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by jen729w 3y ago
> At the end of the day, we have to accept there is no perfect system of categorization. Some will prefer hierarchies. Some will prefer tags. From the tone of the article, it is clear that they prefer hierarchies. I’m the Johnny who wrot
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by jen729w 3y ago
I find myself writing like this all the time. I omit the 'I', writing it like I say it. Then I read back my own words and invariably insert the 'I' as I realise it doesn't make sense.
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by jen729w 3y ago
Hey, Johnny here. Always happy to help, answer questions, give support. Glad you find it useful.
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by jen729w 3y ago
None of this works. Our carbon emissions continue to grow. Every year is larger than the last. The largest year for emissions in human history was 2022. The next will be 2023, and then 2024 will beat it. Our rate of growth is slowing, but
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by jen729w 3y ago
Burkeman has a lovely series on Sam Harris’ ‘Waking Up’ app. It’s based on his book, which is also lovely, but isn’t just him reading it. Free month here. No benefit to me. https://dynamic.wakingup.com/shareOpenAccess/S
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by jen729w 3y ago
Oh it’s way lower than that. Once you’re past a certain door everything including the toilet paper is marked SECRET, just in case. Why not? Better be safe than sorry. And who has the time to actually evaluate every document? Source: I worke
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by jen729w 3y ago
This feels like a technology that will be ‘ready’ in ten (twenty?) years, but to dismiss it now a) feels unimaginative and b) precludes that from ever happening. Do I want to wear big goggles? No. Do I, one day, want a device that can magic
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by jen729w 3y ago
This, still? Do people like you think that people like me buy AirPods because influencers do? Might it just be that they’re astonishingly good wireless headphones? I mean is that possible in your mind?
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by jen729w 3y ago
2007: ‘There’s no way I’d watch my kid’s entire school play through a 4” screen just so that I could get a recording of it.’ 2023: ‘I certainly wouldn't be wearing ski goggles while he blows out candles.’ We — perhaps not you , but hu
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by jen729w 3y ago
Appreciate the link, could you edit the `.m` out of the URL so it doesn’t point us all to the mobile version? Ta. > Therefore, ballastless tracks must be concreted within a tolerance of 0.5 millimetres Wow.
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by jen729w 3y ago
The onus is on you to prove that they do understand. One may not simply claim that a machine ‘understands’ because it appears to. Now we’re actually in the much-misunderstood Occam’s razor: that the theory which introduces the fewest new
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by jen729w 3y ago
Dividing by 7 is also a cool trick and it’s way easier than this. 1/7th is 0.142857 recurring. All you need to remember is one-four-two-eight-five-seven. Say it over and over. It’s my favourite number. The magic: to get 2/7, 3&#x2
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by jen729w 3y ago
I just spent a week almost-pointlessly rebuilding my site with the sole goal of supporting full-content RSS. I already had a feed, to be clear. Just not full content. Long live RSS.
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by jen729w 4y ago
It’s a lot of geographical Australia. Which isn’t a lot of people. A million, perhaps. Two at most.
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by jen729w 4y ago
Yes! I'm Johnny.Decimal and I'm starting to advocate for the idea of 'the Librarian' at work. You need someone to organise your stuff. That person needs the right skills -- passion, even -- to do that job. Today that rol
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by jen729w 4y ago
> one of those payment monopolists decides you shouldn't be able to spend your money I assume you keep all of your money at home? Oh, you keep it at the bank. And withdraw it using a plastic card? Well then.
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by jen729w 4y ago
I’ll just throw Magnet in the ring for a tiling solution. I have keyboard shortcuts well in muscle memory now for left/right third/half/two-thirds, and all four corners at a quarter of screen, and full screen. I find that mee
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by jen729w 4y ago
time.is is all you need
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by jen729w 4y ago
Ah okay and now I’ll never sleep again, cheers.
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by jen729w 4y ago
I once had money deposited in to my account, repeatedly, that wasn't mine. It was a pain in the ass. I didn't want it. I asked my gf's dad, a lawyer, if I could spend it. He said no: it's like someone parking their car o
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by jen729w 4y ago
> you do so with your hand over a representation of who will witness and judge you for that The premise is flawed. I don’t believe that there is any being who ‘will witness and judge me’. That is, other than my peers. Who are not superna
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by jen729w 4y ago
This is obviously very cool, but at this point — who knows what I’ll say in a year — my concern with these LLMs is that they’re in the uncanny valley. Here’s one passing a very difficult test. Amazing! Now, rely on it to build a nuclear d
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by jen729w 4y ago
> Pity the business owners instead maybe. But they're clueless and happy too? A federal government department so yeah, that statement is accurate enough. Unfortunately we all pay the bills at the end of the day.
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by jen729w 4y ago
I’m the OP of this thread. Many, many of the people on this gig — yours truly included — are contractors…
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by jen729w 4y ago
I think people don’t learn it [all] in-depth because to do so is essentially impossible. Back in the bank days all of understood Windows, multi-tier AD, DNS, DHCP, SMS* (now MECM via SCCM), that distributed file system whose name I forget,
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by jen729w 4y ago
In the late 90s I travelled the world with a couple of CD-ROMs installing NT 4.0 on individual physical servers. I understood the entire stack. I was the only engineer and I was often very remote. In the mid 2000s we installed Server 2003&#
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by jen729w 4y ago
I just bought a laptop stand/riser. AU$69 from Officeworks here in Australia, just a basic hinge/arm with a plate on the top. First day using it today as I like to sit in the garden with the laptop vs. in the office with the monit
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by jen729w 4y ago
> When I went there, I read the Lime, Dott, etc rules and they all said 16, some 18+. Where did they get 12 yo from? Kids find a way. I live in Canberra, Australia. We have a couple of competing e-scooter hire companies. They're pre
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by jen729w 4y ago
Or SCSS variables. Which is what I’ve gone back to after a brief love affair with Tailwind. Not bashing Tailwind. It’s amazing. But I found myself making thatsamefuckingwebsite.com again and god damn if I didn’t want something to look diffe
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by jen729w 4y ago
Or in any flat hipster city. Melbourne (now Canberra) representing! I ride my single speed (not fixed) every day. It’s my most beloved possession.

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