antod

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by antod 18d ago
Part of me wonders whether trying to optimise at all is the problem. The worst managers I've had were optimisers (and had the worst teams), and the best managers with the best teams weren't optimisers. The best ones didn't ca
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by antod 22d ago
I've been away for about 3 years now. My thunderbolt dock couldn't drive two monitors from my Macs, and I couldn't daisy chain display ports either. A Linux ThinkPad had no problem though. Glad they've finally fixed (imp
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by antod 22d ago
I've been away from Macs (2015 MBP and an M1 Pro) for a while now, but they used to have a limitation of one screen per port. Apparently driver related as according to my faulty memory a Linux install didn't have the same issue. A
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by antod 1mo ago
Those Intel cards were the number 1 choice on openbsd back then too.
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by antod 1mo ago
Only my first job involved newspaper ads (early 90s). My second job pivoting into tech came via USENET, and later jobs from networks or shoulder tapping by recruiters.
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by antod 2mo ago
yeah, when I first stumbled on to the internet it was all about the protocols and specific implementations didn't matter. Then later IE dominated the web and hurt interoperability, but we fought back through the Phoenix, Firebird, Fire
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by antod 2mo ago
I don't get migraines very often (once a year maybe), but the first aura was very strange not knowing what it was. For me they start out as a bright point of light then spreads out into an expanding shimmering arc of rainbow colors. So
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by antod 2mo ago
> The US (and most rich countries) have way too much domestic dairy farm capacity. As a result, there is lots of govt subsidies paid to dairy farmers. I think you might have cause and effect switched around.
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by antod 2mo ago
Maybe they mixed up usenet by doing what I used to do back then - use gmane so I could follow various mailing lists via NNTP for better thread tracking and not filling up my inbox.
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by antod 2mo ago
My Lenovo Thunderbolt 3 docks wakes up reliably, the problem is that it keeps randomly nodding off for a second or so causing the monitor to lose signal and have to sleep/wake itself.
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by antod 2mo ago
> Can AI have mental breakdowns? I recall Microsoft's Sidney having a hilarious one regarding the date or something. Anyone have a link to that?
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by antod 2mo ago
That wasn't anywhere near your point. Your point was that "the left" would praise Boko Haram. You backed it up with a link to a story that was neither about Boko Haram, was about behavior "the left" opposes, nor had
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by antod 2mo ago
Unless by "the left" you mean some solitary idiot (or troll) on tiktok who just went to college. In the west Boko Haram's goal seem closer to groups on the right than anyone on "the left". eg suppressing women'
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by antod 2mo ago
>If the terrorists were very smart, they'd realize that their religion is stupid, that their leaders were mostly corrupt (or themselves stupid), and they'd also probably find something more productive to do with their time. I
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by antod 2mo ago
Especially in the hard rock grindcore genre.
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by antod 2mo ago
Yeah, they're conflating strength, hardness and toughness all over the place.
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by antod 2mo ago
The properly calibrated unit is a Volkswagen Beetle.
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by antod 2mo ago
It isn't wrong exactly. JS is famous for generally just trying to do something semi random instead of giving you a typing error. That's the difference between "having a typing error" and "having an error due to typi
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by antod 3mo ago
Also, the quote didn't really apply in the 80s. Getting a game running on a C64, Spectrum, Amiga, ST or Apple II didn't involve understanding the computer. That autoexec crap was unique to DOS PCs. DOS was a uniquely crappy experi
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by antod 3mo ago
Vibes? There's a fallacy named after McNamara trying to break it down to numerical metrics. Vibes probably would've served them better. I think they had much more intelligence and competence back then, even if they were wrong. Now
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by antod 3mo ago
20yrs ago, for me migrating off p4 onto svn was such a relief and feeling really "freeing" in a way I haven't felt often.
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by antod 3mo ago
My attitude is Fuck Optimisation, it's just so exhausting and boring.
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by antod 3mo ago
I'm guessing you meant 10k m^2 (ie 1 hectare) rather than 10km ^2 (10,000 hectares if I mathed correctly)
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by antod 4mo ago
I much preferred Diamond Age to Snow Crash. It's been a while though, so can't fully remember why - but I think Snow Crash tried to be too cute or something and kinda seemed disjointed.
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by antod 4mo ago
I also had one of their intro books before having a computer available. But it had a paper based simulator of the program counter and variables so you could run through without a computer (I was saving up for one though, but that took years
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by antod 4mo ago
Same with me. As a 12yr old I failed learning Z80 on my spectrum with the one book I could find. I had a bunch of other Usborne BASIC books, but their machine code book(s) would've been the link I needed to bridge the gap to where I co
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by antod 4mo ago
Python containing type hints doesn't get transpiled the way typescript does. The transpiling rewrites the TS to varying degrees depending on the target and the extra TS features being used. Python "just" (that word is doing a
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by antod 4mo ago
I'm on my third job since COVID. None have dedicated desks, and this ranges across startups, corporates and large govt agencies. Every job I had before COVID back to when I started back in the early/mid 90s had dedicated desks.
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by antod 4mo ago
Yeah, thats 20 Opus 4.7 prompts.
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by antod 4mo ago
It recently went up to 15x in our org.

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