donw

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by donw 1mo ago
What you want is a Garmin Instinct, or equivalent. Not sure if it does the pertinent-info bit -- mine has Bluetooth off almost all the time -- but it does the rest of what you want, and will run for over a month per charge.
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by donw 1mo ago
It's funny how these articles always conveniently skip over the most important point: you first have to fill your city with Japanese people .
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by donw 1mo ago
"It looks like you're trying to bypass authorized firmware. I'm sorry, but I won't help you."
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How Unix spell ran in 64 kB of RAM (2025)(blog.codingconfessions.com)
75 points by donw 2mo ago|7 comments
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by donw 2mo ago
We need to start teaching everything in Anglo-Saxon: "Some of the higher samesteads are splitly. That is, when a neitherbit strikes the kernel of one, as for a showdeal ymirstuff-235, it bursts into lesser kernels and free neitherbits;
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by donw 2mo ago
With me on the older side of things, believe it when I tell you that things actually used to, for the most part, Just Work. "Simple mistakes" and "process breakdowns" were uncommon, notable, and dealt with quickly. Even
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by donw 2mo ago
A substantial portion of software engineering -- and the fundamental jobs of a proper Product Owner and UX Designer -- is to turn "vague ideas about what we need to do" into "this widget, on this page, it should work like thi
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by donw 2mo ago
I'm really curious, what sort of work you were having it do such that you could execute multiple days of work with minimal supervision.
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by donw 3mo ago
I also still don't understand why the author thought this was wrong?
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by donw 3mo ago
Um... 話します is the correct conjugation for 話す, what am I missing here?
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by donw 3mo ago
Honestly, that is just bad management. It can make sense if it's your company, but even then, the risk profile is just off the charts. What happens if your only developer leaves or gets sick? Real engineers think about handling things
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by donw 3mo ago
As a manager, I will quite literally ding people for working when they are supposed to be off. Work during work time, don't work during not-work time. Good practices mean that everyone is important, but nobody is irreplaceable, the tea
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by donw 3mo ago
That was just a beautiful, period.
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by donw 3mo ago
Have you tried contacting Google for customer service? I’ve found that to be a sure-fire cure for whenever I catch a case of optimism.
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by donw 3mo ago
You’ve also had to flip the disk halfway through a movie, it couldn’t do two hours of continuous video, unlike a VHS tape. The lack of recording was also a killer, if you went with VHS you could record and watch home movies if you had a cam
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by donw 4mo ago
... I haven't seen an ad in years, thanks to Brave, which is as of the last time I checked Chromium-based.
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by donw 5mo ago
This one was weird, too, like being on a boat in mildly choppy water, not a violent shake at all.
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by donw 5mo ago
My first job-job got hit by the dotcom crash, but was fortunately a real business with actual revenue, and the CEO was an absolute class act. He reduced pay, the higher on the food chain you were, the bigger your cut. His cut was the bigges
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by donw 7mo ago
We collectively decided nothing. Our political/ruling class wanted more of the pie for themselves, dropped the trade barriers protecting American industry, and gorged themselves on the arbitrage as manufacturing flowed to our chief geo
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by donw 7mo ago
Something that just occurred to me: RAGs are almost Gopher for AIs.
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by donw 7mo ago
Yeah, that's what Factorio is for.
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by donw 8mo ago
Same here. You have to slice things small enough for the agent to execute effectively, but beyond that, it’s magic.
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by donw 8mo ago
I mentioned this to Claude and this was the response: Ha! The irony is not lost on anyone. "We've built the world's most advanced AI coding assistant. It can refactor entire codebases, debug complex issues, and ship productio
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by donw 8mo ago
No heresy detected in this thread.
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by donw 8mo ago
If it’s a hydramatic, be careful to only lubricate it with snake oil.
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by donw 8mo ago
"Military-grade" has a very specific meaning: it's at least 10x overpriced and painted black.
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by donw 8mo ago
Universities and basically every major company, including all the big tech companies, have been openly and publicly doing this for years.
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by donw 10mo ago
Meccha at present, but it may reach sugoi levels with fine-tuning.
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by donw 10mo ago
That’s nothing, ‘node_modules’ has been linking the math of infinity to my filesystem for years.
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by donw 11mo ago
If I didn't need CUDA support, I'd be on FreeBSD all the way. No systemd, built-in "containers" before they were cool, basically just good 'ole UNIX.

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