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by bartread 2y ago
> If being able to replace a part requires me to have a screwdriver (literally a Philips one should do), the component, and no additional PhD or bravery coming from youth, inexperience or both, I will welcome it with open arms. You have
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by bartread 2y ago
I get the sense that the financial motivations - such as they are - may only be part of it; perhaps only a very small part of it. I’d bet a lot of people do it for the status, because they want to be able to describe themselves as investors
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by bartread 2y ago
Your computer’s sound card probably has a built-in MIDI library (like general MIDI) that will include a piano as an instrument. You could use a sequencer (like the one built in to Reaper, which is free) to sequence the notes you need using
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by bartread 2y ago
One reason is so somebody who isn’t you can’t (as easily) set up an account pretending to be you for scammy, misinformation, or propaganda purposes.
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by bartread 2y ago
Sadly I think, and for some time now, we are well past the point where political action needs to make sense either to the people involved or to the people outside. The message, the narrative, they’re whatever you want them to be. Whether th
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by bartread 2y ago
I still use gulp for a side-project: it works and it’s simply not worth the effort of replacing. But I remember back in the day immediately preferring gulp to grunt once I became aware of it.
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by bartread 2y ago
This is the truth of it: if people chose Firefox, or another alternative, over Chrome then Google would have less power to impose its will on the web. This would be a good thing. Google’s power on the web doesn’t simply come from having lot
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by bartread 2y ago
I don't suppose Apple run any warrant canaries do they?
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by bartread 2y ago
Depending on how the airport is arranged you can find yourself doing a lot of walking or standing around in not quite stationary queues. If you can manage to find somewhere to sit down where it isn't too noisy, it's fine, but ofte
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by bartread 2y ago
Airport bullshit/overhead, and transit times, are why I massively prefer overland or over water transport for shorter journeys (up to say 1000 miles) even when it takes a few hours longer. I’d rather be happier, less stressed, and get
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by bartread 2y ago
Exactly. On one level I loved this solution but it’s definitely “clever code” and, unless there is a particularly strong requirement driving it (e.g., performance), I don’t particularly like clever code in production systems. The problem of
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by bartread 2y ago
I'm sure this has been on HN more than once but here's Bocker as an example of what you're talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42224670
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by bartread 2y ago
Careful now: people will start accusing you of NIH. But I fully agree with you. Likely what you need is a tiny subset of the capabilities wrapped up by the higher level abstraction, so implement them directly. Over time you may find you n
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by bartread 2y ago
This is exactly why I’ve started slinging gen alpha lingo at our daughters: even doing it jokingly makes them cringe enough to stop using it themselves.
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by bartread 2y ago
You're right, although you'd probably find that in many shops developers have the latitude to use Firefox off their own initiative if they so chose. I recently finished a 7 year stint at a company where I was CTO. I always made it
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by bartread 2y ago
It’s also laziness in software development practices. Developers (still) only develop and test with Chrome. My last job a bunch of us used Firefox as our main browser, which was hugely helpful. As recently as yesterday I ran into an e-comme
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by bartread 2y ago
Interesting post - certainly I can see myself wanting to tinker with Epsilon greedy - but the comments at the bottom are pretty off the chain, and many not in a good way. No auth commenting is certainly a brave decision in 2024.
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by bartread 2y ago
Sorry but bubble sort is a terrible example here. You implement a more difficult sorting algorithm, like quicksort, because the benefits of doing so, versus using bubble sort, are in many cases huge. I.e., the juice is worth the squeeze. Wh
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by bartread 2y ago
You say you only placed one? Did you get any feedback on the rejections or were they just cold/ghosted? So I don’t positively discriminate but, the most recent role I was looking to fill, I didn’t speak to that many candidates because
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by bartread 2y ago
I share some of your concerns with generalised/pre-built RAG but on your local use only question, this is in the readme: > Host your own document QA (RAG) web-UI: Support multi-user login, organize your files in private/public
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by bartread 2y ago
That might be your network provider’s proxy blocking access. We’re currently on pub WiFi and it blocks all access to Mullvad, which is frustrating, because it means our web traffic - or at least the sites we’re visiting - are not private an
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by bartread 2y ago
The font point aside, which I do agree with, the rest of your comment sounds very subjective to me. I too prefer more distinction between different UI elements than is fashionable in recent years - and, make no mistake, that’s all it is: fa
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by bartread 2y ago
Not really. The color attribute isn’t commonly used these days - it’s literally legacy support - and, even on pages where it is used, it’s going to be a tiny portion of the overall markup. Also worth bearing in mind that parsing markup is f
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by bartread 2y ago
Yeah, it’s an interesting one. I’ve always known it as the hash symbol from back in the 80s when I got my first microcomputer. This was in the UK but I don’t think hash is UK-specific terminology: “shebang” (“hash bang” for #!) has been com
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by bartread 2y ago
> If an octothorpe (#) is located at the start of the value, it's removed. An “octothorpe”! I never knew it was called that (and, apparently, neither does autocorrect). What a glorious name!
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by bartread 2y ago
Can't edit my original response to you but the books are "Time goes by..." and "Tropical Modern", both by Hiroshi Nagai. Enjoy!
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by bartread 2y ago
> Don't count the Fairlight since it's basically a computer. Yeah, but what a computer it was! Sampling, waveform editing, sequencing. Incredible in the early 80s when it came onto the scene. But, of course, it was wildly expen
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by bartread 2y ago
Sure, I'll have a look when I get home.
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by bartread 2y ago
My wife kindly got me two books of his art for Christmas last year. They took forever to arrive from Japan but very much worth the weight. The aesthetic is a very particular view of the 1980s that was also reflected in TV shows like Miami V
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by bartread 2y ago
What am I missing here? What is the purpose of this?

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