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by dublin 19d ago
I used to be an architect with a bag of pro certifications for the world's largest AWS services provider/developer/reseller (we even did a lot of work for Amazon.com themselves). I gave it up a few years ago when it became c
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by dublin 19d ago
That's funny, I've NEVER, not even once, encountered ANY app from any company, in any business, that is easier or more efficient than talking to a human being behind a counter. (So long as the human behind the counter is not also
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by dublin 19d ago
The web browser experience in the browser is dramatically superior to that in the app, which doesn't even let you copy and paste media, for instance to text to others. X wants to force you to do that through a link back to them. Nope
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by dublin 6mo ago
I contacted him a number of years ago about his R-12 replacement for my old 1975 Ferrari, rather than converting it. It worked perfectly - better than Freon-12, even. Which is the only reason the EPA refused to allow it to be widely use
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by dublin 6mo ago
I bought the "high end" e-Machines box on a killer sale at BestBuy because I needed a modern computer and didn't have the time it takes to get all the drivers and settings really working as they should. They branded it as t
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by dublin 6mo ago
If they were really badass, they had a rack of Telebit modems. (Telebit made 68020 based modems that did 56+ Kbps long before a 56K standard, and literally had more compute power than most of the computers they were connected to.)
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by dublin 10mo ago
In my experience, AI is more akin to Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect as a service....
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by dublin 1y ago
Likewise - I tried the demo recently, and it's really impressive. I wanted to try it because the new CAD package I'm using (Sharpr3D) runs on it, and it seemed like a good idea to try that. (Unfortunately, despite being one of
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by dublin 1y ago
FYI, We just had world-class cellist Steuart Pincombe here in Austin last month performing the last three Bach cello concertos along with three matched brews from the excellent local Lazarus brewery as part of his occcasional "Bach and
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by dublin 1y ago
Correction: Being a Founder is fine. Just make sure you own the company, and are not at the mercy of venture or Private Equity funds. 60% of America's economy is small privately held companies. With the leverage we now have with AI
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by dublin 1y ago
Hacker News is getting really useless. I thought I'd heard this some time ago, and yep, clicking through,this is indeed "news" that is OVER A YEAR OLD. Are we just completely ignoring the "News" part of Hacker News
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by dublin 1y ago
Of course it does. Math is not programming - it's almost entirely irrelevant to programming and certainly to software and architecture development. Most modern programming only involves math for trivial things like counting. This cla
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by dublin 1y ago
The fixes for such things are often quite amusing. One of these days, i'll get around to telling the story of how a major computer manufacturer was forced to make the BIOS smarter than the OS...
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by dublin 1y ago
Even the best photography does a very poor job of capturing what many works of art actually look like. This is an area where tech is not the answer, and those that insist it is are just ignorant of the subtleties of actual artwork. BTW, t
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by dublin 1y ago
We'll see how this holds up. I currently have nearly 3283 tabs in my primary Firefox window. (The other six windows only have 35-125 tabs at the moment. I sort of use the windows as tab groups.) To its credit, Firefox is the only br
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by dublin 2y ago
This attitude is still presenet among doctors, and is one reason why electronic Medical Records still suck, and why Obama's "Affordable Care Act" has made American healthcare simultaneously the most expensive in the world a
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by dublin 2y ago
Yeah, that self-policing guild discipline by doctors and lawyers has really worked out well, hasn't it?
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by dublin 2y ago
No matter how heinous you may find his speech, in America, under the First Amendment, Jones (or any nutball or even Nazi you may choose to pick) has a right to say it - even if he has a large Radio and Podcast megaphone. The First Amendment
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by dublin 2y ago
March was the beginning of the year not all that long ago. That's why there frequent confusion about George Washington's birthday, along with other historical dates of that era: The New Year started in March when he was born, b
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by dublin 2y ago
Despite having 4 of the 10 largest cities in the US , no Texas (or other Southern) city rates a listing in the zoneinfo file, so we're stuck having to pick Chicago, which is so far away (~1000 miles from Austin, in the middle of the st
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by dublin 2y ago
Chicago is he ultimate style guide and reference for nearly any kind of writing. Well, this puts me another edition behind. Should I update the 11th edition sitting on my shelf that belonged to my late father in law? Just checked and it da
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by dublin 2y ago
Wow. Racist framing, much? I'm a robotics engineer trained back in the 80s, but still working with pretty cutting edge stuff today. It's true that automation poorly thought out can be anti-human, but to assume that it's inh
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by dublin 2y ago
It's worth noting that only several years earlier, the US aircraft industry was almost completely killed by the Wright's patents and licensing practices. The UK, France (especially), Italy, and others were way ahead of the US un
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by dublin 2y ago
Thanks, @Thev00d00, I hadn't herd of this! I've amazed folks in the past with things I've built to do fairly heavy duty image processing using only shell (incl. Unix text utilities and awk) and ImageMagick, even though I am
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by dublin 2y ago
It actually works very well. Phones/tablets are now more capable than many PCs/Macs. When you've literally got more compute power, RAM, storage, and network bandwidth than supercomputer centers had 15-20 years ago in a ph
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by dublin 2y ago
I disagree. I'm typing this on a nice Lenovo Yoga 2-in-1 and though it's quite nice and well-built, it's the worst computer I've bought in decades, because it's stupidly designed: It's got all the compromises
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by dublin 2y ago
I'm very seriously thinking about one of these (or really, its successor) when I need to replace my computer again in the next year or two - it's already optimized for several Linux distros: https://us.starlabs.systems&
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by dublin 2y ago
One reason I'm not eager to ever have an EV - you can't really do the "avoid highways" thing on a non-trivial EV roadtrip, so you're doomed to Interstates...
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by dublin 2y ago
This rolled map and notes system is still used today in many rally events, especially on motorcycles in events like the Dakar Rally. (Many cars and trucks use digital screens instead, but the paper has real advantages for the moto guys...
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by dublin 2y ago
It's easy to blow $500K or more on certification of even a well-designed product, especially if you actually use UL for your testing (never again!) Yep, I've worked at a startup that did that. If you don't have everythign do

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