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by cpeterso 2y ago
Instead of hiding the project until completion, you could (after a little covert research) share the idea with the boss and time box the development: if the first increment of X days or a week continues to look promising, then attempt the n
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by cpeterso 2y ago
And with Google App Scripts, you can augment your Google spreadsheets with JavaScript to write custom functions that can call remote services (and be called back as a service!).
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Product Management at Meta vs. Google or How to Evaluate Your Google,Meta Offer(ddmckinnon.com)
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by cpeterso 2y ago
Didn’t some photo gallery service (Google Photos or Takeout?) make the news because they re-encoded users’ images but didn’t preserve the original files? People who relied on the service as a safe backup lost their original quality images.
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How big is the Flutter team?(ln.hixie.ch)
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by cpeterso 2y ago
Just yesterday I watched the film “Victim of the Brain”, which includes Daniel Dennett playing himself. The film is an odd mashup of an interview with Douglas Hofstadter, ideas from Dennett and Hofstadter‘s “The Mind's I”, Stanislaw Le
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by cpeterso 2y ago
One of the most adorable TV shows I’ve seen is “Orangutan Jungle School” about the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation’s orangutan rescue/rehabilitation/release program. The series is available on a number of streaming services a
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by cpeterso 2y ago
> let the user set their country. Or use GeoIP to assume a default country, but allow the user to change their country or clear the country filter. MaxMind has a free offline GeoIP database that’s good. If the developer wants to keep the
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by cpeterso 2y ago
This reminds me of science fiction author Peter Watts' novella "The Freeze-Frame Revolution", where a space ship has two AIs: one that has been running for a million years and another that is reboot daily to start with a fres
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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone joins board of Mastodon's new US nonprofit(techcrunch.com)
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by cpeterso 2y ago
Where do you see the "Save Local Population" option? When you say it "seems to crash", do you mean Firefox or the Flash animation?
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No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK(theguardian.com)
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by cpeterso 2y ago
I had to look this up: Rob Pike’s rule is that header files should not include other header files; they should only document which other header files they depend on so programmers can directly include those other header files in their .c fi
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by cpeterso 2y ago
I worked on Adobe’s Flash Player team at that time and I remember using your Flash movie as a test case. :)
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by cpeterso 2y ago
I fear good ol’ fashioned information hiding is being forgotten in modern software design. Systems are increasingly complicated and developers are busy just trying to get all their code to fit together to worry about the difference between
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by cpeterso 2y ago
Interesting mystery! > The Sloot Digital Coding System is an alleged data sharing technique that its inventor claimed could store a complete digital movie file in 8 kilobytes of data — violating Shannon's source coding theorem by ma
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by cpeterso 2y ago
My favorite quote about abstraction is from Edsger Dijkstra: ”The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.” If only the “A” in API stood for “abstraction”. For m
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by cpeterso 2y ago
This is similar to Domain-Driven Domain's "Ubiquitous Language" design pattern, making your implementation use the same real-world terminology used domain experts. https://thedomaindrivendesign.io/developing-t
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Streaming and texting on the Moon: Nokia and NASA are taking 4G into space(cnn.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Open models weren’t Meta’s original plan. The LLaMA 1 model was only available to Meta-approved researchers until someone leaked the model weights on 4chan in 2023. Meta issued DMCA takedown requests to HuggingFace and GitHub.
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Neopets' nostalgic revival tripled users in six months(theguardian.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
> There was a bug in some versions of the Novell redirector shell (NET5.COM) that was a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) program that ran under DOS. ... the very problem that triggered the error message had the unfortunate side effect o
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Ask an LLM.
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Firefox Nightly Now Available for Linux on ARM64(blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
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Does code review speed matter for practitioners?(link.springer.com)
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The Quiet Danger of Noise-Canceling Headphones(gizmodo.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
In this case, the researcher built each PostgreSQL version using the same GCC version (13.2) and tested on the same OS.
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by cpeterso 3y ago
The all caps, imperative examples remove me of old school text adventure commands. In fact, that’s how I try to write my own to-do lists or project milestones: VERB [ADJECTIVE] OBJECT (e.g. GET LAMP). If I can’t reduce a task or milestone n
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I use pink noise (it's less harsh than the cricket white noise) notched to my tinnitus frequency. There are some studies asserting that notching the noise may reduce your brain's sensitivity to your tinnitus frequency. https:&#x2
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Privacy-preserving robotic cameras obscure images beyond human recognition(sydney.edu.au)
1 points by cpeterso 3y ago|0 comments

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