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by prerok 7mo ago
Funny story: I once bought and started up Galactic Civilizations 3. It looked horrible, the textures just wouldn't load no matter what I tried. Finally, on a forum, some other user, presumably also from Europe, noted that you have to u
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by prerok 8mo ago
In my experience, companies are perfectly happy with US companies, as long as the data doesn't leave Europe. This means we have to prove we only store data in European datacenters. I guess that's fine for now, but it would be bett
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by prerok 8mo ago
I think that's different because refactoring usually involves calling the same functions/methods albeit in a bit more readable way. When not given a clear guideline to "just" refactor, I have had problems with LLMs hallu
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by prerok 8mo ago
I guess that's why nobody reads it. /s
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by prerok 8mo ago
You mean agents running other agents down? :)
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by prerok 8mo ago
Polly wanna cracker?
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by prerok 8mo ago
As did cvs. But you are right. I am not sure, it seems I did misremember. Though it's possible I was actually working with needs-lock files. I can definitely see a certain coworker from that time to put this on all files :/
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by prerok 8mo ago
Can you cite sources where this is argued? The wikipedia seems to make a clear definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_death That said, the above article does use extinction and death somewhat interchangably
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by prerok 8mo ago
Yes, development was being done in SVN but it was a huge pain. Continuous communication was required with the server (history lookups took ages, changing a file required a checkout, etc.) and that was just horribly inefficient for distribut
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by prerok 8mo ago
I think it would be better suited to use the terms we use for natural languages. A natural language is dead when the last person who learned it as first language dies and are extinct when there is noone that would speak it at all. In these
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by prerok 9mo ago
Reminds me of that story from an IRC channel: A: I have a program that will format your hard drive. I just need your IP. B: Ok, it's 127.0.0.1 A: Ahahaha, it 56% now! Lol. A left the chat. Connection reset by peer.
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by prerok 9mo ago
Who would argue that Windows is open source? That's hilarious.
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by prerok 10mo ago
Sure, I can imagine that. My first contact with PCs was in 1988 and they all had HDDs and were definitely not "IBM PC" but clones. That said, that's just my experience so YMMV.
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by prerok 10mo ago
While original IBM PCs indeed may not have had HDDs, it did become a standard for PC XT, as early as 1983. Only the cheapest version were without a HDD by the end of the 1980s.
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by prerok 10mo ago
That was probably just their pocket money.
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by prerok 11mo ago
Indeed, it's called Goodhart's law. As soon as metric becomes a target, it stops being a good metric. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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by prerok 11mo ago
Reply to self: it seems I was wrong and veal, venison, etc. have roots in Old French, which has influenced Old English through Normandic invasion. Still, I stand by my assessment: while it's clear that influences are there to some of t
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by prerok 11mo ago
I have not read the linguist's essay, just the article, but I am almost certain the claims are preposterous. The article already mentions that the structure is definitely germanic in origin. Next are the words. Some are adopted from ot
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by prerok 1y ago
You are correct, my post was more for the situation where the CTO is also the engineering director but in larger orgs that is not usually so. I do think, however, that the coding CTO is not the way to go about to change the process. If it&#
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by prerok 1y ago
Seems like the author has not yet learned to delegate and trust. I think it's an example of what not to do as a CTO.
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by prerok 1y ago
Trouble is, I don't think they'll just get it and then set about to changing the processes. Besides, the process doesn't come from the middle management, it originates from the top, usually the CTO.
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by prerok 1y ago
https://xkcd.com/1642/
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by prerok 1y ago
Nit: shields were just for battle, for this they used the deflector.
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by prerok 1y ago
Time dilation is exponential. At 0.1c it's definitely measureable but not a practical problem.
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by prerok 1y ago
Ok, so it's only half satire, or is this reply also a satire? I mean, MS Teams, really?
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by prerok 1y ago
That has not been my experience at all. Whenever I tried asking the AI to do something, it took an inordinate amount of time and thought to go through its changes. The mistakes were subtle but critical. Like copying a mutex by value. Now, i
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by prerok 1y ago
Different timezones, I guess... this is the first time I'm seeing it, so it might be ok?
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by prerok 1y ago
That's just corporate speak. If they cut middle (mis)management that might be true. Did they?
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by prerok 1y ago
Well, if you just want to store data, you can use files. Lookup is a bit tedious and inefficient. So, if we consider that persistent storage is a solved problem, then we can say that the reason for databases was how to look up data efficien
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by prerok 1y ago
Compile times are faster now for C and C++ right? Some of it due to further compiler optimizations but mostly due to higher CPU power. Still, you seem to be arguing that the choice should be Pascal instead of Rust. There is a reason why we

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