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by donatj 1y ago
It's been in the Unicode standard as #129705 since 14.0 but I don't think I've ever sent or received one. I'd be curious to know how the actual usage stats aligned with their expectations.
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by donatj 1y ago
Yes, exactly! I was expecting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_AT_command_set
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by donatj 1y ago
> Drone pretty much can't do anything useful out of the box That's the ideal. It's not doing anything you didn't explicitly tell it to. > We ended up wrapping everything in a Docker container and back to just runni
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by donatj 1y ago
I saw that. We've sadly got a corporate mandate right now to move everyone to GitHub Actions
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by donatj 1y ago
This is going to be controversial to say, but tutorial videos have never made sense to me. It's literally the least efficient way to communicate that information. I know junior developers love these sorts of videos, but I think they&#x
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by donatj 1y ago
Drone was absolutely perfect back when it was Free Software. Literally "run these commands in this docker container on these events" and basically nothing more. We ran the last fully open source version much longer than we probabl
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by donatj 1y ago
I find it at the same time bizarre and fascinating the number of people I used to work with who have become AI influencers on social media.. Some of them have gained really big followings. Most of them were pretty middling developers when I
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by donatj 1y ago
You're falling into the trap of anthropomorphizing the AI. Even if it's sentient, it's not going to "feel bad" the way you and I do. "Suffering" is a symptom of the struggle for survival brought on by bill
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by donatj 1y ago
I've been casually job hunting for a couple months since rounds of layoffs started at my company. I've applied to umpteen places and haven't had a single callback. In my twenty+ years working as a dev, this is the worst I&#x2
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by donatj 1y ago
It's done been lost.
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by donatj 1y ago
My dad worked for Control Data in the 1980s and talks about hiding designs in period characters on his schematics. Talks about how the plotters would get to the period, hang out for a while and then continue.
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by donatj 1y ago
Nah, I suspect it's just because it's a machine translated port of the original C to Go > The original C code was converted to Go using (modernc.org/ccgo/v4), by cznic ( https://gitlab.com/cznic/do
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by donatj 1y ago
I know nothing about Whisper, is this usable for automated translation? I own a couple very old and as far as I'm aware never translated Japanese movies. I don't speak Japanese but I'd love to watch them. A couple years ago I
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by donatj 1y ago
Explain what about Gmail is "highly interactive" because I'm genuinely not seeing it. You receive like an email a minute? There's a Web 1.0 form for sending emails. Where's this "high levels of interactivity&qu
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by donatj 1y ago
All of those examples boil down to very simple forms, web 1.0 style forms. CRUD. Fill out an email form, hit submit. Fill out my tax form, hit submit. Fill out a ticket form, hit submit. It's prettied up CRUD, but it's CRUD. There
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by donatj 1y ago
> Fast-forward a couple of decades and we’re building highly interactive, component-based, state-driven, design-system-heavy applications Are we actually, in fact, if we're being honest? I haven't seen anything like that. 99.9%
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Top custom JavaScript functions of all time (2005)(web.archive.org)
1 points by donatj 1y ago|1 comments
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by donatj 1y ago
I've got mixed feelings. "A little copying is better than a little dependency" becomes much easier to fulfil with AI, in a literal sense, and I support a lot of "little dependencies"
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by donatj 1y ago
As for the tracking code from on high, holy hell you are right. We got bought by a big company and suddenly we've got giant support panels in the bottom left and JS loading from random domains we've got no way to keep our content
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by donatj 1y ago
At my first employer circa 2005 we had a simple 1-2 hour interview and a 90 day probationary period. Respected people's time, gave everyone a fair chance to prove themselves. I don't know why it's not more common in the indus
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by donatj 1y ago
"Bad magic number" brings back some PTSD of trying to get a Sun Server working in like 2001. My friend and I futzed with that thing for hundreds of hours.
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by donatj 1y ago
745,645 miles for Americans like myself who can't be bothered to do the conversion.
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The Origins of the <Blink> Tag (2009)(web.archive.org)
2 points by donatj 1y ago|0 comments
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by donatj 1y ago
It’s really not that simple. - Populations have grown in the last 7 years. Workforces have changed. - Stocks rise on hype, debt, and low interest rates — not from actual value or work done. - Borders are porous. Cheap labor
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by donatj 1y ago
We use Zube.io these days. Everything is just a GitHub ticket under the hood, it just slaps a PM friendly UI on them. I'm a fan.
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by donatj 1y ago
It's also interesting because I've had absolutely terrible luck trying to get ChatGPT to identify song lyrics for me. Anything outside the top 40 and it's been completely useless to the extent that I feel like lyrics must be
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by donatj 1y ago
You misread the short article. It's about email as single factor auth, which has become very trendy of late. You just enter your email address, no password, and the email you a code. Access to your email is the only authentication.
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by donatj 1y ago
I love PHP, however since around 7.4 they have become pretty happy to make breaking changes to the language, including recently in ways where you cannot satisfy older and newer versions of the runtime simultaneously. I end up spending often
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by donatj 1y ago
Honestly, I get sooo bored just watching it do all the things. There's simply no "flow state" when you're not the one doing the work, not the one reasoning. I have loved almost every minute of my 20+ years as a developer
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by donatj 1y ago
I regret using the MIT License on a couple of my applications that others have picked up and monetized. I do not regret making their source available for people to learn from and extend. I'm not even mad they're making money. I ju

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