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by donatj 2y ago
Being able to yell "Alexa, turn my lights off" has been handy. Alexa recently interrupting me with notifications that are just "Hey, some garbage you don't want is on sale" has me thinking about throwing the thing o
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by donatj 2y ago
Reading the follow up comments on the Reddit tread, it seems more like people misinterpreted what he said than him having been wrong.
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Store Code Discussions in Git Using Git Notes(wouterj.nl)
2 points by donatj 2y ago|0 comments
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by donatj 2y ago
Oh, I didn't @ or DM anybody. I just had a feed with tweet once an hour, and even then I manually approved the Tweets before they went out. My account made very clear it was a bot, it was in its name. Didn't ever get very many fol
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by donatj 2y ago
Hey, me too! I populated the markov chain with the text of my Twitter feed with a recency bias and generated tweets based on that so it stayed topical. The account sat unused after Twitter locked down their API, and at some point got hacked
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by donatj 2y ago
Hear me out. Find a back end job in a stable non-startup. The rate of tech change is so much more reasonable.
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by donatj 2y ago
In Philip Glass's autobiography he says when people accuse him of selling out by having his music in movies and ads, he tells he got into music to make money. I've got an insane amount of respect for that honesty. The book was rea
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by donatj 2y ago
The lack of default argument values initially annoyed me, but I kind of came to like it. It makes me put more thought into my function interfaces. In the rare cases I do want a default it's usually reasonable to just add a second funct
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by donatj 2y ago
Exactly this. If my coworker implemented sort themselves we'd have questions about their qualifications.
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by donatj 2y ago
What exactly has Mega done that Dropbox hasn't? In my eyes they're basically the same product, the only difference being Mega's edgier tone.
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by donatj 2y ago
Nope. They shut down in 2012 and their campus was taken over by a popular coding bootcamp.
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by donatj 2y ago
The small private college I attended in the early aughts used your SSN as your student ID and it was printed on everything. Transcripts, official records, basically any piece of paper with your name on it. You'd even speak it aloud to
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by donatj 2y ago
By that definition 24-bit image is "lossy" to 32-bit images, and 32-bit images lossy to 64-bit images ad infinitum and lossless formats don't exist. A gif is lossless in that it does not lose data. When you define a frame wit
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by donatj 2y ago
I recently downloaded an "avif" thinking that I was downloading a gif. A little annoyed, I started poking around at it with ffmpeg and discovered that the file contained two video streams. I extracted both individually with -c cop
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by donatj 2y ago
> A company could put a top man at every position and be swallowed by a competitor with people only half as good, but who are working together. I don't disagree, but I really hate that it's not wrong. It keeps me up at night, f
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by donatj 2y ago
The question of "Is it more stable than other browsers" being "It can't render text" is somewhat hilarious. As of five years ago I still had an open ticket for a bug in BeOS Mozilla in their bug tracker from maybe t
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by donatj 2y ago
I've got a handful of small Go applications where I just have a "go generate" command that generates the entire dataset as Go, so the data set ends up compiled into the binary. Works great. https://emoji.boats&#x2F
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by donatj 2y ago
When I figured out that you can disable individuals retweets but keep their actual direct tweets, that saved my feed. I know a fair number of people who post fascinating things, but also retweet a lot of news and politics I don't want.
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by donatj 2y ago
As another commenter said, they use very clean sources. Even then, the sources are very at the very least consistent in their makeup. It's a lot easier to deal with a consistent type of contamination than a varying one.
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by donatj 2y ago
Nope, not drowned. He had just died laying in our bathtub. It was a place he liked to lay normally.
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by donatj 2y ago
Oh, I would absolutely believe it. We were alerted our one cat had died suddenly in the bathtub to the sound of our other cat howling outside the bathroom door. The surviving cat then acted really strange for the next week or so.
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by donatj 2y ago
I used to use a similar app where you'd spin your mouse in a circle and it'd pop open a radial menu in the center of the circle you drew. It was kinda neat, I forget the name of it.
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by donatj 2y ago
I was a die hard Dreamcast supporter back in the day. While the Dreamcast had already been discontinued by the time GTA3 came out, let me tell you it really was the nail in the coffin. It's been 23 years and there is some part of my br
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by donatj 2y ago
The anchor on the URL was stripped by Hacker News. It's listed under > 7. Collection and Use of Sensitive Information > We *have collected* the following categories of sensitive personal information from consumers within the last
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Untappd Collected Genetic Data, Union Membership, Information about Sex Lives(untappd.com)
1 points by donatj 2y ago|1 comments
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by donatj 2y ago
Have you used VLC? It's powerful and compatible, sure, but the UI is janky as all get out.
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by donatj 2y ago
Yep, Wasabi, the XML driven UI toolkit was just too slow for PC's of the time.
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by donatj 2y ago
Fwiw, you'll be happier and more secure at a stable Midwest company than a trendy coastal company. In my twenty years of doing this, I know personally two developers who were laid off, one of whom was hired back after COVID calmed down
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by donatj 2y ago
Hah, so we were a very small ~40 person company. We didn't have a dedicated IT department, we had a customer support person who doubled as IT. When he failed, we had a very knowledgeable guy who ran our servers remotely from Alaska. Wh
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by donatj 2y ago
I truly miss working in software in the early 2000's. We were all using XP but it was all customized up the wazoo. Almost all of us had custom themes and icons and what not. I ran a Mac at home, and had that customized as well, I forge

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