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thbb123··on Effective AI code suggestions: less is more
Then it's likely an opportunity for factoring. The ideal is to never have duplicate code
thbb123··on The "email is authentication" pattern
The french postal services does that and includes a digital wallet and cloud repository.for instance, my paycheck certificates are delivered on this wallet.

Besides, the french administration is providing its own global scheme for online authentication.

Right now it works for all public services, but it is also open to all willing businesses.

It makes it also very easy to control tightly what kind of information is distributed to various services and businesses.

thbb123··on Self-Hosting DNS
r/selfhosted on reddit has a very helpful community.

DNS is very easy. Email is tough. Usually one would add a media server such as Plex and Nextcloud which is very useful.

thbb123··on Tsung-Dao Lee, physicist who challenged a law of nature, has died
This headline would suggest Tsung-Dao Lee challenged the law of gravity by jumping from a building and failing to make his point.
thbb123··on Why CSV is still king
Sad that the ASCII specification includes 2 codes: 30 and 31, respectively field separator and record separator, precisely to answer cleanly the need that CSV fullfils addresses.

During the 90's I was anal for using them, pissing the hell out of my teammates and users for forcing them to use these 'standard compliant' files.

Had to give up.

thbb123··on Managing Classic Mac OS Resources in ResEdit
I still remember the machine code for 2 important instructions to use in Macsbug: 0xA9FF for a breakpoint and 0x4E75 for returning from the current stackframe.

We'd debug and insert breakpoints by directly overwriting the program code in RAM.

thbb123··on The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 (2019)
To add to that, a house a hundred years ago was nothing like a house today: building codes, square footage per person, heating, plumbing, connectivity... Building and maintaining a decent housing unit is far more expensive in material and energy than it was 60 years ago.
thbb123··on A man ordered to hide his boat painted the boat on his fence
Not American here, so would welcome some explanation. If I own a piece of land on which my house sits. Even if it's within a district that has a strong HOA, what prevents me from leaving the association and set my own rules over my patch of land?

Surely in the individualistic land of the free, it should be a fundamental right?

thbb123··on Will Stone Replace Concrete
The analysis is interesting, but why the alternative of using bricks instead of stone or concrete is not studied at all?

Seems even more efficient to mould clay than to carve stones, even it becomes fully automated.

thbb123··on Coding interviews are stupid (ish)
My approach is to ask the candidate to show me some code they've written ( could be for class project, but one requirement for me to interview them is that they have a GitHub) and explain the choices they made or other anecdotes that surround the project.
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