bobmaxup

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by bobmaxup 3y ago
It is hard to know if you have fixed or broke something when there are hundreds of distinct variants of it and no way to test its correctness. Also, not all maintenance involves correcting inborn defects.
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
...said no one who inherited the maintenance of hundreds of thousands of lines of copy pasted code.
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
An article on the topic: https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/why-the-death-of-the-firefo...
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
Is NLU really this reliable yet? I tried making some scripts like this with LLMs, and it seemed to do very poorly. So, I abandoned the effort.
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
To be fair, they did qualify the statement with "or so".
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
> Youtube isn't a social network. Certainly seems to be one to me?
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
not all of these domains always resolve to what you expect, depending on your dns provider. archive.today (main) archive.ph archive.is archive.li archive.vn archive.fo archive.md
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
Not if you still had the original system as well. I imagine it is not the norm though.
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
> this is being widely misinterpreted It sounds like Ubisoft wants their streaming and subscription services to grow, but reality doesn't line up with their vision. They are purchasing long term streaming rights from other companies
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
How do you know if nothing happens? It isn't like the people siphoning, selling, or purchasing this data are broadcasting their wins on news aggregators.
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
In my opinion, all of these things exist because CSS is confusing to people, not because anything is inherently better. This is especially true with modern build tools. CSS modules and Atomic CSS seem like a regression to me, but not all ne
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
Nice recommendation. Although, it is 3-6x the price of the Microsoft products' original pricing. A Kinesis Freestyle is cheaper
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
Or just answer randomly. You might get rejected for inconsistent answers, but at least no one will have a "personality profile" for you that they can sell.
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
I think that the Microsoft ergonomic keyboard is selling for nearly $400 on Amazon.
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
This planet has a lot of time left in it for humans to do things. One human missing an opportunity doesn't lead to the statistical outcome that that opportunity wont be fulfilled in the future. An individual is not that important to hu
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
Isn't The Lancet infamous for high profile retractions?
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
Not many people can understand a very large code base without taking notes, using an IDE, or similar tooling. > Not a dig at nice IDEs, just code that requires one to navigate and understand A nice IDE helps you reason about code, no mat
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
Maybe it boils down to how well you are able to navigate a code base. With a full-featured language specific IDE, it is very easy to navigate through even complicated spaghetti. It makes debugging call traces simple, with a GUI. However, ma
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
> One long, yet simple function has less cognitive overhead than spreading the function across multiple classes or functions or call hierarchies Not if you are encapsulating and naming effectively... Why read 100 lines when you can read
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Float – Flexible Levitation on a Track(nasa.gov)
2 points by bobmaxup 3y ago|0 comments
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
I am a felon working in IT. My pay is much less than others working in the industry, but I am grateful for the opportunity to work for an employer rather than scrounging for work behind a LLC or something. There are a lot of small companies
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
I thought these devices were called pipettors not strictly micropipettes?
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
Twitter doesn't even show most recent tweets from profiles unless you are logged in now. They show a summary of the profile's activity. Nitter is great if you don't have a Twitter account.
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
... because it is essentially a caching proxy to twitter?
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
Joplin
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
In my opinion, yes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaponized_incompetence
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
> give everyone tickborn diseases. From the article: > Though Asian longhorned ticks can carry diseases that infect humans, they are not yet considered a threat to human health in the U.S., per the statement.
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by bobmaxup 3y ago
bjarne stroustrup, underrated hero of many facets of society, imo

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