dcminter

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by dcminter 5d ago
While we're reminiscing, I never did understand why Sun paid a billion dollars for MySQL in 2008. So far the best theory I've heard was that it was bait to make them tastier to IBM and Oracle - but even that seems kind of weak; ha
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by dcminter 5d ago
To save those browsing the google: "International Conference on Learning Representation" so an AI conference. > ... what happened? Seriously?
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by dcminter 5d ago
I have no special insight, but I think this commenter cut to the core of the problem: > "I came to the comments because the web page for Enzo explains everything except what the hell it does. Then I couldn't understand the [sub
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by dcminter 9d ago
This is painfully relatable.
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by dcminter 9d ago
A colander would allow the tea leaves through to no purpose. A colander is a type of sieve but a sieve is not necessarily a colander.
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by dcminter 10d ago
If you're making tea with a colander something is very wrong ;)
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by dcminter 10d ago
The Eurovision song contest includes Australia in its member nations. Mindblowing I know, but it's possible for a thing to transcend its name.
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by dcminter 11d ago
I remember Dolphin being a particularly painful one, and as I recall it ended up with some weird compromises (wasn't erasure supposed to avoid needing to update the bytecode format, but then annotations required it anyway? Something al
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by dcminter 11d ago
Java releases used to be glacial multi-year affairs. Lots of discussion of features that then missed the release train and you knew they'd not be with you for another multi-year period. They made a conscious decision to switch to a reg
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by dcminter 14d ago
Perhaps this is a stupid question, but have you emailed the moderators (rather than assuming they're aware of the issue) ?
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by dcminter 16d ago
I think it's usually my IDE. I haven't seen it recently; not sure if I disabled it in a fit of pique, or if it just doesn't do that any more? (/me goes and tentatively pokes F1 on purpose for the first time in decades...
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by dcminter 17d ago
F1 still launches Help in some apps. I don't think I've ever done it on purpose...
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by dcminter 18d ago
I don't think it's very interesting even if true. I'm not that fussed about copyright infringement myself and I don't consider using archive.is (infrequently) to be condoning their DDOS. Presumably you are and do. We dif
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by dcminter 18d ago
They also choose to do nothing about uncharitable interpretations of their inactions. Should they act there too? Or do you prefer the hands-off approach when it suits you?
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by dcminter 18d ago
Rather than telling us that it is telling, perhaps you should tell us what it tells you and why?
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by dcminter 18d ago
> it is perfect to have two brothers and a brother-in-law This is difficult to arrange at short notice :)
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by dcminter 21d ago
"Cats. Cats are nice."
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by dcminter 21d ago
> Bit of an odd comment overall. It is, isn't it? Maybe there was a reason? :) To make up for my tone (which wasn't intended to be snarky but without the missing fact probably came across as such), did you know Douglas once des
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by dcminter 21d ago
I know. Guess which country had "fuck" and which country had "Belgium" in the Rory's description.
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by dcminter 21d ago
Tell me you're from the US without etc.
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by dcminter 25d ago
I used to read his posts about Django years ago (a little strange in itself as I'm not a Python guy) and it took me a while to realise he was the same person!
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The Hedgehog and the Fox(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by dcminter 26d ago|0 comments
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by dcminter 27d ago
As a contra-anecdote, my wife is not very interested in tech and has a Linux laptop for home use and a Windows laptop for work use. For both of them any attempt to use the printer is cursed. I think that's just printers for you :)
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by dcminter 27d ago
Maybe? I think you may be underestimating how many papercuts of the same kind are there on Windows and on Macs. They're just harder to see when you're used to them.
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by dcminter 1mo ago
Well, if we're telling stats jokes... A statistician is a man who with his head in the freezer and his feet in the oven can say "On the whole I feel perfectly normal." Recommended reading: 'How to lie with statistics&#x2
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by dcminter 1mo ago
It was probably some time in the early 2000s that I tried it. I'm actually pretty surprised others didn't/don't have the same issue.
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by dcminter 1mo ago
I guess it varies then. When I did it (probably 15 or 20 years ago mind) I unleashed a torrent of spam so voluminous that I had to write scripts to clean it up my inbox after I turned it off again.
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by dcminter 1mo ago
Battery life. I love my Linux laptops, and I don't mind being selective to make sure the hardware's fully supported, but whatever the reason Mac battery life is second to none.
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by dcminter 1mo ago
If you do this you immediately get thousands of emails a day from bots trying common first names etc. Much better to maintain an explicit list of names you're currently allowing.
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by dcminter 1mo ago
I have a trick for writing (I used to write tech books) where I allow myself to write one sentence of the current in-progress chapter instead of aiming for anything more. The activation energy for writing one sentence is so low that it&#x27

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