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by mbreese 6mo ago
It is how classes (even in person ones) are organized. Assignments, quizzes, links to online textbooks, discussion boards, student/teacher messaging, student group messaging, etc. From the teacher side, I'm not sure if there is a
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by mbreese 6mo ago
It’s manipulating the binary to make it as small as possible. In golf, the lowest score wins. So, in this context, the smallest binary that still works wins.
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by mbreese 6mo ago
Are you sure about that? Most GUI toolkits have things so wired up that it’s trivial to get a small app running. The point is to get a dev up and running as quickly as possible (even if there is a lot of magic involved). If you’re okay with
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by mbreese 6mo ago
I think the corollary to this is that there are more people comfortable with living in a terminal. TUIs are more common now that there is an increased audience for them.
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by mbreese 6mo ago
Google Translate: My Catherine thanks you for the golden ring, whom I have hardly ever seen more indignant than when she realized that it had been stolen or lost through her own negligence (which is not likely for me, although I still insis
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by mbreese 6mo ago
The readme says it’s proprietary code that’s free to use during a “preview”. Odd to be so tied to GitHub for proprietary code.
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by mbreese 6mo ago
I don’t have a use case, but I was thinking the same thing. But then I realized that the WAN speeds available now are equal to or faster than the LAN speeds I had when I had reason to use iSCSI. And things worked out decently well then, so
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by mbreese 6mo ago
It gets a little fuzzy when talking about Celera and the human genome project. The two efforts were very much competitors, but there was a lot of crossover (mainly from Celera pulling in the public data). But, Venter claimed that he was the
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by mbreese 6mo ago
I get the confusion -- it looks like the reporter of the bug just posted a raw email response that they got without adding any sort of decoration to make it clear it was from an email they got. At least, that's my reading of this. I&#x
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by mbreese 6mo ago
It's a bit fuzzy, but what I remember was getting it running was painless -- but there was a ton of effort in getting it configured. In retrospect, it was probably the flexibility of projects like Bugzilla that heralded the "opini
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by mbreese 6mo ago
Trac was great. But, my first issue tracker was bugzilla. Setting that up was a bit of a pain, and it didn’t integrate well with anything, but it was very satisfying to see “Zarro Boogs”.
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by mbreese 6mo ago
I’m also not sure I agree with the assertion that LLMs will produce a high quality (looking) report with correct time frames, lack of typos, and good looking figures. I’m just as willing to disregard human or LLM reports with obvious tells.
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by mbreese 6mo ago
The exterior of the USB A connector stayed the same. The number of pins increased when we went from USB 2 to 3. So, even in this case, it’s slightly more complicated. The colors helped because the capabilities were very different between th
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by mbreese 6mo ago
The fact that you had to list all of the versions and speeds at the top of your post is illustrative of what the parent was trying to say. We can all look up what speed is associated with what version, but it’s not exactly a consumer friend
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by mbreese 6mo ago
> I'm curious why corporate development teams always feel the need to spy on their users? This isn’t that surprising to me. Having usage data is important for many purposes. Even Debian has an opt-in usage tracker (popcon) to see
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by mbreese 6mo ago
But isn't this then just another tool that you're including in your project? I don't get why I would want to add this as a visualization tool to a project, if it's already using R, or Python, etc... I mean, is it to avoi
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by mbreese 6mo ago
That’s not the issue. Someone could build the plant domestically (US), sure. It would take time, but getting a plant build isn’t hard. But who would do that? If the plant isn’t financially stable during non-crisis situations, then it won’t
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by mbreese 6mo ago
> which can be done in few places At the moment. We could purify bromine gas anywhere and extraction and purification don’t need to be co-located. But at the moment, the purification and extraction in Israel are co-located, which is wh
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by mbreese 6mo ago
My guess is parsability. It’s easier to look for sentinel ``` blocks as opposed to building an HTML processor. An XML processor would have been easier, but people like Markdown. So, here we are. At least, that would’ve my rationale.
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by mbreese 6mo ago
At the same time, it makes some sense... the programmers for a system aren't always the best users of a system. So if you're expecting them to dogfood their own system (Google Sheets), you might find that they test/interact w
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by mbreese 6mo ago
No, I meant that Windows AD was still the answer two decades ago. I can see how that may not have been clear - I edited my post to include the quote I was replying to. (You said one decade and I was just extending that timeline back anoth
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by mbreese 6mo ago
I think a lot of the MCP arguments conflate MCP the protocol versus how we currently discover and use MCP tool servers. I think there’s a lot of overhead and friction right now with how MCP servers are called and discovered by agents, but t
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by mbreese 6mo ago
Well AD is just a really opinionated LDAP/Kerberos setup, so you’d think that there would be something that Linux could do. But when you’re talking about enterprise management of thousands of devices, you need some kind of consistent s
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by mbreese 6mo ago
> Ask me a decade ago what an enterprise should do, and my answer would be straightforward: AD, GPO, Exchange. That was also the answer two decades ago. But if AD and GPO are now dead, what killed them and what are the options? Is the
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by mbreese 7mo ago
For project discovery, definitely -- but not as a source code repository. Wow, we're dating ourselves on this, but I remember when it was a big deal that SF.net added SVN support. They apparently didn't turn off CVS until 2017!
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by mbreese 7mo ago
Or, if you knew the bitcoin addresses, you could figure out exactly how much oil is being moved. I would think oil data analysts would love to have access to that data (if they don't already).
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by mbreese 7mo ago
It wasn’t always scummy… but there was a definite shift after they got bought. It’s kept getting worse since then. Then again, this was something like 20 years ago. Back then, Sourceforge was something closer to GitHub today. It was the de
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by mbreese 7mo ago
Arguably better quality, but at the cost of being shorter. In the great trade off of time, size, and quality, I think VHS chose a better combination.
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by mbreese 7mo ago
Sometimes the code must be received through the bank’s app. I went though this process recently to open a new account (at a bank where I already had other accounts). I didn’t think much of it at the time, but if you didn’t have or want a sm
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by mbreese 7mo ago
I’ve been doing something similar with a RAG system where in addition to storing the documents, we use an LLM to pull out “facts”. We’re using the LLM to look for relationships between different entities. This is then also returned when we

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