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by pcblues 2y ago
I agree with that. I just don't like big numbers being used to cause emotional responses without proper context. Probably on a spectrum, but it's my beef :)
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by pcblues 2y ago
Personal data cannot be secured. The only way is to not store it. That will (imaginationaly) cost companies in lost revenue for being unable to mine and sell it. Only government can make laws against a company taking your personal informati
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by pcblues 2y ago
A thing I used OneNote for was easy OCR.
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by pcblues 2y ago
I think I have stayed on target with your arguments, but I'd like to push back a little or widen the view... Re WYSIWIG: Rather than WYSIWIG being bad, I think the introduction of scroll bars destroyed WYSIWIG from the start. It only w
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by pcblues 2y ago
Why would I think my career was something that would fail if I didn't engineer the hell out if it. Markets blame you.
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by pcblues 3y ago
It looked better when Bruce Willis was doing it (reasoning) with Milla Jovovich.
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by pcblues 3y ago
Amen. This is a full e-marketplace I mixed together as a demo. It runs on a USD$10/mth VPS. No other overheads, licence fees, etc. https://donate.pcblues.com/ You don't have to worry about spiking because it'
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by pcblues 3y ago
PSA: Your personal experience of climate change resulting in "We are all going to live horribly in the future" is quite dependent on the definition of "we"
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by pcblues 3y ago
I think some technical writers in the past could also write novels (i.e. Jerry Pournelle) and the transfer of ability and knowledge would go both ways. So when you read a manual like the one for the Jupiter Ace, it is an absolute joy. &quot
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by pcblues 3y ago
It's just an offer to communicate, not a business.
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by pcblues 3y ago
If you are interested in setting up your own non-profit org marketplace or know someone who does, I made an example one using free tools ( https://donate.pcblues.com/ ) that costs me only about $10 USD per month to host the e
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by pcblues 3y ago
I have no meat, and I must scream.
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by pcblues 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. There's a time and place for belief based on subjective experience. That's nearly all the time, but many don't accept that :) The idea that people shouldn't take you at your own word in order to accep
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by pcblues 3y ago
Having just completed a first year university philosophy subject on the matter I feel I am an expert and will share the answer. The people who think they are living in a simulation because they can't argue their way out of it should te
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by pcblues 3y ago
I studied CWEB when I did computer science in the early 1990s (eek!). While it is a way to document and compile your programs from a single file, it still contains the problem of where the story of a program should happen, and in keeping th
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by pcblues 3y ago
I won't be the first or last to say these three things: The internet was meant to stop reliance on single sources (in case of nuclear war) The size of a house of cards increases the number of failure points Marketers lie
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by pcblues 3y ago
When I lived in Melbourne, I found someone's car with GOATSE as the personalised licence plate and of course took a photo. This was only about 10 years ago. I've got the photo still. It was a fantastic rude word filter reach-aroun
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by pcblues 3y ago
We had the equivalent tape recorder for the Atari 800 (the 410). Since Dad was an electrical engineer he drilled a hole into the top and gave us a screwdriver to adjust the azimuth to get particularly hard to load tape programs to load. The
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by pcblues 3y ago
Dad was a polymath. He used pen plotters to map out his VLSI designs in the 1980s and taught VLSI at CIT in Melbourne. I remember as a kid watching the magic as the diagram unfolded on A3 paper. I also remember my grandmother bought a four
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by pcblues 3y ago
I'm not sure whether neurofancy people confabulating should be given an honest bill of truth health based on their category. Sounds like #believeallconfabulators :) Honest communication is difficult for some people to assess, and not f
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by pcblues 3y ago
Hopefully the testing avoided disk caching artifacts.
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by pcblues 3y ago
Location: Townsville, QLD, Australia Remote: Please, if not in Townsville Willing to relocate: No, family comes first Technologies: MSSQL (22 years), C#, others Résumé/CV:
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by pcblues 3y ago
Give it five years for the tech. Right now? Probably easier to get back with the ex to make the portrait correction. /jk sorry
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by pcblues 3y ago
An ever-changing UI has an enormous and unaddressed cost on users. Continual re-learning without choice in order to achieve the same tasks as always. I imagine this will be accelerated with constantly renewed AI-generated app experiences. I
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by pcblues 3y ago
I loved my MX Keys until I realised it was built with the same idea as the iPhone. I was meant to treat it as disposable/replaceable at the first sign of trouble. No user-serviceable parts. As soon as one key got sticky, that was the e
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by pcblues 3y ago
There is a problem with responsibility. Do you want to never let a perp go (i.e. jail innocent people in order to catch every guilty person) versus let some baddies slip through the net while not imprisoning innocent people. My own life fou
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by pcblues 3y ago
Thanks. This was fun piece of writing to read with a nice premise. And something to hopefully remember when a busy week leaves me wired rather than tired.
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by pcblues 3y ago
This is amazing. I might have missed it, but is there a plan to put the dev issues onto github, or is there another way I can get involved in dev/doc?
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by pcblues 3y ago
Stringray? I clicked because I hadn't heard of that before :)
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by pcblues 3y ago
Jekyll provided me with a quick and dirty website publishing tool that works for what I want. I don't want it to change. It's slow to run, but I edit my templates and run a single bash script to update my site when I need to. I&#x

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