GJR

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by GJR 9d ago
Classic Dunning-Kruger, do they show respect for your skills?
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by GJR 3mo ago
And also because it was possible to achieve deterministic performance as there was no (zero) virtualization.
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by GJR 7mo ago
+1. My brother and I had to do this for my Dad. We felt awful but it was necessary.
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by GJR 7mo ago
To inform the thread, UK accident statistics from 2024 here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casua...
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by GJR 7mo ago
UK statistics here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casua... The issue is that the rate of accidents rapidly increases after 70 and the easiest detectable indicator is deteriorating eyesig
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by GJR 1y ago
So where has the profit, paid as bonuses to executives and shareholders, come from? The UK water companies were paid extra to fix the infrastructure and the cash paid by the public has increased.
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by GJR 2y ago
If you take a step back and look at your comment, you might realise that you are making the same point: businesses don't have to take any particular path...
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by GJR 3y ago
Adobe has dodged a bullet; Figma was ridiculously overvalued.
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by GJR 3y ago
The earlier victories won't have been reported.
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by GJR 3y ago
Nokia must be desperate for cash. Developing video codecs is a painful exercise as some part of the implementation almost always relies on prior art. The company that I worked for were sued for our implementation of an MPEG-2 codec, becaus
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by GJR 3y ago
Someone has been reading Iain Banks.
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by GJR 3y ago
No shit.
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by GJR 3y ago
By doing so, don't you restrict the pool of talent that you can hire from?
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by GJR 3y ago
What is the actual point of giving anyone $226m in pay? How would that motivate them to deliver any more..? Ratio of CEO:staff pay at 1000:1!
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by GJR 4y ago
The counterpoint, based on the assumption that eating out is an experience, rather than a commodity: https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/want-happiness-buy-experienc...
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by GJR 5y ago
But yet he only has one arse.
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by GJR 5y ago
It's semantics but you always can. ;-)
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by GJR 6y ago
If your Father is capable of answering these questions (mine wasn't, due to vascular dementia) then I'd strongly advocate this approach.
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by GJR 7y ago
Eh? An estimated 40-100 million people died in this outbreak.
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by GJR 7y ago
Even 'Real 3D' is a misnomer. I work in the industry and we call it 'stereo' for a reason: it generates a feeling of depth but your eyes never have to converge so, via either route, your brain always knows that it isn&#x
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by GJR 7y ago
Fill and key is basic video manipulation. As to the aliasing, they also need to apply some filtering...
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by GJR 8y ago
Clear case of Betteridge's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by GJR 8y ago
It's what Baden-Powell would have wanted.
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by GJR 9y ago
To complement this: Johann Johansson - IBM 1401 - A User's Manual - https://open.spotify.com/album/3ZqqvWwHzoVCxwdsaUaF9z
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by GJR 9y ago
Rather than judging, I'll try a different tack: the company can only offer you a single job, with them, and you have already seen evidence of their behaviour. The recruiter has already found you this position and may well be able to f