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by mberning 9mo ago
> There were a few moments I put my hand into my pocket to take out my phone to look up something I was curious about. My phone wasn’t there. My dad smoked for decades and when he tried to quit his hand would instinctively go to
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by mberning 9mo ago
I am fully in support of the dumb smartphone hybrid.
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by mberning 9mo ago
I never found Bundler to be all that slow compared to other package managers.
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by mberning 9mo ago
I am so exhausted by reviewing the AI slop from other “developers”. For a while I was trying to be a good sport and point out where it was just wrong or doing things that were unnecessary or inefficient. I’m at the point of telling people t
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by mberning 9mo ago
I am amazed that people take Hal Puthoff at his word that he has worked on all these secret projects for decades even though he cannot describe in definitive terms what the actual outcomes of those programs were. But he is able to talk abou
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by mberning 10mo ago
To me the more insidious problem is that we have juniors now that aren’t learning much because they lean on AI for everything. They are behind the curve.
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by mberning 10mo ago
He’s a fascinating guy, but this is not an announcement. It’s a teaser of a teaser.
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by mberning 10mo ago
For $200 how many casual pirates does it have to dissuade to pay for itself. Not many. At that price it doesn’t need to be very good.
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by mberning 10mo ago
I think the part that people doubt is the highly compressed timeline for approval. Hard to anticipate long term effects when something has only been tested for a short period of time. Also during this time the pitch degraded from “you won’t
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by mberning 10mo ago
The person that installed should have thought more carefully about it. But the person that printed it and sold it should face some legal repercussions. Totally irresponsible what they did.
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by mberning 10mo ago
This is super common in affluent school districts. Bulldozer parents with lots of time and resources eventually get their kid some diagnosis that confers benefits in their schooling. Be it additional time on assignments, one on one tutoring
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by mberning 10mo ago
Very quaint that they think they can make some legal argument against Oracle
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by mberning 10mo ago
Is there a way to run it completely locally?
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by mberning 10mo ago
They do recommend his guide to networking though…
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by mberning 10mo ago
It’s as serious as you want/need it to be.
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by mberning 10mo ago
If you ever feel bad about yourself as a programmer you can go read some Rasmus Lerdorf quotes to cheer up :)
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by mberning 10mo ago
It is only briefly touched on in the article but most of the “best” engineers spend almost no time coding or engineering. I’ve worked at multiple Fortune 500 companies and many weeks I would be lucky to spend 4-8 hours coding. Often I would
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by mberning 10mo ago
Point number two seems dubious at best. At least 50% of all offspring would need to be as fit or more fit than the parents to have any hope for the continuation of a species. And it’s probably a much higher percentage than that due to morta
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by mberning 10mo ago
A great tool for digging into obscure jar and class files. I used it many times to track down very obscure bugs in Java based products. Often you will have a vendor saying that your issue is not real or not reproducible on their end. But wi
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by mberning 10mo ago
The federal “eJuror” website is by far one of the worst websites in existence.
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by mberning 11mo ago
It’s a godsend for people with legitimate vision issues, such as eye floaters.
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by mberning 11mo ago
I used to share your opinion, and in a way I still do, but after having 3 children and seeing how horrible some of these behaviors and habits can get, I completely understand why people cave in to get some relief. The stress of dealing with
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by mberning 11mo ago
This is a great example of why “small details” matter. How many times do you think an apprentice has been corrected about this? What percentage of the time does the apprentice say “yeah but it’s just a label”. Lots of things went wrong in t
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by mberning 11mo ago
Some do. It would also be nice to reference by ordinal number similar to order by. Very handy for quick and dirty queries. I can see the issue though that people start to lean on it too much.
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by mberning 11mo ago
the internet is over. If we want to recapture the magic of the earlier times we are going to have to invent something new.
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by mberning 11mo ago
If you work with a bunch of people who “just do things” you very well may wish to spend a lot more time “thinking about things” before you do them. If those things are more complicated and nuanced than “doing the dishes” or “putting away th
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by mberning 11mo ago
I am always amazed at how people can put so much effort into something that will very likely be killed or made impossible by the vendor. Reminds me of that iMessage client for android. It lasted what, a couple weeks of cat and mouse?
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by mberning 11mo ago
It is a hilarious joke when you see all the stickers covering the laptop of the person asking you a basic git or sql question. Superstar.
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by mberning 11mo ago
In my professional experience the number of stickers on a laptop is generally inversely proportional to the owner’s ability to write software, or even use said computer for that matter.
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by mberning 11mo ago
The biggest issue I had with material for mkdocs was training BA type people to contribute. They had to muddle their way through python, pip, git, github, etc. just to make a one line change.

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