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by bartread 11mo ago
Spoken like someone who has never used Deltek Maconomy. Teams is really bad but not Deltek Maconomy bad. Nothing else I’ve used is. That being said, in the last job where I used it regularly, Teams was responsible for 100% of the blue scree
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by bartread 11mo ago
Even discounting this, and despite everyone bleating on about its (very real) flaws, ChatGPT and other LLMs do quite a good job of proofreading and suggesting improvements to written English text[0]. I find it works best if you keep them on
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by bartread 11mo ago
Sadly it would never work for the British Isles, that much I can guarantee you. Our weather resists all forms of prediction found to be reliable elsewhere, and I doubt AI enhancements over the next few years will make much of a dent in the
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by bartread 11mo ago
The problem is that in any kind of customer facing scenario this feedback maps to a KPI that, often, an individual employee's or team's performance is assessed on. That KPI might impact pay reviews, bonuses, promotions, or even on
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by bartread 11mo ago
I don't know that it ever held that much water. I used to work for a company building desktop tools that were distributed to, depending on the tool, on the low end tens of thousands of users, and on the high end, hundreds of thousand
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by bartread 11mo ago
> the general rule of optimizing for bad reception died. Yep, and people will look at you like you have two heads when you suggest that perhaps we should take this into account, because it adds both cost and complexity. But I am sick to
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by bartread 11mo ago
Very fair point, and that cuts to the root of why I’m uncomfortable with it. I mean, presumably they have the usage stats… except that plenty of enterprises deployed XSLT apps back in the day - it was on a massive portion of the job ads I w
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by bartread 11mo ago
Not a new idea. For years now, on the occasions I’ve needed to scrape, I’ve used a set of ViolentMonkey scripts. I’ve even considered creating an extension, but have never really needed it enough to do the extra work. But this is why lots o
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by bartread 11mo ago
Yeah… on the one hand I don’t care about XSLT, haven’t used it in more than 20 years, and never intend to use it again. On the other… I’m still a bit uncomfortable with the proposed change because it reads as another example of Google unila
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by bartread 11mo ago
Dude… no. Firstly, it puts a huge burden of non-value-adding work onto developers and the organisations they work for. Secondly it would lead to even higher frequency and prevalence of people inventing their own half-arsed ways of doing thi
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by bartread 11mo ago
I agree: it is more than faintly infuriating that when people say AI what the vast majority mean is LLMs. But, at the same time, we have clearly passed a significant inflection point in the usefulness of this class of AI, and have progresse
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by bartread 1y ago
Interesting: does that mean the watch runs in reverse as well to account for the 3 and 9 markers being flipped? That would be kind of neat.
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by bartread 1y ago
I’m using macOS. The menu item often appears after the rest of the context menu. Since it appears in the middle of the menu it causes a bunch of items to shift and and leads to misclicks. It would be less of an annoyance if it appeared stra
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by bartread 1y ago
Yeah, that’s it, but that item often appears after the rest of the menu for me, causing items below it to shift down one place, leading to misclicks. I don’t mind that the item exists: I mind that it makes other menu items move after they’v
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by bartread 1y ago
The Firefox right-click context menu is awful for this. Incredibly annoying.
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by bartread 1y ago
Yeah, that was around 2005, wasn't it. Where I was working, for maximum compatibility with customers, I was still working on .NET 1.1 until I want to say 2006/7, when we moved to .NET 2.0. EDIT: it was actually 2006 because the p
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by bartread 1y ago
That was my reading too. Legacy team maybe not adding enough value and acting as a potential distraction or drag on the new team.
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by bartread 1y ago
Yeah, but those layout managers came later. I don’t think they were there in the early 2000s. I’ll say this for Microsoft: they supported WinForms, even adding new features, long after it had ceased to be the new hotness. Whether they still
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by bartread 1y ago
Yeah, but this is exactly not what the internet is supposed to be. It’s supposed to be decentralised. It’s supposed to be resilient. And at this point I’m looking at the problem and thinking, “how do we do that other than by legislating?” B
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by bartread 1y ago
Yeah, exactly this. I don’t know why the person who responded to me is talking about survivorship bias… and I suppose I don’t really care because there’s a bigger point. The internet was originally intended to be decentralised. That decentr
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by bartread 1y ago
Nice. Well, whatever, I’m glad you managed to stop it from driving you up the wall.
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by bartread 1y ago
Yeah, we’ve got a bunch of Ring stuff but not the interior alarm so I wasn’t sure how it worked. I suspected it might have a battery backup and, in that case, desperate times -> desperate measures.
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by bartread 1y ago
That’s a pretty bold claim. Where’s your data to back it up? More importantly you appear to have misunderstood the scenario I’m trying to avoid, which is the precise situation we’ve seen in the past 24 hours where a very large proportion of
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by bartread 1y ago
Is it hard wired? If so, and if the alarm module doesn’t have an internal battery, can you go to the breaker box and turn off the circuit it’s on? You should be able to switch off each breaker in turn until it stops if you don’t know which
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by bartread 1y ago
> the occasional outage isn't worth the cost and effort of moving out. And looked at from the perspective of an individual company, as a customer of AWS, the occasional outage is usually an acceptable part of doing business. However
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by bartread 1y ago
Even Java's Swing, introduced in 1999 (or maybe 98 in beta?), dealt with the problem of dynamic layouts fairly well. Of course, it performed like an absolute dog to begin with, but most of the performance kinks were dealt with during t
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by bartread 1y ago
> They're low cost, they're hardware, but almost all of them fall short of the originals. As with everything Behringer, a lot of this varies from product to product. And it also depends which axes you measure along and which yo
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by bartread 1y ago
Yes! That was it. Your cork sniffer remark reminded me of something else, maybe part of that same situation: didn’t they put out some bizarre and derogatory cartoons/caricatures of one of their critics? Maybe 5 years ago or a bit more?
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by bartread 1y ago
A few things: 1) Behringer had a reputation for poor quality and unreliability dating back to at least I think the 90s. In my experience that’s no longer fair criticism, at least for the products I’ve owned, but the reputation persists. 2)
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by bartread 1y ago
This is very cool but: > requirements are light > 512 MB RAM raised an eyebrow. Granted I haven’t owned or used a computer with that little RAM since 2003 or so, discounting phones, but I was sort of hoping it would say 640 KB for tha

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