greyhair

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by greyhair 4y ago
Can it import DOT data? I have too many graphviz tools to just abandon dot.
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by greyhair 4y ago
Sometimes the least useful ideas are the best. Nice job.
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by greyhair 4y ago
As a developer, I really don't understand the lovefest for XP, other than in the context of Windows 98, in particular the Windows 98 ME fiasco, and the evolution of Windows NT into Windows 2000. Windows 7 pretty much fixed all the brok
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by greyhair 4y ago
That assumption of politeness and civility was well on its way out around 1998. That was the year I recall netnews turning into something resembling an open sewer. By 1999, I had dropped off netnews completely. It had gone from a wonderful
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by greyhair 4y ago
Dell Vostro laptops are not as sleek as their consumer models, but they are tanks, and they are a breeze to repair. I do like what Framework is doing, and my next laptop will likely be from them.
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by greyhair 4y ago
Is it a Lenovo ThinkPad, or one of their other models?
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by greyhair 4y ago
But pure ASICs get rid of even more of the GPU than just the output stage. A pure ASIC to cover the fundamental calculations in hardware with just a CPU to feed them data and pull results is the most efficient. Think of something as direct
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by greyhair 4y ago
It is really hard to design an efficient ASIC to predict the future compared to just designing an efficient ASIC after the future arrives. The tools available today support such rapid design/test cycles.
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by greyhair 4y ago
Oddly enough, the best time to bootstrap a brand new startup is just at the tail end of a crunch. I see a bunch of early startups popping up by the end of October.
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by greyhair 4y ago
I think human extinction through human stupidity or hubris is much much much more likely than through an unpredictable path down general AI. For example, some total whack job of an authoritarian leader is in charge of a sufficient nuclear a
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by greyhair 4y ago
> you’d almost shit yourself in excitement, your heart would race You need to watch "Being Ned Devine" if you have never seen it.
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by greyhair 4y ago
Where greed comes in is where people dive into a market precisely because it is going up like crazy, which you only know after it goes up like crazy, then when it takes a down turn, hang on too long because they don't want to give up t
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by greyhair 4y ago
Rick Scott says there was no right to a free public education in the Constitution. Ponder that for a while.
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by greyhair 4y ago
This. Exactly this. In some ways, this mirrors the current student debt crisis. Only 13% of the US population holds student debt, and 80% of student debt is held by earners in the upper 20% of income. But suddenly, we are supposed to cancel
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by greyhair 4y ago
The problem of transferring currencies is that you are always buying through currency traders, who are attempting to make a profit on knowing current exchange rates and predicting near and long term exchange rates. I was visiting Montreal f
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by greyhair 4y ago
Victim blaming is wrong, I agree with that completely. But a lot of 'coins' are just paper dreams, and live somewhere on the spectrum of the Nigerian Prince scam. (that, I realize, being the extreme example) I have a hard time fee
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by greyhair 4y ago
Did not know that. Makes sense though, given that decaying fruit is acidic.
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by greyhair 4y ago
I had an interview question that dealt with knowing some crazy shit about C data structure layout and pointers and casting. (Embedded development position) You had to solve it on a blackboard, with chalk, and the intent (I later learned) wa
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by greyhair 4y ago
You and me both. The last two thirds of my so far 38 (next month!) year career have been "call Doug, he knows this particular topic and he is a great team player". Most of those from people I never worked with, but they were askin
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by greyhair 4y ago
This is why I never have conversations with philosophy majors at parties. You are crawling through that same morass of specific straw man arguments that drive me nuts.
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by greyhair 4y ago
Everyone should work some form of retail job at least once in their life. I was a motorcycle mechanic for six years before going to college. Some customers where a joy, you looked forward to seeing them, most were just average Joes that nee
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by greyhair 4y ago
You catch more flys with sugar than with vinegar.
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by greyhair 4y ago
I had an interview at a startup years ago (got the job) that was grueling, about six hours total, you met with six different teams of three people, from different disciplines across the company. It was sort of a good cop/bad cop thing.
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by greyhair 4y ago
It has been these waves for the last forty years I have been doing this for a living. "The New Thing" shows up, people run around like chickens with heads cut off chasing "The New Thing", then "The New Thing" b
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by greyhair 5y ago
They are not talking about cognitive decline, they are talking about speed of processing. I am mid 60s, engineering for the last 38 years, and the depth of work is not a problem, but I definitely don't make the same snap judgements tha
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by greyhair 5y ago
I have said negative things about someone's favorite product and then abandoned a thread (not here on this site) because the stream of hate that followed drowned out the original message. People can be irrationally attached to the thin
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by greyhair 5y ago
I think one thing that makes an external stream deck work, is that it is a separate context sensitive device, that is mentally separated from the keyboard. So when you go to the deck to perform an action, you mentally context switch away fr
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by greyhair 5y ago
I have two different headsets I use for conferencing, on a USB with a mid-cable control for volume and mute, and a BT headset with physical buttons on the ear cups. I have messed with both, under Linux and Windows 10, and when they are mute
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by greyhair 5y ago
Worse than that are the SEO results that don't give you what you want at all. For products, one of the worst offenders is Target. Yes, Target. They show up near the top of about 60% of my searches, including for things they simply do n
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by greyhair 5y ago
Hence what happened to Usenet. I was active on comp.lang.c comp.lang.c.moderated comp.sys.3b1 comp.sys.3b2 back in the mid 1990s, by 1998, it had become a total hot mess. The moderated groups imploded, or shutdown, when the moderators just

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