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by fifticon 3y ago
news flash: You are working in exactly the same place.. it is just 5 years later :-) All that outdated technology you mention, was probably introduced as the newest-cant-live-without at some earlier time.
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by fifticon 3y ago
Also, car battery jumper cables are a timeless favorite for this purpose.
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by fifticon 3y ago
I don't think this was intended as "physically hitting". The intent was "ignore what the kid is requesting, and communicate to them 'no you don't want that, it is wrong to want that'". One way to do t
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by fifticon 3y ago
As an older male, I can confirm that all these causes add up. By controlling or limiting some of them, I can keep the consequences in check.
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by fifticon 3y ago
But of course there is the 'paradigm limitation', like when young people can think up new untried combinations, versus when old people are stuck in 'no no we tried that not gonna work', so I guess there is some truth to
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by fifticon 3y ago
IMHO, a good memory is an aid. To the extent that it appears as a hindrance, I believe this is a different problem that must be overcome by other means. My reasoning is, that the good memory is employed in learning about structures and patt
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by fifticon 3y ago
I would upvote for 'gags of four'.
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by fifticon 3y ago
it was, my father made a cherry mx kbd for ours, based on a magazine article
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by fifticon 3y ago
https://lobste.rs/ is one alternative.
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by fifticon 3y ago
and chrush any pedestrians they hit.
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by fifticon 3y ago
I don't agree with this line of reasoning. I would not expect a random commercial company to decide to do this on their own. I would expect the population and politicians of a country to realise this is what needs to be done, and to pu
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by fifticon 3y ago
Probably not everyone does so, but I certainly do. The more MS tries to reinstate MS-EdgeExplorer as a windows locked default, the greater lengths I go to, to ensure it is continously disabled and uninstalled. My experience so far is that t
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by fifticon 3y ago
this was me too
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by fifticon 3y ago
the bit about windows is that the feature is exploited by ms to get you onto online accounts, but not really to help YOU. recently, we couldnt launch mineceaft, because windows was missing a windows update.. wtf.. like when pokemongo wont
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by fifticon 3y ago
I dont recognise that it is so easy to apply these limits, even though I work in tech. When trying to block through Windows, I get lost in a dark patterns maze of microsoft online family accounts, where I ended up with corrupt windows use
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by fifticon 3y ago
Knotweed in denmark says hello :-). I've been semi-daily (summer months) cleaning a 2×12 m patch of knotweed for 4 years now, on a house we bought. Currently I have it covered with dark fabric, which I regularly remove to pull up the
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by fifticon 3y ago
this is a recent thing, the 1700s would like to have a word :-)
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by fifticon 3y ago
I must admit I have more faith in the air travel industry (in spite of 737max) than I do in the software industry. Though we are capable of building 'bridge quality software', a lot of current software to me more resembles a weste
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by fifticon 3y ago
There are a lot of factors at play here (for humans in general). I myself, in my 50s, painfully clearly experience the contrast between the 'automatic recall' of any random stuff from the time of e.g. my early twenties, with not
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by fifticon 3y ago
Performancewise java actually isn't bad. In the middle nineties, java would feel slow compared to e.g. C, but we've come a long way since. Some basic tricks are sticking to fixed arrays, and avoiding angering the garbage collector
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by fifticon 3y ago
I second the guy above here: The problem I see most often is that when you have to modify existing installations, parts of them will have been done by people who didn't know what they were doing, and if you aren't sharp (a profess
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by fifticon 3y ago
the worst thing about windows paths is how unintegrated it all is. You can navigate into all kinds of weird paths in the win32 com shell (file explorer), which is itself possibly the pinnacle of executed design MS ever achieved. But those p
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by fifticon 3y ago
It feels like something designed by somebody who was explained by someone else what they had to do, but never themselves understood the 'why'. Like WPF, which feels like it was made by someone who never had to actually do GUIs the
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by fifticon 3y ago
The part of my rant about a basic scene setup, was unclear. I'm disappointed about this part of the babylon design. It just doesn't work very well, and isn't very well thought through/designed (at least, I've seen
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by fifticon 3y ago
I wonder if it has become easier to use and more useful. I had a brief stint where I became exited about it (based on what I later came to view as hype), and spent some effort trying to make it do cool stuff. I ended up abandoning it for a
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by fifticon 3y ago
I second this. On the projects where I work, I see a lot of 117 reinventions of square wheels, with their accompanying bugs, for things like multi-column lists, scroll, selection models, and drop-downs. And I know we used to have those thi
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by fifticon 4y ago
In my view, we are often well served by a perspective in the direction of Sergey's. I see a gradual scale from applications to full languages. When I write applications, I try to define types and operations on those types. When I feel
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by fifticon 4y ago
I wonder the number would be somewhat larger than 10.. Still, my hands can reach the keys on a keyboard, so I won't give up..
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by fifticon 4y ago
I would rather target consumer-hostile practices like youtube not letting users see downvotes, and the generally useless ratings and broken search in places like app stores. When something ends up with a 95% approval rating, it is almost gu
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by fifticon 4y ago
We live in jaded times. I first misread the title as 'making AIporn from scratch'.

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