timcobb

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by timcobb 1y ago
AI as a cure for loneliness gets the flak that it deserves but I will say in my personal experience I've caught myself many times already thinking how nice it was that I have this artificial thing that I can talk to about various hobbi
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by timcobb 1y ago
Yeah I didn't mean to suggest this dichotomy. And I agree with you. Just not sure how much you can force people, even the ones who "need" to be forced. Or what "good" will come out of that. Good in my mind is a pers
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by timcobb 1y ago
Every six years is enough for apple and other companies who have other sources of revenue and have staked out this high quality niche. But androids, as an example, are more of an average 3 year lifespan if I'm not mistaken, which is cl
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by timcobb 1y ago
This is what I need to research, I don't understand why we need NAS hardware at all, aren't the controllers and drivers in an average box running Linux enough for the same software raid that Synology does?
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by timcobb 1y ago
> I have had three Synology boxes over the last 20 or so years Sounds like this is the problem with Synology... How are they going to make money when their products are so good!
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by timcobb 1y ago
Sure, I agree, but why take this person out of society for something like this when you can fine them or make them so community service? Certainly that's a deterrent?
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by timcobb 1y ago
Nit: is this political? Looks like the issue with the "joke" was violence/terrorism. A political statement would be like > David Cameron is a twit Not > I'm going to blow up the airport Can't imagine why this
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by timcobb 1y ago
Relevance?
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by timcobb 1y ago
> why does a child need to break through a plateau at anything? Exactly! Why? The few things I do better than most people are things I've stayed engaged with during those plateaus because I wanted to, not because someone else told m
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by timcobb 1y ago
> It takes a long time to get good at some things and those days suck. If those days suck, chances are you won't get good at it. People like things that are engaging and develop their identity and understanding of themselves and the
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by timcobb 1y ago
> A very small minority of kids will do all of that easily and for the fun, but you can't rely on it This may be true, but explain to me what are the returns you get on forcing math (or anything) on kids? They won't like it, th
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by timcobb 1y ago
Probably the former... I see your confusion but it's really only a couple weeks at most. The news cycle is strong in you, grasshopper :)
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by timcobb 1y ago
> a 28 player behemoth that debuted in April 1990 at the International Garden and Greenery Exposition in Osaka, Japan Why would an arcade game be debuted at a gardening and greenery expo?
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by timcobb 2y ago
> Nobody ever
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by timcobb 2y ago
> what's the point of cryptocurrencies in the first place? Not to be that guy but it seems like the point of cryptocurrencies is to scam vulnerable people...
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by timcobb 2y ago
My read on this that they don't mean EEs as in IEEE, but "engineer" as in "sanitation engineer", i.e. people who assemble electronic devices in factories.
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by timcobb 2y ago
> until I decided that I couldn't go on like this, and only then did I write some classes to represent the business logic objects this is just another form of TDD in my opinion. it's a bummer if your work literally makes you wr
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by timcobb 2y ago
I basically only drink water...
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by timcobb 2y ago
With pulp we're getting somewhere, but without pulp?
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by timcobb 2y ago
> So really, if I cut up some oranges and squeeze the juice into a cup I can't give it to my kid because fruit = sugar = bad? It's such a reductionist way to look at food and nutrition. Sorta? It's not bad , right? But it
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by timcobb 2y ago
Some people use VSCode extensions
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by timcobb 2y ago
XLD is one of my favorite pieces of software, +1.
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by timcobb 2y ago
How does this relate to this specific case and this specific individual?
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by timcobb 2y ago
Right, but if you've been following the situation since the current administration took office, you would know that if they want something, they're not shy to ask.
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by timcobb 2y ago
Sweet! One suggestion is to somehow normalize the requirements by company type? Like, for example, PayPal gets a thumbsdown for > You must provide your identifiable information but that's reasonable for a company like PayPal?
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by timcobb 2y ago
> People rolling their own buggy parsers in C I'd like to believe this isn't common anymore for new projects?
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by timcobb 2y ago
> our own intelligence this doesn't make any more sense than calling LLMs "intelligence". There is no "our intelligence" beyond a concept or an idea that you or someone else may have about the collective, which i
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by timcobb 2y ago
Who's even trying to make that point? Isn't it more like "I don't need privacy because I have nothing to hide"?
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by timcobb 2y ago
Certainly, but that is so uncool in my opinion
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by timcobb 2y ago
I entered the United States the other day from Mexico at BWI without even showing my passport. I don't know how they verified my identity, but I presume it was a camera, because the agent looked in a computer for a few seconds, then wa

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