Multicomp

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by Multicomp 3y ago
yeah I more meant my vague intuition of Harley Bro stuff, I have lots more confidence talking about something online than I do have IRL experience to back it up.
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by Multicomp 3y ago
FTA > The problem 10 years ago was that the electorate was far too picky and rejected candidates who should have been promoted. Today, every potential candidate knows this and self-selects themselves out of standing. There aren't en
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by Multicomp 3y ago
Agreed. Gpt4all[1] offers a similar 'simple setup' but with application exe downloads, but is arguably more like open core because the gpt4all makers (nomic?) want to sell you the vector database addon stuff on top. [1] https:&#x2
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by Multicomp 3y ago
Thanks for the idea, I hadn't considered checking if PlantUML could do that...that's what I get for pidgeon-holing that tool for hierarchical state machines I guess.
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by Multicomp 3y ago
I vouched for this because while it does not relate to using markdown to create gantt & timeline charts, it does relate to using code to create said charts and is therefore IMHO a relevant comparable tool. See https://mermaid
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by Multicomp 3y ago
i've been playing with gpt4all for localhost running chatbots, its amazing at how capable it is at such an early state. local LLMs 2 (to say nothing of say 5+) years from now will be much more refined, its early generative AI days. Thi
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by Multicomp 3y ago
As a fellow GTD nut, I totally can remember how I would buy all of these office supplies and task management applications because, while I did not yet have GTD to actually give me a systematic approach to actually do anything useful with th
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by Multicomp 3y ago
I was just getting started with ChatGPT plus in mid may. the exact date was not clear but I was within the first week of using GPT4 via chatgpt plus to write some work ansible code. on may 16 (not that exact date, but day N) it was amazing
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by Multicomp 3y ago
I think the name gives it a poor initial reputation as well. Who wants lite SQL? That's diet SQL. Inferior. SQLight has connotations of speed and energy and all those marketing keyword association goodies.
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by Multicomp 3y ago
Perhaps we could bring in some conventions from honor duels to help level the playing field? Alice thinks Bob has slighted her honor, so Alice challenges Bob to a duel (to first blood, the death, whatever). Bob looks like a sore loser and c
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by Multicomp 3y ago
This is super cool. After seeing the Ben Eater videos and marvelling at just how much results the 90s era DOOM games etc. managed to get out of super limited hardware, it makes me want to purposefully program my applications for super limit
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by Multicomp 3y ago
> I know way, way too many people who did that and are now divorced. And a lot of the women in those relationships had children very early and didn't have a chance to get an education or start a career so now that they're divor
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by Multicomp 3y ago
The cause of stale documentation? Not writing documentation. According to this saying, the fix to stale documentation is (often implied) to not write documentation. Can't go stale if it doesn't exist! The above saying is so often
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by Multicomp 3y ago
I write automation constantly as my full time job. Documentation of how to do processes manually is definitely ripe to be automated. But what parameters are available for the automation? Where does the automation live? How do you diagnose a
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by Multicomp 3y ago
we have delta chat built on email, and it has a few broadcast lists and things, but its tiny
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by Multicomp 3y ago
> If I were a dictator that ruled with an iron fist, I'd mandate that all software be developed on underpowered devices, then released on fast ones. Agreed! I wish there were widespread ways of throttling CPU and memory given to des
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by Multicomp 3y ago
yes!
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by Multicomp 3y ago
I was about to say, if this is _too_ successful, Thunderbird may find themselves with a target on their back, so Mozilla doesn't have to keep fielding questions from users about how they can fund Firefox directly instead of general don
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by Multicomp 3y ago
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/after-supreme-court-... The Supreme Court in 2020 ruled that OGCA is not copyrightable, this in 2022 indicates that it has been made available to the public for free.
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by Multicomp 3y ago
I use some oticon opn s series hearing aids as open hearing headphones. We need this to become cheaper and more ubiquitous as hearing aids provide open hearing and quiet sound without people necessarily even being aware that you have electr
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by Multicomp 3y ago
These will be back at some point... And there will be flabbergasted news articles talking about how Gen z or Gen AA want to see them for their novelty and there will be gray beard Gen x and Gen y talking about how back in their day everyone
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by Multicomp 3y ago
Yeah if anything this will exacerbate the challenge of building new construction because existing buildings will have this valuable utility that new buildings cannot have.
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by Multicomp 3y ago
> As for the modern version of OneNote, I have given it up. It almost isn't comparable. Agreed, that's why I'm happy they basically kicked "onenote for windows 10" to the curb and leaned back into the win32 style
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by Multicomp 3y ago
While I readily admit to feeling like my comment could be seen as sealioning, but could you post some links and/or search terms I could use to try to research why one might hold an opinion like this? I don't know whether to agree
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by Multicomp 3y ago
Between this new tool and https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat I am starting to feel like (at least from my filter bubble) that the web may be slightly starting to think about maybe someday turning the corner o
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by Multicomp 3y ago
Honestly, if someone produced a book that said how to write win32 applications in a way portable enough that current distributions of wine would not have to do any special work to make them work, I would very strongly consider that option.
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Leaker of U.S. secret documents worked on military base, friend says(washingtonpost.com)
108 points by Multicomp 3y ago|96 comments
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by Multicomp 3y ago
yeah this one hurt me too. i just had to go back to my backup copy of dr mario 64 on emulation
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by Multicomp 3y ago
I am one of the users who switched in the last year. I picked Fedora KDE spin because 1) it has KDE and GNOME is reputed to be the genius jerk types and KDE acts windowsy and 2) my company was using centos for servers so RPM-based felt fami
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by Multicomp 3y ago
1. outlook has tasks 2. onenote has tasks 3. ms todo has tasks 4. ms project has tasks but is for heavyweight full time project mangers, not tasks like the rest of these which are more like knowledge management action items 5. IDK about MS

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