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by indymike 11mo ago
There was a considerable debate on the ergonomics of terminal colors, where the pseudoscience said green and amber were the best... and white wasn’t very good. I’m not sure what the truth was. Adding a couple of inches to the 12-inch screen
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by indymike 11mo ago
And 73% of paas are deploy scripts for existing software. It's how the industry works.
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by indymike 11mo ago
A long time ago a mentor of mine said, "In tech, often an expert is someone that know one or two things more than everyone else. When things are new, sometimes that's all it takes." It's no surprise it's just prompt
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by indymike 11mo ago
> I will say that schools are much better at dealing with this behavior now. As a father of five, with the youngest now in high school, my recent experience is we've moved from physical violence to using the system to bully victims.
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by indymike 11mo ago
> There is something particularly dark and unjust about supporting the persistance of tyranny through the blaming of (solely or not) those who defend themselves. The right to defend one's self is a critical requirement for freedom,
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by indymike 11mo ago
This doesn't really seem like an appropriate response to what amounts to a trade policy dispute, and one that sounds like it can be resolved.
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by indymike 1y ago
A lot of people here's careers have been made by moving into AWS. A lot of people's future careers will be made by moving out of AWS. That's just the tech treadmill in action. Do what works best for your situation.
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by indymike 1y ago
It's as if the web as we known it has outgrown it's usefulness to individual people beyond interacting with companies and government. Time for something new. No idea what, but we need a way for people to share with people... That&
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by indymike 1y ago
Nah, we’d still get architecture wrong.
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by indymike 1y ago
Too easy to cheat.
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by indymike 1y ago
KDE Connect is amazing. It's convenient.
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by indymike 1y ago
Usually boring and dangerous are harder problems that easy work.
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by indymike 1y ago
> Corporations are pushing remote attestation now. They can detect if we "tampered" with our devices now. This is not new, and has been the case since the mid 1990s. > Installed your own open source software? All services de
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by indymike 1y ago
Including regulatory and litigation expenses, this is simply not true. That said, coal is very dirty and is not the best choice for power generation because of pollution. Coal is pretty cheap, and it's take most of my lifetime to chang
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by indymike 1y ago
KDE has been my daily driver since 2008. The upgrade from KDE2 to KDE3 was a nightmare, but once the dust settled, KDE became quite good... One of my favorite things about KDE is how they have left the user a wide berth to customize their e
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by indymike 1y ago
Faster compiler means developers can go faster.
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by indymike 1y ago
> but rather that they're doing that while Chinese competitors are releasing models in vaguely similar ballpark under Apache license. The LLM isn't 100% of the product... the open source is just part. The hard part was and is p
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by indymike 1y ago
It is actually a financial problem too. Servers stop working when the bill goes unpaid. Sad but true.
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by indymike 1y ago
Yes, that is true, but the original poster said getting rid of caches was always a good idea, when in reality the answer (as usual with engineering) is “it depends.”
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by indymike 1y ago
> Fun fact: Bob Colwell (chief architect of the Pentium Pro through Pentium 4) recently revealed that the Pentium 4 had its own 64-bit extension to x86 that would have beaten AMD64 to market by several years, but management forced him to
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by indymike 1y ago
Sometimes, a cache is all about reducing expense: I.e, free cache query vs expensive API query.
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by indymike 1y ago
Google has turned into altavista
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by indymike 1y ago
They stil got the never leave part right.
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by indymike 1y ago
I get a kick out of it when a product manager comes suggesting we diable text selection. "oh, you want to disable the single most usable and powerful interoperability feature in our product?" "Yeah. Do we really want people l
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by indymike 1y ago
I'm going through this with pricing for our product and the battle is: Customer: wants predictable spend Sales/Marketing: wants an amazing product that is easy to sell (read does the mostest for the leastest) Advisors: want to see
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by indymike 1y ago
Hmm. If the annual subscription is $100 then the value of fixing this is $100. If it is free, then, what's the profile worth for a year... there's the value. User retention is a thing.
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by indymike 1y ago
Now that bs work has next to no cost, I see a lot more bs work being done, and often on pointless bureaucratic activities involving generating questionnaires and answering them. It's as if the activities add up to a big net zero.
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by indymike 1y ago
Yeah, the problem with markdown lies with its simplicity and outside of links, trying to be mostly like old-ascii email text before HTML email. That's also its strength. I was very much a fan of RST until markdown took over, and it rem
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by indymike 1y ago
First rule of backdoors: the intended user may not be the only user.
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by indymike 1y ago
> C++ the computer will generally catch your errors while with Markdown it will never catch your errors. Conveying meaning at the bitwise operator level is a different thing than applying emphasis to a few words in a sentence with boldin

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