pcblues

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by pcblues 7mo ago
Writing with a pen has a lot of unseen benefits. Fine-motor skills connected to memory, etc. Doesn't take much to find the science. Also, avoiding interruption is good for your train of thought. If a train of thought doesn't matte
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by pcblues 7mo ago
"But is this shift actually worth worrying about? Or are younger people just projecting their own anxieties about screen time onto their parents and grandparents?" False dichotomies can either be the worst thing that happened to h
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by pcblues 7mo ago
A formal way for a senior to tell AI (clueless junior) to do a senior's job? Once again, who checks and fixes the output code? Of course an expert would throw it out and design/write it properly so they know it works.
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by pcblues 8mo ago
I'm still using a 2010 Macbook Pro with a 1TB SSD for Logic Pro and Mainstage. Does it struggle? Yes. Does it work? Yes. It's still amazing technology that makes my keyboards and guitars sound bananas. To be fair, I just muck arou
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by pcblues 9mo ago
This is tongue-in-cheek, but you spent years in management because "the thought of spending your life staring at a screen and dealing with insignificant minutia seemed horrible?" I need to read your management book!
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by pcblues 9mo ago
Tried to play a free-for-all card game with blank cards with friends in a bar thirty years ago. It was too far out for the group. Writing the rules for a game during your own turn is pretty great. But if there isn't an improv idea of &
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by pcblues 9mo ago
Not sure if this has been posted (I see stephenwoo has mentioned him further down), but it's a break-down of how sugary foods damage the body, particularly fructose. It's 16 years old about 30 years of previous research. https:&#
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by pcblues 9mo ago
I haven't had a _terrible_ UI experience with Win 11 that Apple hasn't put me through already. But it took away my sideways toolbar. I don't click anything that loads edge, like "Show me more from the web" type link
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by pcblues 10mo ago
Maybe I'm still in denial about the benefit of AI code design, but when I have an initial set of requirements for a program, the design begins. That is just a set of unanswered questions that I address with slowly growing code and docu
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by pcblues 1y ago
You gain experience getting interactions with other agencies optimised by dealing with them yourself. If the AI you rely on fails, you are dead in the water. And I'm speaking as a fairly resilient 50 year old with plenty of hands-on ex
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by pcblues 1y ago
The Jupiter Ace was unreal, but only from a computer science perspective. You had to know a lot to know how to program Forth which was the fundamental language of that white but Spectrum-looking dish of a PC, in spite of a manual that read
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by pcblues 1y ago
A CorelDraw version from the 1990s I used had an honest progress bar. Sometimes it went backwards, but by the time it got to the end, it was truly finished.
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by pcblues 1y ago
I should have made my post clearer :) There isn't one perfect solution to SQL queries against complex systems. A suduko has one solution. A reasonably well-optimised SQL solution is what the good use of SQL tries to achieve. And it can
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by pcblues 1y ago
A question: Does anyone know how well AI does generating performative SQL in years-old production databases? In terms of speed of execution, locking, accuracy, etc.? I see the promise for green-field projects.
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by pcblues 1y ago
Can someone please answer these questions because I still think AI stinks of a false promise of determinable accuracy: Do you need an expert to verify if the answer from AI is correct? How is it time saved refining prompts instead of SQL?
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by pcblues 1y ago
Not sure if anyone here saw the movie Clueless, but a great quote was, "That guy is such a Monet. From a distance he looks great, but up close he's a real mess."
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by pcblues 1y ago
A line that disturbed me with just how widespread the outage is. (And also people will die from it in all sorts of weird ways) "In an update, Spanish power grid operator Red Electrica says it's beginning to recover power in the NO
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by pcblues 2y ago
Tim Minchin said it well when he said to be hard on and critical of your own opinions. Among many other things :P https://www.timminchin.com/2013/09/25/occasional-address/
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by pcblues 2y ago
If you remove yourself from a group, how will they change their minds without a dissenting opinion? I had to do it myself eventually, for my own sanity, but I believe this is still a real problem I am no longer addressing among my loved one
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by pcblues 2y ago
Name-calling by commentators dehumanised the debates. I still don't understand why it is considered OK. "They do it" should not be enough of a reason, but it affects youtube income for individuals, so let the market work, I g
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by pcblues 2y ago
I'm 52. For me, there was a time when it was considered impolite to talk about sex, religion and politics. Then it became super fun when done with open/questioning/rational/critical minds, and a lot of progress in my own
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by pcblues 2y ago
On reflection, my attitude to books like these indicated where I was in my understanding of programming. They used to be useful life-buoys that one clung to for dear life early in one's career in a fast-moving and often-changing indust
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by pcblues 2y ago
I will more likely believe a blog or website if I know it has been made by a real person, and not some hallucinating AI. The style of the prose is usually a giveaway of when AI is used to generate blog articles or websites. I am starting a
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by pcblues 2y ago
It's kind of weird. It brings the gap from what you eat to what you do in life a lot closer. I accidentally became more fish and vegetables as an eater :) The actual gross-out part was not the fact the processing happens. It's the
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by pcblues 2y ago
An example from one of "those who've shifted from established careers to something entirely different" I used to be a software developer, now I cut up meat at an abattoir (combination choice/circumstance.) In one sense,
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by pcblues 2y ago
I heard first-hand years ago of a bug in VMWare that was _CPU-Level_ for the company that rolled it out in an effort to replace their PCs that had software locally installed. The failure would have been catastrophic for a company that had j
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by pcblues 2y ago
Over twenty five odd years, I have found the path to a general debugging prowess can best be achieved by doing it. I'd recommend taking the list/buying the book, using https://up-for-grabs.net to find bugs on github&#x
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by pcblues 2y ago
I'm probably old, but still curious. You seem to have so many social contact routes on your website but I couldn't find an email address. Did I miss it? I try to limit my contact routes to as few as possible so I don't have t
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by pcblues 2y ago
Maybe not so much a blog, but I believe a developer should maintain their own website, whether that includes a blog or not. It lets you define yourself and organise your own projects. And (I believe) most importantly, you learn how to maint
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by pcblues 2y ago
A couple of points. It is not aesthetically pleasing at all, which is important to me, for whatever neurological reason. Also, I consider a laptop stand as just a device to raise the screen to a better ergonomic level on the understanding t

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