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841.
by stuaxo 2y ago
At least these days you can get boards like the GreaseWeazle that can convert these drives to read any floppy. Although these read them "raw", I'm not sure if anyone has written a device driver to use these as ordinary floppy
842.
by stuaxo 2y ago
For categorising feedback like this, a card sorting exercise can work well, and then move go a spreadsheet.
843.
by stuaxo 2y ago
"they stumble upon new techniques that enable them to do 16x the work output of everyone else - LLMs and AI powered Code Editors." This is completely wrong. If you are doing 16x output, with this new tech you are a liability. If t
844.
by stuaxo 2y ago
This got stalled needing the 64 bit support to be completed. It worked pretty decently at the time.
845.
by stuaxo 2y ago
Living in an a country with 240v mains, yep.
846.
by stuaxo 2y ago
The elite there must have a fear that this could happen to them though.
847.
by stuaxo 2y ago
Yep, getting bored is important for creativity.
848.
by stuaxo 2y ago
A great read. What's needed to actually implement FILE, are there any transputer emulators to run this on?
849.
by stuaxo 2y ago
Have a look at what Mondragon does in the Basque country for a cooperative of coopertives.
850.
by stuaxo 2y ago
I remember reading this at the time, and thinking how much of a bubble he seemed to be in. Macs weren't something I saw that often at this time, just like now most computers were PCs.
851.
by stuaxo 2y ago
The whole sentence does though.
852.
by stuaxo 2y ago
Obama was further to the right than the conservatives in the UK at the time.
853.
by stuaxo 2y ago
What's going to happen with insurance and what's insurable if the new US gov gets their way with removing regulations and protections?
854.
by stuaxo 2y ago
Blairs government deregulated gambling to a large extent, hoping for some tax back from large casinos in theory at least.
855.
by stuaxo 2y ago
Anybody else sick of hearing what billionaires have to say?
856.
by stuaxo 2y ago
He may not think it will inflict death on millions but he seeks to change the law in a way so that would happen.
857.
by stuaxo 2y ago
The Tories in the UK messed up processes around immigration in a similar way. Break the process and it looks like you have a bigger problem, so it's a political win - if you don't care about actually doing the thing you say you ca
858.
by stuaxo 2y ago
The server in llama-cpp is documented as being only for demonstration, but ollama supports it as a model to run it. For work, we are given Macs and so the GPU can't be passed through to docker. I wanted a client/server where the s
859.
by stuaxo 2y ago
If DeepSeek were petty they would use quotes from OpenAI as their justification.
860.
by stuaxo 2y ago
Some of the worst times I have had in projects are when I've had to add oauth2.
861.
by stuaxo 2y ago
Would be happy to go through my life hearing no more from him.
862.
by stuaxo 2y ago
The junior dev faking competence is useful but needs a lot of supervision (unlike a real junior dev we don't know if this one will get better).
863.
by stuaxo 2y ago
In DOS I used to something like this, using ctrl or alt and an f key to set or go to a bookmarked directory.
864.
by stuaxo 2y ago
Oh look, a load of future work to fix these. Why is this just like the last cost cutting exercise where the cheapest people in India produced a lot of "interesting" code.
865.
by stuaxo 2y ago
The profit motive always incentiveses this sort of innovation and efficiency when it comes to making more profit.
866.
by stuaxo 2y ago
What a joke.
867.
by stuaxo 2y ago
Well, whose rights are we talking about. There is "freedom to" and "Freedom from" lots of people not getting vaccinated affects people's freedom from getting infected.
868.
by stuaxo 2y ago
Fifuciary duty to shareholders is one of the most pernicious forces against progress there is. The short term "number go up" mentality is breeds is a cancer.
869.
by stuaxo 2y ago
FFS don't even mention these things together in a way he might hear about.
870.
The world is an objectively worse place because of tech-bro oligarchs(irishexaminer.com)
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