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by drillsteps5 5mo ago
Another wave today (5/2/2026), launchpadcontent.net is down...
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by drillsteps5 5mo ago
I wasn't saying that this is the optimal solution (it clearly is not). I was saying that it makes perfect sense for both sides - HR has their work automated and candidates have better chance to be noticed - and therefore became a commo
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by drillsteps5 5mo ago
Before the resume ends up in the hiring manager's inbox it needs to be picked by the recruiter from literally hundreds of others. The recruiter uses HR software to determine the match (usually the percentage), and then picks top 5% or
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by drillsteps5 5mo ago
That's what people on both side have been doing for at least couple years already. Recruiters scan resumes for the best match with LLMs, candidates use the same LLMs (there's only like 3 of them) to tweak their resume for better m
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by drillsteps5 6mo ago
Even if you define Gen X birth years starting at 1965 (and not 1961 as some do), their oldest are already 61. So anybody between 55 and 61 is a Gen X, not a boomer. And for the 55+ group employment participation rate has been decreasing. Wh
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by drillsteps5 6mo ago
> t the same time, we're still seeing 55+ leave the labor force rapidly (~4M Boomers continue to retire per year, ~330k/month) Youngest Gen X are 46, oldest are 65. Can we stop with this "retiring boomers" thing?
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by drillsteps5 6mo ago
Ufff. >Those readings were the strongest since February 2020 (63.3%), signaling that more people were re-entering the workforce and helping to ease labor shortages in the wake of the pandemic. Labor shortages. In the wake of the pandemic
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by drillsteps5 6mo ago
Oracle has also owned JD Edwards since early 2000s which is in many large legacy companies (I think a lot of them are still in mainframes).
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by drillsteps5 6mo ago
Oracle the company has not been about Oracle the DB server for 20+ years. Oracle the company specializes in acquiring software, integrating it in their ecosystem, selling the installations, and living off the recurring licensing fees (NetSu
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by drillsteps5 6mo ago
They might drop it for end consumers but I doubt it. It's such a small niche right now they do not even care if they're in their cloud. Enterprise users are the absolute majority of their user base revenue-wise. However dropping t
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by drillsteps5 6mo ago
I very much would like to know how much of this presumably ordered (and backordered) hardware (RAM/SSD/.../wafers) is going to end up being released back to the market when the dust settles. I haven't seen any estimation
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by drillsteps5 7mo ago
I actually printed this one out to give it a thorough read, something I haven't done in a while :) I'll probably comment on the author's blog later. My first reaction is that it's a bit of oversimplification, LLMs have b
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by drillsteps5 7mo ago
Some people strongly prefer to have an external battery that can be swapped (as in pull a tab, remove the battery, and plug in another, which is fully charged). Older Thinkpads (T480 and earlier) had a second, smaller, battery inside that w
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by drillsteps5 7mo ago
T480 has 2 RAM slots and can support 64Gb (32+32). The reason it's "unofficial" is that when they designed it (and wrote PSREF) the 32Gb RAM wasn't a thing.
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by drillsteps5 7mo ago
I did a board swap on one of the older Thinkpads. Not that difficult, and the older boards are pretty cheap...
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by drillsteps5 7mo ago
I think it is less of a concern to the businesses buying these things brand new and more of a concern to the tinkerers who buy/repair/resell/use older models. There's a lot of people who still use ThinkPads made in early
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by drillsteps5 7mo ago
Yep. Aiphor's BlueFox NX1 with 4 inch screen is roughly the same size as original iPhone, but has a larger screen (iPhone had bigger bezels and the home button underneath). To me it feels a bit too small for things like typing/tex
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by drillsteps5 7mo ago
I dived into a niche world of small phones recently while looking for replacement to malfunctioning Pixel 4a (which is apparently now considered compact phone). There's a few small manufacturers in China making some, with 4 inch or 5
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by drillsteps5 7mo ago
I switched from Pixel 4a to Unihertz Max (5G phone with 5 inch screen from a small Chinese startup). Love the form factor, I can keep the phone in my front pants pocket again, next to my keys or wallet. I'm somewhat reluctant to put an
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by drillsteps5 8mo ago
I'm a simple man, I see Descent, I make sure to mention Overload. Amazing game, likely the first game ever I got to the end just to see how the story ends (yes there is a story and it's pretty good). I think the Revival studio did
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by drillsteps5 8mo ago
Does knowing the system architecture not help you with defining things like happy path vs edge case testing? I guess it's much less applicable for overall system testing, but in "normal" systems you test components separately
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by drillsteps5 8mo ago
>Why did NYC release it in the first place? Did they not QA it? How do you QA black box non-deterministic system? I'm not being facetious, seriously asking. EDIT: Formatting
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by drillsteps5 8mo ago
I still install (and use) FAR every time I rebuild Windows :) Edit: Reinstall, not rebuild obviously.
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by drillsteps5 8mo ago
I have a spreadsheet I've been using since 2017 to track all my spending and savings accounts on a weekly basis, plus some trend analytics, plus some simple graphs on multiple sheets. A few hundred rows and columns, both entered and ca
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by drillsteps5 8mo ago
That didn't work for me. I had my email, documents, some software I used on Windows and files it created (think Photoshop and PSDs). I needed time to find out if I could find similar/equivalent software on Linux, set up new workfl
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by drillsteps5 8mo ago
While you _can_ use their launcher, you don't _have_ to. Once you buy the game, you can just download the installer and run it to install on your box. If you want you can save the install package somewhere if you think you'll enjo
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by drillsteps5 8mo ago
Give me back the proper search which last worked Windows 7-ish (or XP?). And traditional Office interface (not stupid "context-specific" tiles).
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by drillsteps5 8mo ago
I think Linux is not quite there as gaming system. Simply due to games' compatibility (and I don't play latest and hottest titles, more like Cities-Skylines/Transport Fever/Anno/Satisfactory etc). Plus to my knowled
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by drillsteps5 9mo ago
Makes sense. The counterpoint would be that when they started to build LLMs they must have clearly seen limitations of the approach and proceeded regardless, and achieved quite a bit. So the approach to introduce continuous (in-vivo if you
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by drillsteps5 9mo ago
ANN is an attempted model/ripoff (turned out to be extremely simplified but still) of a brain, why not go further? Continuous autonomous learning (which requires continuous feedback in a way of good/bad stimuli) is clearly what ma

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