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by euroderf 1y ago
Isn't this where AI is sposta grok the entire mess and document it ? Or is there too little material to train a system on ?
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by euroderf 1y ago
Seems like a band of highly experienced COBOL programmers could organise/unionise and drive up their rates and even demand equity.
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by euroderf 1y ago
Yup that's where I was aiming. Is it thoroughly debunked ? It's a cool idea.
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by euroderf 1y ago
It might also work to require visible badge numbers, but then cops in a situation just put tape over them, without consequences.
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by euroderf 1y ago
> Often when I return to what I write, about 60% I look back at with the novelty gone, and reassess from a more suitable eye and cross them off the list. Related: "Write drunk, edit sober."
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by euroderf 1y ago
The Tri-State area (NY-NJ-Conn.) as New Netherland, I like it. It isn't NYS and it isn't south Jersey. I'd say create it tomorrow in a tri-state compact.
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by euroderf 1y ago
Oh but that's not even the best part. The rare total solar eclipse - those two sky-objects are so similar in size! - motivates (terrified) ancient man to observe, record, theorise, mathematise.
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by euroderf 1y ago
He wrote a book about jokes and how to tell them. Quite good.
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by euroderf 1y ago
And perhaps the advantages of this gradient extend up as far as aquatic apes.
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by euroderf 1y ago
10c is 50f (easy to remember) 27c is 81f (it's all threes!)
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by euroderf 1y ago
Ask the guinea pig (read: victim) also to think aloud.
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by euroderf 1y ago
A technical writer's first task is to start the document that onboards the next technical writer.
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by euroderf 1y ago
Something similar was possible with a PDP and teletypes at undergrad in the 70s. We had great fun sending (what looked like) operator messages to users telling them to log off or their teletype would BLOW UP.
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by euroderf 1y ago
This is a tourist survival skill in Russia.
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by euroderf 1y ago
Atteibuted to Ian Fleming: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action." So um how many dark patterns was that ?
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by euroderf 1y ago
The traditional (folk? premodern?) Finnish view of the world places Finland at the bottom.
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by euroderf 1y ago
And if you go to Iceland, take advantage of the duty-free for arrivals. The limits are kind of low but nobody seems to check them too closely.
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by euroderf 1y ago
So, a diet of only liquids ? But didn't they have the standard steak breakfast on launch day ?
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by euroderf 1y ago
An article in TV Guide back in the 70s said you could tune in to tornados too. You'd dial it down below channel 2 (IIRC) and you could pick up EM static generated by a tornado within range.
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by euroderf 1y ago
> the bigger the opportunity, the worse the people who flock to it. Isn't that the case almost everywhere ? I mean, look at the people that go into politics when there's little-to-no control of corruption.
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by euroderf 1y ago
> I speak of the elegant, elongated hyphen, the gentle friend and ally of all writers, used to set off a chunk of text within a sentence. There's nothing elegant about a punctuation mark firmly glued to the words on either side, mak
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by euroderf 1y ago
Two cheers for market communism ?
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by euroderf 1y ago
I wonder what property insurance companies would say about it, if they felt free to vent.
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by euroderf 1y ago
Related: Has anyone trained an LLM strictly on HN comments and linked-to articles ? I for one would get a kick out of interrogating it.
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by euroderf 1y ago
> Many people might have removed alcohol intake with cannabis use, to reduce overall caloric intake. A regular topic of conversation at college (in the 70s!) was, if you were stranded on a desert island and could only have one - demon ru
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by euroderf 1y ago
> you visit the private seller, you look at the vehicle, you check for the things one needs to check for, and you know if it has problems or not. And if you can't do this, you've got a cousin or uncle who can. I had good luck w
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by euroderf 1y ago
> it is often easier and faster to lose something than gain it And things that add to entropy are favored by nature, undoing human labor & endeavor. Related?
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by euroderf 1y ago
> Both of these squarely put ICE in the evil category. The Banality of Evil.
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by euroderf 1y ago
It's the spirit of the times.
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by euroderf 1y ago
Wow, "ffprobe --help | wc" yields 2234 lines. Some kind of record?

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