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by danielodievich 1y ago
I want to thank dev leads who trained this green-behind-the-ears engineer on mysteries of Source Depot. Once I understood it, it was quite illuminating. I am glad we only had a dependency on WinCE and IE, and so the clone only took 20 minut
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by danielodievich 1y ago
Reusing: the S in LLM stands for security.
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by danielodievich 1y ago
I've had my mini since 2023, license plate MINIKIN, which is a real word meaning something small and precious and dainty. Fits it perfectly. There is a twin in TX that a friend saw, albeit of a different color.
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by danielodievich 1y ago
Please post what you think of the physical books once they arrive and you get to touch them. I'll look for it in my threads.
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by danielodievich 1y ago
For a nice thoughtful imagination of said future, Nancy Kress's Beggars in Spain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggars_in_Spain suggests one possible outcome. It has both gene editing to make better humans and unp
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by danielodievich 1y ago
When my second son was born and was just so very tiny some genetic test came out questionable. We were very strongly encouraged to go to Childrens hospital ASAP to get more tests. He handled it well, being just a few weeks old. The tests ca
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by danielodievich 1y ago
We read hobbit and LOTR to our children while they were in kindergarden. Took 5 months. These are most LOVELY memories for both us and them. Unfortunately, not every child these days can focus on a book when they have so many screens out th
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by danielodievich 1y ago
By virtue of what I do, I interact with quite a few of our SDRs who do outbound calls all day long AND I am frequently on the receiving end of someone else's calls. It is a hard job. Attention is a very scarce commodity and the shotgun
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by danielodievich 1y ago
I have the omnibus edition that they have in this review. It is a gorgeous book, although still likely not as lovely as Folio Society's https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/books-of-earthsea.html . The paper is very wh
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by danielodievich 2y ago
I go out of my way to avoid any LLM generated thing, ESPECIALLY in search results, whether for coding, product research or news. The world is drowning in misinformation and misdirection, I don't need any additional hallucinations.
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by danielodievich 2y ago
As a person with 3 Puget Systems workstations in my house, always good to see our local custom computer gem mentioned. Those guys are excellent in both build and support. I love the level, reasoned, intelligent tone. It is everything the cu
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by danielodievich 2y ago
I can't wait for the Big Balls to do something at SEC that seriously affects SERIOUS money in the financial markets and see what kind of Big Guns come out at them from the Real Business. I am certain they won't know what hit them.
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by danielodievich 2y ago
When I was 12 I was just learning stuff and wrote something in C, which crashed at unpredictable intervals and I could not explain it. I took it to my 14 year old uncle who was better than me at coding for help. Now mind you this is ~ 40 ye
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by danielodievich 2y ago
I remember hearing around 2004 that from watson/microsoft telemetry Outlook was the most ran app in the world by the hours being up. Certainly made sense because it was always on for everyone, including myself. The things one could do
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by danielodievich 2y ago
Living through the end years of USSR and beginnings of centrifugal coming apart of everything was pretty crazy. As a child seeing necrologies for Brezhnev, then Andropov, then Chernenko on TV with somber music and black ribbons, I remember
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by danielodievich 2y ago
Yeah, their vision is us living in burbclaves of New South Africa, Mr Lee's Hong Kong and Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates and the bankrupt US Government with trillion dollar notes not to be used as toilet paper because it is illegal
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by danielodievich 2y ago
This was the topic of an amazing podcast Scam Inc from the Economist https://www.economist.com/audio/podcasts/scam-inc that I finished last week. It's subscriber only but absolutely worth it. Key points are:
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by danielodievich 2y ago
>Ministry for the Future (deep dive into each political side portrayed and maybe even a bit too optimistic in some ways) I loved the book but it's indeed hopelessly optimistic. I think the heat wave that begins this book is going to
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by danielodievich 2y ago
Many moons ago as a young developer at Microsoft I was asked what I thought of a nice big poster advertising our team's offering, to be displayed around campus. The picture had a large background circle that was made out of various sma
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by danielodievich 2y ago
I went skiing at Big Sky with bunch of Microsofties as part of Microsoft ski club back in 1999. One of them was a pretty big guy who on the first day of skiing took a bad tumble and threw out his knee. He had to stay at the chalet for most
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by danielodievich 2y ago
What a lovely written essay. It was a shorter - and obviously more religious - version of several "what will AI bring" books I've read in last couple of years. Such a pleasure to read carefully expressed thoughts. By virtue o
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by danielodievich 2y ago
open exposed clickhouse is this decade's open exposed elasticsearch so common in the past
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by danielodievich 2y ago
Crude and True!
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by danielodievich 2y ago
interesting. I do this in Seattle all the time. Nothing like this seems to be assumed. I must tip in places that either hide their reaction well or do not assume that ;-\
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by danielodievich 2y ago
There is a fascinating story documented in "How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution" by by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut ( https://www.amazon.com&#x2F
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by danielodievich 2y ago
I tip exclusively with $2 bills because bartenders/event staff/doormen/shuttle people then always remember me. I get them from the bank and they are invariably crisp and never been folded. They kind of stick together because
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by danielodievich 2y ago
A small sliver of it is on my table as a coaster. Love that quirky design, blue green color.
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by danielodievich 2y ago
The occupational hazard of driving a really low to the ground Mini is that every new car with Bright-Ass-Lights (our family name for them) heading towards me is a punch into my eyeball. Fortunately I can flip the rear-view prism mirror to d
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by danielodievich 2y ago
It just so happens that I am reading Andrei Sakharov's ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Sakharov ) memoirs, he was heavily heavily involved in USSR's thermonuclear weapons design and development, and then
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by danielodievich 2y ago
Nobody will go back. One of more interesting experiences from early 2000s in Microsoft was when Microsoft Russia finally crossed 1B in revenue by finally having Gazprom/Sberbank buy all the sh*t that they were pirating before. By doing

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