Renovate (dependabot equiv I think) creates PRs, I usually walk through them every morning or when there's a bit of downtime. Playing with the idea to automerge patches and maybe even minor updates but up until now it's not that hard to keep up.

My dad uses Gemini because it's the default thingy on his android phone - I asked him if he used ChatGPT and he said yes and navigated to Gemini. Most people really don't care that much I think.

Quitting smoking was the best decision I made and I wish I did it earlier. If you feel ready Allen Carr's book worked for me. I wasted so much time smoking.

Thanks man, appreciate it, and kudos for stopping.

I might quit, I guess, when my fiancee has to for pregnancy, should it eventually stop being funny to tell her how wonderful each individual cigarette I smoke is. But I really, really love smoking - more than any of my other hobbies, wholesome or otherwise.

I'm sure that'll change, and I'll look that book up if and when it does. Thanks again.

Motivation has to come from you, of course, but you might find it once you see your future baby and realize you have a shot at really seeing how he or she turns out as an adult. That was the impetus for me to start taking my health more seriously.

It's a bit odd to claim both sides do something but not elaborate when asked for more info. Seems disingenuous.

No, it's flippant.

What's disingenuous is substituting my "this" for whatever one pleases, when in context it was obviously the concepts referred to in the post it replied to - debating for one's own advantage, and milking wins against weak interlocutors.

Being based in Europa is a massive USP for European companies - the USA being harder and harder to trust each day. It's difficult to build business on shaky ground.

There's no way to catch up really - if they keep innovating like they are it's not possible to bridge that gap.

Also, it's probably a patent minefield.

Having directly worked on fab process engineering typically if its patented it’s going to get copied.

I think even then patents can be prohibitive or else https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45181828 does not mean anything.

As disappointing as my national government (NL) has been and still is, at least our MEPs oppose this dragon of a proposal.

Damn dude. I'm just having fun most of the time. The field is so insanely broad that if you've got an ounce of affinity there's a corner that would fit you snugly AND you'd make a decent living. Take a look around.

There's a neat trick to remove the nag screen

That’s one purchase I never regretted. Sublime was so perfect before writing code got tipped upside down

Either way you wrap each thing that acts as a dependency, even if it's internal. I treat dependencies another team in my company delivers the same as any other third party dependency. Never use the classes but always just wrap around them in a service or component.

When my 'task' is to publish things on a Kafka bus I create a publishing service that takes in an object that I control, only inside that service is there actual talk about the dependency and preferably even that's a bit wrapped. It's easy to go too far with this but a little bit of wrapping keeps you safe.