NotTheDr01ds

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by NotTheDr01ds 3y ago
I must be living under a rock. I didn’t even realize it was outdated! :-)
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by NotTheDr01ds 3y ago
I made the switch from a Pixel 2XL to a 7 last year, and dang, the 2XL was better in most every respect. Fingerprint access with the 2 worked 99% of the time on the first try vs. about 10% (probably being generous) on the 7. And voice-to-t
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by NotTheDr01ds 3y ago
Ironically, the doorbell was the thing that wasn't an Amazon product and wasn't disabled. ;-) And yes, I recanted on the 'firing" part, but I still feel that Amazon's "resolution" here was weak-sauce com
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by NotTheDr01ds 3y ago
Okay, "firing" might be too strong, but that policy of "tolerating mistakes" (as long as it doesn't happen twice and lessons are learned) seems to have created a corporate culture where (if this story is true, and i
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by NotTheDr01ds 3y ago
It's a separate video on his channel which is probably a better listen than this one. This one is a bit of conjecture, perhaps true. The other has been validated by multiple sources, AFAICT. Short summary - Someone had tied in most o
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by NotTheDr01ds 3y ago
"Code working" isn't necessarily black-and-white. For a new user (the one asking the question), the code may appear to solve the problem, but may have corner-cases or even security risks. That's entirely possible wit
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by NotTheDr01ds 3y ago
Sure, but if you try it out, you pretty quickly realize it's a hallucination. Unfortunately the type of GPT content we're now getting on Stack Overflow and its sibling sites is mostly unvalidated GPT hallucinations.
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by NotTheDr01ds 3y ago
Agreed - That's the basis of my "responsible use of AI on SO" post at https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/389675/902710
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by NotTheDr01ds 3y ago
Agree with the middle part - At the moment, the policy implemented by corporate is "Don't ask; don't tell". If someone says they used GPT or other AI for their answer, it's disallowed. If they try to hide the fact
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by NotTheDr01ds 3y ago
And there's the problem on SO. Previously, we could do exactly that - Flag the content for a Mod to review. Now Mods are pretty much prevented from taking any action when we (the community members) and they believe it is a bot. I saw
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by NotTheDr01ds 4y ago
Yeah, that may shoot down my "good intentions" theory. According to the event's sponsorship page (linked elsewhere in the comments here), the speaking slot was 1500€ on top of the 990-4500€ "base". We can assume
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by NotTheDr01ds 4y ago
People seem to be attributing "bad intent" here that may not have occurred. In my experience, situations like this occur quite often for various "good intention" reasons. Usually they are resolved before there's a
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by NotTheDr01ds 4y ago
Quoted from some source or are you just extremely quotable. Serious question - That is a great viewpoint!
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by NotTheDr01ds 4y ago
You seem to be pretty close to Nushell, which was mentioned in the article. The Nushell `ls` (and `ps`, etc.) builtins generate structured data that can be sorted, queried, reduced, and then transformed to many different types of structure
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by NotTheDr01ds 4y ago
Ironically, on the same page, "Tokay is inspired by awk, but follows its own philosophy and design principles. It might also serve as a general purpose scripting language, but it mainly focuses on processing textual input and work on t
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by NotTheDr01ds 4y ago
Most of them have discontinued the service. I think there's one left, maybe Citi IIRC? I've hesitated on opening an account since it seems like only a matter of time before they discontinue as well. Apple Card allows you to gene
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by NotTheDr01ds 4y ago
Thank you for the great video - I'm glad I watched it. Hadn't heard of Helix or Kakoune until now. While I have decades of muscle-memory in the vi key-bindings, it's easy to see that the select-object/verb method makes
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by NotTheDr01ds 4y ago
For point #1, perhaps neither scenario is "equitable". "Equal pay" may sound equitable given the horribly biased example given, but look at the converse case: > You have two people doing the same job but if you l
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by NotTheDr01ds 4y ago
That's a completely fair point, and unfortunately Windows does require a restart on pretty much every Windows update. You're right -- Linux only requires a reboot on a kernel update, which is far less frequent. That said, I d
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by NotTheDr01ds 4y ago
I am truly curious what terminal app in Linux you feel is better than Windows Terminal at this point. While the terminal experience in Windows languished for many years, Windows Terminal has quickly evolved to be one of the (if not the) be
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by NotTheDr01ds 4y ago
While that's true, I'm not sure that I consider it a "problem" in the first place. I used to, but not any longer. In my experience, there's never a good time to update/reboot. I always have multiple applica
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by NotTheDr01ds 4y ago
> you can also pipe output from a PowerShell command to a Linux command. Agreed - PowerShell <-> WSL integration is pretty nice. Just remember (mostly for others reading) that PowerShell has a nasty habit of automatically appendin
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by NotTheDr01ds 4y ago
Got you beat by ... 1 year ;-) It was a pretty big change when our (already outdated at that time) lab in college scrapped the PDP11-44 and replaced it with 20 Windows 3.0 machines and 10 Macs. Been using Linux since I picked up a Yggdrasil
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by NotTheDr01ds 4y ago
Windows has a long history of preinstalled games of various quality all the way back to Reversi in Windows 1.0. Solitaire, of course, was the third most popular application in Windows 3.1. But there hasn't been a single version of Wi
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by NotTheDr01ds 4y ago
Yes, that secure channel thing was a bummer. I saw your Stack Overflow question a couple of days ago (I seem to be your sole upvote on it) and tried to come up with some kind of workaround, but no dice. Not a problem for me personally, bu
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by NotTheDr01ds 4y ago
For the person who wrote the original article, then the answer would be "because that's not an option at their employer." For me, personally, the answer is that I feel Windows provides a better desktop experience, but Linux p
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by NotTheDr01ds 5y ago
Depends on your criteria, I guess. If you are okay with closed-source (but based on OSS), then Vivaldi is a great alternative, IMHO. It supports most extensions from the Chrome Store. Has had vertical tabs for years (the main reason I sw
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by NotTheDr01ds 6y ago
It looks to me like Japan could be on the cusp of a drastic increase in cases, at least. Whether or not it translates to hospitalizations or deaths is another question (I feel it is less likely based on other health factors). https:&#x2
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by NotTheDr01ds 6y ago
In a normal year, we'd do lunch with my family and dinner with my wife's family, and be stuffed beyond belief. And in a normal year, my wife would come down with bronchitis shortly thereafter. Recently we learned that's most
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by NotTheDr01ds 6y ago
Suggestion for gas pumps: I carry rolls of dog poop cleanup bags. They make great temporary gloves that you can slip over your hand before touching the gas pump, and they slide off into the trash easily without touching the outside with th

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