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Marc Tobias

@mtmthemovie

Map search (geocoding) and data crunching. Cofounder @opencagedata. Love cycling in remote areas of the world. 🌎🌍🌏 (alt @mtmail@mastodon.social)

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Just joining some strings...
Python: `", ".join(["one", "two", "three"])`
Ruby: `["one", "two", "three"].join(", ")`
PHP: `implode(", ", ["one", "two", "three"]);`
Perl: `join(", ", ("one", "two", "three"));`
JS: `["one", "two", "three"].join(", ")`
Lua: `table.concat({"one", "two", "three"}, ", ")`

04.03.2026 12:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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this video stays winning

18.02.2026 22:35 πŸ‘ 236 πŸ” 71 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 27
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I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point.

I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion

People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

18.02.2026 16:37 πŸ‘ 4818 πŸ” 2131 πŸ’¬ 86 πŸ“Œ 298

Stripe sales sent an email with privileged information to firstname.lastname@ "to introduce myself as part of your account team". That's not my email address. Stripe knows my real email address. Why would they ever send an email to an address not attached to our Stripe account?

18.02.2026 21:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

New flood of spam signup uses email addresses like fjdqk7s6@47053d33b32c267b2a0575a8346265d6.com I switched two numbers around, you get the idea. Easy to spot at least, a bit harder to automate the detection.

14.02.2026 20:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
asking z.ai about tiananmen square

asking z.ai about tiananmen square

i was definitely expecting the refusal here but the thought process seems a little over the top

12.02.2026 03:09 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Too bad ABAP is too tied to SAP's database to test it out. For example arrays are actually in-memory tables. And tons of legacy, deprecated (warnings) but it still works. ABAP="Allgemeiner Berichts-Aufbereitungs-Prozessor"

26.01.2026 08:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes they use "respect" to mean "treating someone like an authority"

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say "if you won't respect me I won't respect you" and they mean "if you won't treat me like an authority I won't treat you like a person"

and they think they're being fair but they aren't, and it's not okay.

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Tumblr post by stimmyabby Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes they use "respect" to mean "treating someone like an authority" and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say "if you won't respect me I won't respect you" and they mean "if you won't treat me like an authority I won't treat you like a person" and they think they're being fair but they aren't, and it's not okay. 642,270 notes

I think about this post a lot

25.01.2026 20:55 πŸ‘ 3056 πŸ” 999 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 11
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Announcing styr We’ve built a small utility that makes it super simple to access and run tasks on your deployed applications.

Ever needed to run some maintenance task in your production environment? For me this always triggers a bunch of quest...

24.01.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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"Most founders miss having something that’s purely physical, terrifying, and binary" (I don't)

20.01.2026 22:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The domain name is still available

20.01.2026 10:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

How long would it run before a customer notices? Apart from not answering emails.

16.01.2026 01:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

On a podcast somebody was explaining how founders don't have enough time to spend all day on Linkedin (true) and that they should use a LLM who engages for them using their account including replying (sucks).

15.01.2026 11:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Quote from the podcast "And my first thought was, abs-so-fucking-lately not." We had similar situations. Where I wouldn't even recommend another service. I recall one where the website showed a literal killer robot, can't remember if autonomous or remote-control, but it had a machine gun mounted.

08.01.2026 21:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We're on the newsletter of the Finnish finance ministry. It's relevant, the message somewhat relevant (we're not subject to any reduced VAT categories) but I can't figure out how we ended up on the newsletter. Did some other European agency share our email address?

02.01.2026 13:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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22.12.2025 12:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
We Spoke With the Last Person Standing in the Floppy Disk Business This interview was originally published in Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium, a new book published by Onomatopee. Tom Persky is the self-proclaimed β€œlast man standing in the floppy disk business.” He is the time-honored founder of floppydisk.com, a US-based company

There's still a market, companies actively collecting them. eyeondesign.aiga.org/we-spoke-wit...

19.12.2025 15:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazon uses "Rufus". Rufus was also their first company dog (died long ago). Remember that when looking for flat screen TV recommendations.

19.12.2025 11:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What's your take on the TV adaption (Apple TV series)?

18.12.2025 13:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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16.12.2025 11:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a different kind of LLM

12.12.2025 12:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"At Shopify we made experiment regarding conversion between regular [TLS/SSL] certs and EV before they stop being displayed and there was no significant difference. The users don't notice the absence of the fancier green lock." news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4621...

10.12.2025 13:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A big "$our-country first! make $country great again!" carefully evaluated all SaaS solution providers in their country and then chose our SaaS. We're based in a different country, our full postal address is on every page footer and every email footer.

10.12.2025 13:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The holiday season is a time for traditions, and one tradition we are very proud of is our annual (8th year in a row πŸ’ͺ) end of year donation to the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.

09.12.2025 10:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Oh, I see what you did there. (It's an AI that posts for somebody, everything about it is automated and fake)

05.12.2025 09:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We have a dozen CI setups. This has the most tests `All tests successful. Files=394, Tests=14317, 683 wallclock secs` Website needs 20-40 minutes depending on hardware, close to 1000 tests. Everything is tested. Last test I added was "password reset token expires after user email change" (37 lines)

30.11.2025 19:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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i chose to start my thanksgiving day the way my forefathers intended: by making this video, for some reason

try my product πŸ₯Ί

27.11.2025 17:56 πŸ‘ 112 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 3
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You don't want to be on the receiving end of these "reports". Generic, untested, claiming features we don't even have. It's like a bad newsletter you can't unsubscribe from (we tried multiple times, he keeps switching email addresses).

25.11.2025 18:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Nothing shows users they're valuable and you're listing to their feedback than handing them over to your AI product manager /s

25.11.2025 15:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

rubocop should complain about `type = { type: type['type']` . In seriousness thanks for showing the `case ... in` syntax, I didn't know that existed. Since Ruby 2.7 even, I've never seen it used before.

18.11.2025 20:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0