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by bane 3y ago
What is kind of bizarre is that big-tech companies recruit largely based on their brand image, not purely on high-pay. They receive so many applications per month that even if they just lowballed incoming college-grads, the ones that choose
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by bane 3y ago
I remember being struck by this when Microsoft Research first started releasing their photosynth technology, some of the demos showed raw flickr dumps for certain large cities, and there were massive clusters of photos around the most famou
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Why the Japanese PC Failed(youtube.com)
4 points by bane 3y ago|0 comments
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by bane 3y ago
Personally, I don't think pay of minimum wage w/o tips will work. The service industry is already starved for employees and that's in a tip-paying world. The market will eventually speak (or regulation will) and restaurants w
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by bane 3y ago
We travel internationally a few times per year and have come very soundly down that the American tipping culture is more or less a cancer in our culture. It sort of hides the true cost of service, and doesn't really motivate service
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by bane 3y ago
Service quality in most countries is completely fine -- just different depending on the service culture of the country. You're probably just used to how they do it in the States (which isn't immune to lousy service in anyone'
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All license plates available in America(github.com)
10 points by bane 3y ago|6 comments
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by bane 3y ago
To pile onto the Splunk "love" going on here. Splunk is one of those systems that's too "powerful" for small use-cases, but too expensive for the ones it's really designed for. Anecdote, I once worked with a cl
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by bane 3y ago
They do seem to really struggle with prepositions...at least for what I've been trying.
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by bane 3y ago
Thanks for the tip! I'll be checking it out. This conversation reminds me of the old Star Trek:The Next Generation episodes in the Holodeck, only they're talking to "the computer" to iterate on a holodeck scenario design
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by bane 3y ago
You know, I've been trying to use some of these new generative AI and LLM models and I think I'm sort of reflecting off of them. I've gotten a few good things out chatGPT in terms of writing advice and such, but I find the ge
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What Is Happening to Cuba's Numbers Station?(youtube.com)
3 points by bane 3y ago|0 comments
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The Mac Plus had modern multi monitor support in 1986(youtube.com)
2 points by bane 3y ago|0 comments
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by bane 3y ago
hmmm...I appreciate the thoughtful reply. You bring up an interesting point. What is the SQLite documentation licensed as? I would assume PD like the rest of it, but I don't know that for sure.
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by bane 3y ago
In other words, "all the implementors chose a standard, but we're the standard deciders so we're killing the whole idea".
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Eating Like a College Kid at Thailand's Largest University(youtube.com)
1 points by bane 3y ago|0 comments
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by bane 3y ago
I'm not sure if the problem you are pointing out has to do with: a) SQLite the file format - which is Public Domain and so well documented that parsers for it exist in numerous other languages even though it's almost pointless bec
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by bane 3y ago
https://github.com/pgspider/sqlite_fdw
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Library has every book ever published(youtube.com)
3 points by bane 3y ago|2 comments
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by bane 3y ago
Yes in the sense that it gives you a mouse/keyboard windowed experience instead of a touch-optimized one with a mouse cursor. You also still get to use the phone/tablet at the same time while it's driving the desktop. Of cour
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Dutch Demoscene Unesco Inauguration Party(demoparty.net)
2 points by bane 3y ago|1 comments
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by bane 3y ago
Something kind of fun about the scene at the time, since it was mostly just kids messing around on their computers, is there are a fair number of pretty interesting remixes of popular songs from the time. Jabdah - by Lizardking - https:&#x
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The fight to curb drug dealing in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district(cnn.com)
2 points by bane 3y ago|1 comments
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Amiga Samplers: Budget dance music in 1990(youtube.com)
238 points by bane 3y ago|96 comments
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Demo tests your understanding of light – part 1(youtube.com)
1 points by bane 3y ago|0 comments
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by bane 3y ago
I have a pretty sizable library of e-books (comics, magazines, regular books, PDFs, papers, etc.). The way I manage, organize, and read them is very personal to my workflows and interests. As a result I've pulled together a hodge-podge
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by bane 3y ago
I'm just coming out of a very stressful period that encompassed nearly every waking and resting minute of my day for several years. After a fairly major life change and quite a few problems clearing up I noticed that I was suddenly dre
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by bane 3y ago
I remember also that it was quite flaky. My recollection, probably wrong, was that DOS software that really pushed the system in certain ways wouldn't work right under Win95, especially audio stuff. I used to work with Impulse Tracker
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Automakers’ disappointment in Electrify America drove them into Tesla’s arms(chargedevs.com)
4 points by bane 3y ago|0 comments
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AI ChatGPT vs. Commodore 64: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide' Challenge(youtube.com)
2 points by bane 3y ago|0 comments

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