TheRealDunkirk

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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
Does anyone think that Netgear isn't doing the exact same thing with Orbi? (It's a given that Google is doing it with Eero.) Anyone taking odds on Ubiquiti?
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
> what happened to the joy of shaping the world? We were vastly outnumbered and overwhelmed by sociopaths who exploited the tools to make our lives better by capturing everything of value in the market, and subsequently enshittifying it.
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
At least it wasn't Halliday and Resnick. It's been 35 years since my BSME at Purdue, and I can still remember their names. God I hated those textbooks. If someone tells me that this Jackson book was worse, I won't believe it.
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
27 years for me. Started with FrontPage 1997, with extensions for Apache on Linux! Then I wrote a PHP site with Smarty. Then I wrote a Rails app. Then I moved to Wordpress. Given that I've done another 15 years writing Rails apps, I sh
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
It increased mine yesterday, by quite a bit. I was writing some JSON-to-array-of-arrays conversion code, and when I started to type it out -- dreading the inevitable off-by-one hunt -- CoPilot spat out the code, and it was correct! It helpe
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
I wouldn't worry about the people who quit and leave. I'd worry about the people who quit and stay.
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
I think relatively few corporations are offering Macs to people. It's all bog-standard POS Dells, with locked-down Windows images that often do not even allow you to change the screensaver settings or the background image, in the name
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
The other alternative was to violate her sacred beliefs. You clearly have no idea how nasty this litigation has been. https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/07/24/how-a-battle-over-a...
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
Not to worry. My company is still on version 15. We stay BEHIND the curve, where it's SAFE.
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
Tiffany Cianci is at the dead center of a battle with private equity trying to monopolize young child development centers. Her horrific personal story will open your eyes as to just how depraved and soulless private equity can really be in
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
That belies that fact that the play is usually to finance a bunch of debt to prop it up, pay themselves PHAT bonuses, and then let it burn to the ground. Honestly, it's gotten way past tiring that the government continues to let this s
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
Classic case of #CorporateIT applying white paper "rules" and not understanding what they're doing. If I had a nickel...
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
Could this simply be a result in Microsoft getting more traction in foisting Edge on people, and presenting pop-ups to make it the default?
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
Seems like precisely the sort of thing ESR's new de-autotools tool is designed to eliminate. https://gitlab.com/esr/autodafe
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
> They funded the war efforts in Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Aaaannnndd?... You're just going to leave out the banning of TikTok while claiming a victory for sending my money to other nations for wars I do not want to fund? And ano
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
What specific topic(s) of technical questions came to your mind in making that comment?
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
I can't even begin to fathom why anyone would want to train an AI on this corpus. Reddit isn't a social media site. It's not organic. The vast majority of the content of the site is created by just a dozen users. (Those peopl
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
AND the function is hard-limited to 1600 columns. Don't ask me how I know; you already know.
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
This hits all the right notes for me. I recently bought a full set of SA Retro keycaps for my WASD CODE v2 (in blues), on my Mac. While pricey, I love them. I get warm fuzzies every time I sit down at it. I use this board on my Mac, and out
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
And after 30 years of blogging, it made me finally realize the stark difference of writing for yourself vs writing for an audience. This is a great example of the former.
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
As a show about a mystery, it bears some similarities with Lost. To the frustration of everyone, Lost explained _nothing_, and raised more questions than answers in its last forsaken season, and ended the worst, cheapest, and dumbest way po
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
In a crowded field filled with things like The Boys/Gen V, Blue-Eyed Samurai, Shogun, Invincible, Stranger Things, and Chernobyl, Severance is literally my favorite. thing. ever. Hands down. No question. I'm dying for another seas
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
Everything about the article tracks, but why do I get the feeling that it's really just a veiled screed about this particular genre succeeding when we've become enlightened as a society, and should have learned by now that we aren
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
You're getting close. Over the past 30-40 years, American corporations have focused more and more and more on profitability, and "making the numbers go up." They have sacrificed employee retention in order to pay executives e
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
> In return, quality has fallen off a cliff. Moderation on some of the most popular subs is scarce, so all the popular ones have started to coalesce into a 'blob' of sameness. Discussions are poor as well, and misinformation is
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
What percentage of their sales does the China market represent?
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
This was 25 years ago: https://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/ , and nothing has fundamentally changed about the music industry in the interim. More and more digital tools are at hand for anyone to make
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
So... you fed the GP comment into some LLM, and it produced this meaningless pablum?
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
> By "the patent office" you mean taxpayers, right? Now THAT would be a use of my tax dollars I could actually get behind.
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by TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
All they need to do is buy StackOverflow from the PE that owns it now, and the circle will be completely jerked.

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