lloydatkinson

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   by lloydatkinson 1y ago

   One day I’ll understand why some websites refuse to have a way of navigating to the home page. I had to edit the URL in the address bar. I just wanted to find out what GMP is.
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   by lloydatkinson 1y ago

   This was a really fascinating read.
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   by lloydatkinson 1y ago

   The moronic Web Component cabal got their hands on it and trashed it by forcing it to rely on JavaScript, thus ensuring it would never get support.
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   by lloydatkinson 1y ago

   I wish TPL Dataflow was more known.
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   by lloydatkinson 1y ago

   I'm still happy that a few of my blog posts have hit the frontpage here. Two were rants about fake agile[1] and standups[2], which helped me feel not so unhappily alone at the state of the industry. There were others too, such as my po
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   by lloydatkinson 1y ago

   The guy who wrote it is literally some high up exec at Microsoft now, which is why he was presenting it, that's all I remember of him.
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   by lloydatkinson 1y ago

   There's an interesting talk about AFD.sys here too: https://av.tib.eu/media/32819 The real-but-unofficial name is Another Fucking Driver. I see a lot of comments online of people saying they used to work at Micros
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   by lloydatkinson 1y ago

   I have a work assigned HP Elitebook. Worst laptop I've ever had to use. Here are some highlights, though I know probably some are from the insane bloatware/crapware/"security" software and Windows group policies IT
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   by lloydatkinson 1y ago

   The image at the top implies this involves time travel which would be necessary for the example of creating a bubble message in 1925 to read in 2025.
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    by lloydatkinson 1y ago

    Would have been more interesting than article #827492748283 about Korea.
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    by lloydatkinson 1y ago

    I don’t understand why you’d use both Signal and Discord?
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    by lloydatkinson 1y ago

    Paracetamol etc is an opiod?
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    by lloydatkinson 1y ago

    I don't want to use Python if I can help it, OpenSCAD is another "CAD as code" language. How does it compare?
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    by lloydatkinson 1y ago

    What’s its homepage? I only see the usual fake software sites on google
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    by lloydatkinson 1y ago

    Interesting but I worry documenting things like this will just cause further politicisation and vitrol. See also: renaming "master" branch to "main", etc.
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    by lloydatkinson 1y ago

    It's sad Sony put the effort into writing rootkits for music CD's but did nothing to automate, flag, fix typos for metadata...
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    by lloydatkinson 1y ago

    > On the NPM side, I observed general condescending attitude towards developers, which led them make series of unreasonable decisions and ultimately blame me for all the cost. NPM has not really learned much in the time since this event
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    by lloydatkinson 1y ago

    My favourite part of this is the part where gnuplot is barely mentioned and no code is shown for generating those graphs. Bravo, 11/10.
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    by lloydatkinson 1y ago

    As someone with only a little experience with Nix, the points here don’t really seem right? > This approach isn’t clear or maintainable, especially for contributors unfamiliar with Nix’s version management. > For languages like Node a
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    by lloydatkinson 1y ago

    There is something very entertaining about this. I'd like to read more.
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    by lloydatkinson 1y ago

    Now do Journal exports too and I'll actually use the app.
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    by lloydatkinson 1y ago

    It’s great to see it works globally and not just in America
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    by lloydatkinson 1y ago

    Why don't you write it then, clever one?
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    by lloydatkinson 1y ago

    Location: UK Remote: Only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C#/.NET, ASP.NET, desktop development, web development, "REST", Git, Linux, Azure, IaC, TypeScript, Node, React, CSS tools (Tailwind, CSS-in-JS, etc.)
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    by lloydatkinson 1y ago

    Alright smart arse.
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    by lloydatkinson 1y ago

    Have you thought of suggesting this to TfL? There has to be something here.
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    by lloydatkinson 1y ago

    > Example: those are some time series parameters and instructions, decide if watering the plants or not; vision models that can watch a camera and transcribe what it is seeing in a basic way, ... This is the problem I have with the gener
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    by lloydatkinson 1y ago

    That is essentially what I tried to say in my comment there but don't think they wanted to hear it.
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    by lloydatkinson 1y ago

    Glad you appreciated it!
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    by lloydatkinson 2y ago

    Deeply disappointing. The only reason I have a IA account is to upload correct book covers to obviously wrong or poor quality books on the Library.