warrenm

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by warrenm 3y ago
I am not 100% sure of the use case for this ... though it looks kinda interesting? I run my servers in UTC (as everyone should (and some (many?) products require))) Everything else handles timezones "correctly" (in my experience)
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by warrenm 3y ago
No such thing as an "unbiased search engine" And that is not a knock on Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google, Qwant, etc It is a fact - every search engine is making some kind of decision about `"what is" on the web`: they have th
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by warrenm 3y ago
Highest priority: - Public speaking - Solid writing Second-tier: - Speaking to the business use case / ROI of whatever they are (or want to be) working on If you can not tell others what you are working on, or about an idea (writing
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Survivorship bias – lessons from World War Two aircraft(clearthinking.co)
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by warrenm 3y ago
And yet ... because their infra is good enough for everyone , it is FAR more than good enough for me :)
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by warrenm 3y ago
>a news article relating to look how good AI is at this stuff! Some of that is also related to how bad people have been allowed to be and get away with writing it anyway
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by warrenm 3y ago
Even if a user wants them to be 'public' ... probably need some kind of warning that images may (or, probably, are likely to) be NSFW :)
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by warrenm 3y ago
I think this site has some promise ... but I cannot load it anywhere near my family, coworkers, etc right now!
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by warrenm 3y ago
how about ... do not share user-uploaded images, to start! Or put an age-verifier in front of the site
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by warrenm 3y ago
Beyond "NSFW" warning! The first 20 images (when I loaded it a minute ago) are REMARKABLY inappropriate! Worse than hentai
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by warrenm 3y ago
...because anything more complex than a 'linear model' is probably overly biased* --------- * are there unbiased non-linear models? Probably...but the less linear you get, the more bias appears
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by warrenm 3y ago
Wish that whole title had come across `Magic-trace: Diagnosing tricky performance issues easily with Intel Processor Trace`
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by warrenm 3y ago
>AI which functions as a full-fledged software engineer Baloney. Pants. What is currently called "AI" is merely Markov chains on steroids If an "AI" can do your job, you have a very low-level job (most likely intern
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by warrenm 3y ago
My solution to this is only allowing a couple pairings per Bluetooth end device My wife's van, for example, can store a few connections - but only "likes" to keep its most recent (so ... in her vehicle, while my phone is &#x2
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by warrenm 3y ago
Some commandline tools references the registry Some do not
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by warrenm 3y ago
AirTable.com?
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by warrenm 3y ago
What "modern smartphone" cannot "play music smoothly"? If you mean, "can't stream smoothly" - check your connection and your service choice (eg Paramount+ always seems to have problems for me ... regardl
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by warrenm 3y ago
Does your seek button not work? Or the off button?
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by warrenm 3y ago
>The shoebox of pictures will still be there in the closet even if I stopped thinking about it many years before. And it will be easy for someone to know what it is. A bill for $10/month is the kind of thing executors get rid of. Ra
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by warrenm 3y ago
Au contraire - I am paying them enough (along with millions of others of customers) to care about their whole infrastructure
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by warrenm 3y ago
>I'm not trying to argue Except ... you are - what you're describing just is not efficient Maybe you've grown accustomed to the Windows Registry - are you also familiar with all the problems it has (vs the rock-solid, impo
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by warrenm 3y ago
>Then what it would do is search for all binaries on the system (i.e. executable files), and create it's own database. Then it could have a flag in the database that certain ones are not "registered", but when you try to r
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by warrenm 3y ago
>Ok think this through. I have to edit a variable by appending to a string. That makes no sense! I should have a simple command to prevent syntax errors! "That makes no sense" Except ... it does and it has for over half a centu
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by warrenm 3y ago
>Times change, and I think it would be so nice to just have a simple utility that whenever someone installs a package, it automatically registers all executables, you know? So ... have the installer (whatever that may be (rpm, flatpack,
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by warrenm 3y ago
>So if I want to make this, here was my idea. I will make a flat file like this: >binary_name, path1:path2:path3 Holy path, Batman! Now you have to manage for each and every possible executable ALL the places it might exist? Let&#
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by warrenm 3y ago
>I just think it's crazy we are still recursing through directories to find binaries Except ... we are not $PATH does not "recurse" - it gives a set of prefixes the system will attempt before a command before failing (unle
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by warrenm 3y ago
>CD-R is the best digital format for archiving. And now you have to store hundreds of CDs somewhere in a climate-controlled manner You're gonna get what ... 100 (maybe? probably more like 50-60 (if they're high-quality images))
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by warrenm 3y ago
>The best way to preserve pictures is printing them out and putting the prints in a box. It has a track record. Now you move to image degradation, risk of loss to fire, water, etc
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by warrenm 3y ago
Nextcloud is great I run an instance But you're still paying for the space (and, if you're like me, also the server infrastructure to run it (and spending time keeping it up-to-date, etc))
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by warrenm 3y ago
It will become "free" when some combination of the following happen: a) it becomes [practically] free to run b) advertising and/or subscriptions provide enough overhead to run the rest of it "for free" (see point (a

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