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by wang_li 8mo ago
It makes a much shorter and boring story that obviates the entire "the wifi only works when it's raining" title.
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by wang_li 8mo ago
The list lacks Derek Smart, so it's not a real list.
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by wang_li 8mo ago
There's also the "magic" and "more magic" switch. https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/magic.html
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by wang_li 9mo ago
I thought he had proven that he leaves before the project is complete and functioning according to all the promises made.
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by wang_li 9mo ago
If you aren't doing hires graphics, you don't have to mess with the screen memory directly. You can just call the ROM routines which has the nice side effect of working with 40- or 80-columns automatically. If you are doing hires
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by wang_li 9mo ago
Somebody take an x-ray so where know where to drill our own holes.
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by wang_li 9mo ago
In the 2010 era of RAM density, random bit flips were really uncommon. I worked with over a thousand systems which would report ECC errors when they happen and the only memorable events at all were actual DIMM failures. Also, around 1999-20
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by wang_li 9mo ago
The adaption is going to be that competent, knowledgeable people will begin forming informal and formal networks of people they know are skilled and intelligent and begin to scorn the people who aren't skilled and aren't intellige
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by wang_li 9mo ago
CI/CD baby! Deliver early, deliver often, fix it later.
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by wang_li 9mo ago
Europe seems to have adopted the practice of looting American companies.
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by wang_li 9mo ago
Many new tools appear because people don't know how to use the existing tools or they think the existing tool is too complicated. In time the new tool becomes just as, or more, complicated than the old tool. Because there is a reason t
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by wang_li 9mo ago
My browser on my work laptop has 219 root certificates trusted. Some of those may be installed from my employer, but I suspect most of them come from MS as it's Edge on Windows 11. I see in that list things like "Swedish Governmen
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by wang_li 9mo ago
>Being able to rely on viogpu without the black-screen-of-death means we can slowly move away from serial console-only installs for quick VMs. No, thanks. My IaC doesn't want or need any interaction when spinning up a quick or slow
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by wang_li 9mo ago
How much was left-pad worth? Lots of people used it because it's free, not because it's valuable.
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by wang_li 9mo ago
Obviously it's more recent, but how does this compare to Steven's Advanced Programming for the Unix Environment.
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by wang_li 9mo ago
I don't want to make an appeal to authority fallacy, but normal human heuristics would be to think that even a hearsay statement about what an immigration attorney said is more meaningful than a random commentor who claims not to see a
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by wang_li 9mo ago
It’s pointless anyway because there is always someone in the community who comes along and rips out support for old hardware. Because, you know, EOL, doesn’t matter that it’s a stationary target.
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by wang_li 9mo ago
The Ioniq has the ability to provide battery power out so you can plug your house in.
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by wang_li 9mo ago
>Something is wrong in the software industry. Desktop/PC operating systems aren't going away, but the industry have decided that it's no longer a relevant product category. Half of humanity is not very smart. Once you&#x27
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by wang_li 9mo ago
Yes, which is why we have two houses in the legislature and there are limits on the number of seats in the house and electoral college votes. No polity should be able to procreate their way to political dominance over a peer polity nor shou
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by wang_li 9mo ago
When a coworker pastes a screenshot of their syntax highlighted code with a black background into chat it is functionally 50% blank as my 55 year old eyes are not good at low contrast. Regular blue, purples and reds are often unreadable aga
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by wang_li 9mo ago
They'll turn sites like wikipedia into free labor for training LLMs.
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by wang_li 9mo ago
Well, there are essential amino acids and essential fatty acids, but no essential carbs.
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by wang_li 9mo ago
>To summarize, Rust provides a lot of compile-time discipline that C and C++ are lacking, and many people are tired of maintaining code that was developed without that discipline. Rust makes it harder to write low-effort software. This d
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by wang_li 9mo ago
AI content should be required by law to be flagged and described how the AI was used. It's bullshit when a channel pops up with a known person sitting facing the camera speaking for 20 minutes and it turns out to be entirely AI generat
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by wang_li 9mo ago
> to produce something to justify someone’s career, This is the curse of being a UI designer for a long lived product. Once a thing has been created and future work consists of 99% code and 1% UI, your UI designer job has evaporated. And
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by wang_li 9mo ago
This is just normal not supporting things you disagree with. It's not a rule of thumb you can quickly use to discount an opinion. Ignoring actors is a pretty handy rule of thumb. Their main skill is repeating someone else's words
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by wang_li 10mo ago
They’ve been raising the contribution limit for several years now. In 2016 the cut off on taxable earnings for social security was $118,500. Next year it’s $186,000.
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by wang_li 10mo ago
The phrasing doesn’t make sense anyway. I think I have an individual social security account where they track how much I’ve paid and how much that will entitle me to receive. I also think I have an individual savings account with my bank, a
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by wang_li 10mo ago
Is having Mac OS and Linux a decrease or increase in security over just having windows only?

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