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by jaymzcampbell 2y ago
Four things for me stick out in the under $100: Like many people here, a no-name double edged metal safety razor: I think I got this for around $25 or so with a set of 100 blades and 3 soaps; compared with disposable razors, this has been a
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by jaymzcampbell 2y ago
I do this all the time even when I know I'm at the right place as my friends have young kids and I usually turn up around when they might be in bed, so I tend to just message my mate I'm there to see that I'm ready and outsid
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by jaymzcampbell 2y ago
This is really nicely done! Great work. I fell in love with just how efficient these can be and it explained a lot about why many of the trig and other mathematical functions implemented in 8-bit computers are they way they are. Here's
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by jaymzcampbell 2y ago
Yes, the title is very much clickbait, granted there's some discussion SWE related matters but really they're referring to the "tech industry" as whole, and which industry isn't squeezing at the minute... Some nont
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by jaymzcampbell 2y ago
I was in the exact same experience (and I'm also very risk averse), and I would say yes and no . Like most things it's complicated. But to keep it short I most certainly grew the most in my career – meaning in engineering, people
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by jaymzcampbell 2y ago
Separate conversations, I wanted to avoid any prehistory, though all under my logged in user so can't exclude any possible inference that way
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by jaymzcampbell 2y ago
Changing the last one to r=80 instead of r=40, GPT4o ends up saying: > The circles overlap in certain areas, depending on their size and position, creating a layered visual effect where the largest circle (third one) dominates most of th
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by jaymzcampbell 2y ago
Yes, I would certainly recommend them if you are personally motivated. I've previously studied at Imperial for my BEng and then did a Mathematics BSc and then followed up with an MSc with the OU and certainly as a mature student, I hav
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by jaymzcampbell 2y ago
GPT4o certainly gave it a good go (prompt: "What cartoon character would you say this SVG code renders most closely to?"). That's maybe a little too "prompting" tbf: """ The SVG code you provided crea
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by jaymzcampbell 2y ago
Stillwell's book is incredible, it hits the right balance between a textbook and a (advanced) lay person introduction to a huge range of topics.
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by jaymzcampbell 2y ago
I can agree with that, this is the primary textbook for the Open University's (excellent) Galois Theory MSc course ( https://www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/modules/m838 . I really enjoyed my time on that course. I
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by jaymzcampbell 2y ago
I've found the Code Review Stack Exchange to be pretty good for this sort of upskilling: https://codereview.stackexchange.com/?tab=month
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by jaymzcampbell 2y ago
The Game of Life is a 2-dimensional cellular automata (CA), so given the 1-dimensional rule 110 has been proven to be universal / Turing-complete [1], it becomes less mysterious. Albeit the complexity of the system required to set it u
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by jaymzcampbell 3y ago
I bought one of these, and really like it. My main issue would be is the mechanism is a little chunky so I resorted to blue-tacking a dice on the wall towards the bottom of it so that it's flush [1]. The width of a normal sized dice wa
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by jaymzcampbell 3y ago
I've been using GPT-4 to help me understand my MSc mathematics course and I've noticed this sort of stuff more and more as I start to look at the answers, always confidently written, in detail. Way back when GPT was just fresh on
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by jaymzcampbell 3y ago
I think it might be in reference to the semi-frequent heists that happen, that have real monetary value behind them. EVE players seem to be a special breed. Some of the stories are pretty incredible. - https://www.pcgamer.com&#x2
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by jaymzcampbell 3y ago
I read that as "sack 10% to selectively threaten the other 90% with a return to office".
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by jaymzcampbell 3y ago
They have always had a strong slant on investigative journalism. The whole back section (and quite a lot of the front tbh too) fall into that. The writing can still be acerbic but the journalism is hard hitting. They continue to honour one
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by jaymzcampbell 3y ago
I had a feeling this was going to be a Technology Connections video before clicking and was happy to see that was the case. Great channel and a wonderful archive of stuff on there.
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by jaymzcampbell 3y ago
We have a process whereby people can request a change after a certain period (and team permitting) to allow people to rotate amongst different clients and different work streams. I think it's usually after 6 months on one particular th
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by jaymzcampbell 3y ago
Not the OP but I can believe it - where I work the main business is consultancy style work but to support that work there's custom generic software developed to sell/license to clients as part of a value add and there's dozen
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by jaymzcampbell 3y ago
Similarly reminded me of the blockchain hype which you knew was just getting out of control when "On-Line PLC" by simply adding said word saw summarily a 4x increase in their share value over night (it's since fallen back to
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by jaymzcampbell 3y ago
...Play Tetris, of course! He named his monotile variant of the game Montris. (Another entrant had a similar idea, called Hatris.) There's no follow up comment but I'm wondering if they know such a game existed, by Alexey no les
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by jaymzcampbell 3y ago
tbh I was surprised to hear it myself. I work in an agency for a client 100% of my billable time. I don't work on Fridays where I certainly would've continued my day-to-day tasks. I'm kind of a tech lead on things (it's
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by jaymzcampbell 3y ago
I swapped to a 4 day week (with relevant pay cut, which certainly made it easier to justify with my employer) in order to finish my MSc without burnout and it's changed my life. The entire balance of the working week has changed - 4 da
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by jaymzcampbell 3y ago
This brought to mind the AARD "crash" which Microsoft used to basically destroy competition from DR-DOS back in the day. > The AARD code was a segment of code in a beta release of Microsoft Windows 3.1 that would determine whet
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by jaymzcampbell 3y ago
I wonder how much of this is led by the likes of paying $200 million to sign up Joe Rogan or $25 million for Harry and Megan. That's a big chunk of change. 9,000 employees too - 17% of the workforce out the door.
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by jaymzcampbell 3y ago
In terms of the hub-spoke issue (this used to pain me when my friend lived 15 mins by car away - but 1.5hrs by train as I had to go into central and all the way back out) - the SuperLoop[1] is in some way aimed to attempt to address that by
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by jaymzcampbell 3y ago
I wouldn't count on it, the current government have been giving Tfl a kicking on arguably ideological grounds (referring to our mayor, who I think on past statements would broadly agree with you). Bit hard to make such cuts and push im
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by jaymzcampbell 3y ago
On the topic of JSON and whatnot that reminded me of this awesome post[1] about looking within heap snapshots for entire data structures where they may have a lot of nicely structured data within it not readily available from more direct UR

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