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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
Fair point.
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
With the greatest of respect, if you’d put “Windows NT 3.1” originally then I wouldn’t have commented. But you didn’t. Anyway, I think we’re both plenty experienced on both platforms so I don’t see any need for us to argue over NT or not to
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
No they’re not. The GUI design came from Windows 3.0. What NT do was take the design of that and the branding of Windows to help sell NT. But NT 3.1 is a completely different OS to Windows 3.1. They might look the same, but one has OS/
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
Except NT 3.1 is still NT and NT didn’t “invent” the 3.1 design. They modelled it after Windows 3.1 (though technically Windows 3.0) and named NT as NT 3.1 for brand familiarity. So NT 3.1 != Windows 3.1 As you said “history here is importa
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
You’ve linked to NT, not Win 3.x They were entirely different OSs. Edit: the previous poster has since completely rewritten this comment to talk about windows NT. they originally talked about Windows (without the NT) then linked to an NT wi
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
Your example isn’t what your quote is referring to. “Now this” is just a segue between unrelated topics. Eg “and now a word from our sponsors”.
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
Depends on what you class as “old”. Remember that a great many British homes are 50+ years old. You certainly wouldn’t have considered having multiple phones in a house when they were built. So the extra socket was added after it was built.
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
> Seek? In the grand scheme of things asking forgiveness only applies if you're going to not be that transformative That’s not why I said. > something like YouTube's automated copyright strikes might affect you. "Ask Fo
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
That just means it’s then subject to its own copyright. It doesn’t mean that the derivative work is also exempt from the terms of the original copyright. For example, you can use a sample in a new song. And that new song can by copyrighted.
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
Derivative work isn’t automatically allowed under copyright law regardless of whether you’re trying to “deceive” people or not.
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
> It's not the cost of protecting one transaction from another transaction I know it’s not and never suggested it was. I was making the point that writes contain more overhead than reads (which should be obvious) so people should be
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
This might be true for SELECTs, but I found INSERTs are massively slower when compared to grouping in transactions. Which should be obvious. But I could see some reading this blog post and jumping to the wrong conclusion.
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
I’m a similar age and have also lived in a few houses over the years. I’ve never lived in any place that didn’t have more than one phone socket. Though I have noticed multiple sockets are less common in really old houses which haven’t seen
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
Oh wow. Thats definitely something…
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
Maybe, but so does Trump. And that’s who these figures are really meant for. I doubt it will make any difference though, because Trump is about as brain damaged as they come.
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
I doesn’t feel like that long ago when I built a swarm of Arch Linux based thin clients which PXE booted from a SLES DHCP & NFS host. That was probably around 2010 or 2015. Those images had to run on a thin client with 512 MB RAM. I thi
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
I’d expect every line of code to get reviewed in any organisation. The difference with AI is that the “prompt engineer” reviews the output, and then the code gets peer reviewed like usual from someone else too.
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
I think the GP is correct. You can get some of the way writing prompts with very little effort. But you almost always hit problems after a while. And once you do, it feels almost impossible to recover without restarting from a new context.
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by hnlmorg 9mo ago
Whilst I agree with your point, I think what sometimes gets lost in these conversations is that reviewing code thoroughly is harder than writing code. Personally, and I’m not trying to speak for everyone here, I found it took me just as l
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
> There overly simplistic comments from the "run from AWS" crowd as well as from the "just outsource everything to cloud" crowd. Not in this thread there isn’t. And that’s what I’m replying to.
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
The hard part of software development is equivalent to the hard part of engineering: Anyone can draw a sketch of what a house should look like. But designing a house that is safe, conforms to building regulations, and which wouldn't be
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
That’s because architecting stuff for the cloud effectively means you’re building your infrastructure differently to how you’d run dedicated servers. I say this as someone who’s done both professionally. As a DevOps hiring manager, if you s
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
That’s great, until realise that you’re now spending money on infrastructure elsewhere instead. I’m not going to pretend AWS is cost effective for every type of problem. But the comments here are overly simplistic. Also, and more generally,
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
Where did you grow up? You lived closer to a city than I did but the UK doesn’t have insane zoning laws like the US so there was still plenty to do even in my small town.
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
It’s not about Words capabilities. It’s because a line chef’s responsibility wouldn’t be to create menus let alone manage catering contracts. You’d expect that more from the executive chef. Perhaps also the sous chef. This is why I said it’
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
This is a moot point, but line chefs wouldn’t be the ones writing menus or signing catering contracts. Otherwise I think we’re in completely agreement.
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
That’s depends on your job. If you’re a line chef or florist, then you probably don’t use Word much. But that doesn’t mean MS Office isn’t still heavily used in other industries.
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
Most of the texts that matter are. Yeah you’re not going to find some random flat earth blog in the library, but equally, that’s a good thing. However, I wasn’t talking specifically about libraries. The web did still exist 20 years ago. W
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
The problem is companies are increasingly looking at the economy as someone else’s problem. And that results in a race to the bottom as each business sees what the other does and then makes the same cuts to improve their own margins too. Wh
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by hnlmorg 10mo ago
> None of the above was possible just 20 years ago. Most of those things were actually possible. In many cases they weren’t as convenient, but as a child of the 80s I can tell you that life wasn’t like the dark ages before we all got sma

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