_tom_

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   by _tom_ 4y ago

   If you know where I can get a qic tape drive, I'd really like to know !
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   by _tom_ 4y ago

   I didn't comment on the project, just the design. I was reading in the dark, so had brightness was low, but fine for any normal site. This mistake is a common thing for people to complain about on accessibility forums. If you've l
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   by _tom_ 4y ago

   This would be more fun if they showed a translation back to English after each step, so you could see how it changed at each step. (Approximately) This is one of the most fun parts of the game of telephone, going through the circle again, a
4. 304.▲
   by _tom_ 4y ago

   "Invisible idiot" is how I remember it.
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   by _tom_ 4y ago

   "Driven by sales, not academic qualifications" is a GREAT metric for people providing your academic credentials. No normal college can afford that many warm bodies calling. That tells you that either their profit margin per studen
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   by _tom_ 4y ago

   Lots of companies still have degree requirements. Interview performance is about as low a correlation with job performance as having a degree. (i.e. none) https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-he
7. 307.▲
   by _tom_ 4y ago

   I don't know about modern in floor heating, but in Eichlers it eventually breaks, and is very hard to fix.
8. 308.▲
   by _tom_ 4y ago

   If your designer suggests grey text on a black background, fire them. Parts are completely unreadable, other parts only hard. Not worth the bother.
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   by _tom_ 4y ago

   ASU has an online college program. It's basically a bad port of their in person program. Recorded lectures by whoever is teaching the class this quarter, not a "master teacher", low production values (think webcam, not &quot
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    by _tom_ 4y ago

    Or designed to sell those services to you.
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    by _tom_ 4y ago

    I recently tried to boot and read a number of drives from 10 to 40(?) years old. (Pandemic. Was bored). About half of them still spun up and were readable. Probably could have gotten more with heroic measures. Most 3.5 floppies were likewis
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    by _tom_ 4y ago

    Tape suffers from hardware progress. It gets harder and harder to find hardware to read a given tape format. The market for tape is much smaller than consumer markets (in units sold) You'll probably be able to read CDs in fifty years,
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    by _tom_ 4y ago

    This will grow until it cripples California's budget for decade, if it is not shut down. See also "the big dig"
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    by _tom_ 4y ago

    You could probably find thirty people who say they have seen leprechauns, which are also hominids. Most people would not consider this to be serious evidence.
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    by _tom_ 5y ago

    Photopea is amazing. It's my default image editor now.
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    by _tom_ 5y ago

    https://xkcd.com/538/
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    by _tom_ 5y ago

    So, if you are down, how much of my docs still work? Everything but the code, or nothing?
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    by _tom_ 5y ago

    That looks really odd. $155 (minimum) and they don't tell you what you will get. "The artist and gift will be a surprise" Hey, if it works for them, great. I just can't see using it.
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    by _tom_ 5y ago

    I was thinking it's much like Google trying to deal with SEO. Most people optimize for high google ranking, not quality content. Google periodically changes the evaluation, in theory to reward good content and penalize bad, but people
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    by _tom_ 5y ago

    And non-quantitive evaluations are prone to favoritism and prejudice. AKA people gaming the system. I doubt there's an easy answer. Trying to better align the short term objectives with longer term ones could help, but that just makes
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    by _tom_ 5y ago

    > We did not grow our headcount past four. (Not OP)
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    by _tom_ 5y ago

    Article stops halfway through with an ellipsis on iPhone. Nothing seems to open the rest of the article. Not even requesting the desktop version fixes this.
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    by _tom_ 5y ago

    Closed source, monitors everything on the machine. How much do you trust little snitch? And then asking to keep a copy of your drivers license for ten years is a complete non starter. (Yes, that's in their privacy policy)
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    by _tom_ 5y ago

    I'm with you on not sending data, but have you ever read user reports? IF you get any (most won't report) they likely won't have enough information to reproduce or fix. Automated Error reporting does has it uses.
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    by _tom_ 5y ago

    If the code is there, it is potentially exploitable. So, opt out is nowhere near good enough. If it can send to remote hosts, this can be abused. This capability should not be there, at all. Look at the recent logging fiasco for an example.
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    by _tom_ 5y ago

    It's even more common with windows-only software.
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    by _tom_ 5y ago

    Classic clickbait. Post a terrible idea, that gets people angry, and they click through. Ignore this and don't click.
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    by _tom_ 5y ago

    Here's a 2013 article on google's results on evaluating various factors in hiring. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-... Basically, no one really knows how to hire.
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    by _tom_ 5y ago

    It really does. It's regular practice with supportive people. And it's structured, so if you are shy about sudden surprise situations, it can be comforting to know what is expected. It's not a panacea, but it's easy to g
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    by _tom_ 5y ago

    There are tons of premade, microwaveable foods at any US grocery store. I like frozen burritos, for example. Some are quite tasty, some quite healthy. Optimize to your preferences. Cooking/cleaning effort is similar to delivery. Price