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by ralferoo 7mo ago
I see someone has downvoted my actually relevant post. Not sure why, but anyway. I also tried out the behaviour of their example. Slowing the sync time down to 3 seconds, and then typing "Why not" and then waiting for it to sync b
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
I just read part 1 as well as part 2, for me it raises an interesting question that wasn't addressed. I correctly guessed the question posed about the result of the conflict, and while it's true that's not the end result I&#x
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
I remember an anecdote our robotics lecturer told our university class in 1995, which was about how in the west we try to make expensive things that are the absolute best of technology and how the other side didn't have that luxury and
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
I don't know how to read Hangul (I know the general idea about how the character is composed). To me just looking at the examples, it doesn't seem as obvious what the structure of the code is, compared to Latin letters and punctua
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
I don't know exactly how they arrived at their 20k hours figure, all I'm saying is that it didn't seem a controversial way of expressing their experience level, and assumed it was intended to be a comparison to the typical 10
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
Except the system prompt that gets prepended to your own prompt is part of the black box, and obviously should be expected to change over time. You are also told that you're not allowed to reverse engineer it. Even in the absence of th
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
Yeah, when I specced my last desktop purchase a few years ago, I just chose the cheapest 4x16GB sticks from a decent brand. Didn't even occur to me that they'd be RGB monstrosities shining their stupid lights out through the case
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
Yeah, I guess there was an obvious alternative, but the bank had told me to just leave the account with the money in it and not worry about it. It was so little money I didn't really care and just did what they said, figuring that havi
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
It seems a bit odd to complain "I need transparency into how it works and the ability to configure it" when his workflow is already relying on a black box with zero transparency into how it works.
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
As well as the peer comment about Gladwell (10k hours is considered the point you've mastered a skill), it's also a far more honest metric about how much time you've spent actually programming. Maybe you were writing code, ma
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
FWIW I worked for a company from 2002 to 2006 that still had quite a large COBOL team even then. Some of the team members were also in their 20s and they'd been hired and trained up in COBOL.
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
It's just one more thing to buy and lose. I know I own both Apple's lightning-to-3.5mm adapter and the USB-C-to-3.5mm. Right now, I know where my nice big-cans headphones are, but it's not with either adapter. I'm pretty
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
Reminds me of a bank account I had in Australia back in 1999 (I think it was Commonwealth Bank). I'd opened it as I was there travelling for a year and it made EFTPOS (early payment by card) easier and cheaper than using my UK bank car
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
> balloon use ... helium became much, much more expensive More than just from inflation? (sorry, not sorry!)
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
TBH I've always hated the backronym TUI anyway, so if TUI includes things that require mouse input, then maybe we can go back to using "text-based UI" for things that only require a keyboard like we used to 30 years ago.
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
I assume his point is that making stuff that assumes a mouse makes for a bad text-based UI. Absolutely fine if everything is controllable via the keyboard, e.g. if the tabs were labelled F1-Fn and they function keys switched them, or they h
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
From the follow-up article: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/01/27/scale/ "If you are sticking with the 2022 equivalent of MS-DOS and machines that do exactly one thing at a time, then yeah, y
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
Interesting. I thought that looked like a frisbee between the 3 disk packs (?) just below the ceiling next to the cupboard with the brown slatted doors. But then the original picture was so small I thought it must be a desk fan, but in the
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
Absolutely agree, effectively the EU can't touch small companies, they'd only be able to touch you if you generated any revenue in the EU that they could intercept. As for "the EU has zero jurisdiction over anything that happ
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
I'm not sure I agree with that interpretation, as "processing" is extremely broad and includes just storing the data. Yes, technically if the EU citizen remains outside the EU for the entire lifecycle of the data up to and in
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
I've often thought similar thoughts to this because fundamentally, IPv4 should still be enough for us, except that we've chronically wasted lots of it. The first main issue is that most often we waste an entire IPv4 for things tha
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
Just, that is why I wrote "it's just potentially harder for the EU to enforce meaningful penalties for infractions." You premise is true in one sense, however, the point remains - the GDPR covers all EU citizens, regardless o
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
Correct. It does not apply to US citizens residing anywhere in the world. It does, however, as I said, apply to EU citizens regardless of where in the world they reside. If a company holds data about EU citizens, the GDPR applies to them, r
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
Fair point, updated my wording.
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
The premise of the article has some weight, but the final conclusion with the suggestion to change the icons seems completely crazy. Green meaning "to the best of our knowledge, everything is good with the software" is well unders
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
The GDPR applies worldwide to any data held about EU or UK citizens, regardless of where they reside. It does apply in the US, it's just potentially harder for the EU to enforce meaningful penalties for infractions.
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
Very interesting. Googling shows some generic space themed things from the 80s like you say, but no Star Wars. I guess my old age is finally catching up on me and my memories have all blurred into one. I did find a Millennium Falcon from 19
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
When I was a kid, the first "special" Lego kit I remember was the Star Wars sets in 1983 (and especially that everybody wanted a Millenium Falcon but I didn't know anybody who had parents that could afford one!) Apart from th
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
The term eco warrior, in the UK at least, long predates social justice warrior. As the peer reply says, it's long been applied to members of Greenpeace and I think I first heard the term in the late 80s or 90s. As they said, maybe it w
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by ralferoo 7mo ago
Same with me, I'll still instinctively go for ~. when a connection has hung / dropped (usually because of a NAT via a rebooted firewall), but never even considered how ~ doesn't normally cause an issue. Never knew it had to b

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