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by leakycap 1y ago
> I sometimes accept suggestions without fully understanding them Why? This is a choice, and you can choose to change this behavior. You should! It will feel better and might avoid catastrophe. > On hard problems, I feel less confiden
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by leakycap 1y ago
Maybe I don't have the interview volume others do, but aren't you able to tell pretty quickly in your face-to-face or live video call interview that a person is competent or not (such as using a tool to compensate for a lack of ex
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by leakycap 1y ago
Almost all buyers finance. You cannot generally get a loan on a car with much hail damage. Buyer pool now significantly smaller = less value, must sell for less to attract one of the few potential buyers. This means for most people trying t
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by leakycap 1y ago
At some point, even a Corolla will need a repair or maintenance significantly more expensive than the remaining value offered by the old car. It sounds like if you drove it for 3 months without oil, you didn't have a lot of options at
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by leakycap 1y ago
> Consumption is consumption, you don't get things for free. While this is true, desirability in the used market doesn't work linearly. Apple devices fall off quickly in value after 2 years. If you buy early in the product cycl
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by leakycap 1y ago
Thank you, I definitely can tell a difference. I found the 2nd Gen (moving physical wheel) iPod to be decent, the 3rd gen (glowing buttons) to be incredible quality, the 4th Gen (non-moving click wheel) to be somewhere inbetween.
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by leakycap 1y ago
Thanks for the tip and for helping me understand what might be causing this! I wondered if the original iPods had more power output or something. The headphones in question were cheap Koss Porta Pro Classics, and they appear to have a 60 Oh
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by leakycap 1y ago
This is true, but it seems a lot of the manufacturers stop making interior parts, trim, electronics, etc. for cars older than 8-10 years. Need a seat, mirror, air conditioner vent trim, logo for your trunk, floormats? No luck with most manu
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by leakycap 1y ago
Something else: I support some long term clients still using some 1990s software that I've ported to run within a VM on modern hardware. I ended up using developer tools made in the 2000s to decompile the executable and make changes to
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by leakycap 1y ago
> If they had had proper testing procedures in place, this mistake would have been caught long before it reached the public I don't know a CEO outside of smaller strictly-tech companies who would have any familiarity or direct invol
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by leakycap 1y ago
I had the same question. > “It is during this conversion that a manual error has been made in the code that is entered into our game engine,” the company said in a statement. “The amount has been multiplied by 100, instead of being divid
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by leakycap 1y ago
If you've been on a long journey of trying different apps, you may just be restless now that you've found a tool that mostly works. Stick with emacs, use your extremely limited remaining time on earth to do awesome things. Emacs i
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by leakycap 1y ago
Yes, but it is the only place you can see the works on display at the Louvre -- and is the first word of the topic we're discussing.
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by leakycap 1y ago
This was my experience at the MET - nightmare crowds in some areas, empty in most others. Thanks for the reality check!
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by leakycap 1y ago
If you don't open source it, it will either wither and be abandoned or someone clever will "open source it" for you in a way you may not like. Software is hard to kill. See Softpress Freeway as an example in the same industry
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by leakycap 1y ago
I'm not sure I'd be swayed if what I was typing was going through the analysis; I've seen simply logging chats be enough to cause a team to find an alternate route to discuss what's going on and how to fix it (which is w
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by leakycap 1y ago
From the source article this references: > Supporters of Republicans and Democrats are far more likely than in the past to view the opposite side with distrust. Seems like the most obvious answer to the question posed by the title.
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by leakycap 1y ago
Winter definitely sounds like the way to go, thanks for the idea. I've heard about the awful summers but never even considered going in winter for some reason.
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by leakycap 1y ago
It regularly surprises me how often modern sites/apps/OSes fall flat when searching. In my experience, Spotlight fell apart many years ago on macOS and nothing recently has made it feel like it is a trustworthy search result set.
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by leakycap 1y ago
It is easy to think something like this is easy until you attempt to do it. Are you really questioning a free SSL Certificate system when it says something is too complex and not worth it? If you ever set up a free SSL before LetsEncrypt,
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by leakycap 1y ago
Given the struggles of completing development in Swift even today on iOS, I cannot imagine the painpoints about to greet early embracers of Swift on a much more varied platform like Android
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by leakycap 1y ago
Wow, 20% of manufacturing employees across the whole business, too? > ... as CEO Lip-Bu Tan downsizes the company to match its falling sales and weak outlook. Given the lack of progress on intel's core CPU offerings, I'm not su
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by leakycap 1y ago
I get the appeal of the service if it works well, but not as a subscriptions. Trips specifically have a beginning and end. I don't see this pricing model working even if the service is killer.
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by leakycap 1y ago
Makes me wonder about a writer's grasp of the tools available in the last few months when they refer to AI as Autocomplete in the title.
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by leakycap 1y ago
Metacognition seems interesting, but how do you study your own thoughts in a meaningful way? It feels pseudosciencey because it can only explaining after the thinking is done.
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by leakycap 1y ago
> The TCMA will instruct the Full Authority Digital Engine Control (FADEC), which controls all aspects of an aircraft engine’s performance If it turns out Boeing has another MCAS style "bad software means plane crash" in place
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by leakycap 1y ago
My feedback is that > a simple app that lets you automatically extract and manage to-do tickets right from your team's conversations would immediately cause me and my coworkers in any office to find another tool to discuss things on
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by leakycap 1y ago
I have always wanted to go to Paris, but I have heard nothing except claustrophobia-inducing reviews from people visiting the Louvre for the last decade. I'm sure there's a solution, I just hope it isn't simply increased pric
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by leakycap 1y ago
With the Apple Silicon M series being 5 years on the market now and the System76 Thelio Astra being released since this article was updated, what is the utility of posting it now?
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by leakycap 1y ago
I read this earlier on Anthropic's blog, and their wording was a breath of fresh air They definitively said it didn't work and the fix was more prompting, which at some point is just pseudo-programming in a LLM

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