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by blowski 2y ago
I've found it to be more common in organisations with an immature microservices culture, where developers seem to think there are awards for most number of languages used. At some point, sanity takes hold, and there is a process to sta
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by blowski 2y ago
From Wikipedia: > On April 21, 2010, beginning at approximately 14:00 UTC, millions of computers worldwide running Windows XP Service Pack 3 were affected by an erroneous virus definition file update by McAfee, resulting in the removal o
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by blowski 2y ago
It’s hard to imagine “full CSS support” being a selling point for an email client. Even for a free email client, funded by advertising, compatibility with other email clients is necessary for the advertisers.
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by blowski 2y ago
If they are consistently wrong within a given margin of error, then they are still very useful. I agree that we'd need to define our terms here to have a meaningful debate.
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by blowski 2y ago
Quicquid latīne dictum sit, altum videtur. Learn Latin and you can fake your way through so many situations.
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by blowski 2y ago
Part of it was filmed where I live, and there has been a huge increase in the number of "detectorists" out in the fields.
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by blowski 2y ago
At a guess, a landowner doesn't want archaeologists forcing their way in to dig up their garden and place restrictions on future works on the property.
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by blowski 2y ago
I remember being laughed at in 2003 because I wrote my PHP in PSPad instead of Dreamweaver.
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by blowski 2y ago
https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html “Considered Harmful Essays Considered Harmful”.
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by blowski 2y ago
A one-time payment used to be a draw. Now I wonder how long my lifetime access will last until I need a subscription. (TextExpander, Sketch, 1Password, Ulysses, for example)
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by blowski 2y ago
Looking at people's GitHub or blogs, is similar to looking at people's lives through the lens of Instagram. So much of it is manufactured and fake. If you can just write some basic software, you're probably in the top 1% for
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by blowski 2y ago
I'd call the "AI Engineer" an Application Engineer, albeit one that specialises in integrating ML into software.
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The Cult of Stefan Molyneux(gnet-research.org)
12 points by blowski 2y ago|2 comments
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by blowski 2y ago
All other things being equal, Id prefer to use a tool written in a language with which I’m already comfortable. It’s nice to find a tool that meets my requirements _and_ I can easily read the source code.
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Miller–Urey Experiment(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by blowski 2y ago|0 comments
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by blowski 2y ago
Seems to be like you're in violent agreement with the OP on all those points, just phrasing the same truth differently.
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by blowski 2y ago
What's the benefit of SSPL over AGPL? (You can probably tell I'm not an expert in this!)
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by blowski 2y ago
Interesting. Why don't more of these open source companies complaining about being cannibalised adopt AGPL instead?
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by blowski 2y ago
How would you make the distinction, in a way that is legally enforcable? I can understand why people would prefer FAANG & Co. weren't re-selling their FOSS, but I don't see how you can pick and choose who has access to and is
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by blowski 2y ago
My colleague works in a very quiet house, and has no need for noise cancelling. Sometimes, he has it turned on by accident, and the quality is much worse - his voice gets cut out, and volume of his voice goes up and down. As you say, as lon
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by blowski 2y ago
> Somehow require that blocks of code have documentation linked to them The Symfony (PHP) framework now does this. Code and config examples in the docs have automated regression tests.
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by blowski 2y ago
So if you think a company is bad you shouldn’t work for them. Perhaps many of the people working for TicketMaster don’t think they’re a bad company.
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by blowski 2y ago
What will the benefit be of more expensive models? More facts, because it's consumed more information? More ability to, say, adjust writing style? Or is this all necessary just to filter out the garbage recycled AI content it's no
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Chen Qiufan: Reimagine Cyberpunk [video](youtube.com)
1 points by blowski 2y ago|0 comments
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House Tech(e-flux.com)
1 points by blowski 2y ago|0 comments
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by blowski 2y ago
I wonder how this would compare against a random sample of jobs on, say, Indeed or LinkedIn. My experience of Hacker News is that it’s a very biased group (in a good way) to the general industry.
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by blowski 2y ago
Falsehoods Software Developers Believe About Writing Articles: 1. Using a cliched headline style adds authority to your article. In all seriousness, this article is just a list of unsupported assertions. I agree with many of them because of
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by blowski 2y ago
If the PoC can be built by those with strong domain knowledge, providing the basis for a detailed spec, that seems like a win to me.
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by blowski 2y ago
It sets my expectations. Sometimes you hear a lot about a project because it's a vaporware scam, and I'm reassured that's not happening here. I should expect to see lots of excited people posting about it because they enjoy w
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by blowski 2y ago
I might argue that being funded by Google gives Firefox stability, and allows it to deliver to a broad audience. If it were funded exclusively by, say, HN readers then it would probably end up being used exclusively by HN users.

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