically useless and there's no clear goal for any of the features.

kohbo··on Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects
This is the type of engineering method that I try to instill in my teams. It's very dependant on good practices at every level of requirements management.
kohbo··on AI Will Increase the Quantity–and Quality–of Phishing Scams
Cat and mouse game
kohbo··on Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021)
Why should they sell it by that date?
kohbo··on Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021)
Because it's not required
kohbo··on Helldivers 2 Removed from Purchase on Steam in over 150 Countries
Don't waste your time or money because of a minor inconvenience?
kohbo··on Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job
Not saying your overall message is wrong about your region but... My wife is an NP and most of her courses and clinical time were focused on diagnostic techniques.
kohbo··on Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job
I found it interesting that your mind went to Tesla's autopilot. My mind went to operating airplanes. Most newer small planes have some form of GPS but you're technically not supposed to use instrument navigation until your certified to do so. I haven't met a single pilot that didn't do so, though.

Anyway, it creates the very problem you mentioned but just replace "road" with "outside the cockpit".

kohbo··on Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny
Sorry but creating a meeting in teams is almost completely disjointed from the equivalent process on Outlook. Half of the features are missing on the Teams side. I can't even see other people's calendar or add people from my contact list outside of the org. It's terribly integrated.
kohbo··on Ask HN: SWEs – Are y'all worried about your jobs?
Not at all. I work in a field that can't use public (or in many cases commercially) available solutions. We have studied the use of AI using private models that are based on the publicly available models for some isolated use-cases. The outcome was that AI is no where near mature enough to write anything besides basic solutions.

If AI does penetrate and become effective in my area, it's another tool. Just like you write less and less code as you achieve higher roles, you'll spend more time using AI rather than writing "raw" code.

One way or another, AI will become part of our jobs. To what level and when will greatly vary from industry to industry.

kohbo··on House passes bill to force TikTok sale from Chinese owner or ban the app
It really is a shame, in my opinion, that this is how the US has decided to deal with this issue. I understand how TikTok is a propaganda threat, but also see how Facebook, Twitter/X, or most any other social media is susceptible to that same manipulation. Unfortunately, I can't think of a way to legislate the threat away effectively.
kohbo··on The internet isn't dying, it's changing
When it takes the speaker 2x more words to ensure they mention their corporate sponsors, it's no longer an efficient way to get information.
kohbo··on Uber must pay wheelchair user $35,000, provide accessible rides
"...Uber told the 2022 hearing into Bauer’s complaint that it didn’t violate the human rights code because it’s an app and doesn’t provide a service as defined under the code."

What an argument.

kohbo··on WWII: Failed novelist becomes a spy for Germany, makes up a fake spy network
I found it really hard to follow and internalize the information
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