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by shever73 3y ago
I’m curious as to your experience using Render? When I tested it out, it seemed very clunky I was seeing build times in excess of 30 minutes even for small projects.
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by shever73 3y ago
This is hardly surprising. I never normally use Google, but was asked to check some SEO using Google search the other day. The results were a dumpster fire of sponsored content, “other people also search for” and stuff that was largely irre
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by shever73 4y ago
This is a very good read, and I love the interstitial animations. My introduction to grids wasn't as overt as the author's, but I remember my bedroom being full of graph paper when I was designing sprites for my ZX Spectrum games
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by shever73 4y ago
It seems I learn something new every day about our visual system. Thanks for sharing. Last week, it was a link to Technology Connections' video on the colour brown[0]. I also really enjoyed reading Foone's older blog post, "T
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by shever73 4y ago
If you're in Dublin then Chapters has a fantastic, on-going (closing down, perhaps?) sale on fiction. I can't find books cheaper on Amazon than there. For tech books, I get the ISBN from Amazon and then order them from Books Upsta
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by shever73 4y ago
Even the "Embrace" is a bit like the embrace of a sarlacc.
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by shever73 4y ago
The same thing happened to me with my Leatherman Micra. I have come to the conclusion that most airport security measures are props designed to make us believe that we are safer.
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by shever73 4y ago
It's a pity they were ever acquired by Amazon. I managed to get some quite obscure stuff from Book Depository before they were assimilated.
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by shever73 4y ago
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing.
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by shever73 4y ago
I consider myself more of a backend dev, but I use Django and Postgres. Often I’ll prototype in Flask. I like the ability to get something running - be it full site or API with minimal fuss. On the front-end, I’ll take whatever comes. I hav
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by shever73 4y ago
In my naivety at Windows software development, I wrote an animated screensaver in VB6. It performed about as well as you just described!
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by shever73 4y ago
I agree with the concept, but I tend to view my to-read pile more like a sushi conveyor than a river. Assuming I'm still interested later in what I have to read, then it can come round again.
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by shever73 4y ago
For smaller projects, VB6 was great. I wrote a number of tools with it. For anything large-scale, things could get out of hand quickly. I remember having to work on localising a VB4-based ERP system that was very slow, unwieldy and full of
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by shever73 4y ago
I live in an apartment building with chargers in the underground carpark, so that's where I usually charge. It's cheaper than public chargers, but not quite as cheap as a home one. Having said that, fast charging is still cheaper
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by shever73 4y ago
>Additionally, the risk exposure of owning an EV is pretty bad. I'm not sure where you're getting that data from, maybe it's different where you live. > The initial cost is extremely high, the immediate depreciation is
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by shever73 4y ago
Me: What day is it? ChatGPT: I'm sorry, as an AI language model, I don't have access to real-time information or the ability to perceive the current date or time. Can I assist you with anything else? Me: What is the current date?
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by shever73 4y ago
And in my 2020 BMW - assuming I don't use CarPlay.
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by shever73 4y ago
Same here, except I dropped Google as my search engine of choice a long time ago. ChatGPT is great for doing some of the heavy lifting. I pasted in a list of raw, unprocessed data and asked it to give me unique values sorted alphabetically.
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by shever73 4y ago
For a fabulously contrarian and curmudgeonly look at book selling, I can highly recommend A Factotum in the Book Trade by Marius Kociejowski.
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by shever73 4y ago
Cool, thanks: https://scribblediffusion.com/scribbles/s6ivrkbmpfcjnjuoqjmf...
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by shever73 4y ago
Doesn't resolve in Ireland on Eir.
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by shever73 4y ago
I agree. The pretentious gatekeeping put me off the article.
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by shever73 4y ago
Not sure I agree with the “pizza cognition theory” being applied to coffee. The coffee I started drinking in the 80s was very firmly first wave stuff. Instant Maxwell House kind of stuff. I now very much enjoy and prefer the fruitiness of t
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by shever73 4y ago
>an "ealdorman" was the ruler of one or (later) more shires; during the end of the period the title was shortend into "earl" Do you have a source for this, please? The OED says that "Ealdorman" is cognate wi
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by shever73 4y ago
This is great, I discovered MUDs around 1995 and even tried to write my own in Perl. The real-time interaction with other characters that we take for granted now seemed revolutionary back then.
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by shever73 4y ago
I've only toyed around with training machine learning models, but each time it would give a percentage of probability (78% probability this thing is a handwritten 2 and not just a squiggle, for example). I have no experience training L
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by shever73 4y ago
It's not difficult to hit the limits of ChatGPT's "knowledge". I've had it invent completely fictitious historical pacts and documents, as well as give me utterly incorrect "facts" about programming compet
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by shever73 4y ago
https://archive.ph/Htc1m This is already happening in the UK and Europe. Using the Tesla app, you can see which superchargers are now public.
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by shever73 4y ago
I attended a wedding in Albania where they served homemade raki. They drank it before the meal, which surprised me because I thought it would have been after as a digestive.
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by shever73 4y ago
It's impossible to parse these percentages when the article doesn't state the total amount of employees a company has. According to their website, they have (had) 2,159 employees, so this affects ~151 people.

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