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by aljgz 5d ago
My first serious software was for a sizable goldsmith factory. They keep an incredibly low profile visible from outside, and they get really good at it. Once inside, the amount of gold that's moving around is jaw dropping. After a whil
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by aljgz 8d ago
I was shocked, in 2026, to know how hard it is to find a good tablet. iPad is out of question for me, gifted mine to my gf (the only apple device I ever bought). Landed on a Lenovo Idea Tab pro, which has so much junk pre-installed that kee
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by aljgz 11d ago
> I'm Tired Boss > I'm 30 this year, and computers don't have the same level of whimsy and excitement as they once had. I'm 45 and computers are more exciting than ever. We choose what to get excited with, or oven
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by aljgz 27d ago
Did I write this? I choose tools I use, configure them, report bugs, and occasionally contribute fixes. But when I can't, I work around them, yet never get used to the workaround. "Habitual mitigation" does not happen in me,
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by aljgz 29d ago
> The only say I have is in how I spend my money. This. I get Frame.work and install Fedora. Use Firefox for everything possible. Once my current phone dies, I'll get a Fair phone, Motorola, or whatever gives me control. Can't
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by aljgz 1mo ago
!!SPOILER ALERT!! in Shutter Island: When he realizes he's committed a terrible crime, the next day he goes back to believing he's a US marshal. His last words: - this place makes me wonder... + Yeah, what's that, boss? - Whi
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by aljgz 1mo ago
That one monarch is not a person or organization of people. It's an aggregation of all the loosely connected ones, competing on some things, coordinated on others, but you, the end user are never the beneficiary. That, my old school hu
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by aljgz 1mo ago
Change happens gradually, and then suddenly.
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by aljgz 1mo ago
In similar situations how hard is it to initiate a class-action?
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by aljgz 2mo ago
Guess: same icon used in very small size for lists/menus and much larger when you select the item. Also, if the same one is used for all resolutions, the actual size can vary widely between monitor sizes, DPIs, resolutions, scales. Goo
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by aljgz 2mo ago
Living in Vancouver, I traveled to Toronto to watch the Eclipse in 2024. We faced a nasty cloud, and had to drive hundreds of kilometers (hundreds of miles) to get a reasonably good view. On the drive back I decided that I'll travel fo
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by aljgz 2mo ago
Just a guess: Ratio of positive results out of previously unknown cases gives a good estimate of the total expected unknown cases. Precision depends on selection bias, and statistics has tools to estimate and/or improve it.
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by aljgz 2mo ago
I've been telling people this car analogy: Imagine your car would only let you drive on road approved by the manufacturer, obviously, for your safety. But then they would approve roads only if 30% of anything you paid for in that road
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by aljgz 2mo ago
Years ago, we were revamping a mission-critical project with more than a 1000 database tables to a backend of .net and EF. Our rewrite was much cleaner, but still had 450 tables. We started noticing that our backend took 2 minutes after sta
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Belladonna of Sadness (1973)(imdb.com)
4 points by aljgz 2mo ago|2 comments
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by aljgz 2mo ago
I just watched this incredibly anomaleous work. I asked AI about some side information about it, but I'm sure some HN folks have much more interesting things to share
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by aljgz 2mo ago
Interesting... Can you elaborate? I did not get the reference.
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by aljgz 2mo ago
How's that different from friends at your sports club? How does the risk of your workplace friends not taking your side balance against the benefit of the possibility that they will support you? Should I give up years of joy and sense
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by aljgz 2mo ago
This is a recipe for a sad life. It's avoiding friendship for the fear of betrayal. You get a lot of benefits by being good friends with colleagues. There are, however important things to be aware of: 1- "Though shall not" li
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by aljgz 2mo ago
This is exactly what I needed, ending my work week for the company, and transitioning to working on my own project over the weekend. Good to know I'm not alone, still dreaming of making things that serve people the way they (the people
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by aljgz 2mo ago
Thanks, as a software engineer, always a problem solver, who just follows an dreams of solutions to social problems (I've once led a software project for one of these, but not more), breaking down the mega category of abusers into subc
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by aljgz 2mo ago
Really sad. I read a lot of psychology. But I've never encountered psychology of child sexual abuse (I know there is if I look it up, but that's my point, it should be shared around, discussed, challenged). Why would some adults f
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by aljgz 2mo ago
Are there statistics backing up the "VAST" majority claim? While on statistics, I wonder, are there reliable statistics about child abuse of different types? Studying correlations with other social metrics, like sex education, lib
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by aljgz 2mo ago
One joy of online shopping, especially for people doing it in an impulsive and/or addictive way (it's not really rare) is the satisfaction they get from the imagination of having it. An acquaintance of mine was buying many and not
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by aljgz 2mo ago
Oh my! Agree 100%. Tangentially, I love games without motion blur, with perfect and unrealistic graphics, and they happen to need much less intensive graphics. Also, animations with intentionally unrealistic dynamics and appearances that ar
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by aljgz 2mo ago
As a programmer who uses math heavily, I can answer this. As a programmer, your intuitive understanding of the world is infinitely important. You use it to formulate ideas, rule out solutions that would not be feasible, have an estimate of
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by aljgz 2mo ago
My experience has been reasonably consistent. My main DE is KDE, it switches between light and dark based on my location and time. It switches to warmer colors at night. I have never had a problem in the applications I use. I occasionally s
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by aljgz 2mo ago
*retired -> retries
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by aljgz 3mo ago
New cars are UX nightmares. I'm driving an electric Toyota bz4x. Lovely mechanics, but the general UX (some are because of Android Auto) is terrible. The remote's lock/unlock don't do anything when the car is on. Example
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by aljgz 3mo ago
That is, until you have silent corruption of data because the admin tool is not aware of the new field you added to the website, and it's not written with forward compatibility in mind. (Have seen this lots of times) Or a downstream se

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