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niceworkbuddy

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Hey! Niceworkbuddy here. I come from distant land in a galaxy far far away....
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niceworkbuddy··on I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
This is like someone not knowing software development at all doing a code review.
niceworkbuddy··on Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
I wonder what part of these failed sales is due to GDRP requirements in the IT enterprise industry. I have my own european view, and it seems our governments are treating the matter very seriously. How do you ensure an AI agent won't leak anything? It just so happened that it wiped entire database or cleared a disk and later being very "sorry" about it. Is the risk worth it?
niceworkbuddy··on Intermittent fasting is as effective as counting calories, new study finds
Some time ago I was through a stage of depression, anxiety attacks and I couldn't eat a thing, my brain was simply refusing to accept a food. I lost a lot of weight then... But this is the worst way of losing weight IMHO. Every now and then I read about intermittent fasting and it reminds me of those days. When simply not eating lead to losing weight.
niceworkbuddy··on Education in the Soviet Union – emphasis on science (1958)
Education was pretty good there comparing to USA. However, what is more important, are chances after education. Where are you gonna end? In USSR, only in some national soviet office, wasting all your talent...
niceworkbuddy··on Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in computer science?
Never forget :')
niceworkbuddy··on Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly
Wow! This is something new. Keep going with that, I keep my fingers crossed for you! :)
niceworkbuddy··on How Europe sleepwalked into the coronavirus crisis
I think you are right, however prepositions are quite tricky for those whom English language is not mother tongue. In Polish we could say "on": eg. "12,428 people have now died on COVID-19".
niceworkbuddy··on Ask HN: How do you search for $string if a webpage “supports” infinite scroll?
Maybe try google with `site:` keyword. You can use also advance searching tools, so eg. you can search value to date.
niceworkbuddy··on I miss Inbox, so I hacked Gmail with a little CSS magic (2019)
There is another way. GMail allows to use compact interface. There is option to turn it on: click on 'gears' icon in top right on the top of table/list with e-mails and switch onto compact view. You can also turn off those "Primary", "Promotions", etc. labels.
niceworkbuddy··on City Roads – Draw all roads in a city at once
Yeah it's really nice! :) However i think there should be an option to disable showing sidewalks for pedestrians, so only roads for cars should be seen then. It would be nice to see where you can drive your car ;)
niceworkbuddy··on A Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25k AI contest with hidden code
My two nuggets. This reminded me of Ijon Tichy's saying after one of his voyages:

" Thus concluded one of the most unusual of my adventures and voyages. Notwithstanding all the hardship and pain it had occasioned me, I was glad of the outcome, since it restored my faith, shaken by corrupt cosmic officeholders, in the natural decency of electronic brains. Yes, it’s comforting to know, when you think about it, that only man can be a bastard. "

(source: The Star Diaries, Stanisław Lem)

niceworkbuddy··on Student Loans a Lot Like the Subprime Mortgage Debacle, Watchdog Says
Yet is not like. When you default your mortgage, bank can get you rid of property. However what you have learned, you still have it in your head (at least in some way).
niceworkbuddy··on Gitlab was down
GitLab has virtual machine image, so it's really unobtrusive for your system.
niceworkbuddy··on قلب: a non-ASCII programming language written in Arabic
I think it's cognitive overload. I remember when I was pretty young, there was a language named Logo. It has different but similar syntax in Polish and English. Eventually you used only one of them.
niceworkbuddy··on What’s the most asinine technical requirement you’ve had to work into a design?
You are not necessarily right. It's because of limited knowledge of structure and architecture. Eg. developer giving someone `create table` statement (without table data). In MySQL engine this statement by default contains last auto incremented id. So someone executing that statement and then inserting record could end with id equals to 12345 even though it's very first record.
niceworkbuddy··on SQL queries don't start with SELECT
Every database. It's because of logical order of execution, as explained in article. Eg. you cannot use `having` before `where` even if syntax of SQL is allowing you to do so.
niceworkbuddy··on Stańczyk
I too highly recommend God's Playground. Great book on Polish history. It is one of the first books of Norman Davies on this topic, so it's not very biased.
niceworkbuddy··on Ships fitted with ‘cheat devices’ to divert poisonous pollution into sea
I wonder what Captain's Nemo story could have been today...
niceworkbuddy··on Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design Is Underrated
I think there is distinction between documentation in development progress and documentation afterwards. IMHO article is about the first. After something is done, you can write thorough documentation of product with UML diagrams and whatnot.
niceworkbuddy··on Wasps: If you can't love them, at least admire them
I can't admire them for biting me in the leg, sorry ;-)
niceworkbuddy··on Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge battery during the day
This is just equivalent to canister in gas-powered vehicles.
niceworkbuddy··on Microsoft Is Killing ePub Support in Edge Classic
This is really unfortunate. Killing one of the best applications? I mean it's fast, reliable, simple, easy to use, integrated...
niceworkbuddy··on The Cherokee want a representative in Congress, taking up a 200-year-old promise
For comparison: I live in Poland. Here legislative power is called "Sejm" and deputies are selected in elections (as usual in typical European country). However, there are two places in Sejm, for German minorities deputies. There are barely few thousand Germans living in Poland but in location surrounding Opole city. These people have two representatives in our Sejm.
niceworkbuddy··on The cortex is a neural network of neural networks
Fortunately there is an extension for Chrome solving that problem.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/make-medium-readab...

niceworkbuddy··on Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain
Do they?
niceworkbuddy··on GNU Wallpapers
It feels like early 2000s.
niceworkbuddy··on Psychology’s Replication Crisis Is Real
We are seeing actual progress in science! This is good.
niceworkbuddy··on Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)
What did you have done to the page... Now it's dead.
niceworkbuddy··on 'Check Your Backups Work' Day
Here is link to the document mentioned: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GCK53YDcBWQveod9kfzW-VCx...