syntheticnature

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by syntheticnature 17d ago
It's a full-up Android phone, they want to make sure no one complains versus Their Favorite App not having enough RAM.
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by syntheticnature 1mo ago
I know some of that found its way to http://textfiles.com/ whose owner is associated with the Archive Team -- though it's focused on text rather than executables, of course.
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by syntheticnature 1mo ago
Huh, looks she has an entire food line. Wonder if this is planned to be an income stream for some of her charities, similar to Newman's Own.
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by syntheticnature 2mo ago
Hey Slack, how about making workflows less of a pain in the neck to use? In them there is no ability to have branches rejoin to a common path. Worse, an item isn't found in a list it just throws an exception instead of giving me a null
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by syntheticnature 2mo ago
I think I spent more time figuring out how the character save files worked in the original Bard's Tale CRPG than actually playing the game; I certainly made more progress with doing so!
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by syntheticnature 2mo ago
As a kid I modified DONKEY.BAS for my younger brother who wanted to play as a donkey avoiding cars. It was a clumsy modification, I didn't account for the differing size of the pseudo-sprites, but it made him happy.
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by syntheticnature 2mo ago
They'll clean up instances that aren't doing enough for them to notice, even -- I used to run an XMPP server on one, used daily but not with many users, and they kept shutting it down at random multi-day intervals with little warn
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by syntheticnature 2mo ago
It confused me at the time, mainly because I had a class with written-out C and one with written-out Pascal in the same semester. The Pascal prof wouldn't mark off for C syntax but the C one would would mark off for Pascal syntax.
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by syntheticnature 3mo ago
Yes, this is extremely common, both as a continuity means and/or as a localized password manager. Know someone who uses a Rolodex for hers, which is funny and yet it works. Doesn't work well in office environments, but at home the
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by syntheticnature 3mo ago
In the end everything is delayed trash. Some trash is recyclable/compostable/etc.
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by syntheticnature 3mo ago
Indeed, a new hire should be able to use Google to find https://puttygen.com/download-putty#Download_PuTTY_on_Linux_... in short order evil grin
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by syntheticnature 4mo ago
Unreliable/stupid is worse than malice, here.
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by syntheticnature 4mo ago
You sound likely to have dysgraphia, based on the fact I have all the same aspects and a dysgraphia diagnosis.
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by syntheticnature 5mo ago
I didn't send it very high up the chain (and was looking for a job at the time anyhow) but mostly got back snickers from peers and an "I know, but this is a directive from above"
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by syntheticnature 5mo ago
Versus my sibling comment to yours, I actually sent that to some internal folks after the bit about AI+total lines committed was said.
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by syntheticnature 5mo ago
When I was at Amazon last year, the bragging (from the AI poo-bah in my section of Amazon, note) about AI included "look at the total line count of commits from the heaviest AI users!" So if AI screws something up and re-writes it
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by syntheticnature 5mo ago
This is why I evaluate if a tool type needs to be cordless when buying. Drills, impact drivers? You want cordless, or to have the option. For a circular saw being used by a homeowner for most DIY purposes, it's worth any arrangement is
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by syntheticnature 5mo ago
In my free time, I help maintain the web presence for a small non-profit org with memberships. The original system when I started helping was a bespoke system that was smart in many ways (essentially a static site generator with membership
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by syntheticnature 5mo ago
I thought archive.is were the ones squabbling with Cloudflare (extreme simplification)
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by syntheticnature 5mo ago
Haha, good one. Much like Makefiles, patch format precedes a lot of more modern things (by decades!) and is good enough to stick around. Unlike Makefiles, I've never seen tool gain any acceptance at all to replace patch.
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by syntheticnature 5mo ago
3 days? Wow. Can't say I think much of this senior member of your team, who seems to be the anti-social one here. I'm sure it breaks flow for them, but a big part of being senior is amplifying the best in those less so, and helpin
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by syntheticnature 7mo ago
The person I mentioned in my story upthread had the one-year suspension followed by the interlock requirement for another year
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by syntheticnature 7mo ago
If it's as flaky as my experience upthread suggests, maybe it was just that. At least, that's what I hope, for the sake of those on the bus
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by syntheticnature 7mo ago
I once helped someone get their car home after one of these was installed. Their license would not be returned until it was installed, but they weren't allowed to leave it on the lot. Someone else drove it there, and then I got to expe
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by syntheticnature 7mo ago
Or, in actuality, the Dell business model will be designed for repairability. I tend to always advise friends who want Windows/Linux laptops to buy from the business lines, especially if a 1- or 2- year refurb will work.
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by syntheticnature 7mo ago
The Macbook Neo is $599. Looking at my local Best Buy and dividing by 3, the laptops below $200 are all HP Chromebooks: Chromebook/N4500 (2021!)/4GB RAM/64GB eMMC, $149 white $179 in grey Windows/N150/4GB RAM/1
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by syntheticnature 7mo ago
https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp...
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by syntheticnature 8mo ago
If there was an IP setting users could change, all the self-hosting etc. forums would be talking about how to change it instead of explaining other options. I'd expect not just fixed hosts and an ecosystem dependent on their proprietar
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by syntheticnature 8mo ago
A minor quibble: I'd describe Snikket as more a batteries-included distribution of the Prosody config plus validated client apps for mobile devices.
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by syntheticnature 9mo ago
While he definitely went off the rails, I first caught a hint, back in the 90s, when his fanclub/e-list was named "Dogbert's New Ruling Class"... and he seemed to take it a bit too seriously.

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