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I mean, yeah, I agree with that. Requirements engineering continues to be a big part of the job and an actual team lead does not have the mental capacity for that.

I meant "manager" more as in:

  • You're supposed to take responsibility for something you only delegated.
  • As a result, you spend most of your time checking the output of others/LLMs and trying to put in guardrails to push them towards the right goal and making them more productive.

I guess, everyone's a lead dev, without the paycheck, is probably more precise.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago

    Our climate change measures have been found unconstitutional twice already, here in Germany.

    Both times, the law was slightly altered in a way that every expert said it was insufficient, but it means they can pretend they did something until a few years from now when the next lawsuit rules it unconstitutional.

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    I just don't see these endeavors becoming profitable. Whatever you feed to these animal cells comes from plants. And there's thousands of simpler ways to process plants, of which you just need one way to produce a similarly decent result, then virtually no one's going to pay extra for lab-grown.

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    I still remember when the development of Ruffle was announced and thought they're crazy to tackle that. Very glad to see they persisted all these years.

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    I mean, they already do that in a way, because their stocks lose value when the company loses money. That's why everyone and their hamster is selling off these stocks now.

    But sure, making the investors pay another time or just generally increasing fines could help.
    Unfortunately, companies then lobby for Nazis to take over government to undo these increased fines + abolish law enforcement for themselves, so that's not terribly ideal either...

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago

    TL;DR from what I can tell:
    They loaded the user email address into the model context in Claude Code, because users wanted it to correctly generate that in certain places, like when documenting that it was the user who made a certain change.

    But webpages can ask for the e-mail address to be sent along with the user agent and so the model just, well, did that.

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    Anyone have strong opinions on these for playback of MIDI files via their CLI?

    I saw that TiMidity++ has received virtually no development since 2004, but well, it does work. FluidSynth seems like it would be more flexible, but I'm not sure how much of that is for use as a library.

    Would you recommend switching to FluidSynth just in general?

     

    Trying to figure out how to best add text to an SVG, I thought maybe it doesn't show up because it's black-on-black, so I gave it stroke="white" before realizing I need to zoom out. Well, and stroke means the outline in SVG, so on the white background, it just makes the font look really thin.

    This is the whole code:

    <svg viewBox="0 -5 40 10" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
      <text stroke="white">hello</text>
      <circle id="myCircle" cx="5" cy="5" r="4" />
      <use href="#myCircle" x="10" fill="blue" />
      <use href="#myCircle" x="20" fill="white" stroke="red" />
    </svg>
    

    And most of that is just this MDN example: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/Element/use#example

    It does use my default font, which is Fira Sans. Will look different on other systems.

    Screenshot of what looks like abstract art. The word "hello" is in thin, almost calligraphic letters at the top. Below it are three circles, spread out horizontally, in the colors black, blue and then red with white fill.
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