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by bigiain 2y ago
He's _such_ a great writer/speaker. It's totally worth reposting him every 3 month. I think this is my favourite piece of his, "This world of ours": https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401
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by bigiain 2y ago
Hmmmm, speaking of distrust and Mozilla... I wonder how much I should be concerned about Mozilla's trust store's trustworthiness, given their data grab with Firefox? I've switched to LibreWolf over that (more in protest than
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by bigiain 2y ago
I'm wondering if shifting frequency chirps like LORA uses would work in audio frequencies? You might be able to get the same sort of ability to grab usable signal at many db below the noise, and be able to send data over normal talking
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by bigiain 2y ago
Kinda sad and ironic that the symbol of American freedom is thriving right now...
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by bigiain 2y ago
Yeah. Lots of startup experiences is a good indicator of lots of technical war stories, and having been "that guy" or part of a team where a bunch of seemingly workable approaches to problems failed spectacularly is a _very_ valua
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by bigiain 2y ago
> and frankly I'd need to build a bit of a narrative to be competitive with other product hires. Understand that just about _everybody_ is doing that. You should avoid telling lies in applications and interviews, but you should 100%
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by bigiain 2y ago
This is true, but around here a lot of those jobs are what one of my professional circles calls "adult supervision", and I feel 30 is a bit too young to be targeting those.
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by bigiain 2y ago
Way too many career and remuneration focused techbros. Often driven by bullshit management and stack ranking style promotion/firing pathways.
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by bigiain 2y ago
I have the same experience. But I'm running it on a NUC not a RasPi, which probably helps a lot. Having said that, I have a Pi running HomeBridge to make a Pi camera and some non Apple Homekit capable IoT shit work with my phones/
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And this is the next step on the journey towards becoming a real senior developer... > some people (myself included) often enjoy the process of learning these things. A real senior developer knows when they're writing their own fram
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Because "I've done this many times, it's only gonna take 10 mins." (Followed by a large serve of sunk cost fallacy.)
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by bigiain 2y ago
Heh. I, for reasons nobody will wonder too hard about, have a downloads folder here with a few hundred Kindlebooks in .azw3 format. While non of them is quite as small as 91kb, many of then are around that 468kb size. And they're whole
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by bigiain 2y ago
> That’s a poor faith comment. Less of a poor faith comment, more like a badly landed gag. In my head, everybody would have known I was riffing off: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." -
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by bigiain 2y ago
> It's pretty obvious it wasn't malice that led them to not respond quickly. So stupidity then. Seems legit.
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> What, the C64 game? Apple][ in my case. Very early 80s, definitely before 83.
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I can, off the top of my head, name at least half a dozen of "those guys" and describe in detail the wreckage they left behind. Including one that was a major contributor to an 80%-of-the-billings client finding an alternative age
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You just need to wrap it in spicy rodent tape...
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I wonder if that has a higher death rate than driving to the store to buy it?
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by bigiain 2y ago
I assume "the right equipment" is "an oven", and "Cookie Dough That Won't Kill You" is usually referred to as just "cookies"? ;-)
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by bigiain 2y ago
If yiu have any real examples of llm written text that's as fun to read as that, I'd be curious to see them. Most llm text I see is vapid and uninspired. Kinda exactly the mediocre writing you'd expect from a machine designed
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by bigiain 2y ago
Now I feel a need to spin up and emulator or something capable of playing Castle Wolfenstein. (Dear god, I'm showing my age there, aren't I?)
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"html" is mostly defined in the real world as "something most browsers will render". <html><head><title>My HTML Page</title></head><body>Hello world!</body><&#x
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"the node version needed" Ahhh...
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Blam! <blows smoke off gun barrel> You do it just like that. But with vi.
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I thought I was _so_ funny when I wrote this page: https://web.archive.org/web/20011102031149/http://www.mighty...
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by bigiain 2y ago
I suspect like most (or all>) "AI" startups, it's two key areas of expertise are raising huge piles of money, and setting huge piles of money on fire. (The members of KLF need to start an AI fundraising round . "We ha
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by bigiain 2y ago
> you just rebuild the affected VMs from scratch These people have administrative access, and at least in some cases network and physical access. Once you determine they are untrustworthy and potentially malicious, you can't just r
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That's kinda the wo9ld business model of outsourced development teams...
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by bigiain 2y ago
> some tech companies interview for both technical skill and culture fit. Sounds like he's got the technical chops, but he's not a good fit for linux. You're right. To fit with historical "linux culture" he needs
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by bigiain 2y ago
And it's not _that_ long ago since Linus was King of the arrogant and rude flame posts on what's effectively hos own "social media", the linux kernel mailing list. 10 years back, Linus _was_ "that guy". And it

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