pcblues

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by pcblues 2y ago
This is a fascinating idea. Sort of like a wikipedia, but trying to establish the truth of a single movie rather than everything we know. It would probably end up needing moderators, harassing people for funding, and pay for political purpo
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by pcblues 2y ago
Behind Jaggi Lines also gave me the biggest jump-scares of any video game before or after. Shattered my nerves late at night with headphones on.
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by pcblues 2y ago
I wonder why people boast they can do ten things in one line. Less lines of code doesn't mean less bugs. The debugger just stops at each symbol instead of each line which I think adds to the cognitive load. Documenting while waiting fo
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by pcblues 2y ago
Also, it's important that you make your own templates for each of the document types, because thinking about them is part of the design process. It reduces the cognitive load of understanding yet another set of design document template
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by pcblues 2y ago
I'm a fan of using the least number of language features to get the job done. If a language is simple and can be stepped through easily, one benefits from the removal of the added cognitive load of knowing a large number of language fe
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by pcblues 2y ago
I'll be the antiquated person here. Writing/speaking well has brought people to knowledge because the authors are uniquely positioned to use genius, humour, gentleness and generosity to bring an inquisitive but ignorant person int
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by pcblues 2y ago
At university, I studied zoonosis (travel of disease from animals to humans) and the introduction of AIDs to the world from Congo. The most likely theory (to me) is that when cities were developed to physically concentrate and economically
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by pcblues 2y ago
Agreed. He seems to be smart enough to never be caught. Could just be the need to be liked/famous/known. On the other hand, he might not have expected to be noticed by someone who knew him. That's a real 0.01% you can't
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by pcblues 2y ago
I loved playing games I was familiar with because the rules had been finalised with the people I played with, and we had agreed on the ambiguities (they became house rules). We then developed our strategies based on a known and "comple
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by pcblues 2y ago
For a bit of tangentially related fun, I recommend Steven Jackson's Murphy's Rules. It was a book of irrational game rules. I used to have a hard-copy of this. Sorry if this is not an official link. You may have better luck findi
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by pcblues 2y ago
Plastic slide covers that stick on are pretty cheap if your laptop doesn't already have one. I also think that the open microphone issue is a greater problem, especially with the current ability of speech-to-text, but what you utter ma
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by pcblues 2y ago
mammary, eruption, phallus, vomit, poo Sue me :)
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by pcblues 2y ago
When SQL can't internally optimise a query into a more efficient constraint problem, unrolling joins is the key. This once MSSQL hacker got to the point of optimising queries with large amounts of joins or CTEs to just populating a sin
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by pcblues 2y ago
I think it has to do with the precision of the hand wrapped around a pen/paintbrush with a lifetime of experience. The precision of effectively painting with an orange can not be matched to painting with a stick :) (Edit follows:) Also
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by pcblues 2y ago
I'm too old to remember the mappings for 20 button mice, but I've found the lowly Logitech G305 useful because it has a hardware button to toggle between DPI settings. That makes it useful without using any other key to change the
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by pcblues 2y ago
They were gorgeous.
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by pcblues 2y ago
About to start. Hoping it's like The Last Starfighter.
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by pcblues 2y ago
If you shift the computational result back in time to the same time you started it, your O notation is just a zero, and quite scalable. Actually it would open the programming market up to more beginners, because they can brute force any com
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by pcblues 2y ago
I think a syntax highlighter and in-line documentation for future language features before they are created is also necessary. I'll stick with more established languages, too. Time in a single direction is already hard.
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by pcblues 2y ago
I've found that people who do this have just told your company they are not worth the money to employ them, and they go in the next downsize. If the sixty days is enforced by being the actual deadline, all the important steps (document
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by pcblues 2y ago
Now that is alt.tasteless old-school :)
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by pcblues 2y ago
Can currently estranged dads join? Asking for a friend of course. I'm here because I just read the ABC article.
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by pcblues 2y ago
The shift of screen sizes for computing devices from a single aspect ratio (4/3 monitors) to just about anything created a nightmare for UX, and web development is suffering from it. I still maintain that no-one should have to scroll t
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by pcblues 2y ago
And so another level of abstraction in software development is created, but this time with an unknown level of accuracy. Call me old-school, but I like a debuggable, explainable and essentially provably reliable result. When a good develope
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by pcblues 2y ago
Hallucination from software generation AI is worse than software written by a beginning programmer, because at least they can analyse and determine the truth of their mistakes.
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by pcblues 2y ago
Here's just a little silly story from my own life of unfinished projects. I wanted to make a sort of shazam where I could hum the tune of a classical piece of music and find out what it was. I hacked together an enormous midi database
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by pcblues 2y ago
I was disappointed it wasn't MacPlaymate he remade ;p It had a boss key that would show a spreadsheet image.
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by pcblues 2y ago
The word I was looking for was collusion, but done with software and without people-based collusion.
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by pcblues 2y ago
This is interesting because I believe the two major supermarkets in Australia can create a duopoly in anti-competitive pricing by just employing price analysis AI algorithms on each side and the algorithms will likely end up cooperating to
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by pcblues 2y ago
Centralisation vs decentralisation. Cost-savings vs localisation of disaster. It's a swinging pendulum of decisions. And developers know that software/hardware provision is a house of cards. The more levels of dependency, the more

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