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by fingerlocks 7d ago
We’re not allowed to understand it. Gotta hit your PR quota to keep your job. I wish I was joking.
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by fingerlocks 9d ago
I am absolutely certain that I read this same blog post on a 1990s geocities-style page, or nearly identical in content and prose. I know this because I even showed it to my high school Astronomy teacher, who found it equally fascinating f
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by fingerlocks 9d ago
The quant side of finance is stochastic calculus and chaos, that’s what they’re talking about. Mandelbrot himself published a pop-sci book about the new fractal math of the stock market
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by fingerlocks 10d ago
Everyone got laid off. Massive cost cutting across all orgs. Engineers are now evaluated on AI usage and pull request frequency, and not bugs fixed or performance improvements.
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by fingerlocks 13d ago
Okay that’s even more pathetic. Is it using only CPU bound software rendering? I do 3d programming on MacOS. I can assure you that it’s not slow because it’s just super-duper complex. No, it just sucks.
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by fingerlocks 13d ago
Png is still being updated, just last year it was updated to support a wider color space than any other web format. This shipped in all browsers before the official spec was publicly so you’ve been seeing Png upgrades without even realizing
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by fingerlocks 13d ago
I think it’s just an electron wrapper over a browser version. Impressively sluggish, clunky, and unresponsive for a so-called native app
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by fingerlocks 14d ago
Uh, no? It obviously matters. The market for small batch locally made produce is huge. Entire grocery stores dedicated to local organic offerings is the standard in every upper middle class neighborhood on the entire west coast. The reason
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by fingerlocks 15d ago
Modify the analogy: nobody cares about the mother’s tomatoes and everyone around her says they’re indistinguishable from the cheap supermarket variety. Even if it’s not true
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by fingerlocks 16d ago
Explicitly told we should not be writing code anymore at Microsoft.
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by fingerlocks 16d ago
Render shader output is no-op for offscreen viewport buffers because the view delegates redraw to the render pipeline. A render shader writing to disk has the same effect
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by fingerlocks 16d ago
Go back in time and read the react-native vs native debates. Many react advocates claimed otherwise
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by fingerlocks 1mo ago
Sure, for an ideal smooth and cohesive movement with a clean exit, maybe. But I bet you’re more often carpet bombing sloppy joe’s and wading through the trenches of swamp ass
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by fingerlocks 1mo ago
Ha, I didn’t realize “catch-all” was a technical term of art. Thanks for clarifying!
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by fingerlocks 1mo ago
Going back on topic, Apple offers mail hosting for custom domain, along with the optional “one mailbox, infinite aliases” feature we’re discussing right now. I’ve been using it for a while now and no bot spam. No spam at all actually.
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by fingerlocks 1mo ago
Good news! New outlook stores each email in a separate tarball of html. Bad news for your hard drive though
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by fingerlocks 1mo ago
I was doing firmware + mobile a at large-ish startup a decade ago. Same story as Sonos; there was a push to go all cloud instead of our local network implementation that worked great. I argued breathlessly against it for days. I’ll never fo
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by fingerlocks 1mo ago
Additionally, the models need to breed with each other and produce offspring models by merging a random selection of their weights. Only models suitably fit to attract a model mate will pass their weights to future generations of models. Pr
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by fingerlocks 1mo ago
the arthritis is in the joints that suffered climbing trauma, it’s 100% related and not at all uncommon. My orthopedic surgeon is also a climber
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by fingerlocks 1mo ago
Over twenty years of non-stop rock climbing, and I have so much arthritis in my upper body that it pains me to do simple tasks. I’m in my forties. Sometimes a little neglect ain’t so bad.
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by fingerlocks 2mo ago
Firmware development, IoT, basically anything embedded. Mobile devs that want a responsive debugger. Yubikey authentication. Smart card readers. Remoting into air-gapped machines. Thats just stuff I do.I’m sure there are many other use case
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by fingerlocks 2mo ago
Are you saying that your employers prevent you from accessing any potential data-leaking avenues? No usb ports, really? That’s an insane level of paranoia. Do you work for the mob or a drug cartel? How do you even compile and debug?
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by fingerlocks 2mo ago
You can log into your personal account and have iCloud file sync disabled. I mean what does that prevent that you couldnt do by some other means? I could also just use a browser to drag and drop anything to my personal google drive. Or use
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by fingerlocks 2mo ago
Even Microsoft lets you use your personal iCloud account on corp laptops. They can’t snoop your personal data without disabling SIP or showing system level privacy prompts or recording indicators.
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by fingerlocks 2mo ago
You should see a doctor. Acetone only dries out the top skin layers, which immediately triggers a healing response and accelerates the shed cycle. Dermatologists use acetone prior to skin surgery to speed up the recovery. It’s extremely saf
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by fingerlocks 2mo ago
A responsible adult prepares in advance for any risk of something horrible happening. This is why sober Trip Sitters exist. There is actually a market for this; you can pay someone to be your designated driver of drugs. Very common
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by fingerlocks 2mo ago
I’ve always been skeptical about caffeine’s alleged physical dependence. I’m a two or three cups a day consumer, but I’ve quit many times and never felt any different. This has been entirely by accident, like forgetting to pack coffee on a
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by fingerlocks 2mo ago
For every addict, there are many responsible adults that can set healthy boundaries and have a positive relationship with recreational drugs. This article is for them.
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by fingerlocks 2mo ago
Just like acetone.
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by fingerlocks 2mo ago
> If everyone loses their job, there is going to be something that works itself out. You can’t be serious. The entire crux of your argument rests on this one hand-waving “just trust me bro” dismissive?

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