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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
The thing that I think PHP developers hate most about the Fractal of Bad Design article is hearing it from full-stack JS developers. They really do not have the moral high ground. PHP has improved since in a way that is rarely considered wh
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Mmm. It really depends on whether you have the scope to start your projects and stay in control.
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
This is absolutely a problem. It's now a powerful, fast, flexible platform with a load of amazing libraries and tools -- graphql, webhooks, databases, all sorts. There's an amazing level of recent PHP support out there you can hos
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Indeed. Also, I have been looking for GraphQL implementations for other server-side languages recently and I have yet to encounter a schema-first implementation that comes close to what the Lighthouse layer for Laravel can do. That is reall
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
This SQL is definitely supervillain territory. I just can't decide if you're a sci-fi supervillain, a political thriller supervillain, or a Despicable Me supervillain. ;-)
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
> Opened in macOS and it appears impossible to open a folder of any sort. I type the folder path into the Open Folder thing at the top and it just silently fails. That sounds like it could be Lapce failing to handle macOS full disk&#x2
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Hm, except high action is also a positive choice for some, not an inherent problem. (Though I like the attempt at an analogy and I see how it works for you at least) I am a high-action player —- I know I know, a monster! (but also a brass a
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
You are a data point for the notion I mention in my own reply to the parent that keyboard-only navigators might be feeling this more than mouse/trackpad users. Which seems likely to me.
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
I have a sneaking feeling that the people who use only their keyboards to navigate are the ones who really notice latency in e.g. VSCode. I navigate with the trackpad on a Mac and seem not to ever feel it, but I know others do not like this
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Hell is having to debug perl scripts you wrote yourself long enough ago that you've forgotten and the developers of the packages you depend on have literally died of old age. Because you have only yourself to blame.
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
It's a sketch of a thought at the moment. But I am, well, mid-life at best, and the only crisis I am experiencing is that I think much of what I have done for years is worth less than I would have hoped. I think it is ironic that techn
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Ahhh good point well made! Oh well :-/
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
OpenAI egress IP ranges are documented here: https://platform.openai.com/docs/plugins/production and here: https://platform.openai.com/docs/plugins/bot
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
An IO board that adds the IO ports that the e.g. CM4 lacks. There's a decent range of them from different suppliers, but Raspberry Pi have one themselves called "Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 IO Board".
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
As with my DSLRs/mirrorless cameras (particularly the ones that use the wretched USB mini) when tethering I have ended up with a right-angle adapter cable secured with a cable tie (or the super-strong Tethertools Jerkstopper), and a US
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
> For the life of me I don't really get it why Raspberry Pi Foundation does not include onboard eMMC or SSD storage in their non-compute modules products. Cost. It's always cost. If the eMMC or SSD storage is not enough to ho
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
> and if you were playing computer games in the 1980s in a slow DOS box you could not have even imagined modern GPUs and modern games. I think this bit is really not the case, FWIW. If you look at what computer magazines were like in the
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
I am profoundly, profoundly cynical about this particular development in computing culture. But your last paragraph resonates with me pretty deeply, and suggests to me that there might be a way forward for me when this becomes unavoidable,
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
I didn’t mean to be condescending. Sorry. It’s just so perfectly expressive of the nature of culture and the way culture overwrites culture.
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
No, that’s not the reason they are empty calories, IMO. It’s the banality of the culture around the technology, as well as the banality of the technologies being built with it. It’s just academics chasing the dream of technology transfer to
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Generative AI covers it fine, yes. (I am typing on my phone on a train in between connections, both rail and internet, and I am grateful for your correction) Everyone knows what I mean by “empty calories” anyway. If they think I am wrong, t
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
> It's like the Monkey's Paw from the Simpsons This is really, really funny in the context of age and perspective. But not in the way you meant.
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
To be fair I mean LLMs, GANs, GPTs, all of this new stuff. It’s a good idea taken way beyond usefulness. Like processed food in plastic packaging. Toxic and empty. Full of promises and delusions about saving time and effort.
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
GANs are ruining AI research the way cryptocurrency ruins cryptography research. These are the empty calories of research. Focus on them and you will end up fat (rich) and useless (no publications worth a damn) Prove me wrong, but from the
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
It's a pre-order even on Amazon. The publication date for the book isn't until later in the year (at least for the edition available in the UK, which will probably be the same): https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products&#
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
This is just the sort of thing I needed to read. I am considering changing the trajectory of my own life, towards a more community/maker/teacher role, and I have a freelance/small business idea about teaching but I need sort
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
As a general rule I would suspect that making four deliveries per hour in a settlement of any size is difficult, because the size of the delivery pitch is going to vary with demand. National minimum wage in the UK is not enough to remotel
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
Interesting. Yes I see, I guess :-) Thanks for the reply.
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
It's generally true precisely because British parliamentary democracy formalised the concept, mind you. Before that, yes, rulers made laws that would perpetually benefit them and their successors.
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by bemusedthrow75 3y ago
That is not why he gave up all the pay, is it? F5 closed the Moscow office.

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