calenti

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by calenti 9d ago
Elizabeth Holmes is beautiful. Amanda Seyfried did a good job of capturing her persona in The Dropout, and Holmes is a narcissistic self-deluding villain in the story from anyone else's perspective, but she is really just beautiful. I
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by calenti 3mo ago
What IDE do you use? How do you integrate it? I was using Continue but it exited its funding round to the Titler octopus and the Chat function in VSCode is choking on the Ollama responses.
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by calenti 8mo ago
Bitching is free and easier than making pull requests. And I bet it was 1 or 2 choads plus a variable pack of minions, not everyone. And Megacorp X can file all the bug reports they want, their lack of investment is not my urgency.
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by calenti 8mo ago
That also includes knowing how to process game. A dead deer or a dead rabbit has a small window between being a dead creature and a toxic mess. If you're gonna plug animals learn how to make proper use of them.
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by calenti 8mo ago
Reality is infintely analog and therefore digital will only ever be an approximation.
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by calenti 9mo ago
Systems and processes are good, but if the individual doesn't want to help make it better that is a different but related problem. Testing locally, checking work...that's the behavioral part of this he _can_ control. You can'
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by calenti 9mo ago
It's a question of what you want to invest your time in. Everyone creates output, whether it's lines of code, a smoke screen to hide your social media time, or a set of ongoing conversations and perceptions than you have a use in
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by calenti 9mo ago
It also comes that the well-compensated people are probably that because they know how to advocate for their worth, which usually includes a list of things they will tolerate and a list they will not, whereas "market rate" is just
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by calenti 9mo ago
Exceeds 1. Politics is the craft of influence. And, debatably, there's a politic even when population size=1, between your subconscious instinctive mind (eat the entire box of donuts) versus your conscious mind (don't spike your b
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by calenti 9mo ago
Well you did hire some(thing)...for $100/month.
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by calenti 9mo ago
Also, physical books are immutable; electronic content is not. Orwell was not wrong, just premature.
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by calenti 9mo ago
Ditching for what?
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by calenti 9mo ago
Yeah, capitalism. Our sense of fairness hate it but our portfolios love it.
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by calenti 9mo ago
"Seamless" may be irrationally exuberant but it's better than the others _at scale_. LibreOffice, etc. may see similar from the UI end but if you're scaling across multiple sites/archetypes/employee models&#x2F
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by calenti 10mo ago
To me the terms mix and it helps to separate the things that are externally manageable from the things that are not. The physical is complex but straightforward - the body biochemistry operates on material in, biochemistry mix, expenditure
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by calenti 11mo ago
+1 - crap code can come out of notepad / emacs / vi or IDE-flavor-of-the-day or even the AI code sausage maker. Testing, specification, knowing what you are building and why still matters.
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by calenti 11mo ago
An all-in-one like Rational Rose may be making a comeback in terms of these agentic AI projects, because now you actually can turn a spec into code without layers of tagging and UML.
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by calenti 11mo ago
Complacency about customers requires a monopoly, which Synology does not have.
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by calenti 1y ago
He was representative, not causative. The rot had been settling for years.
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by calenti 1y ago
Bezus checked out long before he moved to emeritus. Wanted to be a movie producer and shoot his rockets. Andy took over with all of the vision of a corporate franchiser running a Dollar Store.
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by calenti 1y ago
More like wine - more profitable in the attention/branding market to make your own label than take someone else's.
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by calenti 2y ago
Debt chickens will come home to roost and once the bond interest/return death spiral starts it will be very difficult to break. Interest payments are already #3 in the national budget.
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by calenti 3y ago
GPT generated clickbait for me! Ads at 11!
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by calenti 5y ago
^ this - unless looking at reporting to a CXO or director the interviewers, even the HM, are usually only slightly less of a minion than the candidate. They may have a range, but it's nowhere near what you think it is and if they want
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by calenti 6y ago
You are going to learn a lot. Congratulations, leading a team in a hackathon can be an exhilarating, terrifying experience. Create minimum (but not zero) formal communications and lots of informal routes with ways to find out information. S
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by calenti 6y ago
Hover and AWS Route 53 don't do this either. It's just the GoDaddy scumbags, and same (GoDaddy jacking a searched domain name) has happend to others I know.
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by calenti 6y ago
I have a room I work in - you don't have this luxury, if I didn't I'd dedicate a space to the same purpose, even one end of a table or a corner of the living room. When my working period starts I dress for the office (not com
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by calenti 6y ago
The process is cherry-picking by definition; you provide a use case and are then selected (or not selected) based on their perception of your merit. They are a startup. They are looking for funding. By definition they will do whatever neces
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by calenti 7y ago
Internet radio, especially college stations. They have the most eclectic playlists and will range from standards to songs released 10 minutes ago. The NPR All Songs Considered podcasts can also have interesting music finds, especially when
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by calenti 8y ago
That's it. In 2013 anyway, it was a good introduction to Python.

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