kmarc

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by kmarc 2y ago
My employer PoC'd, collaborated with and eventually bought Codeium's solution. I couldn't care less about (any, so also neither about) the LLM hype. Especially didn't bother going to a new web site (ChatGPT), or installi
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by kmarc 2y ago
It doesn't; It translates to "One is none" This is the infamous double negation many foreign speakers (including me) struggles with. https://spanish.stackexchange.com/questions/26777/how-does-d...
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by kmarc 2y ago
> The complexity comes from the integration with various desktop environments Usually I'm the first one who defends open source solutions and blames complexity and compatibility... But xdg-open is just an awful interface to interact
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by kmarc 2y ago
Indeed it wasn't in the very centre. However, I do remember a night, when we went out with colleagues, and from one place we were to switch to another, it was less than a mile away. We stepped outside, and one of the colleagues were lo
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by kmarc 2y ago
Hehe, thanks for pointing me to it. I just read it. Can identify with it! Now, back to my regressive tendencies...
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by kmarc 2y ago
I think it was around Waterloo park and capitol; I was on my way to the Texas State History Museum. I looked around now on Google Street View, but can't recognize the slight hill I was walking on (it happened around 10y ago). Funnily e
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by kmarc 2y ago
That's so funny, because in my mind it's the complete opposite: I feel free because I don't have the burden of keeping a vehicle-object. However, where I leave is car unfriendly. People who always late are the two friends of
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by kmarc 2y ago
I wouldn't generalize this as an American perspective; at least many of my US friends envy the walkability of the European cities they visited (while recognizing the disadvantages / inconveniences about it, too)
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by kmarc 2y ago
> That being said, you're in a city, what did you expect? :-) I giggled on this one 10y ago when I first saw this difference in mindsets, and also smile at it today. I sometimes wonder if I were growing up there, would I also feel
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by kmarc 2y ago
While taking a walk near downtown Austin, TX, a police car stopped next to me and the officers started asking weird questions. Including if I know where I am at, where I go, or is there someone who could help me with these apparent struggle
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by kmarc 2y ago
For home backup, I have a similar setup with dedup, local+remote backups. Borgbackup + rclone (or aws) [1] It works so well, I even use this same script on my work laptop(s). rclone enables me to use whatever quirky file sharing solution th
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by kmarc 2y ago
I hear many complaining (even here) about "the mess" of linux audio. First, in the article, [1] shows in one single diagram where the complexity is coming from; the audio system has to handle a good deal of different hardware on m
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by kmarc 2y ago
Similar as plumbum for python https://pypi.org/project/plumbum/ (also supports dispatching commands to SSH sessions)
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by kmarc 2y ago
Besides the obvious takeaway of the story, to anyone who reads this: use pre-commit hooks to avoid this kind of problems (or something equivalent). With the pre-commit framework, an example hook would be https://github.com/
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by kmarc 2y ago
I did in the past. Now I just run `:PlugUpdate` and hope that whatever comes from GitHub, is seen by the manyeyeballs. I certainly don't check all the diffs.
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by kmarc 2y ago
I do the same (not for golang tho). However, vim plug-ins also "have network access", in fact they can just "system()" and call anything. No sandboxing at all. At least the source code of these plug-ins are not obfuscate
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by kmarc 2y ago
No science here, but... Isn't it munching on ice cream at 10pm, video games, and other indulges are for that? Also at work, I am (thankfully) able to tinker a lot while delivering value, and not under constant pressure to just grind, i
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by kmarc 2y ago
This looks like a product a lot of effort and thought went into, including a consistent graphical design. Congrats! The style that was chosen, to me is deeply unsettling. These Well-lit, colourful, rounded, smooth 3D objects remind me of a
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by kmarc 2y ago
I hate those magic links, other stuff I have to open my email for. Same as TAN / similar "SMS" auth crap. I just want to Command-Shift-L to autofill my username/password and if it needs an OTP then press Command-V to pop
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by kmarc 2y ago
If you mean "health insurance providers", then we already have that in Switzerland. My anecdata is when an obese acquaintance walked in to the (for profit) insurance company and asked for "extra" service; the insurer is
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by kmarc 2y ago
I do see some. TV shows are longer. And I don't mean double the length, but literally 100xtimes longer. There is a chance you accidentally find a channel with a program that really triggers your curiosity, and then you stop scrolling.
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by kmarc 2y ago
That's "literally" not it. The piece discusses the neurobiological background, social effects, shows examples, and closes with a recommendation on what to try if you are a victim of doomscrolling. In fact, this writing does h
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by kmarc 2y ago
They seem to be pivoting on quality, at least in Switzerland, as well. I rarely go to Aldi, but whenever I do, the unknown(-to-me) labeled products feel to be better quality, tastier. I'm always surprised. The "optimized" wor
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by kmarc 2y ago
I am outcompeted. Probably never climb further up in the "corporate ladder". My comp is "enough" (actually, more than enough) for me. I don't care about the labels (senior, partner, manager, lead, etc.) I find fun i
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by kmarc 2y ago
Exactly my thoughts when I saw this new thing first tonight (except for the "trustworthiness of Google brand" part... That's long gone in my opinion). Interested in the answers here, hopefully some anonymous Google rs would s
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by kmarc 2y ago
This thread blew up a lot, and some unfriendly commenters made many assumptions about this innocent story. You didn't, and indeed you have a point (missing specification of expected queries), so I expand it as a response here. Among th
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by kmarc 2y ago
FWIW, it's a 2.5 second extra to say "Although you don't need big data, but if you insist, ..." and gimme the hadoop answer.
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by kmarc 2y ago
FWIW if they were juniors, I would've continued the interview and direct them with further questions, and observer their flow of thinking to decide if they are good candidates to pursue further. But no, this particular person had been
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by kmarc 2y ago
Indeed, what I meant to say is that you can load it in multiple batches. However, now thinking, I did play around with servers of TiBs of memory :-)
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by kmarc 2y ago
When I was hiring data scientists for a previous job, my favorite tricky question was "what stack/architecture would you build" with the somewhat detailed requirements of "6 TiB of data" in sight. I was careful not

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