mdekkers

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by mdekkers 3y ago
Unrelated, but I ahev been a user for some years, you rock.
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Have a look at kagi
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Never seen an ad in Apollo
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> It might not be a total freeze, but it's pretty binary - opiates and booze never help get out of poverty, homelessness, depression or pretty much anything else. Your statement is factually incorrect. Opiates are used frequently in
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Besides the nuclear thing, I’ve also heard breathless hysterical comparisons with chemical weapons. Think of the _worst_ thing, and now imagine something MUCH WORSE! That’s how dangerous LLMs are according to these bridgetrolls. They just w
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> Fight me. Why would I want to do that? There is a lot of aggression in your writing, are you OK?
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Open a beach bar somewhere nice
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> but they lack something critical to humans - the desire for MORE Opposable thumbs is also a bit of an advantage
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by mdekkers 3y ago
Anecdotally, I was brought in to improve data processing for semiconductor manufacturing quality control. To say that wasn’t exactly my field is an understatement. Working with an amazing team that was open to change was a great experience
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> I'm not so sure. I'm pretty sure there are diminishing returns at play after some point. ..because? Do you have some data to support your assertion?
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by mdekkers 3y ago
> I think it's a bit sad that the only benefit someone can see in their workplace is their salary. I enjoy clean water, food, shelter, and providing for my loved ones. I was not born rich, and I am not rich now. I am 53 and have wor
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by mdekkers 4y ago
I still have my JERKER desk that is now around 25 years old. There is a clear degradation in quality (structural and cosmetic) over time for IKEA furniture and for me personally I am no longer buying many different furniture types from ther
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by mdekkers 4y ago
This is….not good advice. [set pedantry = 1] Nothing here makes you “independent from a business”, as promised, even in a generous interpretation. With the first section being “set up an instance on Vultr” they missed the goal of being inde
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by mdekkers 4y ago
I was just thinking exactly the same thing - this is nice, but _so_ distracting. I typically listen to the Lounge channel on DI.FM for happy chillout background vibes that don’t distract
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by mdekkers 4y ago
> Here in the Bay it seems there's a constant interest from EU nationals to move to America (judging by the volume of applications we get). But I've never heard anyone interested to do the reverse. Plenty of Americans do just t
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by mdekkers 4y ago
> So let’s have a closer look at her ( blush ) anatomy… This is cringe and creepy. Although the subject is interesting, I really couldn’t read past that.
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by mdekkers 4y ago
I’m in this story and I don’t like it. I’m currently in a similar situation, and am desperately looking to move on. The market is not kind right now. We have a properly dilbert-esque management layer of PHBs with meaningless titles running
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by mdekkers 4y ago
Why strange? That was the first thing that came to mind when I read “sso” as part of the “enterprise’ offering, and was not surprised to see that someone else linked the sso tax website
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by mdekkers 4y ago
Random.org uses atmospheric data, which is pretty cool. `RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithm
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by mdekkers 4y ago
> threaten to quit if they dont hike your pay We always fire on the spot when this situation comes around, and it does depressingly often. It doesn’t matter how transparent and up front you are about pay, routes to increases, etc. there
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by mdekkers 4y ago
Huel’s quality control is …. Creative
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by mdekkers 4y ago
> Hey and thanks for checking out our product. I'd like to run a quick demo for you to show some cool features that we have. How can I contact you? Maybe just do the video like what they asked for, so we can all make the assessment,
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by mdekkers 4y ago
Login required? No thanks
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by mdekkers 4y ago
I stopped contributing to Open Source in any meaningful way in 2004 due to the incredible amount of non-stop entitlement and toxicity. I am working on a project with a few other folks and the subject of “to open source or not” has come up a
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by mdekkers 4y ago
I generally don't want cookies, except for when I do on some sites...
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by mdekkers 5y ago
> How the F do you work at NASA and not understand the basic principles of mass, velocity, and energy well enough for that to stand out enough Have you ever worked for a business with “management”?
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by mdekkers 5y ago
I speak from bitter experience - UUID for PKs is not a good idea out of the box. Both writing as well as reading took very significant penalties. I did not design that particular system, but I had to figure out why relatively simple queries
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by mdekkers 5y ago
Wow, there is a lot of hate for what is a pretty cool project. Yes, Electron isn’t great, but Tabby (formerly Terminus) is a pretty decent term and is cross platform, which is actually a big deal for me. It allows me to assign “copy on sele
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by mdekkers 5y ago
I pay for Stratechery. It’s absolutely worth it. Top tier analysis.
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by mdekkers 5y ago
Absolutely. I am a chronic expat, and frequently move countries. Due to ridiculous restrictions, I am unable to get movies and TV shows, in English, with English subtitles. Most of the time it is dubbed in $native_language without subs. I w

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