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Manfred

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I'm Manfred, read more about me here: http://manfred.github.io/.
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Manfred··on The average workday increased during the pandemic’s early weeks (2020)
Not when it's same by ratio, for example when someone in the US earns 100k a year for 50 weeks of 50 hours vs someone in EU earning 75.2k for 47 weeks of 40 hours.

And then we haven't even taken cost of living, lifetime healthcare costs, retirement benefits, and social security into account.

Manfred··on Remote workers more likely to start their own business
The Register should have mentioned that the article has not been peer reviewed.
Manfred··on Critical CSS
It would only be ironic if they released a tool to get rid of loading on a page.

> Critical CSS refers to the minimal set of CSS rules required to render the visible portion of a webpage (above the fold).

In reality the tool is aimed to style most of the page without loading additional assets so you don't get a jarring repaint when visiting the site.

Manfred··on Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It
People in the comments act like they have been to a family party and are now nitpicking every detail of the party, speculating that granddad might not let uncle celebrate their birthday next year, exclaiming that auntie had much better cake, and discussing the clip their niece posted to Facebook of the dirty basement.

It's fine to be skeptical about the intentions of big family, but it's also fine to enjoy the cake once in a while.

Manfred··on Claude Integrations
Imagine dynamic subscription rates based on vibes where you won't even notice price hikes because not even the supplier can explain what they are.
Manfred··on California overtakes Japan to become the world's fourth largest economy
Tying economic output to political power gets hairy pretty quickly. You incentivize states to put economic outcome before the wellbeing of the citizens and give states with rare natural resources more power than those that rely on value produced by a workforce.
Manfred··on Why the Chip Industry Is Struggling to Attract the Next Generation
I guess open something like simulator.io and start designing?
Manfred··on 12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications
I don’t have any experience in that area so I can’t really suggest anything.
Manfred··on 12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications
I believe the principles would be easier to follow if there is a consistent narrative through the factors, why which I mean using potentially real-world example for such a system.
Manfred··on Show HN: MCP-Shield – Detect security issues in MCP servers
People have been struggling with securing against SQL injection attacks for decades, and SQL has explicit rules for quoting values. I don't have a lot of faith in finding a solution that safely includes user input into a prompt, but I would love to be proven wrong.
Manfred··on But what if I want a faster horse?
On the other hand they are sometimes bad keeping content matched when you add an album to your library and, I assume, the distributor replaces the album with a different version. This also happens with "matched content" when you added a ripped version of music you own.
Manfred··on The best programmers I know
Are you talking about the "Never Blame the Computer" section?

I don't think that addresses complaining, but rather redirecting blame to something nobody has control over instead of digging into the issue and finding the root cause

Manfred··on Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?
I don’t use LLMs for factual information at all because it is likely biased or wrong.
Manfred··on Less Htmx Is More
I believe some of these issues are caused by framework abstractions.

New developers learn the framework and never learn how HTTP and HTML work.

Experienced developers have to learn how to punch through the framework to get to these features we get automatically with statically hosted assets.

Manfred··on [dead]
The title suggests Apple did this intentionally, is there any proof for that?
Manfred··on AMC Theatres will screen a Swedish movie 'visually dubbed' with the help of AI
Models need a large set of training data to work properly and dialects are usually underrepresented in the training data.
Manfred··on California Attorney General issues consumer alert for 23andMe customers
A government could decide they don't like a particular phenotype and decide to visit people based on a database. Something similar happened with the harmless "what's your religion" question on census forms in the late 1930's early 1940's.
Manfred··on Switching from Pyenv to Uv
If you want to make it work regardless of where uv is installed, you can use the following shebang line:

  #!/usr/bin/env uv run --script
Manfred··on Rules to improve air quality are under attack
It's about zero direct emissions in densely populated areas. It's to prevent people from sitting in their own poop, so to say.
Manfred··on Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot'
There is a difference between choosing to work 60 hours at your own startup with the prospect of a very large payout and being salaried at a giant company.
Manfred··on Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot'
I don't even think that is true.

Onboarding time and brain drain when someone leaves are real problems for companies. Burning people out in a few years is just not efficient.

I also don't think people can be productive for that long, for me personally the limit is at about 36 hours in 5 days.

And why would you let a single person work for 60 hours when you could easily spread that work over multiple people? I assume ABC is large enough to do that?

Manfred··on AI is stifling new tech adoption
It's also a problem when adopting new functionality in existing frameworks (eg. upgrading an app to new Android release), dropping the use of deprecated functionality, taking advantage of more readable syntax in programming languages, etc.
Manfred··on Authors seek Meta's torrent client logs and seeding data in AI piracy probe
For my thesis I trained a classifier on text from internal messaging systems and forums from a large consultancy company.

Most universities have had their own corpora to work with, for example: the Brown Corpus, the British National Corpus, and the Penn Treebank.

Similar corpora exist for images and video, usually created in association with national broadcasting services. News video is particularly interesting because they usually contain closed captions, which allows for multi-modal training.

Manfred··on The Fastest Redis Ever
We used Redis in a project where we also manage hosting on a semi-public cloud infrastructure and I had troubled figuring out if license change applied to our situation. We didn't want to pay a lawyer to figure this out, so we switched to Valkey.
Manfred··on New iMac with M4
Probably because it was flagged.
Manfred··on Linux from Scratch
You could argue that running through the woods doesn't teach you about trees, but it's really effective when you bring a book along.

Linux From Scratch is a fun way to explore what parts make up a Linux distribution. I did this a few time long ago before switching to Gentoo and it really helped with appreciating the freedom to pick and choose details of your operating system without actually writing it from scratch.

Manfred··on Be a thermostat, not a thermometer (2023)
I support the goals of the article and I understand that social interaction doesn't come natural to all people, but if someone would lean in an nod to me like described in the second part I would freak out because that feels like sociopathic behavior.
Manfred··on Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V
> At least in the context of x86 emulation, among all 3 architectures we support, RISC-V is the least expressive one.

RISC was explained to me as a reduced instruction set computer in computer science history classes, but I see a lot of articles and proposed new RISC-V profiles about "we just need a few more instructions to get feature parity".

I understand that RISC-V is just a convenient alternative to other platforms for most people, but does this also mean the RISC dream is dead?

Manfred··on Dutch DPA fines Uber €290M because of transfers of drivers’ data to the US
It's a fine meant to be a punishment, not damage settlement.

> All DPAs in Europe calculate the amount of fines for businesses in the same manner. Those fines amount to a maximum of 4% of the worldwide annual turnover of a business.

Manfred··on Toasts are bad UX
I meant optimizing for developer time over usability in the context of the story, that mostly shows products from Google. Google being the opposite of a small development team that could be forced to choose developer time over usability.
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