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by dcminter 1y ago
It allows you to practice presenting yourself, which is an important part of interviewing. Having prepared material in circumstances under your control is also likely to make it easier for you to talk about it in more stressful circumstance
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by dcminter 1y ago
Upvoted because I disagree with this (I presume your downvoters also disagree). My degree course actually had the option of converting to a BEng from a BSc if you so chose once you'd done your industry year.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Well, these should get me in trouble here fairly quickly... • Modern Java is a good language. • It's ok not to be polyglot. • Debugging should not start with the debugger. • If you can't express yourself clearly you probably can&#
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by dcminter 1y ago
In the past I've occasionally had PDF docs printed at copy shops (spiral bound usually) - but that can work out surprisingly expensive. You should try out a Remarkable and see if that works for you (it didn't for me but it was clo
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by dcminter 1y ago
I recommended ollama because IMO that is the easiest way to get started (as I said).
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by dcminter 1y ago
Do you see a lot of high value political discussion? I see a lot of political posturing. I despise what's going on at the moment, it's not normal, and it's not OK. But discussing it here is utterly pointless and detracts from
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by dcminter 1y ago
I think you'll find that on that card most models that are approaching the 16G memory size will be more than fast enough and sufficient for chat. You're in the happy position of needing steeper requirements rather than faster hard
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by dcminter 1y ago
Probably because this is an obviously hot political topic, not new, and something that will indeed be sufficiently mainstream to be (heavily) covered in the usual news channels. Whereas the guidelines explicitly state: > "Off-Topic:
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by dcminter 1y ago
He did a book ("Designing Web Usability" I think) with an unconventional layout and it clearly hadn't been user-tested as it had a flaw (text too close to the binding) that made it ironically hard to use. I think he was on po
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by dcminter 1y ago
Like many others I don't do that. Firstly it's low grade bullying. That may not be how you mean it, but you're not on the receiving end. Bullies often don't think they're bullies. Secondly it normalises a third part
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by dcminter 1y ago
When I get gloomy about current tech stuff I like to read the latest on the "Vesuvius Challenge" - making progress on reading a library's worth of scrolls that literally burned to ashes in the Pompei eruption... who knows wha
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by dcminter 1y ago
There's always going to be room for craftsmen.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Unless you believe that 3D printing is "going to replace all manufacturing" then the OP is not "pretty wrong" and you don't even disagree with them. FWIW I think OP came up with an excellent analogy.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Huh, I never knew there was a Wang Unix before. Presumably this was on the VS8000 systems? I found this brochure mentioning it: https://www.1000bit.it/ad/bro/wang/vs8000.pdf "Wang also offers a UNIX Syst
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by dcminter 1y ago
You probably enjoyed this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/3054/
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by dcminter 1y ago
I'm not specifically recommending them as I haven't been (and I often find museum exhibitions lacklustre) but these are on my list to check out next time I'm in the UK in the appropriate areas: Manchester is where the importa
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by dcminter 1y ago
That's super cool - I'd be interested to hear more about that if you chose to write about it.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Exactly - and the article was written as the foreword of an edition of the screenplay in the 90s prior to being republished here.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Not to mention the enjoyably ambiguous "Dogs must be carried" !
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by dcminter 1y ago
I always thought this Welsh art installation was a rather risky choice: https://i2-prod.walesonline.co.uk/article10291631.ece/ALTERN... I can't say I ever otherwise felt like the British frequency of road signs wa
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Withnail and I (2001)(criterion.com)
132 points by dcminter 1y ago|54 comments
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A Tale of a Trailing Dot (2022)(daniel.haxx.se)
31 points by dcminter 1y ago|6 comments
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by dcminter 1y ago
2000(ish) years of dust and leaf litter adds up!
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by dcminter 1y ago
The Guildhall in London is one of the old political centres of the city. If you go down into the basement there's the remains of a Roman ampitheatre! Tucked away in an alcove on Cannon Street is an old block of stone. This is the famou
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by dcminter 1y ago
Unlikely. https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/comments/1ge48sq/macbeths...
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by dcminter 1y ago
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/magic-shows/miscellany/alch...
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by dcminter 1y ago
> I thought people are going to mention Notion, ChatGPT, tasks ... I'd bet good money that most people have neither Notion nor ChatGPT apps installed on their phones. How many people do you think don't use Maps or an equivale
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by dcminter 1y ago
I mean "Firefox" was my first thought too, I blame the question ;) Assuming pre-installed stuff is a given (in which case I guess I'm managing with Chrome) then here in Sweden I'd have to go with BankID so I could still
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by dcminter 1y ago
Presumably you could raise a PR...? https://github.com/voideditor/void#readme
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by dcminter 1y ago
Great that you road-tested it! Real world data is always going to be higher quality than my drive-by opinion!

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