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ciberado··on GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search
Feature parity is probably not required as long as the different teams are able to adapt their workflow to GitHub's approach. Anecdotally, every employee from Microsoft I've talk to about this point during the last two years keep telling me that ADO is over.
ciberado··on Ruby Video – On a mission to index all Ruby conferences
Ruby on Reels! :D Great effort, thanks.

I wish there were more sites like this, devoted to particular topics that proved to be valuable enough to be presented in a public talk. I currently use YouTube for this a lot (like most people, I guess). But sadly, count(views) is not always correlated to quality.

ciberado··on Ask HN: What are your most regretted tech purchases?
If you spend the day working with F-based applications, this may not be a solution. But if you require those keys for tasks like renaming files, etc it may be enough to configure SuperKeys on the Raise: keeping the key pressed for 250ms can trigger any other symbol, including the Fs. It might be more natural than switching layers.
ciberado··on WiFi4EU initiative provides free Wi-Fi in public spaces across Europe
We have some spots here in Martorell (25km away from Barcelona). Really handy for those public places (like the public gym), as the mobile coverage is not great at all there (strong shadow zone, for whatever the reason).

You don't need authentication: you accept terms of use, and you are good to go. Also, there is a cap in the amount of data that you can use each day (based on MAC, I guess), but it is generous enough to allow me to stream for youtube from one hour at the gym, or to work for two hours when I'm in the mood of doing it from the garden near the swimming pool.

A friend of mine told me that the EU is paying the local administration for the equipment and installation, but there is an explicit condition in the contract that blocks any kind of personal tracking.

So I would say this is a neat project. And 120M€ for an entity of this size doesn't look like an extraordinary amount of money.

ciberado··on Spain's economy expands: Why is it beating its European peers?
I don't think that's the case. The main gas imports come from the US, with the rest coming from Africa. This is why we don't need to follow the general EU rules regarding gas pricing [1].

BlackRock is indeed problematic and housing is a significant issue. However, I don't believe that house renting impacts the GDP. Construction does.

The current Spanish administration can hardly be considered neoliberal. Although the main party in the coalition is positioned in the center (progressive in all aspects except the economy), they share the government with a strongly left-leaning party, by European standards, I mean.

I'm not certain about the exact reasons, but I suspect it's related to the relatively low energy prices [2] (compared to the rest of the continent, except Portugal), and a social shield that helped protect families' income during the pandemic. This shield enabled them to continue consuming goods, even amidst higher inflation.

[1] https://www.cnmc.es/prensa/informe-mayorista-gas-europa-2023...

[2] https://www.lavanguardia.com/economia/20220326/8155123/excep...

edit: corrected format and typos.

ciberado··on Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI
Confrontational replies to comments that doesn't provide actual data or concrete examples to support the counterarguments are not very useful. It would be interesting to know why do you find in GitHub worse than before, or why Minecraft is ruined.

Edit: typo fix.

ciberado··on Science fiction authors were excluded from awards for fear of offending China
I read "The Three Body Problem" due to all the promotion it received at the time. In fact, I proposed it as the first book for our small reading club. We all agreed that I should have simply bought some beers and read whatever book another member had proposed. While the book presented two very good ideas (the nature of the history loop and the "computer architecture"), it was marred by excessive repetition, flat characters, and poor writing (at least, in the Spanish version). Some characters' reactions to certain events were utterly ridiculous, and the deus ex machina resolution was disappointing. The structure was so repetitious that it seemed as if half of the book was the same chapter repeated over and over. I found it quite boring.

I would appreciate any suggestions for works by other Chinese science fiction authors, as I understand that it's not fair to judge such a vast culture based on a single data point.

ciberado··on How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time
I think that is common in Catalan, too. But, curiously, not so much with Castilian Spanish: almost every word I can think of is pronounced just like it is written, if you do it properly.
ciberado··on How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time
A coworker told me some years ago that understanding my broken English was easy for him, as he had worked extensively with other Spaniards and my grammar and pronunciation was just like them :)

Honestly, I'm regularly surprised by how nice and patient people from everywhere are, paying attention to my words even if my English is not, even today, as good as I would like it to be. Including French people. Including British people.

ciberado··on Barcelona Supercomputing Center presents Sargantana: new open-source RISC-V chip
But they will keep the Marenostrum 4 in the chapel this time, instead of replacing the old generation with the new version :).
ciberado··on The $55M saga of a Netflix series nobody will ever see
The books where also very different from each other, but with much superior result. Give them a try, if you want part of the fun of the first season. But the first season of the Netflix show is still muy preferred approach to this universe.
ciberado··on Show HN: Sshx, a web-based collaborative terminal
Super cool. Our students are using ttdy[0] and tmux for providing shared access to a configured environment, but your solution seems much more flexible :) I'm going to start experimenting with it for our next courses, thanks!

