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by macNchz 3y ago
I was still messing around with IE6 as late as 2012...the web agency I worked at had clients in huge old school companies who must have had proprietary internal software that depended on it. Whenever we thought we could finally ditch it, we
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by macNchz 3y ago
Not to be an apologist for Apple’s closed platforms, but my understanding was that the original iPod’s Mac-only limitation was significantly influenced by the fact it used Firewire, which was available on every Mac but very few PCs. Firewi
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by macNchz 3y ago
The US has followed this as a guiding principle over the last hundred years and largely succeeded, however the end-state seems to be a built environment where car ownership is not simply a widely enjoyed privilege so much as a de facto requ
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by macNchz 3y ago
Obviously I can’t speak for others, but I was, for a long time, a part of this world (parents bought a Quadra as our first home computer in 1993, I had a colored iMac in 1999, I released a few crappy freeware OS X 10.2 “Jaguar” desktop apps
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by macNchz 3y ago
There’s at least one PL/pgSQL linter out there. When I worked on a system that used a lot of postgres triggers and stored procedures we built a little mechanism on top of our existing database migration tool that would check a directo
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by macNchz 3y ago
It wouldn’t surprise me if humidity were a piece of it–here in the US northeast I’ve always found the iPhone boxes to be aggravatingly sticky. I wind up jiggling it all around and prying at it with my fingernails. It’s no longer the case, b
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by macNchz 3y ago
Yes you need to be familiar with the rulesets being applied, and prepared to closely monitor what is being blocked. Ideally I think I’d roll it out one ruleset at a time to limit the number of potential issues being introduced at once. Had
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by macNchz 3y ago
> Specifically if there's a complexity tax in offloading that makes the CPU-alone faster Anecdotal, but I played with a bunch of models recently on a machine with a 16GB AMD GPU and 64GB of system memory/12 core CPU. I found of
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by macNchz 3y ago
There wasn’t really anything beyond lack of will that stopped companies from hooking up existing chatbots to backend functions so they could accomplish the most basic support tasks beyond searching a knowledgebase, so I’m not sure there’s a
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by macNchz 3y ago
Indeed this is something that has bothered me for 20 years, though significantly more so as phones have come to resemble general purpose computers more than just phones. Back then, I explicitly bought a Cingular phone instead of Verizon, be
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by macNchz 3y ago
As far as I know I can sideload apps onto my smart TV, and Sony isn't get a cut of my streaming subscriptions. Ultimately, though, those devices generally don't pretend to be general-purpose, whereas I think smartphones do, just w
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by macNchz 3y ago
I think the distinction in my head is that game consoles are explicitly single-purpose (or very limited-purpose), whereas smartphones are playing at being general purpose, but only insofar as their manufacturer approves of that purpose. Per
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by macNchz 3y ago
I don’t see why smartphones inherently have to be a special case of computer where the manufacturer or OS developer gets to keep their finger in the pie after the sale. I can install any software I want on my desktop or laptop, and nobody g
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by macNchz 3y ago
Yeah putting pounds of lead in the water near your home for months feels...ill advised at the least.
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by macNchz 3y ago
I’ve written reams of JS over the years–web frontends with a dozen frameworks, Node backends, mobile apps, you name it. It’d probably make sense for me to use it more often on the backend, but the trouble I run into when committing to it fo
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by macNchz 3y ago
> getting as much as possible out of a system for cheap is great fun In certain circumstances, absolutely, however it's extremely aggravating to be in the position of being constantly pestered to ship features faster without the aut
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by macNchz 3y ago
Personally I've been split on this since I first read about it: I get a weird feeling from the way it was decreed to be not allowed, but I also don't think it's totally unreasonable to tell people to take it elsewhere (how ha
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by macNchz 3y ago
The new construction single-staircase building in NYC that I used to live in was metal and concrete framed, fitted with sprinklers throughout, and had double fire doors separating each apartment from the (all tile/metal/concrete)
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by macNchz 3y ago
It was certainly a learning experience to lead a fully remote team having only ever done so in an office, but I’m not convinced it’s explicitly more difficult on the whole. Most offices I’ve been in have had deficient conference room setups
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by macNchz 3y ago
> Diagnosing a patient is in many ways an expert system problem which computers are excellent at. I'm admittedly not a doctor, but this doesn't really match my understanding at all–after my dad got sick a couple of years ago I
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by macNchz 3y ago
Lots of average developers these days do not (or just barely) know SQL, and it shows when the ORM generates some nonsense and nobody can figure out why the app is suddenly two orders of magnitude slower.
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by macNchz 3y ago
The specific milestones here are certainly up for debate, but the general approach to thinking this way is a good one in my opinion. I read Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away by Annie Duke last year and found it quite illuminati
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by macNchz 3y ago
Search has been steadily headed this direction for a long time, but recently (in just the last couple of months) I’ve started to notice a big uptick in obvious ChatGPT content in places that have otherwise been less egregiously SEO’d: Stack
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by macNchz 3y ago
I am certain that many people have been denied warranty claims because they live in cold climates and visit indoor swimming pools regularly (coaches/lifeguards/spectators etc). The condensation in that situation is impressive.
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Over the years those processes have also frequently–at least for me–been the answer to “where did all my battery life go and why is my laptop so hot?”, as they’d rarely but inexplicably go haywire and peg the cpu at 100% until being killed
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by macNchz 3y ago
I was a big skeptic earlier on, but I have come to appreciate systemd in recent years. That said, the section on resolved is a big one–it has been one of the only things that consistently causes me annoyance over the three years since I sta
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by macNchz 3y ago
To my understanding it’s very hard to avoid phthalates in food, and studies have found them in fresh produce. That said, since the source of these contaminants is often the final packaging itself, or surfaces of equipment used in processing
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by macNchz 3y ago
Wow I've had my terminals open with fortune | cowsay for years but somehow had no idea that there were different cows. Should anyone also happen to be interested in taking a quick glance at everything installed by default: cowsay
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> what i'm saying is, if you're fucked, you're fucked. fail2ban will not help I see this attitude frequently in online discussions around {security thing}, but it really doesn't match my understanding of reality. It&#
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I have been absolutely blown away by the pace of housing construction in the recently-rezoned Gowanus neighborhood in Brooklyn. It's incredible how quickly the area has changed from empty lots and single-story warehouse buildings into

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