nottheengineer

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by nottheengineer 3y ago
There are red license plates for this exact case. Car dealerships generally have them to allow for test drives and bureaucracy drives. If you buy a car (which is currently unregistered) from a private person that doesn't have those, yo
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
The entire openAI site was overloaded constantly during working hours just before the last update to the models. After the update, it has had almost no issues at all.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
It seems to me that those choices are made with low DPI in mind. Those cuts probably make sure that letters don't become blurry. I think I'll try this one on my 1080p monitor for a day and see how it goes.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
I wittnessed this very fuckery with my own eyes just two weeks ago: It was an excel file created in pandas that threw an error on english commands but worked if the code included german ones. I don't know how or why that happens, I jus
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
When doing calculations on paper, you can write your interim results anywhere. That's what excel copies. It's also why text in excel files will gladly overflow into adjacent cells.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Excel is literally 2D programming. Us mortal developers who can only put lines below one another are incapable of comprehending it, so we only get to ask the wise finance people how their enigma works. On a serious note, I dread excel. If y
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
I'm in the position of that user. I have a boss telling me to not turn Team Microsoft's problems into mine. She's happier if I take someone from that team along my troubleshooting journey. It now takes two people's time
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
The best stories are always those that end with a rewrite in rust. This one is no exception, thanks for sharing.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Maybe there's another part that leads to this. The world is rapidly growing in complexity, so people may not know exactly what to do after finishing high school. Anecdotally, I found that to be the case in germany. We get state-funded
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Im that case, how does one transfer catch up to the next one? Shouldn't the seek time from switching files have the same impact on both and keep the first one in the lead?
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Microsoft does something cool for once and it's an accident?
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Some context for those wondering: Those are reserved aliases for google. If you send a mail go abuse@company.com and they use google, that mail will be receiced by google (and the company if they have that set up). It's intended for re
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
I'd like to read that but can't seem to find it. Do you remember the title or have a link?
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
You post it to HN and claim that it's safe. If you aren't proven wrong in the next 2 hours, it probably is.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
I really like using LLMs to learn stuff because they can explain anything at the exact level I need. Hallucination is a big problem with that and RAG pretty much solves it. If I give chatGPT a good stackoverflow post and tell it to dumb it
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Let's hope they did get it and this is just marketing blabber to avoid admitting any mistakes.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Unfortunately that opens up a whole new can of worms. There are already sites that guess how fake amazon reviews are, maybe we need something similar for github. I hope an analysis like you proposed could yield some insights to patterns or
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
The point of textual is, from what I can tell, making simple and fast UIs very easy to develop. Running in a terminal also makes keyboard input easy, so why reinvent that wheel? Being able to turn that into a website with little extra work
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
I used firefox without any issues, but today was the first time I tried to make a call instead of joining a meeting. The site said that my browser didn't support that (meetings work perfectly, so that's obviously BS) and that I sh
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Onedrive uses sharepoint as a backend, so maybe there's a bug in there that causes both issues.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
I can highly recommend uninstalling teams and using the web version instead. It's a bit less broken and crashes much less often, but the most important thing is that you can just F5 it when it does, which is much faster than starting u
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Possibly related: A few weeks ago I was told to use the autosave option of MS word. The login dialog went through, but then nothing happened. Classic Microsoft. I reinstalled Onedrive, autosave said it's on and I go ahead with my work.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
You do better than this so your customers don't start hosting themselves.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
I read up on that a year or two ago. Then it was mainly IBM mainframes running z/os.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
You start differentiating between free and gratis.
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Good read, but it focuses a lot on conveying information to the user. The issue nowadays is often the other direction: Interacting with GUIs often feels clunky because there are unnecessary steps, moving buttons on websites or weird mouse r
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Pattern reproduction is very close to speech in my opinion. Formal grammars even have it in the name and approaches like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37125118 show that LLMs are indeed very fit for that purpose. I t
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
Arch. My PC sometimes hangs for no reason, which it also did with windows. It used to be a non-issue because it was too loud to run it overnight, but now it's quiet so I'm trying to figure that out. Every nvidia driver update has
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
SMB really is hell. I write business software and our admins do what they can to avoid using it because it's very hard to know when it fails. But from a dev perspective, that's probably a driver level issue because that's whe
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by nottheengineer 3y ago
While it's nice to imagine what this could be used for, it just looks like frontend dev hell with so many moving parts.

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