theandrewbailey

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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
I work at an e-waste recycling company. We get Dell monitors all the time. Their basic office monitors seem fine (~24" 1080p), but all our clients are too cheap to go for the more expensive models.
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
This. I bought an open box Pixel for a mild discount. I have a friend that used to work at Best Buy. He said so many people would try to switch from iPhone to Pixel, but decide they didn't like it and return the phone.
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
You put a sticky note with the duress PIN on your phone. When detained, the officer notices a PIN in plain sight on the phone, enters it, and the phone wipes itself. You were never asked for a PIN. Could you be charged with destruction of e
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
This is a link to the entire JavaScript specification. It does not succinctly answer "What's new in JavaScript?"
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
> But the services in a distributed monolith are also often called microservices (at least in my company). I thought that was a "microlith".
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by theandrewbailey 2mo ago
For reference, this is what Minecraft used to need, back around 2013[0]: Minimum Requirements: CPU : Intel P4/NetBurst Architecture or its AMD Equivalent (AMD K7) RAM : 2GB GPU : Intel GMA 950 or AMD Equivalent HDD : At least 90MB for
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
Product owners were promised that LLMs/AI is a magical genie that can do anything, so they make it do everything. The trillions of dollars spent on data centers and thousands of layoffs has to be justified somehow.
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
> Constraints on consumer memory could force developers to care again, and you’d hope they could leverage AI-augmented tools to increase the efficiency of their code more easily than ever before. I've been wondering that for a few m
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
It has subtle 3D cues with insets and bevels, making it instantly better than most UIs today.
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
That's part of the divide between classroom teaching and boots-on-the-ground experience. Between them, I'll take the boots every time.
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
It's not just about em-dashes. It's also about specific sentence and phrase constructions. See what I did there?
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
We've been getting flatter over time. Win9x (and even 3.x) styles have subtle 3D cues, like the edges of buttons, window borders, tabs, and text boxes. There were gradients. Apparently, these are technologies that we've lost.
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
I'm usually running Debian everywhere, and currently running OpenMandriva on my desktop PC. I work in the refurb department of an e-waste recycling company, where I install Linux Mint on most of what I sell. (If it has a touchscreen, i
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
If you think the AI bubble and its infinite memory demand is going to last beyond 2030, you're delusional, but a lot of people are paid to think so.
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
X-Frame-Options: DENY is obsolete. Use Content-Security-Policy instead. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
We're going to keep maxxmaxxing forever.
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
Don't fuck with scroll, please. Present the information as a normal page.
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
I was an avid fan of 64k demoscene intros, so this fills me with joy. In fact, 96k is plenty of space for fun, even 20 years ago: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=12036
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
Charlatan Wonder is one of the channels I watch on YouTube. For the past few years he's been signing off every one of his videos with a rant against "content" that largely mirrors this blog post. He tells people to not descri
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
For me, its "learnings" and "performant". We've had "lessons" and "fast"; what do those words not capture?
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
> While the US and EU patents around MPEG-4 Part 2 expired in recent years, until today there remained one patent still active in Brazil. Since MPEG-this Part that is hard to keep straight, this is the MPEG standard backing Xvid and DivX
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
Given what this is, your readme could use a screenshot.
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
Merchants almost never pass along interchange fees to the customer. Instead, it's built into the prices that every customer pays the merchant, regardless if the customer uses a credit card, which means everyone pays for credit card rew
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
> No. One charger. One cable. One standard. USB-C being "one standard" is a bit of a stretch. It is the Unintuitive Serial Bus, after all. Most will charge. Some faster than others. Some will supply data with 2.0 speeds, others
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
Looking both ways before crossing the street slows you down too, but it's done for good reasons. Ignore reading code at your own peril.
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
Is it really a 2026 car if it was made in 2026? (New cars in 2026 are manufactured and sold as 2027)
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
Clicked a search result that went there probably last week. I might have an account there, but I've never asked nor answered a questioned, nor voted.
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
Probably something no one's ever heard of ending in "Capital Partners".
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
What if someone has evaluated the pros and cons, maybe even tried using AI, and decided it's not worth it?
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by theandrewbailey 3mo ago
1% failure rate of a hundred might be acceptable. 1% failure rate of a million is not. Isn't that a named law?

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