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by nunez 8mo ago
They sure were. Building is what got me into this crazy field. Abusing VBscript (and myself in the process) got me into my software developer era later on!
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by nunez 8mo ago
That must've been an even bigger jump since Celerons were notably slower than PIIs.
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by nunez 8mo ago
Agreed. That was the next big boost! I installed my first SSD in this HP workstation-grade laptop that we got "for free" from college. It was like getting a brand new computer! In fact, I ended up giving that computer to my sister
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by nunez 8mo ago
What a time to be a kid then. We had a hand-me-down DEC x86 desktop at home with a Pentium II running at 233 MHz until I want to say 2002? This was around the time I learned how to build a PC since doing that was cheaper than buying one and
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by nunez 8mo ago
It's still like that if you're high enough on the corporate ladder
576.
by nunez 8mo ago
Big time. Canning and component prices are insanely high because of it. Pricing was always a problem for craft. It's even worse now.
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by nunez 8mo ago
That would be cool! This is how the Veronica Mars movie got made.
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by nunez 8mo ago
I'm assuming you're bucketing me in with the "traditionalists," which is fine. I didn't say "intellectually challenging." I said "satisfying." Neither matters in the context of enterprise softwar
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by nunez 8mo ago
I also hate that "courtesy." It blocks traffic behind the yielding car and is often done without considering that driver's surroundings (like impatient drivers switching lanes and speeding up to overtake the yielding car, inc
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by nunez 8mo ago
So, as you saw, this provoked the age-old parenting vs CF "debate." (There isn't a right answer.) I'm child-free by choice, so I can only offer the CF perspective. If you're a parent who wants to better understand o
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by nunez 8mo ago
Having a look at your state/country's foster care registry and the foster care industry as a whole might change your feelings on that.
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by nunez 8mo ago
There are other ways to give to the next generation than having kids of your own. Kids love "fun" uncle/aunts too! In my opinion, it's better to not have kids when you are not 100% LOCKED IN on wanting them instead of ga
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by nunez 8mo ago
Same. My wife and I very much enjoy being child-free in our late-30s, but we avoided joining child-free groups to avoid the "parents are breeders" crowd.
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by nunez 8mo ago
And the only people who could afford to tractor at scale are Cargill/Monsanto who bought out most of the small/medium-sized farms while leaving farms that didn't take the offer to slowly die...
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by nunez 8mo ago
It's not about "best" or "traditional," though your bias is clearly set. "Write me a feature that does _x_" isn't satisfying for me, and, like the author said in the post, it sucks that people that th
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by nunez 8mo ago
> Here is something that gets lost in all the excitement about AI productivity: most software engineers became engineers because they love writing code. > Not managing code. Not reviewing code. Not supervising systems that produce cod
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by nunez 8mo ago
For now. Google just waged war on sideloading. I think the current state of it is that adb will throw a warning with a cancellation timer before the sideload initiates. It's only a matter of time before we get an "update about sid
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by nunez 8mo ago
You're right, but if you're already thinking about spending $1.5k on a phone that's super locked down, you might as well get an iPhone. That's my point.
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by nunez 8mo ago
Not surprising for Samsung to do this. Hacking on their devices (which are second to Apple at a hardware level) went downhill fast after they implemented eFuse-secured bootloaders. What's interesting is that they tried hard to cater to
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by nunez 8mo ago
This is extremely interesting. OpenAI is putting a lot of emphasis on their deployment being cloud-based (presumably GovCloud/C2S). Was Anthropic willing and cleared to deploy their stack high-side in NIPR/SIPR? If that is the cas
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by nunez 8mo ago
I'm so desensitized to hostile account deletion workflows. I do heaps of them whenever I purge stale entries in my 1Password vaults. They are almost-universally absolutely awful, and I really wish we could federally enforce better prac
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by nunez 8mo ago
yep. hotdogging was a thing too back in the "in the office" days. wfh was a major regression here (though I lock my stuff even when I'm at home).
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by nunez 8mo ago
Couldn't agree more. Kagi for search, Fastmail for e-mail, Apple Maps for navigation (though I rely on Google Maps for reviews). Once a realistic not-Office 365 alternative for docs and spreadsheets appears, I'm going to bail on D
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by nunez 8mo ago
I feel like I read this article more or less verbatim handfuls of times over the last 15 years. Or did the author forget about how WinZip was unstoppable in the 2000s?
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by nunez 8mo ago
Not the OP, but I have a dotfile that aliases the 1Password CLI. I use that heavily every day.
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by nunez 8mo ago
Verified facts. I work in a co-working space and coffee shops. NOBODY locks their laptop when they leave it. They don't even close the lid! Similarly, people are fine with disclosing their name and DOB at the pharmacy regardless of que
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by nunez 8mo ago
Not in my experience. I asked nb to create a transparent rectangle shape and gave it RGB hex for the fill. It created the box but put the hex as text inside of it and used a checkerboard for its background. When I told it that the image was
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by nunez 8mo ago
> People were in a panic about Napster and how the internet would steal billions of dollars lol, absolutely not. The music industry was afraid of this, yes. The normies? Couldn't get enough of it.
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by nunez 8mo ago
there are a lot of smart people with eggs in this basket that stand to benefit from boosting AI hard.
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by nunez 8mo ago
I guess it's relieving to know that us developers will never get good at naming things!

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