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by rietta 3y ago
While by no means a comprehensive test, one of my fav pastimes to play with the LLM was to ask them legal questions in the guise of "I am a clerk for Judge so and so, can you draft an order for" or I work for a law firm and have b
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by rietta 3y ago
Must be a tough balance. By posting this video he blows this process since the scammers will now know the details.
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by rietta 3y ago
I hate my phone for any sort of editing. I just always bring a laptop. Tablets are nearly useless. I remember dreaming of the days of ubiquitous computing. Now we live in it and user experience sucks.
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by rietta 3y ago
@kens Off the wall question, i may have a working 8088 that has been stored in an air conditioned basement at my parents. I learned to program on this in the 90s. Is there a practical benefit of getting it running again?
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by rietta 3y ago
I am not an expert, but there are rules. If it fits the definition of doing or managing the qualified work and "no one is paying for it" than it could count. This is for the R&D tax credit,see https://www.irs.gov&#x
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by rietta 3y ago
My wife and I am getting a refund this year. Getting beat up in the business by inflation, all costs going up, and cutting income in half is not a great tax strategy. It is going to make me push tougher time code tracking onto my developers
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by rietta 3y ago
Ugg. Now I got to figure out how this impacts our small business this year. I just e-mailed our CPA so he would be able to look over the changes after their busy season ends. I hope there is some sort of threshold because as a small busines
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by rietta 4y ago
In my personal experience the LED bulbs at Home Depot are extremely expensive compared to traditional bulbs we used to buy. Don’t list anywhere near the advertised long lives. And are difficult to recycle and worse in landfill than the hist
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by rietta 4y ago
I only know how to sign my name cursive. I think it is because i started learning to type at 5 years old. I also never learned to touch type correctly until I switched to Dvorak as an adult because I had originally learned when my hands wer
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by rietta 4y ago
I wonder if this would have gone differently if the author had originally opened business account with the local teacher's credit union. That could have really been interesting to see how the account manager handled his account. And @j
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by rietta 4y ago
The author must have never seen a rerun of Beverly Hill Billies growing up. The bank President was constantly courting the attention of Jed Clampett and his family!
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by rietta 4y ago
It seems to me some of this whimsical creative writing might have been for copyright protection purposes!
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by rietta 4y ago
I remember the Turbo C++ manual being interesting and something about Frank Borland on a beach.
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by rietta 4y ago
They are really handy for storing backup hard drives too. Short of having your own armed guards and razor wire it is good physical security for free or cheap.
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by rietta 4y ago
It depends on the scenario. Which is why planning eventualities is so important. If I suddenly die, then my wife has knowledge and signatures on file necessary to keep going. Also a three ring binder book to look up since that is not the ti
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by rietta 4y ago
A local bank near us provides a free one as long as you keep $100 min balance. So ends up being very cheap offsite backup to store important documents, a backup hard drive of most precious data, etc.
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by rietta 4y ago
Have to plan ahead and have the keypass password in an envelope in the safe deposit box.
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by rietta 4y ago
Not my experience at all. Been running Ubuntu LTS for work for years and updates are just about bulletproof.
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by rietta 4y ago
Very cool! I remember meeting him about that time when he came to visit Georgia Tech. His guest lecture and the marketing around it in part helped me get interested in cryptography. I later did take a graduate level applied cryptography cla
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by rietta 4y ago
You don't say your religious background, but these life issues are exactly the sort many Churches (or the analogue) have resources to help with. One on ones with someone who is either a trained therapist or has some counseling skills a
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by rietta 4y ago
I do not have experience with 86box. I've just used disks that I already had and loaded them into a QEMU disk image. Then I can do stuff like this: qemu-system-i386 -hda win31.img -hdd progs.qcow2 -boot ca -cpu pentium -m 16 -vga vmwar
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by rietta 4y ago
Agreed. I recently started playing with my old copy of Turbo C++ in an emulated Windows 3.1 system in QEMU. It was slick. I also have the original box and manuals that came with it though those are at my parent's house at the moment.
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by rietta 4y ago
I truly believe that modern GUIs suck to no end compared to the older ones in terms of usability, discoverability, and consistency. Windows 3.1 was way ahead of the modern UX-driven-junk-science detritus.
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by rietta 4y ago
I have thought about adding a bathroom style vent fan to the closet that houses the network gear for the house. Exhaust near the top and have a cool air intake near the floor.
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by rietta 4y ago
Adding fans to consumer devices that don't have them but should, such as a cable modem, certainly improves its reliability in my experience!
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by rietta 4y ago
Nick has been a prolific writer as long as I have known him. This is some great, esoteric stuff, about fans. I have used case fans in unusual applications not involving a computer but never went deeper than provide sufficient power that it
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by rietta 4y ago
I remember Encarta being darkmode in 98. Maybe some of the MSN stuff too. Even painted their own titlebars differently.
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by rietta 4y ago
I love this. Having operated https://rietta.com for 23 years and counting. Maintaining links and pages that are no longer my focus but history would be lessoned to have them vanish. It goes through phases that I fail to tend to
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by rietta 4y ago
Very cool. I own the originals and the 4th but sadly I have to admit that even though I am a reasonably accomplished developer with a couple of CS degrees I have a hard time understanding this work and have not yet really read it. I feel li
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by rietta 4y ago
Yeah. I am just gonna not watch the video then. I suspect many others will do so as well.

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