FrameworkFred

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by FrameworkFred 27d ago
I've been in the room when an org who tried to convince law enforcement to go after a human for similar things. It's not easy. Probably won't happen. So, you know, felony "lite".
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by FrameworkFred 1mo ago
That was a fun read. I was a draftsman as a teenager in the late 80s and I did my best to make my handwriting look like those letters. Then, as a CAD operator, I put that font on everything I produced. It never once occurred to me that it
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by FrameworkFred 3mo ago
TIL I can just view markdown in okular directly instead of using a script that converts markdown to html, then converts html to pdf, then opens that pdf in okular.
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by FrameworkFred 4mo ago
that is really cool. well done!
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by FrameworkFred 4mo ago
actually, that sounds like a pretty good feedback mechanism, especially if you come up with a way to get lat/long and/or an accurate timestamp.
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by FrameworkFred 5mo ago
I derailed after this sentence. I searched for more uses of "rats" in the article, then looked in the HN comments to see if it was a bit of jargon that I was unaware of. I read "Lessons from the art of juggling" years
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by FrameworkFred 6mo ago
so far, I've used it to kill a bunch of time trying to get it to respond to "Hi @Kirk" in a private Slack channel. ...and to laugh a little every time it calls me "commander" or asks "What's the next missi
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by FrameworkFred 6mo ago
It would make sense that the holes were a convenient way of thinking and speaking about large quantities of goods such that tribes of people might want to exchange. It would be a very visual way of comparing dissimilar goods, like "1
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by FrameworkFred 7mo ago
This all makes a lot of sense. It is worth pointing out that AI isn't terrible at cleaning up tech debt. I've absolutely used it cleanup code sprawl and to correct design missteps. It gets a lot of well-deserved blame for genera
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by FrameworkFred 7mo ago
I've been using the "Zim desktop wiki" like this for years. I do recommend it as well...super handy to be able to go looking for my thoughts or snippets from 6 months ago. I can also use git to sync between my desktop and la
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by FrameworkFred 9mo ago
I agree with this soo much. In a very real way, a codebase is a conversation among developers. There's every chance the next guy will be less familiar with the code than you, who just did a deep dive and arrived at some critical, poorl
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by FrameworkFred 9mo ago
the chain link tech in Seveneves was wild. as a nearly perfectly uninformed occasional consumer of space-related articles, I can say it makes a lot of sense (to me) why we'd use something like that to move things around the solar syste
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by FrameworkFred 9mo ago
To all the commenters who asked if it's worth it? IMO it's super worth it if you have more than one wifi access point and it gets more and more worth it as your network gets more complicated. I upgraded to homogenous ubiquiti&#x2F
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by FrameworkFred 10mo ago
same :(
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by FrameworkFred 10mo ago
Same. I once registered bithole.com because I wanted a better email address then what I had at yahoo.com...and I realized my mistake as I was typing it on my resume. This feels like a similar mistake.
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by FrameworkFred 1y ago
This reminds me of Auggie's photo album in Smoke..."Sometimes the different ones become the same ones and the same ones disappear." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGV_h36uZ5E
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by FrameworkFred 1y ago
I agree with some of the article. I agree that code is a liability that's distinct from the asset that the code is part of. It's like tires on a car, they're liability-like whereas the car can be thought of as an asset. But
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by FrameworkFred 1y ago
I have to admit, I'm not up to speed on anything he's been up to lately, but I absolutely read and enjoyed Dilbert way back when. I'm sorry to hear he's not long for the world. Every time I see someone kitted out in VR
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by FrameworkFred 1y ago
I'm actually super-interested to see the next post. TBH, if you would've asked me yesterday if I'm the sort of person who might get sucked in by a cliffhanger story about a numpy replacement, I'm pretty sure I would&#x27
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by FrameworkFred 1y ago
I love this line in the post: "The next time you use something that works so well you barely notice it, remember that somewhere, a designer solved a problem so thoroughly that both the problem and its solution became invisible." T
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by FrameworkFred 1y ago
That's a long read, but it is an awkward thing tbh. My take on it is that, if you're going to write a decorator, make sure you test it thoroughly and be sure to cover the ways that it will actually be used. To properly handle a de
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by FrameworkFred 2y ago
I use solaar with a mx master 3s and it's great (thumbscrolling works as it should) except the mouse battery level indicator is uncalibrated...20% at the highest, then it's quickly at 5% where it stays for-e-ver. I gas-up my car w
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by FrameworkFred 2y ago
LOL, that would be the sound of freedom from proper precautions :)
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by FrameworkFred 2y ago
How's that work? My employer doesn't offer health insurance, just reimbursement and every plan on the marketplace is an HMO.
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by FrameworkFred 2y ago
I'll admit that I'm not well versed in the different shades of suspend...I had to look up S3 and it definitely eats more battery than I'd like when it's suspended. With that said, I've only ever had two laptops tha
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by FrameworkFred 2y ago
It looks like the author has hit some pretty serious snags along the way and is a lot more understanding than I might be under similar circumstances. My experience, having just bought a framework 13 with AMD internals a couple of months ago
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by FrameworkFred 2y ago
I disagree that we're greatly off-target. We can certainly build a grenade-dropper that sometimes picks the wrong target and gets intercepted by hostile actors. We have LLMs that aren't doing some things that we might task a sing
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by FrameworkFred 2y ago
While I can get behind a lot of points in this post like "what can we do well in 60 days?" and "some problems aren't important," I shudder a little when I see that headline, when I note that the company provides SSO
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by FrameworkFred 2y ago
TLDR; the answer is knowing how and when to use AWK ;)
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by FrameworkFred 2y ago
I agree on both points and it's worth noting the cell phone in everyone's pocket has a lot more battery in it than a pager does. IF this was truly done to unmodified pagers, then we ALL probably need to reconsider how we use and c

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