DaiPlusPlus

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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
> Like who is the intended audience and what purpose does this serve? Green Party voters; Technophobic readers of The Guardian[1]; Account managers at image-washing nonprofits; and possibly an anti-Roko's Basilisk. [1] As opposed to
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
In contrast to Google, Microsoft, my former employer, probably has (had?) the best policy amongst big tech: moonlighting wasn't just tolerated, but actively encouraged! (...provided it runs on Windows, of course) ...because it's b
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
> I wonder how long it'll be before all AI costs are flat unlimited monthly fees or even free across the board, without compromise. That's already the case if you can self-host an LLM; you don't even need a mythical H200:
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by DaiPlusPlus 5mo ago
> Claude is pretty good at designing data models in my experience Yesterday, Claude decided to go with nvarchar(100) for an IP address column instead of varbinary(16), and thinks RBAR triggers are just-as-good as temporal tables. So, no.
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by DaiPlusPlus 6mo ago
Yes; more depression and anxiety about an uncertain future. The SWE people I know at SW companies now heavily using these agents complain to me how their workday is nothing but code-reviews of the agents output and tedious prompting to prod
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by DaiPlusPlus 6mo ago
> I wrote code and passed it off to a dev in India to check in (US engineers weren't allowed to check in code.) ...usually it's the other way around. May I ask what the situation was? Reverse-outsourcing by the Indian central g
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by DaiPlusPlus 6mo ago
/s/intellectually/emotionally
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by DaiPlusPlus 6mo ago
Reply sent just now.
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by DaiPlusPlus 6mo ago
> someone is getting hired off a single github repo as CV Isn't that a good thing?
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by DaiPlusPlus 6mo ago
Is there a good way to contact you - ideally something like IM or Teams/Slack/Zoom?
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by DaiPlusPlus 6mo ago
> though I left MSFT in 2017 so some things might have changed since. Honestly, I struggle to think about what has actually changed between Office 2013 and Office 2024 (and their Office 365 equivalents); I know the LAMBDA function was a
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by DaiPlusPlus 6mo ago
...once
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by DaiPlusPlus 6mo ago
I could have worded my post a bit better - I didn't mean to imply DBeaver only showed a flat list of tables/objects; but DBeaver is hardly unique in having DB diagrams; my point was that every DB-diagram feature/tool&#x2F
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by DaiPlusPlus 6mo ago
> I imagine waiving around normalization forms was a good gig for consultants in the 1980 but I bet even then the real practitioners had a skeptical, arm's length relationship with them. Real-talk: those consultants are absolutely e
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by DaiPlusPlus 6mo ago
> Also, personally I think that 6NF should be foundational, but that's a separate matter. I share your ideal, but there exists a slight problem: no RDBMS I'm aware of really facilitates 6NF or DKNF (or even Codd's full rel
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by DaiPlusPlus 6mo ago
I'm pretty sure what you're describing is this long-standing bug[1] I've experienced only when using Mobile Safari on Reddit - affecting both old.reddit.com and the (horrible) modern Reddit. It just doesn't happen in oth
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by DaiPlusPlus 6mo ago
Right; in 2006-2007 we all watched uploaded rips of The Simpsons between class in high-school; Original content on YouTube had a really limited appeal.
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by DaiPlusPlus 6mo ago
> I think generally doing less is better. My sedentary lifestyle is responsible for my recurrent cellulitis infections. Just saying.
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by DaiPlusPlus 6mo ago
Enshittification specifically is when a product/service/platform gets worse from the user’s perspective because the platform vendor can directly profit from user-hostile design; for example, Google intentionally serves up bad resu
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by DaiPlusPlus 6mo ago
The NodeJS ARM executable can be signed by Apple; but that has no bearing on the JS code in NPM packages you’d be running. Native code-signing only protects native entrypoints.
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by DaiPlusPlus 6mo ago
How? They run their scraping and training infrastructure - and models themselves - from within those “AI datacenters”[1] we hear about in the news - and not proxying through end-users’ own pipes. [1]: in quotes, because I dislike the term,
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by DaiPlusPlus 6mo ago
> NT has a far better VMM than macOS does and handles OOM significantly better than macOS (and Linux, for that matter). All of them handle OOM the same way: paging to disk with subsequent thrashing. How can any OS be better than any othe
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by DaiPlusPlus 7mo ago
> parts replacement For a $400 laptop?
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by DaiPlusPlus 7mo ago
> It’s the Google way. Don't forget the all-important last step: abruptly killing the product - no matter how popular or praiseworthy it is (or heck: even profitable!) if unnamed Leadership figures say so; vide: killedbygoogle.com
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by DaiPlusPlus 7mo ago
Hmm, yes; I think you're right. I honestly don't know the explanation behind that, sorry.
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by DaiPlusPlus 7mo ago
I accept that's possible - if not likely (and everyone steals from each other!) - but even-so it only amounts to to the gunmetal-grey default colours and use of a 1px bevel/inset effect; because NS and NT3/NT4's UX/
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by DaiPlusPlus 7mo ago
> From what I remember it lost the ability to render rounded window corners, ...I'm guessing you haven't used Windows 11? -------- By "rounded corners" are you referring to rounded-off corners in the nonclient area (s
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by DaiPlusPlus 7mo ago
The engine itself isn’t gutted - it’s full of functionality that was never lost. MS just (correctly) reasoned that transparency effects in the UI - introduced in Vista simply to show-off the capabilities of the DWM compositor - ultimately d
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by DaiPlusPlus 7mo ago
That’s an odd way to spell Motif.
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by DaiPlusPlus 7mo ago
By your timeline, it means Microsoft only had institutional taste for about 3-4 years. A tiny fraction of the company’s lifetime. (If it helps, I do agree with you about those years being the most… design-coordinated: when Office felt like

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