kmoser

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by kmoser 3y ago
I don't think fires during projection were responsible for most lost films. If one or two prints of a particular movie were lost that way, surely others would have survived. Rather, Hollywood just didn't care to keep most such fil
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by kmoser 3y ago
Yep: devs call them "modals" while users call them "pop-ups" but they're the same thing. Now, native browser modals (think Javascript's alert()) don't use the same underlying technology as HTML/CSS mo
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by kmoser 3y ago
Microsoft's support for regular Zip files is a mixed blessing. On the one hand you can seamlessly open a Zip file and navigate through the directory structure. On the other hand, if you're not careful, you may think you're in
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by kmoser 3y ago
I entered my email address, selected a file, clicked "Upload", and a popup told me "Please select a file." Nothing I did would get it to ingest a Python file. Tried with both Firefox and Chrome with the same results. Sam
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by kmoser 3y ago
You can ask the original ELIZA anything and get an answer but that doesn't make it "intelligent" according to any generally accepted definition of AGI. Regardless of how you define it exactly, AGI means essentially the abilit
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by kmoser 3y ago
> Sometimes the best way of knowing what the job is is to do something quick And that "something" you're doing quick is based on...user stories! Unless you're making up something entirely in your head, with the idea t
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by kmoser 3y ago
The more relevant problem being alluded to by the parent of your post is that engineers would rather write their own code than find an existing library (which is more often than not free) that does the same thing.
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by kmoser 3y ago
When I worked a company that regularly purchased computers and office supplies from large vendors, the prices were significantly higher than what we could get them for by going down the block to the local chain store.
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by kmoser 3y ago
> The agency claims it can recover stolen crypto and advises using cash for privacy. Just don't use too much cash, lest you run afoul of banking regulations or become a victim of civil asset forfeiture. Also interesting that a fed
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by kmoser 3y ago
I gave away most to friends but kept one or two. They're about the size of your thumb. The best part is the visible graffiti on the exposed side. I remember reading that the concrete was impregnated with asbestos (not sure why) so I&#x
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by kmoser 3y ago
You're forgetting that the "Berlin Wall" was actually two walls separated by a strip of "no-man's land" which was mined and patrolled by armed guards and dogs. Anyone who managed to breach one of the walls woul
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by kmoser 3y ago
An adjustable height standing desk is the best of all worlds: you can stand or sit. You can even be mobile by getting a treadmill desk.
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by kmoser 3y ago
This looks like the Windows 11 interface. Thankfully Windows 10 doesn't seem to have that problem. However, Windows 11 has another glaring problem: the context menu includes a trash can icon (not labeled! Although I believe it does hav
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by kmoser 3y ago
Drive to any supermarket and you'll see the same Canadian plates. They don't come all the way to the US for the food. South Florida is a vacation destination for Canadians; while a few may come for medical treatment, the vast ma
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by kmoser 3y ago
That's theory. In reality abused women may choose not to attempt to divorce (or even leave) their abusive husband since they fear retaliation.
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by kmoser 3y ago
If only there was an HTML tag that let you provide a concise description of the page content. Perhaps something like <meta name="description" content="This is an example of a meta description. This will often show up in se
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by kmoser 3y ago
Not only do we already have lots of ways of including structured metadata, but if you want to include directives about what should/shouldn't be scraped and by whom, we already have robots.txt. In other words, there's no need
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by kmoser 3y ago
"Automated process 'x', saving company $10,000 per year" is meaningless without knowing whether $10,000 is a significant figure or a drop in the bucket. Also, if they paid you $100,000 to automate it, it'll be 10 ye
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by kmoser 3y ago
It's more about mockups that show the final design. Wireframes, in contrast, are always sparse by definition.
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by kmoser 3y ago
Proving once again that the KISS principle always applies.
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by kmoser 3y ago
Ted Kennedy, her "chaperon," was male, so it works perfectly. Although I don't think the difference between the spellings is a gender thing, but rather a British/American thing.
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by kmoser 3y ago
It had features for things like limiting output to anagrams that contain a maximum number of words, or words with a minimum length, so you wouldn't have to slog through every permutation. Usually the most interesting ones had the fewes
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by kmoser 4y ago
His pal Richard Milhous Nixon = Nix Hanoi child rumors
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by kmoser 4y ago
Also "Orwellian radon snag"
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by kmoser 4y ago
That was pretty good for a one-word anagram. Back in the 1990s I wrote a program that generated anagrams for longer phrases and I was surprised to find these prescient ones: Saddam Hussein = He damns Saudis Charles Manson = Slasher con man
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by kmoser 4y ago
Everybody born a US citizen is an "accidental" citizen, as they didn't elect to be born that way. The only difference between them and this guy is that he left early and never looked back. You would figure a decent French acc
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by kmoser 4y ago
Betteridge would ask, "Is X Staying?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by kmoser 4y ago
Good luck with that. Programmers are good at de-anonymizing data, and video of people having a conversation is ripe for being de-anonymized.
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by kmoser 4y ago
Yep, replace "accounting" with virtually any other field and the same vague assertions apply: AI will help you spot trends, etc. I'm wondering if an AI wrote that article?
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by kmoser 4y ago
"Profits are down 95%" is the key takeaway here. The article (and the accounting world in general) misleadingly uses words like "loss" to mean "not as much as the last time we measured," unlike how most laypeop

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