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by neilv 1y ago
What do people think about the (almost hidden) cameras in glasses? With traditional cameras, feature phones, and smartphones, if someone wanted to be creepy with the camera, they'd have to point the device at someone, which tended to l
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by neilv 1y ago
"At least it's not faked" was my main reaction, too. Some other big-tech AI-related demos the last couple years have been caught being faked. Zuckerberg handling it reasonably well was nice. (Though the tone at the end of &q
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by neilv 1y ago
Questions regarding the US government-appointed director (CCP style?)... IIUC, Oracle has strong connections to the CIA, and Andreessen the person lately seems right-wing activist. 1. Under the current administration, maybe it doesn't
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by neilv 1y ago
For purposes of the analogy, I was referring to the familiar meme/belief about how interest is distributed in straight dating. In hindsight and in the future, I would phrase the point differently.
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by neilv 1y ago
I loves me some Noctua. I suspect that the very quiet single 120mm is enough to keep air moving sufficiently through my 3090 GPU server chassis (though I also put a couple 80mm where 4U chassis airflow narrows in the rear, just to be safe)
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by neilv 1y ago
I can guess a reason: persistence of your IRC server connection(s), across device sessions, and maybe switchable between devices. Without using an IRC bouncer. So this this would a turnkey way to run this somewhere centralized and persiste
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by neilv 1y ago
I've seen a number of job posts that have a note near the end, encouraging people to apply even if they don't meet all the requirements. There's also the job posts that distinguish between hard requirements and nice-to-haves,
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by neilv 1y ago
A colleague, who is very accomplished in tech industry (but not rich, for good reasons), said he would be in town, and asked to meet. He strangely didn't say why (not even "to catch up"), so I thought it was probably that he
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by neilv 1y ago
And the analogue of the exceptionally good-looking STD super-spreaders would be... the resume-driven-development self-proclaimed "10x devs" who job-hop every 6 months, leaving a wake of disasters?
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by neilv 1y ago
> I have personally walked into places I was interested in working at and asked for an engineering manager. About 50% of the time, a manager comes out to meet me. This is surprising to me. Unless you last tried this long enough ago th
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by neilv 1y ago
I've heard the theory that humor is actually a censor mechanism, to inhibit learning nonsense. So, IIUC, if the censor identifies something nonsensical, it throws the amusement switch, to keep your brain from integrating the wrong thin
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by neilv 1y ago
OTOH, it's nice when companies that will screw you over, signal that, by having lawyers appear to carefully set up the cover for them to do so.
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by neilv 1y ago
In less time than that, you could `git clone` the desired open source package, and text search & replace the author's name with your own.
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by neilv 1y ago
Straight face read on client-value.pdf here. It seems to be describing a series of high-end sales calls, in the form of a management consulting engagement, with the question of, "How can I send IBM more business, and can you help me ma
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by neilv 1y ago
The joke about 2002 visual design was referring to my own said Web site.
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by neilv 1y ago
In one of my Linux handheld attempts, I looked to evaluate Maemo for the vintage Nokia N810 and N900 as a starting point, but much of open source artifacts (code, docs, forums) had mostly disappeared, even from where there seemed an effort
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by neilv 1y ago
My Sony Bravia XBR6 from 2008 is perfectly fine for my living room screen. (I even programmed an old Sony remote to kludge sending theequivalent of the PS5 controller logo button, for the PS5 that the TV is plugged into, for streaming and
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by neilv 1y ago
I used to run a Web server (and email server) like this. The novelty wore off, and I currently structure it for static hosting via AWS S3 + CloudFront. (No matter how personal a Web site, the occasional prospective employer will go look at
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by neilv 1y ago
IIUC, there have been some efforts to compartmentalize/isolate closed baseband, when you can work on the hardware. Separate from baseband, the (sub)device closed firmware blobs are non-ideal, and eventually you'd want open source
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by neilv 1y ago
Regarding updates: at your all-hands meetings, show inside customer success stories, and the real impact it had, or how your product/service is being used for great things? (Different than a marketing testimonial, big sales landed, o
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by neilv 1y ago
(Warning: Am only a software/product engineer, playing dilettante here, not an actual marketing/business expert.) Awhile back, I was thinking that one pragmatic way to get this viable Linux smartphone moving might be for hobbyists
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by neilv 1y ago
That reminds me. I probably have a rough video of part of an author talk by Richard Dawkins... speaking from a church pulpit. It was an old church, with acoustics that worked pre-electronics. At the start of the talk, Dawkins remarked, so
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by neilv 1y ago
This series of posts highlights one of the features of Debian that's occasionally handy: you can usually upgrade between major stable releases in an automated way. It can be good for workstation laptops, and for pets-not-cattle servers
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by neilv 1y ago
> A general behavior I observe in colleagues or co-workers is that they highlight half of a paper, but they never do anything with that highlights. They might be using this exercise to help them focus and absorb what's important o
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by neilv 1y ago
I did try phoneless for a few years, except for a dumbphone that I kept at home for the rare call or SMS 2FA. The biggest factor that forced upgrading was poor call quality on the dumbphones I tried. (And this was really forced by bombing
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by neilv 1y ago
Suggestion for people trying GrapheneOS... Although GrapheneOS puts a lot of work into sandboxing and protecting against Google Play, don't assume that you have to go that direction. An alternative direction, if you wish, is to simply
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by neilv 1y ago
> I remember reading a headline that being poor is equivalent to [...] Some government forms and processes for poor people assistance I've seen (and I imagine that forms and processes for new immigrants may be similar)... some of
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by neilv 1y ago
I wish there would be negative feedback to shrinkflation, yet, even in my own buying behavior (and I might do more things "on-principle" than the average consumer) I mostly still stick with brands of product I've found I like
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by neilv 1y ago
I've had the tiniest nagging confusion about that... From what I recall, it seemed pretty common to use the recipe on the bag of chocolate chips, yet somehow each family's cookies came out different. My mom's instantiation of
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by neilv 1y ago
How do the colleagues of people "vibe-coding" feel about that? Does it end up like having colleagues who are aren't doing or understanding or learning from their own work, and are working like they offshored their job to an

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