FpUser

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by FpUser 5mo ago
>" Dex which is much better then the current Android desktop mode" Maybe it is better but my experience using it as desktop was absolutely atrocious. I mean it works as designed but it sucks
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by FpUser 5mo ago
I think similarly. To me value of the "programmer" is not "I love Rust", "I am React expert" etc. That "love" is for sure replaceable.
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by FpUser 5mo ago
>"I'm doing the design work myself, by hand, before any code gets written." This is what I was doing right from the beginning. AI just fills out methods and doing other low intelligence work. Both are happy. My architectur
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by FpUser 5mo ago
And the topic had 55 comments when I first looked at it
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Trump admin pays wind developers to quit, back fossil fuel projects(theregister.com)
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by FpUser 5mo ago
>"Your boundary is at hue 187, bluer than 97% of the population. For you, turquoise is green" Problem is that it asks to categorize colors that to me are neither blue nor green
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by FpUser 5mo ago
Unless it is air gapped which it is not there is no way to protect Amazon's developed and owned software stack from reporting back to headquarters.
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by FpUser 5mo ago
William of Ockham confirms
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by FpUser 5mo ago
The world is never short of idiots. Will be fun to watch when personal finances will be managed by swarm of agents with direct access to operations.
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by FpUser 6mo ago
in real life when request handler call async/colored/whatnot it lets the call proceed and immediately ready to process next request. The backend then would have no problems to create ever growing number of asyncs currently in flig
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by FpUser 6mo ago
>"But the stock of old repairable tractor will soon or later run dry." Then some other country will come up with the alternative. It is insane that piece of very old and simple tech has such a price tag. There are whole bunch o
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by FpUser 6mo ago
Back in the old USSR we would go to banya (Russian Sauna) and it had creek right flowing close to front door. we dug in a huge barrel so it formed a tiny pond of really icy water. So we sit in a sauna for a while and then jump into that icy
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by FpUser 6mo ago
I did not use TV directly but I loved the design so I used basic ideas for my own DOS UI library for Turbo Pascal. It was completely graphical and implemented using built in assembly. In order to save RAM my Window manager would save invisi
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by FpUser 6mo ago
Am I the only one that read it as Polaroid ;) ?
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by FpUser 6mo ago
My Z840 server I use for self hosting has both bus original IBM keyboard and bus mouse attached. Either works just fine.
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by FpUser 6mo ago
Problem is that only one kind of wrongs being chased. It is systemic and erodes trust
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by FpUser 6mo ago
Hypocrisy meter just exploded after being fed the message
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by FpUser 6mo ago
Cut the bullshit please. I bought house in 1998 for $200K, guess what's the price is now. And salaries did not all that much since then. Definitely not 5 times.
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by FpUser 6mo ago
>"f this startup can capitalize on that, they do have a market." $100K-$200 is very expensive for many. better find used old one
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by FpUser 6mo ago
>"The Drowned World, The Burning World, and The Crystal World" - same here, my favorites
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by FpUser 6mo ago
From the manifesto: >"only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost" Ok, so MIC companies do not get to make profit during a war, all relatives of government officials and C-level execs sit in trenches - I
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by FpUser 6mo ago
I have what you call "significant engineering experience", decades of it to be precise and have designed and developed many complex products successfully used in various industries. I do not need to "shift my perspective&quot
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by FpUser 6mo ago
I use both (not IntelliJ but other IDEs) and quite frankly I fund VS Code and derivatives very much inferior. For C++ development for example CLion vs VS Code (needed plugins installed) is night and day and not to the benefit of VS Code. I
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by FpUser 6mo ago
I use JetBrain's all you can eat subscription that comes with their Junie coding agent which includes some free tokens to cover my coding needs. I then top up tokens on on-need basis. Costs me about $100 / month in AI tokens (well
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by FpUser 6mo ago
I am subscribed to their all you can eat plan and use their Junie coding agent which is included with subscription with some free tokens. I then pay for extra tokens on on-need basis and all works like a charm. So far I pay (well my clients
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by FpUser 6mo ago
To me Apple is the company that had started the war against personal computing.
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by FpUser 6mo ago
>Sometimes it makes sense to use a million dollar missile to destroy a $5,000 drone, if that drone would otherwise destroy an even more expensive air defense radar or energy production facility. " If that $5000 drone was alone then
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by FpUser 6mo ago
Civilian to military casualty ratio is 1:20 for Russia-Ukraine war and 2:1 for WWII. The difference is huge. Whether this is actual restraint I have no knowledge but if it quacks like a duck ...
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by FpUser 6mo ago
How do we secure internet to the point it does not work anymore. Well except government and big corporate sites
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by FpUser 6mo ago
>"C-suite types commit more crimes than prisoners, but I'd wager they don't." On behalf / or covered by corporations they openly do things for which any normal person would be criminally charged and put behind ba

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