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by fcatalan 8mo ago
The message is that process is there to extract value from people with average skills and motivation. When you find someone very skilled and self motivated doing the right thing, don't let process hamper their way.
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by fcatalan 8mo ago
Apparently the weld that broke joined an old segment with a new one installed last year as the tracks are renovated piecemeal. Still the media in question, "El Mundo", is a mouthpiece for the opposition parties, seeking to create
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by fcatalan 9mo ago
This has some crossover with ageism. In the last years in my org all the senior staff has been put to pasture doing either nothing or confined strictly to whatever they were already doing. Some part of it is that we are perceived as lazy ob
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by fcatalan 9mo ago
I'm always somewhat uncomfortable with any solutions that can be summed up as "AI for me but not for thee".
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by fcatalan 10mo ago
I bought a expensive fancy pan for my wife's birthday a few years ago. We both cook, clean and do groceries and chores equally so it never occurred to me that it was inappropriate. We both like cooking. I'm more of a stewpot guy w
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by fcatalan 10mo ago
Not as hugely generous as this story, but during his whole college professor career since the 70s, my father always took care that none of his students spent any major holidays alone and away from home, so we always ended up having 2 or 3 o
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by fcatalan 10mo ago
I think the cars reflect pretty well the intended ethos and "vibes" of both competitions. Indycar still feels a bit like "dudes racing cars" while F1 has become a corporate hi-tech extravaganza. Both have their appeal, b
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by fcatalan 10mo ago
AKA the real world, a place where you have older appliances, legacy servers, contractual constraints and better things to do than watch a nasty yearly ritual become a nasty monthly ritual. I need to make sure SSL is working in a bunch of ve
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by fcatalan 1y ago
That tracks with how great it feels when you match the positions of the virtual and real wheels when simracing. Peeking under the lenses you see your own arms seamlessly continue into the virtual ones and feels like you are grabbing the vir
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by fcatalan 1y ago
In many occasions, if there's a proposal for something very stupid or pointless I've found it's better to just say "yes", knowing full well the thing will never get done. The manager didn't really want the thin
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by fcatalan 1y ago
I have a Quest 3 and use it daily, but it's still a failure for Meta: I just click past their risible Horizons crap and use it exclusively for simracing, hooked to my PC. When I get another headset it will be a PC-VR dedicated one, bec
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by fcatalan 1y ago
I'm Spanish. I make about 40k/yr. I wouldn't move to the US for, say, 200k. I have excellent 0€ out of pocket 0 paperwork healthcare. I walk to my 35 hours per week job. I have about 50 days of vacation each year. I have a sm
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by fcatalan 1y ago
My grandfather lived to 102 and only the last few months were bad, nothing dramatic, just fading away at home, no hospital. I'd sign up for the same
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by fcatalan 1y ago
My org is always a decade behind, so I'm still just ignoring the official push for whatever Oracle low code crap is called. Hiring is as haphazard and inadequate as it has been in the last 25 years, no change there. AI usage is persona
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by fcatalan 1y ago
That guy that doesn't even show up might be just playing videogames... Or maybe taking credit for your work over a coffee with the boss of your boss
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by fcatalan 1y ago
I had more luck with a little experiment a few days ago: I took phone pics of one of the shorter BASIC listings from Tim Hartnell's "Giant Book of Computer Games" (I learned to program out of those back in the early 80s, so I
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by fcatalan 1y ago
He's a disingenuous troll, not even worth engaging. Let him bask in the glory of his Greater North Korea alone.
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by fcatalan 1y ago
Just last Friday I was doing some cut&paste proof of concept of "Gemini plays Genesis MUD". I gave Gemini a little prompt and just started pasting the game output into Gemini and the commands from Gemini back into the MUD. It
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by fcatalan 1y ago
I "saved" another two. In late 1994 my only Internet access was a small room at Uni with 2 unattended ancient 286 PCs someone had set up for international students to check their emails but was always empty. Soon I joined a group
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by fcatalan 1y ago
There was even some kind of brouhaha with people claiming EQ was literally graphics on top of an uncredited MUD codebase.
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by fcatalan 1y ago
Think text-based World of Warcraft. In fact the heritage is the inverse: from MUDs we got MMORPGs
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by fcatalan 1y ago
As a lifelong Tolkien fan I have always been fascinated by Old English. Not enough for any serious study, but when things like this pop up I always take a look. Then I like to sound a bunch of verses, it feels epic even if you don't un
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by fcatalan 1y ago
At that time I was developing with a friend what later was called a Learning Management System: It had content management, assignment uploads, event calendar, grade management, real time chat, forums... It was all plain C via CGI and it was
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by fcatalan 1y ago
This resonates a lot with me. In fact it's a trait that has made me unhappy for as long as I can remember. I'm seeing a therapist later this month because in a talk with my GP she saw strong enough hints of ADHD to send me there,
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by fcatalan 1y ago
I haven't had an useful meeting in years. All the important collaboration and decision making has happened organically in text chat, which is great because it's all searchable and dated, and I do refer to that a lot. In fact they
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by fcatalan 1y ago
I use it a lot for reducing friction. When I procrastinate about starting something I ask the AI to come up with a quick plan. Maybe I'll just follow the first step, but it gets me going. Sometimes I´ll even go a bit crazy on this plan
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by fcatalan 1y ago
To be honest not visiting some websites is one of my main uses of Perplexity. For example I like to watch F1 and I like to know the times for all sessions in my timezone during the weekend. It's surprisingly hard to find this informat
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by fcatalan 1y ago
I brought over the source of the Dear imgui library to a toy project and Cline/Gemini2.5 hallucinated the interface and when the compilation failed started editing the library to conform with it. I was all like: Nono no no no stop.
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by fcatalan 1y ago
Yes there's a feedback page for each round explaining the pic and showing the location, also a breakdown page after every 5 round match.
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by fcatalan 1y ago
Yes, score rankings are missing. There's a leaderboard for the daily, but only shows accounts you have friended. For reference, I tend to hover around 44k for the daily. 48k is a lucky/easy day, 40k some disaster happened. Under 4

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