drpossum

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by drpossum 3y ago
"are easily disproven by a quick read of the article". Some people don't have the room to trust that it will always and flawless not do those things from their security needs. You're right most people don't car
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by drpossum 3y ago
What is the "greed at the regulators" scenario you're talking about?
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by drpossum 3y ago
Having watched decades of companies start and then succeed or die based on uncontrollable situations, the only thing I found is you will only succeed if you truly have a good model or product and a niche. You can't succeed if you don&#
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by drpossum 3y ago
You missed their (still not completely resolved) "cannot uninstall new core AI plugin that nags you and asks for money while it ships off your code to unknown servers" fiasco a few weeks ago
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by drpossum 3y ago
Computers are the worst and should be treated with nothing but disdain and trepidation. Just talk with anyone who has worked with computers for more than an hour.
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by drpossum 3y ago
Really disheartened they feel they need to point out "As we move towards a new era, in which AI is playing a transformative role". Fully expecting more AI "freemium" garbage to be shoveled into products where I don&#x27
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by drpossum 3y ago
Agreed that's what I went looking for too. Though they say it's "50 times slower" and is in reverse, so maybe it wasn't that interesting to see in the first place relative to the turbulence flows they show.
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by drpossum 3y ago
If you read the article it basically says "not really directly". > "It might seem that reversing a sprinkler is not of much practical interest, admits Ristroph, “since we don’t need to ‘unwater’ our lawns.” But he says tha
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by drpossum 3y ago
They're gonna get themselves sued using the Apple logo
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by drpossum 3y ago
One of many online versions https://bigfive-test.com/test
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by drpossum 3y ago
Yes, it was qualified with "let's say non-voting shares don't exist" for a reason.
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by drpossum 3y ago
The dual structure of shares was mentioned, but, let's say there's not "non voting shares". "Can I buy shareholder voting rights separately from the actual money value of the shares?": Buying shareholder votin
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by drpossum 3y ago
That's literally the opposite reading? The teachers who got better education didn't perform that much better, so the education needed does not need to improve. Based on that article the argument would be "if you want to rai
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by drpossum 3y ago
We've sadly really lost a core aspect of web design.
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by drpossum 3y ago
"If you don't need javascript you're making things complex and slow. Therefore everything about React is bad. I offer no alternatives for the actual use case." is a pretty nuclear take.
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by drpossum 3y ago
Just another milestone in the cryptocurrency speedrun of "the rediscovery of financial regulatory systems"
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by drpossum 3y ago
I assume they're different from me and write bug-free code that never needs to be refactored the first time.
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by drpossum 3y ago
Consider finding a new boss
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by drpossum 3y ago
AI plugins that analyze and ship your code off need to be able to set more important boundaries by their very nature for many environments, to say nothing of normal privacy expectations.
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JetBrains forces AI freemium plugin that cannot be completely removed into IDEs(youtrack.jetbrains.com)
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by drpossum 3y ago
A few days ago JetBrains put in their answer to other coding AI assistants into their IDES, but decided on top of the nags for their new paid service have made it so it can't be completely removed. If you try to do the normal thing and
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by drpossum 3y ago
Just doing some basic stuff between classic and Nova the refactoring speed is infinitely better. I'm not sure you understand the pain people have with classic
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by drpossum 3y ago
Wow, slashdot still exists.
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by drpossum 3y ago
Remember Slashdot?
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by drpossum 3y ago
Well, it got me to pay attention so I could get high and mighty about spelling. Mission accomplished, I guess!
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by drpossum 3y ago
I know it's possible. I do it when I get up out of my chair.
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by drpossum 3y ago
Having been on the "actually has to deal with the aftermath of investing in no-code" that is when the cost comes in. Out of the literally dozen or so places I've worked and the half of those that went heavy on low code, it h
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by drpossum 3y ago
I use rust as a case study about what happens when don't manage a need for users because of indecision and inflexibility. I've generally been disappointed by the rust community because of inflexibility and the unfortunate infight
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by drpossum 3y ago
I did Windows/WSL for years and have bailed. No amount of integration or functionality will ever make me put up with the user-hostile and attention-thieving design of Windows 11. I'd stop using computers completely if I had no o
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by drpossum 3y ago
That's right and you have a choice to accept that job. If the tooling takes you by surprise you either didn't do your due diligence with a new employer or you were lied to.

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