daotoad

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by daotoad 5mo ago
I think the home automation market is waiting on things that most people really want and a lower barrier to entry. Alfred North Whitehead famously noted that "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which
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by daotoad 5mo ago
1. Starting from scratch is rarely a good idea. 2. It always sounds like a better idea than it actually is. 3. Item 2 is true even if you think you've accounted for item 1. Is there something specific that you want that cannot be imp
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by daotoad 5mo ago
The gap between quality work and baseline LLM output is precisely the understanding. If it can be validated by automation, the bot will do it. But no automation suite is complete or perfect. What concerns me is that building software using
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by daotoad 6mo ago
RFC 3514 perhaps? https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt
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by daotoad 6mo ago
I really, really want that to be true, but my experience trying to adopt it has been really painful. Even selecting things in the UI has sucked. I went in and increased the selection radius or whatever, that helped. But really, should I n
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by daotoad 6mo ago
It's a kind of crappy slide deck, not a proper home page. Even worse, the link drops you into the middle of the deck. (TBF, it wouldn't be so bad if you know that it's a slide deck when you load the page.) Try using the arro
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by daotoad 7mo ago
I lost a nuke to a phalanx in Civ 1. Still salty about that _decades_ later.
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by daotoad 7mo ago
Anecdata: I'm a Civ3 hater, give me 2 or 4 any day. 3 is my least favorite version of the game. But, OTOH, my wife is ride or die for Civ3.
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by daotoad 7mo ago
What I really want to know is, is it mighty mighty? And does it let it all hang out?
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by daotoad 8mo ago
The problem is most people won't take that attitude. For most homeowners, the home is the largest asset. This is a Catch 22 for elected officials. We must reduce housing costs dramatically if we do so, we will devalue significant a
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by daotoad 8mo ago
For a motivated learner with access to good materials, schools provide two important things besides that very important piece of paper: 1. contacts - these come in the form of peers who are interested in the same things and in the form of e
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by daotoad 8mo ago
Naming comments are useful when someone catches something like: 1. you are violating a previously agreed upon standard for naming things 2. inconsistent naming, eg some places you use "catalog ID" and other places you use "
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by daotoad 8mo ago
US states are, in some ways, less independent than UK countries. Wales can no more disavow the PM than California can disavow POTUS. So this separate status is limited. The big counter to this is the idea that US states have their own mili
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by daotoad 8mo ago
Do you like your cursor at the beginning or end of words? Most of the time it doesn't really matter. But if you know you want to append to a word you can hit that target immediately by using `e` (`ea`). Or if you want to prepend, you
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by daotoad 8mo ago
Motions can be inclusive or exclusive. It works like the different ways of annotating ranges: [0,1] and (0,1). Consider the command `d` (delete) combined with the motions for `"`. First we have `da"`, it deletes the everything be
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by daotoad 8mo ago
This usage is a double misunderstanding, it gets both the phonetics of homing and the mechanics of sharpening a blade wrong. It’s like calling someone a “stropping young lad”.
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by daotoad 8mo ago
Off topic and doesn't impact the validity (or lack thereof) of the post. Just reactionary whining really... For the love of all that is good, "exacerbated" and "exasperated" are different words. We've already
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by daotoad 8mo ago
In my experience, what works best is having QA and a tech writer assigned to a few teams. That way there is an ongoing, close relationship that makes interactions go smoothly. In a larger org, it may also make sense to have a separate QA gr
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by daotoad 8mo ago
That's because we don't value QA in the way that matters. If you're a talented SDET, you're probably also, at least, a good SDE. If you'll make more money and have more opportunity as an SDE, which career path will
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by daotoad 8mo ago
I was about to say "Obsidian is free as long as you don't use it for work." But it turns out that that is no longer the case. https://obsidian.md/blog/free-for-work/ Obsidian is now actually free f
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by daotoad 9mo ago
Rereading TFM can be quite illuminating.
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by daotoad 9mo ago
Robert Preston, is that you?
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by daotoad 9mo ago
The real trick is getting just enough meaning into the name to be helpful, while keeping it distinct. SQLAlchemy is a great example. I called by zsh bookmark tool `tutu`, my idea was to make it sound like what it does. - It helps you go TO
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by daotoad 10mo ago
> whereas all humans typically use the standard hyphen-minus character (U+002D). I made it a point to learn to type the em dash—only to have it stolen by the bots; it's forced me to become reacquainted with my long lost friend, the
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by daotoad 10mo ago
Between perlbrew and cpanm it's pretty easy to have multiple perl installs with different versions and quite simple to manage your dependencies. Carton (manage and bundle your perl modules based on lock files) and Pinto (easily run you
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by daotoad 10mo ago
mod_perl hosting was much more expensive. If you wanted to throw up a personal project using mod_perl you pretty much had to pay for a hosted box. At least once people realized how insecure it was to run shared code on a mod_perl host. You
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by daotoad 10mo ago
I think you're right about the significance of PHP. PHP kicked Perl's butt in the shared web-hosting environment. You could do amazing stuff with mod_perl, but it was not possible to run a shared host with mod_perl without exposin
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by daotoad 10mo ago
You say it was a "bad language" for projects of any real size. But I've worked on large systems written in perl maintained by multiple teams. Perl wasn't the source of our difficulties. The real issue was ugly code tha
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by daotoad 10mo ago
As I have said before[1], I think the biggest thing slowed Perl adoption was the changing background of new developers. New folks just didn't have a background in shell, C, awk, and sed. This fact took Perl syntax from being amazingl
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by daotoad 10mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

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