[0] https://github.com/tsl0922/ttyd

ciberado··on Slack is retiring its status account on X
I took the phones of my parents and siblings to install Telegram on them myself ;) My brother and sister use it sporadically, but I still can send them messages knowing they will read them sooner or later. My parents are more proficient with it than me, now :).
ciberado··on Firefox 118 brings browser-based website translation (no cloud servers required)
At least in my FF, the "never translate x language" doesn't seem to work. I needed to tinker with the browser configuration to remove the popup.
ciberado··on Core War, a very old game about programming
Although I knew about core wars, I never played it. But I must confess I spent a ridiculous amount of time creating super destructive machines with pascal and p-robots :)

https://corewar.co.uk/probots.htm

ciberado··on A beginner's guide to Git version control
I only partially agree. Git is a complex project, developed to help with the management of the Linux kernel source code. Because of that, the original audience was technically very advanced and maybe didn't need any higher layer of abstraction, nor a proper product development roadmap.

The problem appeared when people like I started basing our workflow on it ^_^. There are a few good books[1] and tutorials[2] out there, but I totally agree that the official documentation is only useful as a technical reference.

[1] Mastering Git, https://www.packtpub.com/product/mastering-git/9781783553754 [2] Atlassian Git tutorials, https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials

ciberado··on A beginner's guide to Git version control
I have contradictory feelings regarding git. For more than ten years, I was using it daily without really understanding the internals... and I was often confused and frustrated. After investing some time learning how the Directed Acyclic Graph works, suddenly everything made much more sense.

And, yes: it is good to learn the underlying fundamentals of the technology we are using. But, on the other hand, it denotes a rather poor abstraction from the UX point of view, imho.

Now, when I deliver git training, I start by explaining the DAG and how there is no magic, only git. By the way, the notes and exercises of the course are in my GitHub account[1], feel free to check it out if you think it can be useful.

[1] https://github.com/ciberado/git-workshop (https://ciberado.github.io/git-workshop/)

ciberado··on Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code, models for 1000+ languages
I've played a lot with Stable Diffusion using AWS spot instances, mostly because it is the platform with which I'm more familiar. The Terraform script[0] should be easy to adapt to any other project of this kind.

Let me know if you are interested, and maybe we can find time to work on it together :).

[0] https://github.com/ciberado/stable-diffusion-webui-terraform...

ciberado··on Windows 11 in Svelte
Since I installed PowerToys[0] and activated Run, I barely use the taskbar to start any program. It works like alt+f2 on Ubuntu, which is the experience I find most useful.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/

ciberado··on Ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Postgres
I've been out of the trenches for some time, but when I participated in projects that relied on heavily in store procedures, we felt constrained in terms of flexibility (the language options were very restricted, and we were not able to use common libraries), the tooling (the support in the IDE was not great, neither it was straightforward to debug the code) and the scalability (vertical, instead of horizontal). Also, this approach introduced a heavy coupling.

It is true that we were much more familiar with application layer technologies, but the lack of expertise can also be considered a restriction, I think.

ciberado··on DPReview’s Founder Blasts Amazon’s CEO: ‘What a Waste’
Bandwidth went the same way, AWS/Azure/GCP don't translate it to the customers purely for commercial reasons[1]. Also, Amazon.com (or whatever is the division owning DPReview) doesn't pay the retail price for traffic-out, for sure. The discounts for very big customers are very important.

[1} https://blog.cloudflare.com/aws-egregious-egress/

ciberado··on Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?
I used to think the same, but once you get used to it, you cannot go back to regular arrow keys. Probably a DFJK combo would be better than HIJK (because H forces me to move my finger from the middle row). But still is way better than the most common layout. And, yes, I delete with alt+D and alt+F :)
ciberado··on Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?
I'm using a simple support arm[1]. It is not even a camera, as I mounted a smartphone running a remote webcam app[2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/OXENDURE-Webcam-Stand/dp/B07RNHZYGW (look for a cheaper vendor) [2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam...

ciberado··on Europe data salary benchmark 2023
Also, my understanding is that in the US each person must dedicate an important amount of money to receive the health services that are provided in Europe by the administration in many countries.
ciberado··on YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
Can anyone please explain me why the parent comment deserves being voted down?
ciberado··on Amazon is offering users $2 a month for letting it track phone data
Came on, where is your sense of adventure? :) seriously, this kind of rabbit holes are one of the best parts of HN, and every body understand they are just rethoric exercises.
ciberado··on Migrate from S3 Easily with the R2 Super Slurper
Migrating from S3 has been always easy, as long as you agree in paying the awful amount of money AWS is asking you to do it. But using R2 as a lazy loading layer for S3 seems like a very clever trick move that can alleviate the process a lot by spreading the payment in a longer period of time.

And who knows, maybe after some months the remaining data can be considered cold enough to just archive it.

edit: fix sentence.

ciberado··on Spanish airline reserves 10 Airlander airships
Considering the time you spend in airport, for < 500Km is usually faster and more convenient to use the train if you can. That is my experience in Spain, at least.
ciberado··on EU Passes Law to Switch iPhone to USB-C by End of 2024
I don't see it is a regulation against Apple. It is just a question of being coherent with the other hundred of smartphone brands that are forced to use a single interface for the charger. And I really don't miss at all the times when we needed to have 3 different types of them at home.
ciberado··on Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of copyright claims
They realized immediately that AI has reached a disruptive point for the stock photography industry, just like the digital composition changed the rules years ago.

Probably their value in the advertisment production chain is going to become close to zero in a few years, and they will try to stop or at least slow it down.

But once we have open source models released to the public I cannot see how a local legislation can have any impact at all.

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