cheema33

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by cheema33 2y ago
> very common today... the majority of companies that no longer train or encourage career development. I don't get this. What is stopping anyone from doing that themselves? Why does someone else have to do it?
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by cheema33 2y ago
> it's better to maintain a kind of defensive attitude As a manager/developer, I do sometimes see this attitude in some devs. I try very hard to help them find a different job where they are not working for me.
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by cheema33 2y ago
Authentication options are very limited with docmost, compared to other offerings. There is only one. Locally stored credentials.
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by cheema33 2y ago
I uploaded a multi-page PDF and it did not know what to do. This is before I went to the github repo and noticed that it wasn't supported. I think the tool should let the user know when they upload a file that is not supported.
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by cheema33 2y ago
Xitter is my favorite!
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by cheema33 2y ago
I worked at Intel for about 7 years. It is unbelievable how many terrible mistakes Intel made to get here. All that damage is self-inflicted and it was very clear to most of us who worked there. Leadership was extremely incompetent start
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by cheema33 2y ago
> the president doesn't directly control the fbi Mostly true. Until Trump swears in next year. He has promised to be a dictator, at least part time. And supreme court already ruled that nothing he does would illegal. As long as h
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by cheema33 2y ago
> crimes with actual victims If there is evidence of election interference, that would be very much a crime with victims.
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by cheema33 2y ago
Kanye West? Maybe the misdirection is a feature, not a bug.
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by cheema33 2y ago
Intel has come back recently with a new series of "Lunar Lake" CPUs for laptops. They are actually very good. For now, Intel has regained the crown for Windows laptops. Maybe Pat has lit the much needed fire under them.
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by cheema33 2y ago
You can use CloudFlare Tunnel ( https://www.cloudflare.com/products/tunnel/ ) to connect a system to your cloudflare gateway, without exposing it to the Internet.
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by cheema33 2y ago
I suffer from ADHD and the pomodoro timer part interests me. However, I am not sure if a pomodoro timer would help me. And $200 is an expensive gamble.
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by cheema33 2y ago
> it's LLM sanitized/rewritten LLM is the new spellchecker. Soon we'll we will wonder why some people don't use it to sanity check blog posts or any other writing. And let's be honest, some writings would greatl
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by cheema33 2y ago
> Deploying this requires running 5 different open source servers (databases, proxies, etc) That is the nature of the beast for most feature rich products these days. The alternative is to pay for cloud service and outsource the maintena
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by cheema33 2y ago
I have a different take on this. I think local-first is the future. This is where the apps runs mostly within user's browser with little to no help from the server. Apps like Figma, Linear and Superhuman use this model very successf
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by cheema33 2y ago
> In gamedev there is simple rule: don't try to do any of that. I am not in gamedev, but I frequently have to develop middleware that takes in user entered data and formats it in a way that will import into a 3rd party system withou
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by cheema33 2y ago
> The pull of oligarchs is more real in Russia than anywhere else in the world. It may have been true at some point. But, Putin put an end to it. He killed oligarchs when they fell out of line. There are some ex-oligarchs living outsi
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by cheema33 2y ago
And then there are those who try very hard to get on the list. I know at least one famous one.
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> There are compelling ARM hardware outside of Apple now Not only that, this may have finally forced Intel to innovate. Their new Lunar Lake CPUs coming out now are actually competitive with Apple chips for both performance and power.
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by cheema33 2y ago
> why is there enough interest in doing these minor improvements... Why are people working on improvements to wi-fi at all, when there are people around the world dying of hunger? If you can answer that, I think you'll be able to an
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by cheema33 2y ago
> Quite often those that "lead by conviction" are just narcissistic sociopaths. Hell to the yes. I have also worked at places where the leader was afraid of making critical decisions and tried too hard not to offend anyone. Bot
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> If your devs can't work without something writing their code for them, why are you hiring them? I am currently in the process of hiring a backend engineer. Anybody who does not use AI to aid development work gets an automatic dis
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by cheema33 2y ago
AI is just another tool. A pretty good one. And there is a skill to using it efficiently. If you ask it dumb questions, you will get dumb answers. Garbage in, garbage out. I am a software developer and I hire devs as well. If somebody
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by cheema33 2y ago
> The most batteries included multiplatform language right now is _by far_ Kotlin and nothing else is remotely close. I've been using C#/.Net lately and I've been very impressed. Very large ecosystem and community. Perha
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by cheema33 2y ago
> Tip from a friend - just learn C++. Is that good advice for certain domains only? For example, you likely wouldn't want to use C++ for web server backend? You could, but may not want to.
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> I've never heard someone say they regretted starting therapy. Let me be the first one then. I went in with an open mind. When the first one did not work, I tried another. After two years and zero benefit, I regretted spending t
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by cheema33 2y ago
> I eventually got a role director of a consulting company in 2009, and I was making $150k. I felt like a badass... I ‘retired’ during the pandemic. I’ve really struggled since then. Honest question. I have often thought that not ever
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by cheema33 2y ago
> do whatever excites you. the only constant is change. That alone may not be enough. My son is excited about playing video games. :)
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> Maybe I'm the only person who thinks that trying to make existing internet protocols faster is wasted energy. But who am I to say anything. If you have a valid argument to support your claim, why not present it?
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Like many others I had never heard of this service. I looked and I am very very impressed. The way topics are laid out... someone put a lot of thought into this. I would love for this site to continue and thrive. I also agree with some ot

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