kmoser

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by kmoser 2y ago
That's no guarantee it won't get slurped up by an AI at some point. Anything that goes into, say, GMail is ripe for plucking. And there's always a good chance your newsletters will get publicly archived on some web page somew
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by kmoser 2y ago
These days I almost take it for granted that somebody isn't going to read my email, or won't read it thoroughly, or will read it but will fail to acknowledge it. One can use this to their advantage if they want to skirt a hard &qu
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by kmoser 2y ago
I prefer the softer, warmer flavors of ground-down vinyl.
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by kmoser 2y ago
I think it's a combination of several factors: first, most banking and airline systems were developed back in the 1960s, and it was simply more convenient to shoehorn everybody into the first-middle-last format, especially when the maj
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by kmoser 2y ago
> but at the same time it is sort of weird since it technically is not the same name without the circumflex, right? Assuming you have a "standard" keyboard, it's not weird at all for your browser to match the diacritic whe
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by kmoser 2y ago
Mr. T once joked that his first name was "Mr", his middle name was the period, and his last name was "T": https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10158317051194205
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by kmoser 2y ago
That discriminates against people whose names cannot be written in Unicode. You need to include the ability to accept various image formats, as well as audio for names that don't have a written form.
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by kmoser 2y ago
Did you believe Google when they said "don't be evil"?
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by kmoser 2y ago
> ...affirms our intent to release the core web application source code if and when we ever become insolvent as a company. We can only hope that, if and when this happens, they release the code before actual insolvency, otherwise the I
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by kmoser 2y ago
Presumably a tradesman has knowledge and experience with these blockers, which for them should be largely "known unknowns" and easy to fix at that since they have all the right equipment. So why do they still charge so much? It&#x
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by kmoser 2y ago
Presumably the driver knows their mom well enough to determine how she would react, or call ahead to be sure. If it still blows up, blame the driver, not the passenger who initiated the request.
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by kmoser 2y ago
Well, it might show if you've been reported to have died. It's possible you were reported as dead but you're still alive. It's possible you weren't reported dead but are. And it's also possible that regardles
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by kmoser 2y ago
I wrote one in 6502 (ok, 6510) assembler for the C-64 several decades ago, which included the ability to edit and save playing fields. I also wrote one in Excel using only formulas (no VBA). Neither of them were the "best" but the
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by kmoser 2y ago
Humans will always have a hand in the design because they need to explain the real-world constraints to the AI. Sure, the code it produces may be complex, but if the AI is really as smart as you're claiming it will eventually be, then
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by kmoser 2y ago
The conclusion I draw from these analyses of Milgram is that fewer people obeyed to the degree originally stated. But the fact that even one of them was willing to obey at all speaks volumes. Also consider that these were studies in which t
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by kmoser 2y ago
Is that because the languages being used at your shop have largely abstracted away memory bug issues? If you were to get a job writing embedded systems, or compilers, or OSes, wouldn't your knowledge be more highly valued and sought af
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by kmoser 2y ago
We will see both: lots of poor code, lots of neutral code (LLMs cranking out reasonably well written boilerplate), and even some improved code (by devs who use LLMs to ferret out inefficiencies and bugs in their existing, human-written code
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by kmoser 2y ago
The "Cosmic Zoom" [1] style animations are really well done. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgfwCrKe_Fk
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by kmoser 2y ago
Undoubtedly some people get jobs this way. But even if none have so far, that doesn't mean you won't. As they say in the finance industry, "past performance is no guarantee of future performance." Given how easy it is
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by kmoser 2y ago
Were these acts committed by the drivers or somebody else?
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by kmoser 2y ago
Most taxi services will send a car to your address immediately, no reservation required. Problem is, you have to know the exact address where you want to be picked up, which can sometimes be difficult to determine if you're new in town
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by kmoser 2y ago
NPS is the electronic version of a poorly run focus group. People will assume all sorts of things and bring in all manner of bias. You may get some data, but you have no idea how accurate it is. Even worse, you have no idea why they answe
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by kmoser 2y ago
Crappy cameras; smaller format films (e.g. Kodak Disc); weird hues from color photos taken in fluorescent and other non-natural light; inconsistent dyes among manufacturers (compare Fuji film to Kodachrome); an inherently lower resolution i
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by kmoser 2y ago
The very point of ISO is to define international standards, many of which are used in software engineering.
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by kmoser 2y ago
> I expect most native English speakers would be entirely incapable of fully specifying a complex application or anything else of similar complexity. Your original postulation was that it simply wasn't possible, implying nobody coul
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by kmoser 2y ago
Programming only needs to make things as explicit as necessary based on the developer's desires and the system's assumptions. Where more detail is necessary, the programmer can add more code. For example, there's no need to t
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by kmoser 2y ago
"Image Playground is built right into Apple Invites, giving users an easy way to generate original images that make their invitation even more unique." I look forward to the aberrations this will inevitably produce.
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by kmoser 2y ago
Even lawyers agree that legalese is no more accurate than plain English if used properly: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/even-lawyers-dont... In other word, complex applications can still be fully specified
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by kmoser 2y ago
> This is why, if something is important, I take it out of email and put it into a document people can reference. This is how things should be done, regardless of which medium is used to discuss the project. Without isolating and aggrega
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by kmoser 2y ago
Better for who? Because since the inauguration, lots of marginalized people are facing increasing government harassment, and if any newly freed monies are applied to more of that, then I'd say the government isn't getting any bett

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