GrumpyGoblin

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by GrumpyGoblin 8d ago
I'm confused. Where does this article say anything about starting from scratch? Is there a chunk of the story missing? It jumps straight from talking about PLATO Notes to referring to Lotus Notes. There is a "spoiler alert" i
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by GrumpyGoblin 5mo ago
Cool
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by GrumpyGoblin 8mo ago
Not saying it's not a problem, I actually don't know, but new CPU's are just old models with more improvements/tooling. Same with TV's. And cars. And clothes. Everything is. That's how improving things works. R
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by GrumpyGoblin 10mo ago
Meh. Good article but not sure it's globally relevant. Spotlight is about personality. Some people are visible, outspoken, and in the spotlight, and impactful. Others are quiet, subdued, behind the scenes but impactful. Some of the bes
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by GrumpyGoblin 10mo ago
You require "statistical calculations" to support the notion that a sample size of 4000 people in two countries, two of the most modernized and affluent nations on the planet at that, is too small for a study to conclude how the h
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by GrumpyGoblin 10mo ago
> based on the brain scans of nearly 4,000 people aged under one to 90, mapped neural connections and how they evolve during our lives. That is an absurdly small sample size to make such a conclusion. It seems this age range could at lea
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by GrumpyGoblin 11mo ago
There is another aspect that many people aren't discussing, the communication aspect. For a medium to large organization with independent programs that need to talk to each other, Kafka provides an essential capability that would be mu
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by GrumpyGoblin 11mo ago
At my company there is a team like this who are solely responsible for a significant piece of internal infrastructure. People bring them ideas. They reject them out of hand. "Can't be done" "We'd have to rewrite the
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by GrumpyGoblin 1y ago
I like the realistic idea of Duolingo. I know I'm not going to get fluent with it and I'm not trying to, but I do want a good app to expand vocabulary and basic structures that I can do in 30 minutes a day. And I'm a sucker f
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by GrumpyGoblin 1y ago
This is really helpful. Every comment is about immersion, I get it people, but how do you achieve that in the real world. Most of those comments seem to ignore that fact that many people can't move to another country for a couple years
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by GrumpyGoblin 1y ago
This is a ridiculous reply. I'm not friends with Google. We're frenemies at best. Google has zero reason to keep this effort going. It won't make them any significant money. If I were a bettin' man, and I am, I'd sa
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by GrumpyGoblin 1y ago
Aaaaaand it's shut down
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by GrumpyGoblin 1y ago
Widget appearance is tied to *icon appearance. Grumble grumble. I want clear for my widgets but default for my dock and other icons. Too bad so sad me I guess. edit: replaced dock with icon, because it affects much more than just dock
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by GrumpyGoblin 1y ago
Uber didn't have to convince anyone, taxis were ripoffs. It didn't even have to always do with money. Taxis asked people where they were going and drove off if it wasn't far enough was a significant issues. Taxis not picking
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by GrumpyGoblin 1y ago
Man, the number of times Claude has told me this when I was absolutely wrong should also be a count on this. I've deliberately been wrong just to get that sweet praise. Still the best AI code sidekick though.
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by GrumpyGoblin 1y ago
Podman networking is extremely unreliable. Our company made an effort to switch to get away from Docker Enterprise. We had to kill the effort because multiple people had random disconnects and packet drops with a range of services including
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by GrumpyGoblin 1y ago
Yes, but they call them senior. My company is bad at hiring.
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by GrumpyGoblin 1y ago
A lot of disagreement apparently but I agree with you. Been doing this a long time and never seen it be a good idea. I completed one successfully and it paralyzed a team of five for a year. Thankfully it was an internal product being rewrit
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by GrumpyGoblin 1y ago
Like Up? This is amazing.