ItsBob

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by ItsBob 2y ago
> 15-20 minutes is a lot closer to realistic. Blimey! Lord only knows where you live that it can take that long. I can count on one hand the number of times it's taken anything like 10 minutes over the years and they were during cri
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by ItsBob 2y ago
As I mentioned above: outlaw the practice of preventing people from shopping if they haven't opted into your dystopian facial recognition software. It will essentially kill it immediately but still allow research.
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by ItsBob 2y ago
Not if you outlaw that practice. It's easily countered by creating a law that prevents discriminating on the basis of opting into tracking, AI and whatnot. Problem solved.
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by ItsBob 2y ago
For me the solution is clear: require written authorization from everyone you want to capture with facial recognition software. It prevents privacy issues and doesn't stop research. Exceptions could be made in gov buildings perhaps due
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by ItsBob 2y ago
In my case it was the opposite: I went from building infrastructure (mainly Windows servers and related tech) to becoming a software developer at 45. I lost my job at the start of the COVID stuff (Feb 2020?) and couldn't find another.
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by ItsBob 2y ago
Not to derail this conversation but... When I'm explaining AI stuff to family, the example I use is classification and I specifically use cats and dogs. I use the analogy of how you teach a toddler that this is a cat and that is a dog.
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by ItsBob 2y ago
According to the comments, they took delivery of it in 2014... it's a decade old :(
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by ItsBob 2y ago
Not sure what you mean: there have, to-date, been no repercussions for Boeing! They're getting away with all kinds of shit here! In an ideal world, companies with a massive safety-related function should have Warhammer 40k gun servitor
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by ItsBob 2y ago
Not sure about the US but in the UK, the government can close companies down for things like not filing taxes or failing to pay them for example. So it wouldn't be outwith the realms of possibility that a company making planes that are
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by ItsBob 2y ago
At what point do we say "This company is rotten to the core and needs shut down"? This article alleges that they may be falsifying safety stuff! It's not like they're making lollipops ffs... they're transporting mil
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by ItsBob 3y ago
I don't disagree but (I know nothing about this btw...) would it not benefit in terms of, say, a L3 cache kind of thing? Imagine you could stick 2 x 64GB DDR5 DIMMS on the GPU in sockets, would that not be faster to access than the mot
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by ItsBob 3y ago
While I can understand some getting bent out of shape from that kind of comment I know what he means. I'm a grey-haired .NET dev (pushing 50 now!) and for me that comment means there is no desire for new devs to learn beyond what they
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by ItsBob 3y ago
I asked myself that question at the start of the year and the answer was: I have none! I realised that I was rapidly approaching retirement age and I had nothing to do when I stop software stuff! So I've changed all that and tried a fe
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by ItsBob 3y ago
I do something similar I suppose: I deliberately add an error (if one doesn't exist) into the code I'm working on. Usually the method I last worked on. So when I start in the morning, or especially after the weekend, I hit F5 and
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Cloudflare blocking me suddenly from loads of sites
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by ItsBob 3y ago
Perhaps some kids, maybe, but not mine. Not a chance. I've explained the purpose of ads and how nefarious they can be and they now hate seeing ads. At all. When they play a game on their phones, when an ad appears, they put the phone d
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by ItsBob 3y ago
> The government need to start teaching about macronutrient breakdowns and calorie intake during early years Stop looking to the government to solve this problem. There are many many thousands of sources online that one can easily use to
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by ItsBob 3y ago
You're right, it wouldn't be and I'd likely ask "why did you use a text file and not a database?". It was more about getting him to think deeper than surface level: if I open a file, that means it locks so I need to
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by ItsBob 3y ago
I'll give you my opinion here, fwiw! If I'm looking at a dev in a corporate environment, the meme-related toy projects are a good start (everything else being equal) but I'd rather compare apples to apples. If I was interview
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by ItsBob 3y ago
I've heard about that many many times yet I don't believe I've ever experienced it (I'm in the UK and in my late 40s). I am a contractor and for the most part it's still, thankfully, a meritocracy. So experience is,
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by ItsBob 3y ago
> 2. They indirectly stop you being put forward by other recruiters when you say "oh another recruiter has put me forward" (which they haven't, but you have a verbal contract with). They usually send you a confirmation ema
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by ItsBob 3y ago
My experience echos yours too... lost count of the number of times I've been ghosted. I've learned not to trust agents. At all. If I get a call I assume that I'll be ghosted or that they're lying about the role. If I man
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by ItsBob 3y ago
I thought I'd add a data point to this discussion. I'm in the UK and the traditional dev/tech job route was via something like JobServe, Indeed etc., where you see a role advertised via an employment agency and you send your
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by ItsBob 3y ago
> It would probably take a lot of investment from AMD to make that happen, I imagine Don't AMD deliberately gimp their consumer cards to prevent cannibalising the pro cards? I vaguely recall reading about that a while back. That bei
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by ItsBob 3y ago
Just as an FYI/additional data point, I bought a 3090 FE from Ebay a few months ago for £605 including delivery. I've only just started using it for Llama running locally on my computer at home and I have to say... colour me impre
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by ItsBob 3y ago
Not sure about Google but DDG changes the results when I come back to them. So, for example, if you search for something, click on one of the links to open it and then go back to the search results, there will be a couple of new ones added.
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by ItsBob 3y ago
There's an addon called Return YouTube Dislike. I use it on FF and it seems to have put the thumbs-down count back... not sure how they get the numbers but it looks right to me
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by ItsBob 3y ago
It's funny you should say that... I just bought a 6? year old Latitude E7470 for £189 last week. I had one years ago and it was built like a tank. Also, the screen (2560x1440) is possibly the best I've had on a laptop and the keyb
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by ItsBob 3y ago
Possibly dual channel RAM so 2 x 4GB is faster than 1 x 8GB in that case and cost-wise is probably the same.
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by ItsBob 4y ago
Here's a radical idea: let me moderate my own shit! Twitter is a subscription-based system (by this, I mean that I have to subscribe to someone's content) so if I subscribe to someone and don't like what they say then buh-bye

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