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by thom 3mo ago
Not everything is about taking information in?
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by thom 3mo ago
Perhaps I am the only person well served by the modern music industry, but I absolutely love Apple Music. The new music playlist it gives me each week has introduced me to hundreds of new artists and dozens of songs that rank up there with
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by thom 3mo ago
Ah yes, the missing seventeenth way to validate function parameters.
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by thom 3mo ago
Always loved this. There are still parts of the UK where you’ll have no data offline navigation is great, and the walking paths are better than you can get elsewhere.
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by thom 3mo ago
I quit in June. No real absurdity, I'd just spent two years after we were acquired feeling bad about leaving and abandoning everybody, or that's what I'd tell myself to not feel like a coward. Either way, out now, trying to b
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by thom 3mo ago
I loved Bazzite for hardware compatibility out of the box but the necessity of flatpak made it enormously inconvenient as a general machine. CachyOS sounds worth checking out if I still want to game but also occasionally do real work.
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by thom 3mo ago
Do we have a sense for what proportion of text is actually retrievable from these scrolls?
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by thom 3mo ago
Sure as shit won't answer them without that though.
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by thom 3mo ago
I agree that saying that they have now trained on lots of proprietary data allows them to muddy the legislative waters further than they already have. What a happy coincidence!
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by thom 3mo ago
No, you just parroted an increasingly popular talking point, the entire purpose of which seems to be to absolve AI companies of the enormous theft that put them in the position to hire experts in the first place.
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by thom 4mo ago
Happy father's day! Here's my dad on the front of the very first Dragon User magazine. It's been a bit of a bumpy ride but I loved growing up surrounded by every microcomputer under the sun. https://www.computinghi
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by thom 4mo ago
Surely it’s called Candid Camera specifically because it reveals something that would otherwise be hidden?
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by thom 4mo ago
How unfortunate that even the act of quitting the rat race of notoriety that comprises life in a modern online society requires the publishing of manifestos, books, newspaper profiles, viral photos of you holding up your non-smart phone pub
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by thom 4mo ago
Couple of videos from the Roman Society recently, connecting landscapes and Latin epistolography, which may be of interest to those enjoying this map: https://youtu.be/9aBxIRCGkl4?si=Dh5P6_NGzSasBG_1 https://yout
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by thom 4mo ago
At least we agree “modern software development” is the root cause.
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by thom 4mo ago
I personally think CSS animations are wonderful. I’ve recently returned to dabble in frontend stuff and was delighted with what you could achieve with purely declarative HTML and CSS. I’m finding that you can often match the feel of an SPA
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by thom 4mo ago
A software team’s job is to collaboratively learn an effective model for operating in a domain. They express that model and those learnings in code, tests and associated documentation. So on the one hand I wholeheartedly agree that pull req
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by thom 4mo ago
Commits should have no information in them. Teams should be aligned on the design of their software, and all the information about that software should be apparent from its source code.
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by thom 4mo ago
Not sure what my knot is called but it’s never come undone or gone wonky for me. At step five of the standard knot above, just pull the yellow loop into the empty space on the left and the blue loop to the right. Surely that saves you havin
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by thom 4mo ago
And in case this comes off too negative, I don’t think anyone has mentioned KStars, my favourite KDE app for many years. All my early Linux experiences were eye opening and mind expanding about what computers could be, but somehow none more
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by thom 4mo ago
It feels to me that a lot of the bigger ideas in KDE fell away over the years. In the 2000s I would log in every morning, open a KWord doc in one Konqueror tab, a KSpread sheet in another, and some browser tabs alongside them, then I'd
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by thom 4mo ago
Yeah we have one of these in our kitchen diner and it's excellent.
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by thom 4mo ago
Was about to comment, anyone who finds themselves bouncing off Kerouac could do worse than read Miller. The latter is more like your first torrid love affair versus the former’s first giggling glimpse at a porno mag.
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by thom 5mo ago
You don’t necessarily know when someone will decide to do a commercial release of an old game, causing it to disappear from various abandonware sites. Much simpler to grab eXoDOS once and use it for life.
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by thom 5mo ago
iDOS 3 works perfectly on my iPad Pro for both DOS games and Win 3.11.
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by thom 5mo ago
I first read this on an HTC Typhoon smartphone on my daily commute to my first job out of university. I must have felt pretty smug and futuristic at the time.
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by thom 5mo ago
I think when there’s a step change in our ability to find one type of vulnerability, other types of vulnerability are probably going to become more common as well. Let’s see where we stand at the end of the year.
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by thom 5mo ago
After all these years, we finally have enough eyeballs that all bugs are shallow, and it kinda sucks. How many times a week am I going to be updating my kernel from now on?
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by thom 5mo ago
Same reason people muck about with knowledge management systems... to put off the day when you have to sit down at your desk and actually do something.
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by thom 5mo ago
What's core issues are you thinking of?

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