beej71

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by beej71 6mo ago
A little weird, but lately I've found myself craving lower-res monitors with chunky pixels. I think maybe I'm just nostalgic in my older age. :D
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by beej71 6mo ago
I'm a fan. You can also find used DVDs at thrift stores for a buck or two. And at your local public library. I rip them to jellyfin.
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by beej71 6mo ago
I didn't think it was a moral decision at the time. Now I do. But that's just, like, my opinion, man.
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by beej71 6mo ago
Ha! In my case, I wasn't actually anti-ad when I dropped them, though. It just wasn't worth it any longer. I worked in marketing for years after that. And working in marketing-- that is what eventually made me rabidly anti-advert
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by beej71 6mo ago
Is it pretty good, though? :) I wouldn't let that go out the door. Needs a *lot* of TLC.
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by beej71 6mo ago
I love ebook readers. I just don't put any DRM'd books on them. But I also buy all that stuff used. No more money to Bezos, and it saves the landfill, too.
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by beej71 6mo ago
If there's a way to read the book, the book can and will be copied. It doesn't matter if it's DRM protected with 84 bazillion bit encryption, if there are dead trees involved, or anything else. You can make it harder to copy,
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by beej71 6mo ago
LLMs have felt to me like they excel in one particular skill (being able to make connections across vast amounts of knowledge) and are basically average, otherwise. If I'm below average at something (painting, say) the results astound
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by beej71 7mo ago
I had some sites that used it years ago ca. 2006. $500/mo at peak. Then one month it suddenly halved for no apparent reason. And it kept dropping. After a while or just wasn't with the ugliness. And I learned to never count on Goo
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by beej71 7mo ago
My favorite piece of man trivia is from the source of the tunefs BSD man page, which contains: .\" Take this out and a Unix Daemon will dog your steps from now until .\" the time_t's wrap around. .Pp You can
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by beej71 7mo ago
The door is really opening for programmers who like getting stuff made, and really closing for those who like making stuff at a low level. No need to get out the chisel to carve those intricate designs in your chair back. We can just get th
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by beej71 7mo ago
I suspect if you disallow arrests based on these tests and require a lab followup, the tests will cease to be used entirely. The police know the false positive rate and they'll stop wasting their time and rely on their training and ins
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by beej71 7mo ago
Dude probably has enough money. Now he's after influence and status.
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by beej71 7mo ago
I do... but I also think all programmers need to know how to hand code, and all carpenters need to know how to use hand tools.
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by beej71 7mo ago
There are groups for carpenters who only use hand tools. Obsolete and existing. And, arguably, still useful to all.
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by beej71 7mo ago
"She is also one person, available to perhaps fifteen clients a day, charging accordingly." Sounds like this pays nothing. Are we all to be in charge of billion dollar companies with no employees? Just sitting around thinking? I h
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by beej71 7mo ago
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by beej71 7mo ago
About 8 months ago I deliberately obfuscated some merge sort code to give to my software engineering students to make them upset. :) I munged it up pretty good, changing the structure, making the variable names completely misleading, destro
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by beej71 7mo ago
Man, did I parse that badly. "Space(X files) to go public." I'm a little disappointed now.
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by beej71 7mo ago
I was just about to buy something from them, but maybe not now. I want a used pixel--where is the best marketplace for that?
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by beej71 7mo ago
I love it if it would affect the trajectory, but I don't think it will. I do think it will affect my trajectory, though.
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by beej71 7mo ago
"They're is almost certainly cancer there." Are you sure? "You're right to push back. Upon reinspection, it appears to be something else."
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by beej71 7mo ago
Kids growing up with PCs and learning by tinkering and making crap code reminds me of the Go (game) proverb: "Lose your first 50 games as quickly as possible." That time was so valuable. Or, as I tell my students, "Every fail
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by beej71 7mo ago
I refuse to cater to the "em dashes are AI" crowd. And I was just noticing that my home-built blog render pipeline produces dumb quotes and that was embarrassing to me. Needs to be fixed. (Counterpoint, dumb quotes are 7-bit clean
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by beej71 7mo ago
Agree. This also ties into the hypothesis that we're hitting a local maximum in terms of the state of the art in creativity as we offload that work.
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by beej71 7mo ago
I feel like asking it to polish or rewrite is going too far. Using it for a grammar/spell checker or thesaurus is fine, though. At least that preserves ones voice. And I've definitely used it when I can't remember that one st
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by beej71 7mo ago
When writing letters of recommendation now, I write in a more human tone to avoid sounding like a bot with a line of explanation at the start. Not an error in the sense you mean, but an error in tone for a letter of recommendation, certainl
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by beej71 7mo ago
Makes me think of rebuilding libraries with AI to change the license.
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by beej71 7mo ago
Yeah, this is a very underwhelming promotion, I'm afraid.
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by beej71 7mo ago
So much interest in fairness in the tiny slice of human existence that is sports, and so little interest in the rest of it.

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