ChrisMarshallNY

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by ChrisMarshallNY 5d ago
Nah. That's standard BLE protocol. BLE is actually pretty secure, but it does advertise, and some folks take advantage of that.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 5d ago
It's a lot less of an issue, now, but Linux used to be a "mechanic's hot rod" operating system. It's like that kid down the block, with the sweet hot rod that rattles the windows, when he drives past, but whenever y
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by ChrisMarshallNY 6d ago
Hugh Dubberly is a pretty impressive chap. It was a privilege to work with him.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 6d ago
My point still stands. At one time, every programmer was supposed to be able to analyze a crash dump. I think it's been a long time, since your average coder has been able to do that, and that's a good thing. The reason is that th
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by ChrisMarshallNY 6d ago
True, but we don't expect programmers to be able to be given a printout of machine language instructions from their shipped binary, and explain it. At one time, in my career, that was actually expected. Times, they are a changin'.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 6d ago
> Nobody talks like this in real life. Marketing folks talked like that, for almost my entire career (it was basically a meme), which wound up, as AI was coming into its own.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 6d ago
That’s a great “story from the trenches.” I’m wondering if anyone just flat-out admits they used LLMs in their work. I have no problem, doing that, myself, but I also have the luxury of not having my livelihood on the line, and not being ov
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by ChrisMarshallNY 6d ago
There was an episode (season 1, ep. 4) of Prehistoric Planet [0], where a raptor does that. I guess they got the idea from the firehawk (Lilith, is that you?) . [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prehistoric_Planet
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by ChrisMarshallNY 6d ago
There was a stage show[0] (just kidding). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmings_(National_Lampoon)
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by ChrisMarshallNY 6d ago
Pentagram is an interesting company. We worked with them around fifteen or twenty years ago, so it’s likely a lot has changed, since then. They had a structure, where each studio was run by a partner, and had its own specialty. Almost a sep
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by ChrisMarshallNY 6d ago
You’re absolutely right! (See what I did, there?) I mentioned something similar, in a previous comment. The sad part, is that the same thing is likely to happen to design, as is already happening with software development. The junior trai
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by ChrisMarshallNY 6d ago
Note the trajectory of any stories about the IDScan drivers' license leak. They don't stay up long, after US East Coast SoB time.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 7d ago
Pentagram and DDO. Kinda pricey, though.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 7d ago
It will (for a while). We are already seeing the groundwork being laid. It’s unlikely to stay that way, though.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 7d ago
I agree. AI is here to stay. It isn't crypto. There's real utility behind it. Trying to deny it is just going to end up fighting the tide, but the future belongs to the folks that learn to harness it properly. I enjoyed the post,
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by ChrisMarshallNY 7d ago
I've worked with some of the top designers in the world. I don't think that AI will beat them (for now), but the examples in his sample page[0] beat the junk that I've seen a lot of non-top-designers do. As he states, he isn&
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by ChrisMarshallNY 7d ago
The Portuguese Man o’ War[0] is a symbiotic organism. If you want to get technical, I guess we are, as well. We’re really kind of fascinating meatbags. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_man_o%27_war
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by ChrisMarshallNY 7d ago
I use an iPad Mini every day (I’m on it, right now). I also have a big iPad Pro, that I never use. It’s likely that I will end up getting a Duo, eventually. I’m not in a hurry. I’ll bet that there will be teething problems. I suspect all
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by ChrisMarshallNY 7d ago
> historically Depends on how far back you go. Apple's current docs suck, and they have, for a long time (SwiftUI was so bad, that someone came up with this[0], and it was a lifesaver). But I'm old enough to remember Inside
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by ChrisMarshallNY 8d ago
I think many of them were about the size of turkeys. Velociraptor was quite small. Jurassic Park used Utahraptor , or Deinonychus as a model.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 8d ago
Eh. Not worth complaining about. Passkeys work nicely, and I'll use them, in cases where I want decent security, but I don't consider them the "Philosopher's Stone" of regular end-user security. I think they are sti
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by ChrisMarshallNY 9d ago
I just assume they are pig-butcherers, and never respond.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 9d ago
I used to live South of the Mason/Dixon line (MD, so just barely South), and have many friends, from even farther South. I live in New York. These cultures have radically different approaches to communication. New Yorkers want you to
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by ChrisMarshallNY 9d ago
Wouldn't be surprised if the smaller raptors had even higher body temps.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 10d ago
The customer is not always right: https://notalwaysright.com/newest/
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by ChrisMarshallNY 10d ago
I like it, but I don't use it anywhere near as much as other built-in closures. I find the two ways that you call it to be a bit annoying (not a showstopper). It just seems a bit "kludgy" to me.
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by ChrisMarshallNY 10d ago
I got in the habit of using Oxford Commas[0]. Not everyone loves them, and I sometimes need to go back, and uncomma stuff. I got in the habit, because it is better for technical specifications. It makes it clear, to which word an "and&
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by ChrisMarshallNY 10d ago
As a high school dropout, with a GED, I can relate. Pretty much all of my education has been OJT and seminars/classes. It's earned me lots of sneers, over the years, but the people that mattered, didn't care. I spent most of
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by ChrisMarshallNY 10d ago
I worked for a Japanese corporation, and a big part of their HR policy, was to move staff around the company. It was usually in 1- or 2-year stints (people would spend their entire careers at the company, so they could do this). Eventually,
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by ChrisMarshallNY 11d ago
Doesn't sound like a complaint against "smart" rings; more like a general complaint against rings. Also sounds like the author has done a great deal of work to improve himself, physically, and I can respect (and hat tip) to i

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