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by bartread 2y ago
I’d say chances of getting busted are high as well. The invisibility of the window to common interview software won’t do anything mask candidates’ own suspicious behaviour. I was doing a 45 minute screener interview with a guy the other day
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by bartread 2y ago
“DX7 … before fading into obscurity.” Uh, yeah, that is quite a take. Like most synths, the DX7 went through an untrendy era, but it’s certainly bounced back and you’ll hear its patches used all over the place today. That Top Gun tubular be
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by bartread 2y ago
Not true. I can’t speak to the situation in the US but, in the UK, there are certainly platforms that enable after hours trading on US markets even for retail traders.
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by bartread 2y ago
Plenty of after hours trading happens around these releases so there’s certainly the potential for them to be useful to people engaging in that trading.
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by bartread 2y ago
No, that’s not correct: there are tubular inclusions in the gem that are a sign of shear stress, which indicates toward natural formation.
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by bartread 2y ago
I agree: I don’t see how it’s relevant to what she did, what happened subsequently, or her current situation. If this were reported in the UK I doubt her skin colour would have been mentioned at all due to its irrelevance.
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by bartread 2y ago
Nope, nope, nope. Think about the Matrix series. The first Matrix film was iconic, the second was decent but sort of mid, the third was absolute drek and it taints the entire franchise as a result. I can't watch The Matrix any more wit
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by bartread 2y ago
I don't know: then you just end up with the videogame equivalent of the MCU which, at my most charitable, I would describe as uneven reaching mid at best. However, if we look at the median of how I feel about MCU, I'm just bored t
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by bartread 2y ago
There was this entire Japanese subculture of microcomputers/home computers/PCs. Machines like NEC PCs you mentioned, proprietary models from Fujitsu and others, the many incarnations of MSX (which I think might have started out as
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by bartread 2y ago
I have an imprecise and somewhat tongue in cheek measure of a leader’s quality that suggests it is inversely proportional to the frequency with which they appear in the news. I seem to remember from his last term that Trump is at least a da
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by bartread 2y ago
If you detect a level of drift that you can't handle, this is the perfect opportunity to delegate that bit of work to an LLM, if it's a problem that you deal with regularly enough to feel the cost of it to your business. The lates
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by bartread 2y ago
I worked somewhere that had a lot of this sort of thing going on once. You cannot overestimate how hard it is to get anything done: politics and organisational dysfunction, not to mention that you probably don’t have access to half of what
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by bartread 2y ago
I’m going to read the rest of this. I’m enjoying it. But, simultaneously, part II has me so triggered - it bears striking resemblance to repeated situations I’ve encountered where the meaning and content of columns in a relational database
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by bartread 2y ago
Yeah, I seem to remember the full phrase is something like, “Advice for millionaires: if it floats, flies, or [fornicates], rent it.” Advice does not apply to billionaires, which is a category Mike Lynch may have snuck into depending on who
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by bartread 2y ago
Honestly, I have never particularly enjoyed that it gets light here at 4AM in the summer, with the false damn beginning nearly ann hour earlier, even with DST: we certainly don’t need it getting light any earlier. During the summer it has a
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by bartread 2y ago
My Macbook Pro has a power key: in the top right, next to F12. I'm generally not a fan of them either although, in this case, it doesn't really cause me any problems.
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by bartread 2y ago
> Computer-driven live music performance was very much a thing long before 1991. The 'computers' in question were Analog sequencers using control voltages, and things like the LinnDrum providing click tracks to trigger sync. Ro
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by bartread 2y ago
I make the pointer bigger on both macOS and Windows. Unfortunately, at least on macOS, it becomes too imprecise for clicking if you max out the size, but I can't deal with hunting and pecking for my pointer so I do push it as far as I
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by bartread 2y ago
Yeah, but this sounds more like social media than the blogosphere. Blogs were always effort to set up and maintain, even if you were just going with one of the hosted platforms rather than self-hosting. And comment spam was certainly an iss
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by bartread 2y ago
Yes, a large amount for - in the grand scheme of things - a short period of time (i.e., a quantity of energy usage in an intense spike that will be dwarfed by energy usage over time) can accurately be described as “a bit”. Of course, the im
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by bartread 2y ago
> Once you have seven billion people with virtually no access control, you can't have a public blogosphere, and groups retreat to the cozyweb. Why can’t you? There’s a logical leap in this statement I don’t follow.
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by bartread 2y ago
Same with boring old Safari on iOS. Poorly implemented and overly aggressive bot checkers are really ruining the web. Used to be that I was seldom troubled by captchas and similar. Now it seems to be multiple times per day.
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by bartread 2y ago
Thank you: this is really helpful context that, in the case of this author, I wasn't aware of. To be honest I didn't even look at his name, I just skimmed the piece and had that sort of, "oh, it's this all over again,&qu
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by bartread 2y ago
It's not emotional: it's bored. This is boring me and therefore I'm becoming irritated with it.
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by bartread 2y ago
The impact of LLMs for many sectors is deflationary, which means you specifically won't see those numbers in quarterly reports. Doesn't mean that value isn't being extracted with LLMs but rather that it's being eroded
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by bartread 2y ago
This trope of proclaiming some critical flaw in the functioning of LLMs with the implication that they therefore should not be used is getting boring. LLMs are far from perfect but they can be a very useful tool that, used well, can add sig
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by bartread 2y ago
> don't want to sit through the credits for extras. Then have an intermission whilst the credits roll. Serve ice cream and refreshments. Make it part of the experience. It'll be fun. Or sell tickets separaly for the pre-feature
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by bartread 2y ago
Yeah, I get where you're coming from. For me, though, the interest comes from the different problems we're trying to solve within the domain we're working in, not from learning yet another front-end framework. (EDIT: Here&#x
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by bartread 2y ago
I feel the same. My immediate reaction to this wasn’t excitement but, “Oh fucking hell, not another one.” It’s so tiring and demotivating. Most of the cycle burning problems I deal with day to day are workarounds for quirks in the framework
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by bartread 2y ago
Yeah, hats off to them. That was a great read, and I certainly appreciate their efforts to give these kinds of "businesses" the absolute kicking they deserve. Somebody or some organisation had to start standing up to patent tr

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