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by dcminter 11mo ago
This is a category error. A cell is not a thing that has a goal. To imagine it has one is pure anthropomorphism. The religious may have other views of course.
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by dcminter 11mo ago
Spinning platters are prone to catastrophic mechanical failure and tape can undergo delamination. What of it?
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by dcminter 11mo ago
But not by most devs. Back in the day it was true for most devs.
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by dcminter 11mo ago
Hmm, perhaps I'm reading too much into this, but is this a side effect of the majority of the training data being from earlier years - much like I tend to vaguely think of "50 years ago" as being the 1950s if I'm not rea
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The Absent Silence (2010)(ursulakleguin.com)
80 points by dcminter 11mo ago|34 comments
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by dcminter 11mo ago
I'm not claiming that there is no C or C++ out there. But it's such a nit pick when for most developers, no, their day-to-day work absolutely does not involve the creation of object files. Sure, akshuwally, there are still C and C
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by dcminter 11mo ago
Sure, but I think that "back in the day your compiler would ..." is a reasonable characterisation. Back in the day, yes, your compiler almost certainly would do that. Now, your compiler might possibly do that. For most working
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by dcminter 11mo ago
I'd be very surprised if the C/C++ code being written today was comparable in volume to the collective pile of JavaScript, Java, C#, Go, Python, and PHP. Contrast to the heyday of C and C++ when not much else got a look in (Pasca
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by dcminter 11mo ago
The Player giving a bit of meta-commentary (meta-meta-commentary?) on plays in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead: "Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, a
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by dcminter 11mo ago
> Suspension would also allow the wheel to move upward relative to the frame and pedals when hitting a bump. Perhaps I'm being dim, but I don't get why this would be bad; it just sounds like the definition of what suspension
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by dcminter 11mo ago
Location: Stockholm (remote or hybrid) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, AWS, Linux, technical writing Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcminter/ Email: dave@paperst
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by dcminter 11mo ago
Even more amazingly, I just discovered (from a friend after ranting about this on Facebook) that you're not allowed letters of this type in names on British Passports¹ Apparently there's a recommended transliteration table² from
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Address to Distress(paperstack.com)
1 points by dcminter 11mo ago|1 comments
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by dcminter 11mo ago
I think parent poster had an X1 or something and assumed the conversation was about a similar contemporary device. I'm a little sad this board isn't for my X220 ... I would be sorely tempted if it were - but like other posters I&#
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Apple Desktop Bus Protocol (2021)(lopaciuk.eu)
71 points by dcminter 11mo ago|14 comments
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by dcminter 11mo ago
For your anecdata I'm in Sweden and definitely had a contrast agent (presumably gadolinium based) for a recent MRI of my gallbladder/pancreas/liver area.
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by dcminter 11mo ago
Yes, exactly that, and some of the steps required removing kaptan (?) tape over rather fragile looking wires. I think it used to be more or less "undo screw, remove cover, remove keyboard" ... with other parts being under the keyb
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by dcminter 11mo ago
I'd probably have signed up if it were not for those two issues. Step zero in breaking the network effect is not to piss off those who might join despite it.
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by dcminter 11mo ago
ISWYDT https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by dcminter 11mo ago
I swapped the keyboard on my wife's X1 and man, they are so fiddly to get to these days. It used to be a 2 minute job but I think this took me nearly 2 hours! I had to remove practically everything to get to it. Still happy with the re
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by dcminter 11mo ago
I think I could pretty easily have been persuaded by Google Plus. At that time I had broadly positive sentiments towards Google. Two things put me off. Firstly, that whole account-unification thing where YouTube accounts were getting merged
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by dcminter 11mo ago
This was our mistake, and we take full responsibility. That preceding line makes it, to me, a real apology. They admit fault.
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by dcminter 11mo ago
If you've not already done so, peruse the Staff Engineer¹ website and maybe get the book associated with that² or another one that I like³ It's not clear to me if you have a role with that kind of title, so if not, see if that pat
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by dcminter 11mo ago
I rather enjoyed this, although I had assumed from the title that it was going to be "things" like the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority that at one time was Jon Postel (a person). Any other examples of that ilk...?
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by dcminter 11mo ago
Hmm. Why should I take this critique as being any more accurate than Bryson, given that the writer says in so many words: "[...] I - someone who’s far from an expert at linguistics [...]" The rather sniffy observation about Wiki
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by dcminter 11mo ago
> Is there any more annoying popup than the newsletter popup? Rhetorical I'm sure, but actually yes! The popup that tries to get you to switch to the app when you are actively trying to give the offender money! eBay is a notable off
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by dcminter 1y ago
"I'm sorry you feel that way" is shaped like an apology, but is essentially blaming the other party's feelings as being the problem. "I'm sorry I did that" is an actual apology. To be clear, I'm agree
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by dcminter 1y ago
Baader-Meinhof.
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by dcminter 1y ago
I too applaud this terrible (amazing) pun.
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by dcminter 1y ago
One of my favourite quiet jokes is the "Editorial Board" list for The Annals of Improbable Research¹ where RTM is listed under Computer Science. Asterisks after each name denote qualifications, RTM's being "Convicted Fel

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