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by bsoles 1y ago
I was genuinely excited as a 16 year old, poor kid when I first bought my Borland Turbo C suite/compiler. That was my golden age of programming.
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by bsoles 1y ago
With Meta glasses they won't have their bottom half anyway.
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by bsoles 1y ago
So, the French Revolution was not justified?
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by bsoles 1y ago
In my experience, managers are like politicians: those who want to become one are not qualified/worth of becoming one, and those who could be good managers are not interested in the job.
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by bsoles 1y ago
The examples I have seen and heard about in software industry were mostly the other way around. Toxic managers who were clueless about actually managing people and who wanted minions instead of colleagues. I have seen many people leave thei
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by bsoles 1y ago
Aka cheating mode. Their video literally says "Helps with homework" and proceeds to show the "Final Answer". So much learning...
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by bsoles 1y ago
Michael Phelps did outswim his diet. He famously ate a lot of junk food and pizza, and yet remained fit because of his huge daily calorie expenditure. A direct quote from an interview with him, where he states: "I just sort of try to c
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by bsoles 1y ago
> I don’t get it, the dependencies are either needed or not. Some developers' judgement about needed dependencies can be suspect though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29241943
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by bsoles 1y ago
Not the original poster. I use all three Proton domains (pm.me, proton.me, protonmail.com) and haven't had an issue so far.
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by bsoles 1y ago
LinkedIn did the same thing to me after I have enabled 2FA, completely locking me out of all my devices. Then, they asked me to send a picture of my driver's license to a third-party company, who does some kind of validation I guess, t
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by bsoles 1y ago
It is funny; "karakol" in Turkish means a police office/building. I wonder is there is a link in the etymology?
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by bsoles 1y ago
As a professional software developer who also teaches CS at a university, my experience with successful engineers all comes down to interest and passion. Self-taught engineers are obviously interested in the subject, but among engineers wit
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by bsoles 1y ago
When I got locked out of my mobile banking app, I got a security code in email to reset the app or something, but it didn't work. Then, I've called my customer representative for help, who promptly asked me to tell her the securit
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by bsoles 1y ago
Do you even know what you are talking about? Do you know how many journalists are in prison in Turkey? "Restricting speech", whatever that means, is nowhere near as putting journalists, mayors, and citizens in prison for "ins
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by bsoles 1y ago
Please don't put "robots" with cameras and Wi-Fi inside kids' rooms.
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by bsoles 1y ago
Norbert Wiener got his PhD from Harvard when he was 19: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Wiener .
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by bsoles 1y ago
> "the art of providing all the context for the task to be plausibly solvable by the LLM.” And who is going to do that? The "context engineer", who doesn't know anything about the subject and runs to the LLM for quick
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by bsoles 1y ago
I've read the instructions steps as: 1. Download your entire LinkedIn data. 2. Give us your entire LinkedIn data. The "larger" data they are asking for includes "... connections, verifications, contacts, account history,
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by bsoles 1y ago
The first thing that my PhD advisor did, when I first met him as a foreign student, was to give me this book: https://archive.org/details/technicalwriting0000huck . And I am forever grateful for it.
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by bsoles 1y ago
I find it ironic that the current administration wants to filter out students based on their negative views of Israel when the same administration has literal Nazis in their ranks. I think that the quoted definition/criteria is just a
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by bsoles 1y ago
I blame Agile and the like for fucking up individual ownership by treating every engineer and every task interchangeable. You can't build expertise by working on a different type of task every sprint...
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by bsoles 1y ago
> ... you get paid to get the job done, not have pretty code. Artistic side of the discipline doesn't mean pretty code. It means good design, no rushed spaghetti code, expandable architecture, etc. "Getting the job done",
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by bsoles 1y ago
I don't disagree. I am mostly talking about my hesitations for not willing to pay small amounts of fees for bunch of internet services. I am afraid that the "cost" of paying for these services would end up being a lot more th
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by bsoles 1y ago
The problem with paying a small fee for a service is not the fee itself. It is the friction for paying for the service and the hassle that comes after the payment. Now the credit card company knows what service I am buying; I would get endl
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by bsoles 1y ago
Commodore 64 had text to speech in late 80s. Also, my friend's father in the 80s was the driver of a French Consulate's member in Turkey. His car (a Renault) had speech functionality.
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by bsoles 1y ago
> Thinking in humans is prior to language. I am sure philosophers must have debated this for millennia. But I can't seem to be able to think without an inner voice (language), which makes me think that thinking may not be prior (or
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by bsoles 1y ago
The idea that managers are special people who can, among other things, control their emotions, get to the bottom of things, and communicate properly with their team is a ridiculous one. The author seems to have an idea of what a manager is
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by bsoles 1y ago
There is no such thing as "prompt engineering". Since when the ability to write proper and meaningful sentences became engineering? This is even worse than "software engineering". The unfortunate thing is that there will
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by bsoles 1y ago
When I took the robotics course in grad school, we spent so much time on inverse kinematics and other complex math. It was pretty intense and gave me the perception that robotics was pretty difficult. Yet, today, people easily build simple
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by bsoles 1y ago
This excellent and free (pdf) book "The Stick Chair Book" might be of interest: https://lostartpress.com/products/the-stick-chair-book Also there is the "Anarchist" wood working books that are also

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