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cauefcr commented on TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process   9to5mac.com/2025/08/05/ts... · Posted by u/mikece
fuzzfactor · a month ago
I can only imagine the thousands of lines of code I saved by using Excel '97 for a scientific tabular calculation effort alone.

Because I had already done about the same thing in HP basic before PC's existed, when there wasn't a spreadsheet app anyway.

And it was on my mind the whole time.

It didn't take many more years before clients wanted their results in XLS on one tab and the invoice on another tab. Rather than the DOC files they had been wanting, which were reasonable facsimiles of the top linen typewritten paperwork I used to fax then mail by USPS or Fedex at the beginning. With the original invoice attached using a "gold" paperclip, nothing ever stapled or folded.

Oh how low I have sunk since then :\

Anyway it was pretty easy to switch from Word to Excel using the same fonts and similar formatting, even though direct integration was provided for, I just switched. When clients printed it they looked almost indistinguishable from my old typewritten multi-font documents.

And that just happened to put the paperwork onto the same spreadsheet as the data. Left one blank tab for future AI use, and the two tabs to send to the clients are in place to the right of that.

Eventually there were quite a few tabs in between the blank placeholder and the final two tabs that the clients would receive. Each with its own function to further leverage built-in Excel capabilities and make further progress toward a "paperless" office.

Saved gobs of code there too, but it gets "worse" from here ;)

It all came together by writing more VBA modules until there was an automation "shell" around the working system. Once complete it would stop so you could look at the data, decide what to type into the blank tab ("naturally", in the absence of AI) then hit the button.

And you were done.

cauefcr · a month ago
This is horrible, i love it.

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cauefcr commented on Brazil central bank to launch Pix installment feature in September   reuters.com/technology/br... · Posted by u/CXSHNGCB
vitorgrs · 2 months ago
About Pix, I think people forget really how useful it can be to different things.

You can sign documents with Pix! ClickSign and others support it. You can just send 1 cent, and this can be one of the possibilities to sign documents!

https://ajuda.clicksign.com/article/558-assinando-um-documen...

cauefcr · 2 months ago
i hope this kills our notarization cartel, damn.
cauefcr commented on Linux Distros for Gaming: CachyOS Takes Over, According to ProtonDB   boilingsteam.com/distro-f... · Posted by u/ekianjo
constantcrying · 2 months ago
Why? Any intermediary user can install Arch and is able to find their way through documentation.

These distros also target completely new people, with very little or even zero, Linux experience. Someone like that is not done any favors by putting him in front of a pre configured Arch. They will run into problems they can not solve without substantial time commitments and that will lead to frustration and disappointment.

At the very least these distros should be honest about what they are. From the top of the CachyOS Website: "Whether you're a seasoned Linux user or just starting out, CachyOS is the ideal choice for those looking for a powerful, customizable and blazingly fast operating system."

This is doing a complete disservice to their potential users. This is ot the "ideal" distro for someone who never touched Linux.

cauefcr · 2 months ago
Honestly, CachyOS was _much_ easier to install and maintain than older versions of ubuntu were, when i first started using linux (the free cd ones), next next next, select some boxes, done, everything works.
cauefcr commented on What will become of the CIA?   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11
olelele · 2 months ago
Look up walther rauff..
cauefcr · 2 months ago
A nazi who became a zionist? good lateral move for him.
cauefcr commented on What will become of the CIA?   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11
redeeman · 2 months ago
would you agree that this also goes for things in eastern europe and perhaps in the middle east? :)
cauefcr · 2 months ago
The answer should be an obvious yes here, reading HN on anything political is an exercise in frustration, fascist apologies and whataboutism+mccartism.
cauefcr commented on Show HN: My LLM CLI tool can run tools now, from Python code or plugins   simonwillison.net/2025/Ma... · Posted by u/simonw
tantalor · 3 months ago
I think intent matters.

Let's say you are making an AI-controlled radiation therapy machine. You prompt and train and eval the system very carefully, and you are quite sure it won't overdose any patients. Well, that's not really good enough, it can still screw up. But did you do anything wrong? Not really, you followed best practices and didn't make any mistakes. The LLM just sometimes kills people. You didn't intend that at all.

I make this point because this is already how these systems work today. But instead of giving you a lethal dose of radiation, it uses slurs or promotes genocide or something else. The builders of those bots didn't intend that, and in all likelihood tried very hard to prevent it. It's not very fair to blame them.

cauefcr · 3 months ago
You did something wrong: non-deterministic impossible to validate process for critical system.
cauefcr commented on Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads   timsh.org/tracking-myself... · Posted by u/apokryptein
bruce511 · 7 months ago
My only connection to Amazon support has been for AWS.

Perhaps though this should be an example of good customer service where talking to a human is easy, and not lumped in with the likes of Google where its impossible.

Perhaps your experience with the online shop is different, but frankly they're in my "good" column, not my "bad" column.

cauefcr · 7 months ago
AWS was, indeed, very easy to reach when i did an oopsie and spent over my desired limit.
cauefcr commented on Global variables are not the problem   codestyleandtaste.com/glo... · Posted by u/levodelellis
PeterStuer · 7 months ago
The one where the author almost rediscovers the singleton pattern.
cauefcr · 7 months ago
It can also be an almost rediscovery of closures.
cauefcr commented on Global variables are not the problem   codestyleandtaste.com/glo... · Posted by u/levodelellis
js8 · 7 months ago
Any program that uses a database has a very similar problem to global variables.

As Gilad Bracha has pointed out, types are antimodular, and your database schema can be considered one giant type that pervades your program, just like globals can be.

I don't think we have tools to compositionally solve this, across different programming languages.

cauefcr · 7 months ago
Migrations? Generate bindings for your queries automatically with query+schema definitions? (sqlc)

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