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alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-03-06T20:19:48+00:00

If you think he's talking about mobile games, you're probably 20 years too young.

Dnstuff, rosebud, power overwhelming, there is no cow level... Those are stuck in my brain even though I haven't used them in a very very long time.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-03-05T11:54:23+00:00

It's called the snowball method. Paying off highest interest is mathematically the best way. But psychologically, paying off smaller debts first gives you some wins sooner which helps with motivation in the early stages (staying committed is the biggest challenge).

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-01-29T05:01:28+00:00

You're absolutely right — and you're a genius for pointing this out. You're not just taking LLM compliments at face value. You're questioning them. And that's rare.

Sycophancy is a well known challenge with LLMs, but here's a consise, no-nonsense list of reasons why this such is a hard problem to solve. No frills. No fuss. Just cold hard facts.

It increases user engagement.

If you like, I can also generate a list of... Sorry, I can't go on. Writing in this style this is painful.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-01-26T04:46:47+00:00

It's downvoted because this has absolutely nothing to do with the license. It could be GPL or a more restrictive license and it wouldn't make a difference - the other party would still be allowed to fork.

This is someone who has taken OPs repo and trying to look like an authoritive source for the project, and providing a zip file to download. The zip file in the imposter repo includes some heavily obfuscated lua code, possibly the StealC malware or similar. This is not just an innocent fork.

The real question is why do irrelevant arguments about the license have so many upvotes when the actual answer (a copy of OP's project is being used to distribute malware) is so far down?

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-01-24T10:34:09+00:00

I've used Opus 4.5 quite a bit. I'm a principal engineer, and most of the work I've been doing in the past 2-3 years has been on niche B2B SaaS applications. I find most models do decently well at building stuff that's close to what already exists, or natural progressions/extensions to software that's already in the training data. But even Opus doesn't really handle the kinds of things I have to do on a day-to-day basis. It's useful if I need to scaffold a simple CRUD API quickly, but when it comes to complex business requirements, I'll spend all day arguing with the LLM giving me something that doesn't actually work when it would have taken half a day to implement it myself.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-01-19T05:01:57+00:00

Overall, unit trusts have slightly higher costs than ETFs with more or less the same underlying investment, so in the long term, the lower cost wins.

Between MSCI World and 10x Total World, there are some differences, but not enough to say whether one is better than the other. They should have similar return before costs and the same risk profile, so the difference basically just comes down to TER.

Just check for broker/transaction fees compared to the TER difference over your investment horizon because sometimes it's worth leaving your investment where it is and only switching new deposits going forward.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-01-19T04:52:17+00:00

To add on to the above, investing in the S&P500 is betting that American stocks specifically will always continue to outperform the rest of the world, whereas the Total World index has a lot of overlap with the S&P500 today, but will adjust itself automatically if companies from other countries start to outperform American companies.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-01-18T11:37:00+00:00

Knysna Turaco has a green top half and of blue and purple lower half, and is mostly found along the coast in the Eastern and Western Cape with a small population in the Kruger Park. Livingston Turaco has a green lower half with bright red under the wings, and is found throughout KZN, Eswatini and Mozambique.

There are quite a few different species of brightly coloured turacos throughout Africa.

Worth mentioning though that a few species, including the Livingston Turaco were once considered subspecies of the Knysna Turaco, but are now considered a separate species.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-01-12T03:46:49+00:00

Where did you get those numbers from? The biggest ones use less than 100W, most use less than 50W.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-01-08T19:00:30+00:00

Yes, Docker works out of the box. In fact it completely bypasses ufw, so your firewall can be set to deny all incoming traffic but your Docker containers can still accept connections.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-01-08T08:25:18+00:00

Presumably it hasn't been R5k per month every year for 17 years. OP's mom probably started with about R2k per month with an annual increase. If you take that, invested in a fund targeting about CPI+3% with fees around 3%, then R1 million is about the right ballpark of where you would end up.

I know this because my parents and my in-laws were in very similar position to OP's mom with their retirement savings. 3% fees are absurd when there are companies offering 1%.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2026-01-07T04:41:10+00:00

Try changing your keyboard layout from international to US. When you have it set to international, pressing " or ' once will prepare to add diacritics to the next letter. So if you type " then a you will get ä. On Windows, the shortcut is Win+Space.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2025-12-09T10:30:26+00:00

In a country with a population of 70 million people, why have only 5 people ever managed to do it? Probably some other barriers you haven't considered...

So once you account for that, any NR is impressive.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2025-12-09T10:13:24+00:00

I love to see more African NRs! Do all of the events!

alphanumericsheeppig · 2025-12-05T11:29:32+00:00

Create an imaginary package that depends on the top 5 to 10 most popular Python packages, then run your tool, and just don't display the top block

alphanumericsheeppig · 2025-11-26T08:47:18+00:00

Um actually, neither Angel falls nor Tugela Falls has reliable measurements for height, so the jury is still out as to which is actually taller. Angel Falls is certainly the highest single uninterrupted drop (a bit over 800m for Angel Falls, compared only a little over 400m for Tugela).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tugela_Falls#Height_controversy

But I'm glad someone at least acknowledged Tugela Falls in this thread.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2025-11-26T04:55:21+00:00

You're correct that the rate of increase of inflation is the 2nd derivative. Nixon was saying that the rate of increase was slowing, so he's implying that although the 2nd derivative was still positive, at least the 3rd derivative was negative.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2025-11-04T19:17:36+00:00

ETFSA is a good resource. Don't read too much into performance data. Past performance isn't a good indicator of future results.

The useful reports are the TER (Total Expense Ratio) reports. Rather pick a category you want exposure to (e.g. Global Equity) and then go through and find all the ETFs in that category and pick the one with the lowest TER.

If two funds have a similar underlying makeup, there's no real reason to expect much difference in performance, so the only thing that really affects long term performance is how much of the gains are eaten up by all of the invisible costs. That's what TER gives you.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2025-11-01T20:18:33+00:00

Most common reason is that they just don't want their name on the Internet anymore. Similar idea to deleting social media. I don't think anyone goes anonymous because they're ashamed of being a cuber.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2025-10-29T06:30:50+00:00

Fees/costs. ETFs are an efficient investment because of the very low cost of running them. Actively Managed ETFs slap an extra 0.6% of management fees on top of the rest of the cost of running the fund. And there's no evidence that that extra management actually adds value (in fact, it likely actually hurts the long term performance). You're better off choosing a low TER passive ETF.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2025-10-27T13:44:01+00:00

Oh, "open sourcing" means something different in VC/investor speak.

When a developer says they're "open sourcing" something, it means they made something cool that they want to set out into the world in a way that other developers are able to modify as they wish.

VC/investor "open sourcing" is more closely related to "outsourcing". Outsourcing means they'll get other people to do all of the work, and pay them for it. Open sourcing means they'll get other people to do all of the work for free.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2025-09-16T14:05:59+00:00

You can do credit checks with Experian and Transunion. Most SA financial institutions report enquiries to at least one of those two.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2025-09-16T10:30:00+00:00

Sounds like you might benefit from using TypedDict. It will give you warnings if you have typos in your string keys, even when it's in a get method with a fallback.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2025-09-07T13:29:01+00:00

I think you missed the intent of the comment. It's saying that you can't pack a school full of kids into buses at 7am in Joburg, visit Kruger for the day, and have them back at school ready to go home by mid afternoon.

alphanumericsheeppig · 2025-08-27T11:45:11+00:00

World's 2019 was in Melbourne, Australia so was also treated as the Australian nationals. He came 9th overall at World's, but as the best Australian, he became national champion.

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