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by narag 6mo ago
lol, kind of expected someone would notice... it's my personal mail and I don't get much. In my experience, it's better for low volume. I just connect, download, delete it from the server and have it in an easily readable for
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by narag 6mo ago
After reading a bunch of negative comments here, let me add a little on the bright side. I've been using Thunderbird for many years, currently both at home and at work to manage gmail accounts, pop at home, imap in the office. It works
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by narag 6mo ago
Ouch! Netscape 4.7 reloaded...
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by narag 6mo ago
It's absolutely replacing their jobs, but not their positions. They use it extensively to create all the paperwork, communications, emails, translations... and they work fine for these tasks so they think it's equally useful for e
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by narag 7mo ago
I don't know what "being with the wrong person" means. Congratulations.
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by narag 7mo ago
Thank you, I had not hear of that method (my comment was more about wetware) but I doubt it will be unfamiliar to me, I've done everything refactor related, mostly successfully... when they let me (see https://news.ycombinat
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by narag 7mo ago
That's exactly what happens in some organizations. I couldn't believe it the first time I saw it, but it is what it is. And the reason is some bosses are addict to consensus. Infuriating but there's really no other option tha
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by narag 8mo ago
Aside from the origin, there're situations in which you need to somehow shave the yak. Yes, it's about procrastination, but not of the task at hand. You procrastinate in some older task that's really blocking what you need to
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by narag 8mo ago
You can't physically but the logic is the same: you need beams, foundations, walls and roofs, with strenghts adjusted for scale. Software mindset :-) In this sense, web applications haven't changed so much in the last twenty years
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by narag 8mo ago
IMHO, the key is where you add complexity. In software you have different abstraction layers. If you make a layer too fat, it becomes unwieldly. A simple system evolves well if you're adding the complexity in the right layer, avoidin
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by narag 9mo ago
A couple of different uses of AI, recently detected in YouTube: 1. There are channels specialized in topics like police bodycam and dashcam videos, or courtroom videos. AI there is used to generate voice (and sometimes a very obviously fake
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by narag 9mo ago
"Mostly because of the continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories, Gentoo currently considers and plans the migration of our repository mirrors and pull request contributions to Codeberg."
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by narag 9mo ago
You can throw the arrow with just a piece of rope rolled around your hand and using the same grip as in the atlatl. Romans called those slingshot arrows tragulae .
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by narag 9mo ago
The article incurs in the very same problem it's describing. It's generic advice that might not be appliable to specific situations.
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by narag 9mo ago
Sorry to say, but the article is complete BS. Publishing is only desirable when your work is top-notch ;)
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by narag 10mo ago
Are you interested in the statistics or in knowing if I know any? I hate camera proliferation but, judging by the YouTube plenty of bodycam footage, it does work. You won't likely find the numbers you want because the very nature of th
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by narag 10mo ago
The post you are responding to is about punishing the victim because teachers are too lazy/cowards to punish the culprits. Cams incentivize them to do the right thing.
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by narag 11mo ago
I agree, but... Sometimes problems are real. That guy will never be my friend because he wants my position. That other guy is scared because he thinks my work is a threat to his silo, and he's right: the management is after him. No fra
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by narag 11mo ago
The slow strips on the outside moved at five miles an hour; the inner ones faster and faster... Not good enough. The same strip should go faster and faster over time and decelerate near its end. It sounds impossible, but I can think of a
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by narag 1y ago
But, but... we're the good guys, we're just fighting those evil advertisers! I don't know if they'll finally find a way to control the spying, but how many years have passed since they made the law?
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by narag 1y ago
The world a program works in and the computer it runs on are often very malicious, or they sure act like they are. Not to talk about users, some are pure evil :-) We put a lot of safeguards, exception handling and all kind of measures to co
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by narag 1y ago
That's a very absolute outlook. The fact is that they were very naive and, althoug they seem to be adjusting, it's been painfully slow and the harm has been done and the public is suffering meanwhile. Law making is a way of predic
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by narag 1y ago
Honestly, I can't get myself to worry about "societal damage"... what would the contact mean for individuals? Medical and technical advancements would extend our lifespans and could add enjoyment to our lives. A civilization
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by narag 1y ago
There's a joke about a speeding BMW that crashes into the back of a hay cart. The driver complains that the cart should had a red rag to signal its presence. The carter responds "you didn't see the cart, would have you seen t
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by narag 1y ago
Lawmakers must consider enforcement. What are the practical consequences of those rulings?
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by narag 1y ago
You don't need to write the perfect law. Just write a law that has more or less the intended effect. Imagine you write a program to do something and it doesn't work at all as expected and at the same time it causes endless annoyan
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by narag 1y ago
So you can imagine my incredulity when a few days ago I received one email message telling me that if I don't take action urgently, my One Drive account is going to be deleted, maybe even my files in the cloud.
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by narag 1y ago
Indeed. Totalitarians of the past century didn't need any AI to control masses and cause more than 100M deaths. And those ideologies are far from dead.
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by narag 1y ago
Well, yet another compulsive selector here, but: Similarly I get annoyed, if every pixel is some clickable action trigger. This is the worst. It permeates all kind of GUIs. Windows has this mini preview windows that pop up when you'r
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by narag 1y ago
If you're a politician, you need people to vote for you. "Your" people will. Try not to alienate too much others so you can fish moderates and get to 50%. If you're an "influencer" you need engagement. You can

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