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by dgxyz 7mo ago
My point is you should not build on top of their native services if it incurs this problem.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Yeah that doesn't always work that well. Think you were lucky. Add high DPI to the mix and things get rough very quickly. Also the common control have weird input issues (try ctrl+backspace in an Edit control). All those little things
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
After bouncing around GUI toolkits (from win32 to SwiftUI) and web for 30 years I have simply run out of fucks. They all suck. Each in their own unique way. Apple aren't worth singling out - they are just their own special isolated var
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
I disagree with this entirely. You should build your software around abstractions and interfaces which are portable enough to work locally and in AWS or any other cloud and not just AWS specific APIs.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Indeed. The thing with the black box ICs is you still need to understand the electrical interface to them. Without the fundamentals you are crippled the moment you have a problem. This is my principal objection to some of the Make and Mimms
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Well they certainly do exist. However they tend not to even get noticed because the mindset and momentum behind everything is America-centric.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Don't wish to write my usual rant on this here but that's the curse of electronics books. You get taught by a recipe book but you don't leave with enough skills to design your own one. Nor do you know which recipes should be
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
I'm wondering if Jani is possibly going to walk into the wrong party here and get burned. I did some public archival stuff about a decade ago and it was state sponsored and for the intelligence community. I'm not suggesting this i
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Yeah definitely agree with that. I have one.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
That’s just mental. Does my head in when I see it.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Everyone at MSFT who is senior is a lying piece of shit these days. I remember on here Satya being treated like the second coming of Jesus due to his promises. Any comments against him were downvoted. Look where we are now.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Think they burned what little trust anyone has in them over the last couple of years. I have zero windows machines now and no promises will change that.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Exactly. They take the claims from the vendor as true without validating them.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
They just step around that with a policy that you aren't allowed to bring phones into the school if you don't have one. Yes they are arseholes.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
There is an academy board. Unfortunately it's filled up with the sort of people who should never be allowed on a board of any sort.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Well saving time it does not. My daughter got a 0/20 for a test that she sat and did. Now she's not a complete idiot so this was suspicious. I asked about it and they said that it was likely that she didn't get any questions
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
UK here. My kid's school is insane. They think they are so progressive because they banned personal phones entirely, which is fair enough. But they forced us to buy marked up Yondr pouches, which is not fair. However this isn't th
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
I make my money cleaning up all the stupid fads. The tail end of the curve is profitable.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
I don't think that's where it's going. LLMs are shit at doing stuff to anyone who is a domain expert in the thing that they are supposed to be doing. They are trained on a huge corpus of average stuff. They produce average to
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Fads and fashion over strong, tested technology. Attitude that you can fix broken stuff later and customers are fine with it. Charlatans and fuckwits everywhere who wouldn't last a second in a traditional engineering discipline.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Exactly that. Gives me a kick. Do stuff now. Don't wait.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
If enough people say no, it'll stop. For ref I'm usually the guy who comes in and cleans up all the chicken corpses after.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
As an actual engineer who moved into software "engineering", yes this. It kills me.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
This is never getting to skynet launching the nukes stage. It's not that clever and never will be. Humans will kill us by it damage amplifying their worst characteristics. Thus we'll die of a pandemic because some idiot LLM'e
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
This wasn't really forced on us. The whole industry is like a fashion show and has been for a long time. This is just exceptionally stupid compared to moderately stupid things before. I see it ore that everyone's wearing pink feat
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Very good point
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Rewrite tools in new language, get new exciting bugs!
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Well it’s more how much we care about those. Which with the advent of LLMs just lowered our standards so we can claim success.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Child mortality will be an issue if you use child soldiers, which Hamas do.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Nuking Gaza is an abhorrent position but I don't think there will be any reform out there until there is a decisive win and if I have to pick a side it's not the Palestinians. If the Palestinians win it'll embolden other stat

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