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Codex plugin (VSCode) allows consuming your "web" (ie non-api) subscription for coding/agentic tasks.

My main issue with Gemini is that business accounts can't delete individual conversations. You can only enable or disable Gemini, or set a retention period (3 months minimum), but there's no way to delete specific chats. I'm a paying customer, prices keep going up, and yet this very basic feature is still missing.

The annoying bit is that the `zed` command already exists in Linux (ZFS Events Daemon) so you need to go through some extra motions to start Zed (the editor).

My preferred approach in similar situations is to ask an LLM for an initial solution or code snippet, then take over manually - no endless prompt tweaking, just stop prompting and start coding. Finally (optionally), I let the LLM do a final pass to review my completed solution for bugs, optimizations, etc.

The key win is skipping the prompt refinement loop, which is (A) tedious and time-consuming, and (B) debilitating in the long run.

I've noticed another issue: 2FA software fragmentation. Over the past 30 years, I've accumulated more than 600 online accounts (many of them dormant), with about 25-30% offering 2FA. As a result, I now have three separate apps for generating codes. I could consolidate them into one, but, frankly, I'm too lazy. So instead, I often find myself scrambling between different 2FA apps and devices just to locate the right account.

I follow over 200 blogs, but this one has remained my favorite for years: https://ciechanow.ski/archives/.

New posts are rare - just once or twice a year - but every single article is a gem.

Just use 42 everywhere

I'm a big fan of Greenshot. My only issue with it is that it's not available on Linux, which I use occasionally.

Re Flameshot, I've tried it and it generally works well for me. My only beef is that the layout of the icons around the captured area is dynamic, changing based on the shape and size of the area, requiring me to actively search for an icon instead of finding it in a static, predictable location.

Never underestimate idiots in large amounts. It's a matter of "when", not "if".

A friend asked his wife to create a horse and an accountant. It took her 1hr of playing to get the former, and 3hrs for the latter. I'm still laughing.

Interestingly, DBT is still using MD5 as the default algorithm for generating row identifiers.

Any reason why Ireland isn't on the list for phone number verification?

I was bored and played around with various letter numbering schemes, like reversed order, or digits of Pi (or E), or the value of the letter multiplied by how many times it appears in the string and so on, and so forth. I got bored eventually, but it is a great fun (for certain minds, I guess, but still).

Welcome to the club. My gmail address is lastname.firstname@gmail.com and I keep receiving occasional emails for firstname.lastname@gmail.com who is actually some kind of a senior manager in one of the major TV stations. It works the other way around as well (he receives my emails - extremely rarely, but still). We simply agreed to forward them to the right person and delete afterwards so there is no issue per se, but it's still kind of funny.

Also, my daughter has firstname.lastname@gmail.com and there is another lady with the address firstnname.lastname@gmail.com (yes, a typo in her first name, duplicating one of the letters) and of course she keep receiving her emails and vice versa. Same solution - they mutually agreed to forward messages to the right person and delete them afterwards.

First world problems...

I propose the following challenge: find the smallest integer number that, when written in English words, equals the sum of it's letters (following gematria rules i.e. A=1, B=2 etc).

Same here. Best piece of software, ever. Period.

Of course there is nothing wrong with using a relational database. My concern was about storing passwords in it. There is a difference between storing passwords and storing hashes and/or salts.

"a large database containing more than 30 million Microsoft accounts, emails, and passwords."

A database containing passwords? Why would anyone store passwords in a database is beyond my comprehension.

Like, with another person?

Maybe I am missing something but an invisible parachute would reveal more of a paratrooper than a visible one.

Want to hide the paratrooper completely - use large, spherical parachutes. Elementary.

Oh come on, my uncle touched a parachute once and survived so they clearly do work.

Does it always stop after going 10 layers deep?

Not to mention eons required for our optical organics to start registering the photons!

That was my first reaction too. However, unlike the no-SQL monstrosities (like Mongo), this one seems to sit on top of a proper relational database, plus it seems to follow all the ol' good data modelling logic, just in a modern ish way, so I think it looks promising.

I'm not going to switch all my clients to it next week :) But it is definitely on my radar.

Whoa, this is a great resource. Never heard of it before, it looks like I'm finally able to get some proper book recommendations. Absolutely loving it.

Weird though that for certain cases it spells English author names with Cyrillic alphabet. Like for instance when I center the graph on "Stanisław Lem", I can see names like George Orwell or Terry Pratchett spelled in Cyrillic. I wonder why.

I actually enjoy Dropbox - for a flat fee of ~€10/month I get 2TB of cloud space plus the synchronization across unlimited devices. I don't mind the telemetry thing, at least not too much.

However, their approach to Android is absolutely ridiculous. There is no files or folders synchronization - at least not at the OS level, like in Windows or Linux. If I need to access my Dropbox files on an Android device, the only way is to do it via the Dropbox app, and it is clunky. The biggest pain point is that I cannot use 3rd party apps to open a folder in my Dropbox storage - I can open a single file, fine, but for example Obsidian is out of reach as it requires opening an entire folder, which is currently not possible.

(I can create an offline copy of the folder on the device and open that one but it defies the purpose of having a sophisticated synchronization software).

So I think at some point I will start investigating alternatives.

Same here :)))

Certain operations use fewer resources when performed in the RDBMS than when performed in the application code.

As your data grows significantly, you may encounter new bottlenecks, and for some of these you may need to move some of the logic from your application into the RDBMS (ergo: write an SQL function or a stored procedure or a trigger, etc.).

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Ah, makes sense. I rolled back to Windows 10. 11 is too scary for me.