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by malexw 2mo ago
For the past 2 weeks or so I've been doing the A/B test, sending identical prompts to Fable 5 and Opus 5 to test their ability to produce design documents for new feature work. I've consistently found that Opus 5 produces mor
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by malexw 7mo ago
Oh gosh - now that you mention it, it was "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" that I was thinking of, not "Refactoring".
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by malexw 7mo ago
I think Martin Fowler's "Refactoring" might give a bit of insight here. One of my take-aways after reading that book is that the specific implementation of a function is not very important if you have tests. He argues that it
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by malexw 11mo ago
What does being founded in Montreal have to do with integrity?
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by malexw 1y ago
> LA is currently the only city in North America building new subway lines. That is demonstrably false. As I type this comment I can hear the sounds of excavators digging out a station for a new subway line in Toronto.
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by malexw 1y ago
I've also done this and my record count was 120. 120 sponsored or suggested posts about things I don't care about in between the posts from people I'm actually interested in. I'll echo what others have said - if social m
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by malexw 2y ago
Unfortunately the Midines is basically vaporware. I don't think he has actually built and delivered a cart in more than 15 years. He took my money for one about 18 years ago and never delivered. They do occasionally show up on eBay and
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by malexw 3y ago
Do you have examples of what context-oriented media like this would look like? After watching news about the pandemic, I found it interesting to see how short the collective public memory about the event was, and how little we remembered ab
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by malexw 3y ago
CBC is the public broadcaster in Canada, and Marketplace specifically has a good record of consumer-oriented investigative journalism like this. You might be familiar with another report a few years ago from them that found that Subway chic
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by malexw 3y ago
I have been using GAMMA, for Google, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon. "Gamma" as a word is sciencey, which I like, and swapping out Netflix for Microsoft seems reasonable to me.
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by malexw 3y ago
I'll share a memory circa 2010 from my time at BlackBerry that comes to mind when people point out performance problems like this. Around that time, whenever a new BlackBerry device was rebooted, it would take about 45 seconds for the
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by malexw 4y ago
I'm not sure if you're mis-remembering or I am, but the Bold 9000 (meteor) launched the year before the Storm. Though maybe you meant the 9700 (onyx)? As I recall, the development cycle for Storm wasn't two years - it was les
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by malexw 5y ago
Flight Chops is based in Canada, so anytime he's flying up here he'll fall under Transport Canada and Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs). There are no legal requirements in Canada for pilots to wear parachutes.
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by malexw 5y ago
Styrofoam actually is recyclable, though you'd have to check with your local municipality to see if it's accepted. For example, it's listed as a "blue bin" item in Toronto: https://www.toronto.ca/ser
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by malexw 5y ago
Has your health care practitioner suggested a probiotic of lactobacillus plantarum (specifically Lp299v)? This study published in February of 2021[1] suggests it can significantly reduce symptoms when taken daily over a multi-month period.
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by malexw 5y ago
Incredible, thank you for sharing this. I live within walking distance of this museum and have a small collection of various early radio and television pieces, yet I had never heard of this place before.
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by malexw 6y ago
> I remember this showing up in the SO sidebar a long time ago (what a time-suck that thing is). I ended up installing this Chrome extension to block the "Hot Network Questions" parts of Stack Exchange because I found that I wa
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by malexw 6y ago
A great feature not only for players, but for developers as well. If every change to game state goes through an event system you can reproduce any bug or crash as long as you're careful about making sure that the event stream is record
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by malexw 6y ago
The QNX-based OS started with BlackBerry 10 around 2013. Everything before that was a Java VM on top of a relatively small OS written by the company.
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by malexw 6y ago
I would say that Jon Ronson's book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" (mentioned in the article), is also excellent. I would especially recommend it for anyone building social media tech.
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by malexw 6y ago
Got it. I have a project that I want to do based on a TI CC-1125 to connect 303 MHz devices in my home to a smart home system, but of course all the interesting parts these days come in QFNs. I was trying to decide whether I wanted to go th
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by malexw 6y ago
Neat! Do you get paste stencils made as part of the PCBA manufacturing process? How many components a year were you hand soldering or reflowing before you decided to try and automate the process a bit more?
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by malexw 6y ago
Thanks! I'm not sure how I overlooked the forums. It looks like there is someone there who has ported everything to Buster, so it looks like there is at least enough of a community to see some new software releases and hopefully offer
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by malexw 6y ago
So this is a bit off-topic, but I pulled out my Novena this past weekend to work on an SDR project and after updating the installed packages I started wondering about the process of keeping these devices running up-to-date software and the
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by malexw 7y ago
Whenever I hear about this building I can't help but be reminded of Geoff Manaugh's idea for a Ghostbusters III, where the Ghostbusters discover that the NYNEX telephone system is actually... well, I'll let you read it: http
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by malexw 8y ago
The Pixar Touch describes the creation of the company and first few films that Pixar made. I especially enjoyed it because of my interest in computer graphics, but it's probably a worthwhile read for most tech folks. Creativity, Inc.,
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by malexw 9y ago
I worked on a project a few years ago to build a system that used eye-tracking for context-sensitive voice commands. Imagine being able to say "zoom in" and have the computer zoom in at the place you're looking. Unfortunately
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The Move to IPv6: An App Developer’s Experience(medium.com)
3 points by malexw 10y ago|0 comments
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by malexw 10y ago
I grew up in the area and have known about the age of the trees since the mid-90s. For the people who go hiking here, it's already common knowledge.
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by malexw 11y ago
Was that game Quake 3 by any chance? After reading about how Quake 3's event system worked ( http://fabiensanglard.net/quake3/ ), I started using those techniques not only in C++ game engines, but even in Python GUI

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