tomc1985

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by tomc1985 5y ago
We're not building airplanes though. We're building line-of-business apps -- it's like 80% CRUD
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by tomc1985 5y ago
And how much of that complexity is truly needed? Or is that another one of the lies proferred by its financiers?
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by tomc1985 5y ago
It pains me so much that we've gone from hiring a couple of supersmart ubernerds over a cool demo and setting them loose to... this. Now, everything sucks. People who only know the tech they trained for. Tools are written for idiots, a
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Yeah, I have multiple sets of some of these sounds in WAV format, as do many others. Hard to believe anything about them is "endangered" In fact, why isn't this site providing a downloadable link to these files? If he is real
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Because we will be destroying way more jobs than will be making and more than will be available. It will be highly disruptive to other labor markets and will cause a race to the bottom for workers' salaries.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
The unemployment part really concerns me. We are going to be automating so many people out of jobs and there is going to be no work or only minimum wage jobs out there for them. Whatever field the majority of them train to will be slammed w
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by tomc1985 5y ago
The web version
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by tomc1985 5y ago
FreeTaxUsa forced me to manually enter my stock last year, I had to provide a supplemental PDF form outlining each transaction. Obnoxiously, this year TurboTax's integration with Binance is broken. I haven't checked in a few weeks
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Sorry, my reference to Russophobia was more at past light that has been shown on Kaspersky, before this year's invasion of Ukraine. I agree that it is entirely possible that Kaspersky could be weaponized now
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Yeah, it was my preferred AV for a while, til I switched to a local company
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by tomc1985 5y ago
When was Kasepersky ever considered a dirtbag? That company has written a lot of technically in-depth security reports over various threats for a long time. AFAIK it's a (relatively) honest business, though sadly the target of American
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by tomc1985 5y ago
My original intent here was to point out an increasingly-common stance that many people -- particularly gen Z -- seem to take, which is essentially, "why should I expose myself to things I don't like?" The problem is that it
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by tomc1985 5y ago
This isn't about free speech. People NEED to hear, read, and see conflicting viewpoints and opinions they don't agree with. They NEED to see the ugly realities of life. The opposite is a culture of censorship, which is absolutely
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by tomc1985 5y ago
What is the point of these tests if people can just test prep their way through it? The result is not indicative of their true selves, it is simply yet another horrible facade.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Yet another way to suppress expression that one doesn't like. This is not how the world should be.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
> Like you are watching Avengers End game in Netflix and they ask you if you wanna pay 5 dollars more to watch Captain America use his well known outfit instead of regular clothes? Jesus Christ don't give those fucks any ideas
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by tomc1985 5y ago
It would be nice if it would stop being sold to us as a braindance
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Maybe I was in the wrong subsector of this industry but there was very little theory work in the jobs I have held. A lot of it was just reusing the same design patterns over and over again, and then scaling that out somehow. I did not mean
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by tomc1985 5y ago
With the exception of Half-Life Alyx, everything I've seen on VR has been either a gimmick or "meh" And don't even get me started on how awful virtual workspaces are.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Funny enough, they just added a whole bunch of FPS style content, and it is locked out of VR last I checked.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
The VR folks are starting to sound like the Year of the Linux Desktop folks. Y'all standing at the station for a train that might never come
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Did they really have much of a role to play for Half-Life or Homeworld? By that point they were just a publisher.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
One other point (since I can't edit): none of the used bookstores I am aware of take old technical books. Even the good ones (because they don't know and just see another tome that will likely sit on a shelf and collect dust)
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by tomc1985 5y ago
It is, but it isn't. Besides, from my vantage point almost all the work is herding frameworks of some kind. Maybe I need to get out of web tech and into something else.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
It's outright naked ageism. I have been studying a different trade, completely unrelated to software engineering or tech, and by far the weirdest thing is reading books or watching seminars from 20 or 30 years ago that are still relev
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by tomc1985 5y ago
What is with people making things that are essentially music plugins and not making them VST... Is this the new hipster hill to die on?
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by tomc1985 5y ago
The landscape doesn't need to shift nearly as often as it does. But we are an industry obsessed with hiring magpie developers as cheaply as we can, and those magpie developers demand cool merit badges to put on their resumes, and here
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Such ageism.
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by tomc1985 5y ago
So, essentially super fancy sprites? chuckles
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by tomc1985 5y ago
Funny, I think I recall someone at Stone citing that story, specifically as a model for their own corporate behavior, when I was on a tour of one of their breweries.

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