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by coldpie 11mo ago
The title of the blog post is " A Series of Vignettes From My Childhood and Early Career ". The heading for the first section is " The Death of Software Engineering as a Profession ". It makes sense to me to use the ti
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by coldpie 11mo ago
> I started to become interested in programming around late 90s and I don't remember anyone floating the idea that OOP, libraries or IDEs will make programming obsolete as a profession. The version of this hype that I remember from
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by coldpie 11mo ago
You're right. Bonuses for everybody (who already has a net worth of $10M or more)!
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by coldpie 11mo ago
Almost all of the couple-hundred employees laid off at my company in the past year have been managers. For me, I paid off all my debts, and I'm reducing my spending to build up a big stockpile to weather a rough period or large salary
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by coldpie 11mo ago
Hahahahah > 81% of executives say metaverse related technologies are inspiring their organization’s vision or long-term strategy > 90% of executives anticipate an increase in the level of resources their organizations will dedicate to
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by coldpie 11mo ago
The difference is " for a given message M1 ". In the 2nd requirement, you may choose both M1 and M2. For the 1st requirement, you are given M1 and must find M2.
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by coldpie 11mo ago
> One underappreciated thing about Windows 8 is that even if the start menu was ugly and blocked the entire screen, you could press the windows key, immediately start typing, and then press enter to somewhat deterministically pick the to
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by coldpie 11mo ago
Rotate it at capture time, before encoding. This would get rid of like 95% of these exif orientation tags. For images that need to be manually rotated after for whatever reason, sure I guess you have a point, though I'd argue the qua
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by coldpie 11mo ago
Yes. I wrote a little image uploader script to easily upload images from my phone for embedding in web forums etc, and it strips out all the EXIF orientation and just converts it to the correct orientation. Aside from that I'm always
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by coldpie 11mo ago
There's something to this, although I think the idea needs some refinement. Anyone who's worked on a real software product knows that the "easy" bugs usually aren't actually easy (or else they would've been fi
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by coldpie 11mo ago
Game mechanics are not considered copyrightable[1]. If you had a clean room implementation with your own significantly different assets, it would be allowed. However, the exact definitions of "significantly different" and "as
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Windows 1.0 released to manufacturing 40 years ago today(en.wikipedia.org)
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by coldpie 11mo ago
Same thing as always. Stick with your plan and rebalance if you need to. If your plan is 80% stock 20% bond (or whatever ratios), and the increased stock prices are putting you significantly out of balance, then sell your stock funds and bu
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by coldpie 11mo ago
> security excuse is transparently bad faith, you still trotted it out I don't see any evidence supporting your assertion of them acting in bad faith, so I didn't reply to the point. Sandboxes are not perfect, they don't t
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by coldpie 11mo ago
> This has to be proven by Google (and other browser vendors), not by people coming up with examples What, to you, would constitute sufficient proof? Is it feasible to gather the evidence your suggestion would require?
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by coldpie 11mo ago
> Browser makers choosing to break that "contract" is bad for the internet regardless of how popular XSLT is. No, this is wrong. Maintaining XSLT support has a cost, both in providing an attack surface and in employee-hours ju
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by coldpie 11mo ago
This page is styled via an XSLT transform: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/politicalparties/index_en.xml The drama mongers like to bring it up as an example of something that will be harmed by XSLT's removal, but i
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by coldpie 11mo ago
The drama around the XSLT stuff is ridiculous. It's a dead format that no one uses[1], no one will miss, no one wants to maintain, and that provides significant complexity and attack surface. It's unambiguously the right thing to
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by coldpie 11mo ago
> Where is the party of small government? It's the conservative 2/3 of the Democratic party.
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by coldpie 11mo ago
> I've polled about this (informally) as well. This is kinda like how if you ask everyone how often they eat McDonald's, everyone will say never or rarely. But they still sell a billion burgers each year :) Assuming you'r
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by coldpie 11mo ago
I talk to an acquaintance selling some homemade products on Etsy, he uses & likes the automatically generated product summary Etsy made for him. My neighbor asks me if I have any further suggestions for refinishing her table top beyond
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by coldpie 11mo ago
> Does anyone want AI in anything? Yeah, they do. Go talk to anyone who isn't in a super-online bubble such as HN or Bsky or a Firefox early-adopter program. They're all using it, all the time, for everything. I don't like
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by coldpie 11mo ago
So he's not using his own money, and he has enough personal wealth that there is no impact to him if the company fails. It's just another rich guy enjoying his toys. Good on him, I hope he has fun, but the responsibility for failu
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by coldpie 11mo ago
Pretty funny post. He won't be held responsible for any failures. Worst case scenario for this guy is he hires a bunch of people, the company folds some time later, his employees take the responsibility by getting fired, and he sails
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by coldpie 11mo ago
Use Firefox and install the uBlock Origin extension in Firefox. I also suggest turning on the Annoyances and Cookie Banner filters in the uBO settings. They get rid of many popups. Blocking in-app ads is a whole other ballgame. I don't
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by coldpie 1y ago
Ah, she's barely out of her teens, give her a break :) Better things to spend one's life on in those years than worrying over a few hundred bucks in a bank account. She'll come back around in a few years.
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by coldpie 1y ago
> a desolate empty parking lot with no trees is somehow ideal The author is trying to measure "claustrophobia" specifically, not ideal-ness. An empty parking lot would be less claustrophobic than most other kinds of places, yes
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by coldpie 1y ago
Don't know about Switzerland, but most US brokers offer some kind of "target retirement date" fund, which automatically shifts from higher-risk assets to lower-risk as you approach retirement. VFIFX is one from Vanguard, for
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by coldpie 1y ago
Five straight years of having to tell everyone who asks about your job that the hottest thing in your industry is a scam sure does wear on a person.
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by coldpie 1y ago
I'm honestly starting to feel embarrassed to even be employed in the software industry now.

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