pmontra

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by pmontra 2y ago
Test flights. My tests keep failing until I fix all of my code, then we deploy to production. If code fails in production than that's a problem. We could say that rockets are not code. A test run of a Spaceship surely cost much more th
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by pmontra 2y ago
A relative of mine had a Windows Phone and kept it running at least until the mid 10s. It was fast but he could basically only do calls and SMSes with it because nobody wrote apps for that OS. Everybody in app development (devs and their cu
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by pmontra 2y ago
> Apple sharply limits (or regulates) what you can do on your phone because they think they have a better idea of how you should live your digital life. I think that it's Apple's bottom line that dictates how Apple corral peopl
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by pmontra 2y ago
My social network is WhatsApp and Telegram: 1-to-1 messages and some groups where I usually know everybody in them. That's the threshold.
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by pmontra 2y ago
> The only way this trend reverses, is if compute becomes so cheap and ubiquitous, that everyone can achieve the necessary scale. We would still need the 100 M+ images with accurate labels. That work can be performed collectively and ope
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by pmontra 2y ago
A customer of mine still uses vagrant on a project, for local development. That project started in 2016. We are developing on a mix of Linux, Mac, Windows and it's not as straightforward as it could be. Linux is easier, Windows is mess
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by pmontra 2y ago
I've been doing that for the last 18 years and I started when I was older than most people here. I never liked the mandatory external monitor and keyboard at the company I was working for before becoming self employed: I preferred to l
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by pmontra 2y ago
Or "to annex" [1], as in all your VMs (are) belong to us [2] [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/annex [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us
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by pmontra 2y ago
I recently learned that the daughter of a friend of mine got married and had two children. That happened in the last 5 years, when I actually didn't hear from that friend of mine. Given that we didn't feel the need to send message
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by pmontra 2y ago
My almost 12 yo laptop is still OK for my job. I like its 3 buttons touchpad and touchpads have no buttons nowadays. I could keep it going for still a long time but for two things: 1. Spare parts: RAM will fail (it's 1666 MHz), keyboar
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by pmontra 2y ago
I wish there is an Android phone of that size and weight on the market right now. Unfortunately the smallest ones are like the Samsung S22 https://gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s22_5g-11253.php
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A taller, heavier, smarter version of SpaceX's Starship is almost ready to fly(arstechnica.com)
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by pmontra 2y ago
Link to the game https://marieflanagan.com/loserlane/
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by pmontra 2y ago
Well, my TV is it's own remote: it's one of my tablets or my phone or my laptop connected to a Raspberry Pi 3B with a TV hat, connected to the antenna on the roof. It runs tvheadend and I run its client on my devices, TVH Client o
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by pmontra 2y ago
I don't use multicursors much, not every year. I'm using emacs. I register a sequence of keys and apply it multiple times with control e, control e, control e etc.
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by pmontra 2y ago
> Do programs really have to be in monospaced fonts? Of course not. I've been using a proportional font for at least 10 years and I'm still in business working on code bases shared with developers using monospaced fonts. Both w
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by pmontra 2y ago
It's great but especially on mobile it's very difficult to center the view on a planet, zoom on it and follow it around the sun. On a desktop I eventually manage to click on it, then zoom and it stays in the center of the screen.
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by pmontra 2y ago
You are right. I didn't think about 3rd parties creating accounts on a service they don't control.
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by pmontra 2y ago
I get a CORS error in the console. And a WebGPU error in Chrome. This is a Linux Debian machine.
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by pmontra 2y ago
> But without additional protection steps, the users can be signed up for services that they didn't request and MS tools will automatically confirm such signups. Indeed it's a bad thing but how bad? The admins of some web servi
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by pmontra 2y ago
I wonder if Microsoft will tell Lenovo that the cost of Windows licenses for Lenovo's laptops and desktops will double or more.
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by pmontra 2y ago
I do use Chrome for those very few sites that are difficult to use with Firefox either because of my privacy minded add-ons or because their developers did something that works only in Chrome. Nevertheless my primary browser is still Firefo
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by pmontra 2y ago
Maybe because of this https://www.europe-consommateurs.eu/en/shopping-internet/cas...
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by pmontra 2y ago
Probably the default should not be None. There should be a mandatory license, either the Unlicense https://unlicense.org/ or something even simpler ("this is public domain".)
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by pmontra 2y ago
Instead of nonsense you can serve a page explaining how you can ride a bicycle to the moon. I think we had a story about that attack to LLMs a few months ago but I can't find it quickly enough.
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by pmontra 2y ago
Ensure that no AI can beam moves to players brains. Tinfoil helmets, of course.
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by pmontra 2y ago
Server: Icecast + deefuzzer + directories with music files on a ssd. Clients: VLC or Transistor on Android. Search: a web form to a script (Python? Lua?) that uses find to look for files into the music directories.
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by pmontra 2y ago
Sometimes the critics don't tell if it's good or bad, but what's in there. The story about Asimov and the critic explains that pretty well https://wiki.c2.com/?AsimovAndTheCritic TL;DR: "Just because you
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by pmontra 2y ago
The one starting with a zillion giant spaceship built while nobody noticed? If at least they were conjured out of thin air by magic. And many other oddities in the first five minutes, then it slows down back to near normality. I stand with
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by pmontra 2y ago
I don't doubt that your i7-6700K still works fine. I work on an i7-4xxx. My laptop is from February 2014 and went through all Ubuntus since 12.04 to 20.04, then I switched to Debian 11. I should upgrade to 12 or wait for 13. Replacing

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