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by lisbbb 1y ago
That guy over there fell backwards onto some bullets. Must have been suicide! How did they do it in the documentary film "Hot Fuzz?" Use any non-violent accident or whatever category you can get away with. But actually, here&#x
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I would say near 100% certainty--if you don't report crimes or mis-represent them, you can "fix" the crime problem without actually doing anything. Incidentally, back when people were comparing US incarceration rates to China
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by lisbbb 1y ago
The cyberpunk dystopia that 80s fiction authors prepared [some of] us for.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I just noticed tonight that the movie theaters in my city closed up July 27--there's already weeds growing up out front. This was a really depressing epiphany because the mall next door is basically dead, too. I feel like 2020 killed
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by lisbbb 1y ago
1970? But Linux came out in the mid 1990s...
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by lisbbb 1y ago
My take is that nearly all military technology, particularly mass surveillance tech, will be applied to the civilian sector eventually. That's why everyone using China as the baseline for human rights worldwide is so terrifying. As fa
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I had a professor in grad school, Computer Engineering, that begged me not to get an MBA--he had worked in industry, particularly defense, and had a very low opinion of MBAs. I tend to agree nowadays. I really think the cookie-cutter &quo
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by lisbbb 1y ago
My problem was that the business problems were so tough on most of the gigs I had that it was next to impossible to build a solution for them! Dealing with medical claims in real time at volume was horrendous.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Back around, I don't even know, 2013? A colleague and I were working on updating a system that scanned in letters with mail order forms. The workers would lay the items from the envelopes in order on a conveyor type scanner. They ha
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I guess I'm such a hard line anarchist that this sounds totally awful to me. Remember East Germany? Nope, none of you do...
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by lisbbb 1y ago
OMG--we had a worfklow where less-techy folks were supposed to edit a csv, then check it in to github, which would kick off a whole process automatically for them. I kid you not--anyone who edited the csv in Excel would eff the whole file
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Also champions of idiotic subscription models instead of providing long-term value to customers.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Github has become too mission critical for many companies--their pipelines and processes often rely on Github workflows that may or may not be working each day. I was recently at a company that was dependent on Github workflows to make cha
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I'd be totally down with that! I always hated Codility, but before I gave them out to candidates I wrote my own version of it, usually in a language I wasn't as familiar with. I got several takedown notices from github because I
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I'm 52 and as soon as they figure that out it is pretty much over, anyways. I'm not looking right now, even. I think my career is closed down, but not totally sure yet. I was passionate about my work for a long time, but after
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by lisbbb 1y ago
After about 150 interviews, I could do the "just talking" thing without needing any samples or anything else. If they were working on Java, I would ask what versions, what issues they had run into, what their experiences had been
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I had one of those "spot the issues" quizzes on an interview once. I didn't do that well on it just because I was nervous as hell. In retrospect, it was a good thing they didn't want to hire me. But it was a dumb reque
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by lisbbb 1y ago
The Sparc 1 and 1+ was already landfill by around 1995 or so. The 5s and 10s ran circles around them.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Combing usenet for answers and reading useless, bulky manuals.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
What's with all the retro hardware stuff going on? I owned a couple of Sparc 1s back when Sparc 10s were cool and they were ancient, then! I'm talking like 1996? I don't even remember now. I had scrounged up a bunch of cas
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by lisbbb 1y ago
The VGA cards often had a mouse port, I think. I don't recall having to add a serial card on 386s, but maybe we did. IBM machines were really oddball, too, with that fancier type of bus. I stayed away from IBM.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Went to a computer fair circa, gosh, 1989? My Dad bought me a 386 DX 25MHz with like 4MB of RAM and a whopping 40MB hard drive. This was a remarkable upgrade from the Tandy 286 16MHz that I was using. The 386 we got was not the standard
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by lisbbb 1y ago
A lot of places can't put their data just anywhere.
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by lisbbb 1y ago
The thing I like about ES: When the business comes around and adds new requirements out of nowhere, the answer is always: "Yup, we can do it!" Unlike other tools such as Cassandra that force a data design from the get go and ma
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I'm interested in this detail because a few years back I was involved in a major big data project at a health insurance company and I cooked up a solution that involved ElasticSearch that was workable only to be shot down--it was polit
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by lisbbb 1y ago
I can see ditching Mongo, but what's bad about ElasticSearch? Too expensive in some way? Isn't RocksDB just the db engine for Kafka?
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Everything I have worked on as a fullstack developer for multiple large companies over the past 25 years tells me that AI isn't just going to replace a bunch of workers. The complexity of those places is crazy and it takes teamwork to
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by lisbbb 1y ago
That's bad because you just know at some point the bell is getting rung and then the bubble bursts. It was the same thing with office space in the late 1990s--they overbuilt like crazy predicting huge demand that never appeared and th
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by lisbbb 1y ago
Thank you! This is what I've been trying to tell people about LLMs. They don't hold up. They're like those Western movie set towns that look normal from the front, but when you walk around behind them, you see it is all ju
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by lisbbb 1y ago
A lot of formerly useful search tools, particularly Google, are just trash now, absolute trash.

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