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by xarope 2y ago
some of the marketing spam is so low effort, I get addressed as "Dear {{prospect}}". It does make deleting the email easy though, since the preview of the first line allows me to filter pretty fast!
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by xarope 2y ago
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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by xarope 2y ago
RIP. Expertise in wordperfect was what allowed me to grok emacs and latex during college and post-grad work. In working life, I was forced to shift to vim, when I found emacs unavailable by default on many unix boxen.
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by xarope 2y ago
>>> my daily driver is a Frankenpad made from a T480 with the 7-row keyboard from a T25 you can't just say this without giving us more details... MOAR!
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by xarope 2y ago
working with gRPC allowed me to understand how go(lang)'s use of things like sql.nullstring works (pseudo'ish code}: astring = sql.nullstring{isNull=true, value=""} if astring.isNull {don't do anything} els
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by xarope 2y ago
solo sailors (amongst others) do this; 30-90mins of sleep each time, but they cat nap all the time, not just once a day. However, research shows that long term learning etc, as well as critical decision making, are impaired. My anecdata of
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by xarope 2y ago
That's why I learned REXX in ye-olde days, because it came installed as default on IBM systems (and not Perl, which was my de-facto prior to). Then python. Nowadays Go(lang). Still trying to decide if it's worth going to Rust fo
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by xarope 2y ago
"Everyone is talking about Retrieval Augmented Generation, but most companies don't actually have any internal documentation worth retrieving. Fix. Your. Shit." I read up about Copilot as part of some internal research, and a
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by xarope 2y ago
sigh, I held off getting a new AMD 7840u (now 8840u?) laptop in case snapdragon elite would live up to the hype. Guess it won't, in this incarnation.
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by xarope 2y ago
Maybe you are referring to articles on the internet that are meant for SEO? The internal white papers I've written and also help co-author (which are for discourse/dissertation on successful project implementations and to be used
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by xarope 2y ago
Scarecrow Cloud Native AI with Nextgen Quantum Crypto XR ++ (bingo?)
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by xarope 2y ago
on the other hand, that's what the pulitzer prize for public service is for, to highlight the efforts of journalists who do precisely this; the truth, and the willingness and effort to put their careers, and sometimes lives, on the lin
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by xarope 2y ago
Because there are people who are willing to spend an inordinate amount of time delving deeply into a hobby, and these people are also the personalities who will chime up in HN one day to point out your hobby code has (1) a potential optimiz
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by xarope 2y ago
1) sqlite is so easy to start with, I'm not sure what you mean to "hard to start tinkering"? 2) I'm not sure about your personal experience, but having worked with make files during C programming days, I think you get us
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by xarope 2y ago
personal anecdata: I had written a few paragraphs of factual information, and decided to see what GPT 4 would do with it. So I asked it to rewrite the information several times, using a different voice (e.g. write it with an optimistic vie
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by xarope 2y ago
umm, was this written/parsed through by an LLM? The last paragraph of the introduction has: > As an AI language model, I do not have opinions and so cannot tell you whether the introduction you provided is “goated or nah.” However,
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by xarope 2y ago
1st video about halfway through, that's where the turkish get up is useful!
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by xarope 2y ago
For the marines, I think wearing a kevlar helmet, LBV (or whatever they are using nowadays) with water, ammo etc, would already be 30+lbs (not including plate), so I suspect the marines would be like "45lbs, is that it?"
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by xarope 2y ago
> There are only losers in this game, but at least we’ve all got a participation ribbon to comfort us in moments of angst. I sense the frustration...
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by xarope 2y ago
I know people think a 4 day work week is the bees knees, but I'm not sure I would enjoy working a 10 hour day (assuming we are still expected to work a nominal 40 hour week). With commute, it means 12 hours+ a day, so less time for fi
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by xarope 2y ago
+1 for novamin, it really does make your teeth feel smooth and glassy-like.
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by xarope 2y ago
Can I just say, it's nice to see a "small" business owner succeed, in a sea of desperate wanna-be-unicorns? And my interest is piqued by the Pizookie Trio, whatever that may be...!
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by xarope 2y ago
distribution purposes, a single binary is easier than a docker container and its associated security issues.
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by xarope 2y ago
I'm a bit surprised about the flak that stored procs have. Treat them just like any other, hopefully well documented, API, and they work perfectly fine. There are pros and cons, just like whether you decide to use react or htmx, pyth
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by xarope 2y ago
But then this is just parroting, using statistical inferencing, what they "might" have said in their publications (and paraphrasing by countless academic papers, or even worse - since this is probably more likely - random qualifie
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by xarope 2y ago
Instead of all this cloud native stuff, I wish there was an embedded version of Postgres, ala sqlite or duckdb
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by xarope 2y ago
for 3, you could write a stored proc to handle the various situations, and call that stored proc appropriately, letting the DB engine optimize appending "(disabled)". however, I do wish Go had a map function ala python map() as op
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by xarope 2y ago
This quote is a doozy too: "Visionaries at NASA identified a futuristic new energy source (space billionaire egos) and found a way to tap it on a fixed-cost basis"
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by xarope 2y ago
Usenet was prevalent in those days for those who had internet, which probably meant a lot of academic institutes (and then those of us who had 2400 baud modems). So it would make sense that like-minded people would subscribe to those news
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by xarope 2y ago
Pretty please, I'd like there to be more commercial e-ink monitors, not just the $2K Dasung Paperlike 253. And if it's not asking too much, color too.

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