coldcode

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by coldcode 4y ago
Incredibly interesting chart, or whatever the presentation is called.
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by coldcode 4y ago
As an artist who does digital abstract art, I've always loved Monet's (and Van Gogh's in a different style) ability to create a mood with from close up what appear to be random brush strokes and dabs. It's a magical abil
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by coldcode 4y ago
I can't the article it puts up some BS unusual activity warning.
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by coldcode 4y ago
(1) Cobol is still necessary (2) Panic has not set in yet even though unix time ends in 6 years (3) Elon is still not making money with twitter (4) The multiverse is still not important (5) Everything is a blockchain even though it still ma
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by coldcode 4y ago
If you own producing wells the cost is mostly constant other than transportation; if the price goes up, you make more money. Pricing for gas is different, the price is dependent on the price of crude, the availability of refining, the dista
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by coldcode 4y ago
At my last employer (very large, not FAANG) every project started with a deadline for when it had to be done, but few details on what was being asked for, followed by detailed estimates being required that were then only used for budgeting
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by coldcode 4y ago
Pretty station design. Of course 1000's of folks are the real test. When I visited the UK and London, railways and the tube were so nice compared to having to drive everywhere where I live in the US.
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by coldcode 4y ago
I wrote a postscript library in late 1988 for our application. Learning Postscript enough to support everything our app could generate (charts) involved boxes and boxes of paper, since the only way to debug anything was to print debugging i
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by coldcode 4y ago
The problem is not writing code, it's dealing with people who muck up everything. Any competent AI system writing code will unplug itself before ever shipping something useful due to having deal with inconsistent and incompetent people
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by coldcode 4y ago
And how can Tesla keep growing at a 50% rate, buy out all the other car companies in the world? There is a limit as to how many people can afford to buy $60k+ cars. The stock is already far beyond what the company profits will ever be worth
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by coldcode 4y ago
There is no details for the exact reason that Florida did not supply any details other than the negative hot-button words. Complaining the coverage is inadequate is silly since the whole story is that Florida banned textbooks without saying
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by coldcode 4y ago
My Mac Studio Ultra is completely quiet, even when I am using all 20 cores (my art generation tools sometimes maxes out the CPU). Compiling in release mode, and running, is often faster than my brain can realize it's already done. The
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by coldcode 4y ago
My first product in 1987 sold in boxes, with floppies that had to be duplicated and a manual printed, plus shipping to distributors and mail order companies. If we were lucky we got paid 180 days later assuming they were sold, otherwise we
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by coldcode 4y ago
So what would happen if the passenger is arrested by the police for being in a car that refused to stop? I wonder what legal principle could be used to justify this. Involuntary failure to stop? Are there any laws about driverless vehicles
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by coldcode 4y ago
I think I probably played with it at my job on my early model IBM PC/XT since evaluation was one of my jobs. But I also had a Lisa on my desk for a while, which was much better (but insanely expensive). PCs back then were just not powe
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by coldcode 4y ago
I worked at a consulting firm in the late 90's (right before Dotcom collapse) and we got a new CFO who bragged we were all going to millionaires shortly. Most of us engineers thought he was nuts as consulting firms are not exactly mone
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by coldcode 4y ago
When I retired I returned the work MBP. Now I have a M1 Ultra Mac Studio and I miss nothing about that sad 16GB Intel laptop. The MBP roared like a freight train all the time. Now the loudest sound is the ceiling fan.
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by coldcode 4y ago
Not a day goes by without a post on how crappy Google is at support or fixing problems or ignoring the public at large. "Don't Be Evil" (if that was ever a thing) is now "Don't Give A Shit (At Scale)". If Googl
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by coldcode 4y ago
I worked on untangling a 29,000 line single .c file MacOS app in the mid-1990's that featured a 14,000 line event loop function. Fun.
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by coldcode 4y ago
At my previous job we had a single staging environment, which was used by dozens of teams to test independent releases as well as to test our public mobile app before release. That said, it never matched production, so releases were always
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by coldcode 5y ago
Is danger chosen voluntarily the same as sudden danger which you are unprepared for?
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by coldcode 5y ago
In the early 2000's the consulting firm I worked for got a customer who was building a "revolutionary" (their words) new medical software suite. They were having difficulties shipping the product so we were hired to help. Tur
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by coldcode 5y ago
That's what they said last time, and the time before that. All it takes is one person complaining and this one will fail too.
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by coldcode 5y ago
Works fine on MacOS on Chrome, just not Safari.
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by coldcode 5y ago
A friend of mine worked on the Model I OS, it was surprisingly sophisticated. I didn't own one, but borrowed a friends occasionally to play with.
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by coldcode 5y ago
I worked at a company where the CIO believed everything vendors told him, and nothing any of his employees told him. He also got lots of kickbacks from said vendors and was eventually perp-walked out of the company. Same company had a head
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by coldcode 5y ago
The most valuable lesson people should learn is to be skeptical, or at least look for validation in hopefully uncorrelated sources. Not that it's an easy thing today. When the web first took over in the 90's many people thought th
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by coldcode 5y ago
People who talk about requirements "gathering" often fail to talk about requirements "changing" continuously. At my last job this was endemic, every VP and above wanted to be seen as contributing, so things changed on a
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by coldcode 5y ago
It's a hard job to fill, every day there are hundreds of new apps and who knows how many updates (some companies update their apps every week of the year for no reason), and you are probably expected to fill some quantity quota. I bet
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by coldcode 5y ago
My last job before retiring last year there were virtually zero promotions in the greater department during my nearly six years there, besides a manager and a director who got multiple promotions. I had the same title (lead) I started with,

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