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by pards 1y ago
I have several responses depending on how ornery I'm feeling 1. Respond with, "Hello. How can I help?", or 2. Wait until 5:30pm then respond, "Hello" and close my laptop for the day
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Prompt Engineering Playbook for Programmers(addyo.substack.com)
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> It feels to me like “do the things you like” is a luxury of someone who isn’t anxious about paying all their bills. I encourage my kids to keep their hobbies as pastimes, not as income sources. As soon as you try to make a living from
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by pards 1y ago
> The threat actor had accessed the company’s GitHub account and accessed "some software artifacts as well as some personal information." LexisNexis offers software to perform credit checks and sanctions screening so access to
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> "We are looking into how this made it into print as we speak" I hope there's a blameless post-mortem conducted and published. At this point, I no longer trust anything I read online. Is it time to mandate labelling the s
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Chicago Sun-Times prints a summer reading list but the books don't exist(cbc.ca)
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> Note: No generative AI was used to create this content. This page is only intended for human consumption and is NOT allowed to be used for machine training including but not limited to LLMs. (why?) I love this. I wonder if it is effect
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by pards 1y ago
> sometimes you [novice] just need to be able to show them [expert] what you’re doing without any specific question in mind > the vast majority of learning comes from a novice watching how the expert plies their skills, and not from d
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> The other massive improvement has been moving most conversations to text or recorded calls. Written communications skills are a superpower in a remote working environment. Unfortunately, very few people have it. Lack of typing skills,
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by pards 1y ago
In Toronto, a crowdfunded shuttle service [0] was started to solve this exact problem - lots of people in an area underserved by public transit going to the similar locations at similar times of day. The City shut it down. [0]: https:&#x2F
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by pards 1y ago
Very cool site, but... It looks like each drag-n-drop changes the history. I had to click the back button about 10 times to get back to HN.
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by pards 1y ago
X-10 devices [0] that do this have been around for a long time. I've even seen elaborate setups that can be controlled via a landline. [0]: https://thex10shop.com/products/x10-powerhouse-th2807-thermo...
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> code output is rarely the reason why projects that I worked on are delayed This is very true at large enterprises. The pre-coding tasks [0] and the post-coding tasks [1] account for the majority of elapsed time that it takes for a feat
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by pards 2y ago
uBlock Origin is blocking the call to "GET https://cloud.umami.is/script.js " so the end screen is blank. This makes it look and feel buggy.
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Genetic selection is available in Canada for parents that carry detrimental genes. They can either screen the embryo prior to implantation during IVF, or do early stage testing of naturally-conceived embryos. Exactly which diseases can be s
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by pards 2y ago
I no longer assume that digital natives understand how technology actually works under the hood. They teach me about the latest social media trends, I teach them about computer hardware, networking, and terminology. My kids: Dad, the
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by pards 2y ago
The title refers to the January 6, 2012 episode, beginning about halfway through the article: > “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory” is mesmerizing and flawlessly produced. It became the most-downloaded episode of This American Life. There
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We're slowly losing our connections to the physical world(thestar.com)
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Sounds like the underpants gnomes [0] * Phase 1: Collect underpants * Phase 2: ? * Phase 3: Profits 0: https://youtu.be/WpnM37A4P_8?feature=shared&t=119
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by pards 2y ago
> "nothing at FB is someone else's problem" I love this credo. Sadly, large enterprises seem to operate on the exact opposite model of "everything at XYZ corp is someone else's problem". There's literal
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by pards 2y ago
For a variety of reasons - Old on-prem mainframes - Old mainframes hosted by vendors - Network latency (cloud <--> on-prem, cloud <--> vendor) - Required sequence of calls (auth -> account list -> account balance
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by pards 2y ago
> Yet it takes me 30 seconds to log into my bank This has little to do with bloat. There's a complex array of backend systems involved in logging you in to your bank: Authentication, authorization, customer system, separate account
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NHS finance system replacement delayed again(theregister.com)
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He's rapidly trending into dictator territory
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> they only do what’s strictly required to avoid a performance improvement plan. No one goes above and beyond anymore; no one takes initiative to improve things. Why? Because it doesn’t matter. I see this at large Canadian financial inst
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by pards 2y ago
> it seemed that we had agreed to the STARLINK enrollment when we purchased it. Related to the GM ban https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42734260
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Canada's Online Harms Act (Bill C-63) (2024)(thestar.com)
3 points by pards 2y ago|2 comments
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https://archive.is/1AhAN
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This made my day. Thank you.
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> many studies of nutritional epidemiology that try to link dietary exposures to disease outcomes are founded on really dodgy data I wonder if the data are always skewed in a particular direction. For example, do people typically underre

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