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by gigel82 1y ago
I want them in arcade buttons to show the mapping for the currently playing emulator / game. You can get circular 0.71 inch LCD screens for under $1.50 (160x160) - which will fit all sizes of arcade buttons, but for some reason no one
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by gigel82 1y ago
I don't think it's Microsoft that favors it. It's likely customers. Claude wipes the floor with all the GPTs in GitHub Copilot (in my experience).
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by gigel82 1y ago
I am surprised all the time in this industry how many software engineers still debug with printf. It's entirely baffling how senior / staff folks in FAANG can get there without this essential skill.
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by gigel82 1y ago
So, Thronglets?
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by gigel82 1y ago
I have a strong suspicion this was some kind of stock / market attack. Phison dropped 14% (and their main competitor Silicon Motion increased 7% incidentally), while every single "news / slop" points to a single original
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by gigel82 1y ago
I'm curious what you think the alternative is, because Apple is definitely a lot worse, and we all know they're very much a duopoly. BTW, all the GrapheneOS, etc. are still Android phones.
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by gigel82 1y ago
> Our system can store the summer excess production for winter thermal demand. This concept appears immediately flawed. Heat will definitely escape the "dirt pile" at some point between summer and winter.
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by gigel82 1y ago
Ooh, pandemic flashback. Used this tool to "scan" the kiddos' homework with my phone. Switched to Quickscan later because it also integrates nicely with paperless-ngx.
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by gigel82 1y ago
I'm told that for all intents and purposes, Amy Hood is running Microsoft; Satya is just a talking head.
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by gigel82 1y ago
Damn... pretty good. Generated a 10 page booklet including high quality graphics and cohesive story right on point with my prompt. It would've taken me at least an hour mucking around with LLMs and image generators to get the same resu
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by gigel82 1y ago
What I want to know is how do I get myself off their damn list? I collected 46 different numbers pointing to at least 21 different domains before I gave up. Reported everything to the FCC but nothing happened. These "democratic" s
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by gigel82 1y ago
That's the right question to raise up.
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by gigel82 1y ago
Oh wow, sourceforge, can't believe this site survived after it started introducing malware into binary distributions.
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by gigel82 1y ago
I doubt this one is explicit "locking in", as much as it's reflecting the increasing internal complexity and lack of focus on product quality. I'd be willing to bet the internal teams dread working with the overly comple
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by gigel82 1y ago
That's overly optimistic. There are meager efforts to rein things in a little but at this point we're full on "regulatory capture" so I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if anything actually comes to pass.
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by gigel82 1y ago
I think there are 2 types of software engineering jobs: the ones where you work on a single large product for a long time, maintaining it and adding features, and the ones that spit out small projects that they never care for again. The lat
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by gigel82 1y ago
The worse is when tech execs elsewhere actually believe the BS or (more likely) use it as an excuse to put pressure on already overworked employees through layoffs and fear mongering. This is very real and it's happening now across the
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by gigel82 1y ago
I think more legal clarifications are needed here. If someone comes into your property to mount a trail cam or spy device, I believe you're allowed to remove it (even in a destructive manner). Not sure why the FAA insists a spy device
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by gigel82 1y ago
If drones have cameras and are hovering above someone's property I'd argue that's an extra incentive to the property owners to do something about it... unless we're saying it's perfectly legal to spy on anyone'
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by gigel82 1y ago
What this boils down to is an argument for slop. Yeah, who cares about the quality, the mediocrity, the craft... get the slop, push it in, call it done. It mostly works in the golden path, it's about 6 or 7 orders of magnitude slower t
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by gigel82 1y ago
It's so disappointing from IEEE to be arguing against user's freedom to own their devices. Supply chain attacks concerns are infinitesimally smaller than manufacturers writing buggy, unmaintained software / firmware. We shoul
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by gigel82 1y ago
For a while; when the majority of the population is out of a job, you won't need childcare as much either.
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by gigel82 1y ago
I'm told from MS friends that there are still files with the intact 1987 changelog in Word; as well as workarounds for dot matrix printers that were released 40+ years ago. Also, the Office codebase is significantly larger than Windows
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by gigel82 1y ago
It's not replacing jobs, but it's definitely the scarecrow invoked in layoff decisions across the tech industry. I suspect whatever metrics they use are simply too slow to measure the actual impact this is having in the job market
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by gigel82 1y ago
All those photos look fake / rendered. And they didn't even bother rendering an inside shot for a car that's all about the inside design choices.
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by gigel82 1y ago
I have to disagree. I have 25+ years of full time software engineer positions (after a short stint in management I've been back to IC for 15+ years) and it's extremely rare to spend more than 10% of my time coding in any given wee
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by gigel82 1y ago
When working in mature codebases and coordinating across teams, I'd say the time I spend "coding" is less than 5%. I do use GitHub Copilot to make coding faster, and sometimes to shoot ideas around for debugging, but overall
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by gigel82 1y ago
FWIW, the 27b Q4_K_M takes about 23Gb of VRAM with 4k context and 29Gb with 16k context and runs at ~61t/s on my 5090.
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by gigel82 1y ago
Off topic, but this website burned my eyes and I could almost hear my OLED crying. One of the rare examples where "Dark Reader" not only failed but actually made it more light; there must be some funky CSS shenanigans going on.
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by gigel82 1y ago
I have Navidrome with the "play:Sub" app on iOS (because it works with carplay) for a few obscure albums and it works ok, but I still pay for Spotify because it's convenient and it has most of the music I want. When we start

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