DougN7

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by DougN7 2y ago
And get a public figure/politician to drone on and on about it (whether they believe it or not) is an excellent way to fire up a base and get the base to stop thinking things through as thoroughly. That’s the thing that scares me - co
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by DougN7 2y ago
Bravo!!! :)
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by DougN7 3y ago
I’d say 50% of the time CoPilot suggests things that are not helpful, 40% of the time it saves me some typing, and 10% of the time it reads my mind and fills out a large section of code for me perfectly (using all my idioms, naming, code “a
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by DougN7 3y ago
That’s great, but given that 99.99999999% of the rest of won’t go to those lengths, you might find you’re a bit lonely when we all get assimilated into the borg.
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by DougN7 3y ago
If you don’t understand the code well enough to annotate it, it seems hard to believe you’d able to rewrite it and end up with the same functionality (same processing rules, accepts identical input, produces identical output, etc).
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by DougN7 3y ago
And then they came for the guns owned by 5 year olds, and I didn’t speak up… Then they came for the huge environment polluters, and I didn’t speak up… Somethings really are dangerous and should be regulated.
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by DougN7 3y ago
I think my 25 year old son had bought into the same thought pattern. I’m trying to help, but parents are often thought to be clueless. Having said that, I’ve found FOMO hitting me hard when looking at Facebook posts, so I’ve stopped lookin
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by DougN7 3y ago
I wonder if those who believe they are lucky work harder and take more chances than those who don’t.
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by DougN7 3y ago
I was surprised to discover how far IBM is in the AI game. Their penetration into _enterprises_ is way ahead of all the other big names. And their approach seems really well thought out. Do some web searches for recent articles about wha
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by DougN7 3y ago
700 instead of 1000 would be “sub optimal” but better than 0. At least that’s what I think the above poster was trying to say.
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by DougN7 3y ago
I suspect staying inside, relatively inactive, surrounded by plastics, foam in furniture, paint, and other chemicals is probably worse, but it’s just a hunch. In the end, none of us get out of here alive.
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by DougN7 3y ago
Thank you for the explanation - I appreciate it. But I still don’t understand - if just a single droplet can do kill, and half of American’s probably drank some, why aren’t we dropping dead from droplets getting into our nose during shower
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by DougN7 3y ago
I don’t get it. Doesn’t this “dangerous” tap water get in our eyes, mouths, nostrils (at least as steam or spray) every single day when we shower? I’m having a hard time getting too worried about this.
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by DougN7 3y ago
LOL
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by DougN7 3y ago
Yes, exactly! “Our math doesn’t work unless we invent something to make up the difference”. Feels very much like the Ether scientists believed in earlier. Of course, it might really be, but it feels suspect.
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by DougN7 3y ago
Those of us in our 50’s entered the market when outsourcing was the new buzzword, and “ALL tech jobs will get sent to India!”. There is always fear, there are always challenges and threats, and yet the world keeps spinning, and those who k
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by DougN7 3y ago
Look into the write ups of the One Billion Row Challenge - you’ll see lots of techniques.
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by DougN7 3y ago
Was that from memory? If so, kudos to you!
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by DougN7 3y ago
Add to that our much improved relative standard of living (even lower classes are much better off than their long ago counter parts), and it’s clear we’re working less for what we get.
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by DougN7 3y ago
Maybe there wasn’t enough context. The characters are on an important mission. They step into the casino for a short bit, only to emerge much, much (weeks? months?) later because they were entertained so thoroughly (and addicted to the fl
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by DougN7 3y ago
The casino scene in the Percy Jackson movie [1] (and book) have always seemed hauntingly accurate to me as far as describing much of modern life. The thing we all have a finite amount of is time, and we’re increasingly distracted to where w
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by DougN7 3y ago
Is it mean to type “I hate you Notepad” into the Notepad app? Pretty much the same thing in my opinion.
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by DougN7 3y ago
Ralf Brown interrupt list - wow does that bring back memories!
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by DougN7 3y ago
I might get laughed out of the room for asking, but has Taco Bell had to start paying employees more?
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by DougN7 3y ago
This is my biggest fear - that my password app is hacked. What if the real LastPass (or KeePass, or whatever) dev had a gun held to his head to add code to upload credentials to somewhere, and then signs and uploads the legitimate app. Op
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Visual vs. text based programming, which is better?(successfulsoftware.net)
4 points by DougN7 3y ago|7 comments
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by DougN7 3y ago
Honest question: when the government gives back that $60B, and the thousands of other billions, where do they get THAT money from, since the original $60B is surely long gone. I assume you’ll say from other money it collects from new sales
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by DougN7 3y ago
I’ve been self employed full time for almost 20 years, with one to two employees during that time. It’s a product company which I won’t link to because customers think we’re a big organization. I worked nights and weekends for about 10 yea
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by DougN7 3y ago
The movie “Ready Player One”, despite trying to end on a forced positive note, was/is prophetic. It was a very sad and disconnected world there, and we’re slowly moving that way here.
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by DougN7 3y ago
You get what you pay for. I switched to Kagi maybe 6(?) months back - totally worth it.

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