eitland

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by eitland 1mo ago
We could in Java Swing (and Visual basic, but lets not talk about that) as well. Well, not runtime, but we could design applications and just right click on the objects in the IDE and go directly to the click (or double click or right click
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by eitland 1mo ago
It is fine to call out AI if it is annoying. Someone hunting for things that might be AI and polluting discussions with it is a service I did not sign up for. Besides it is my opinion that not all AI detectors are reliable and this might
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by eitland 4mo ago
I agree with you. The danger is not however that only that people write their own tools for calculations and capacity planning etc. The danger is people make useful stuff that is very fine as long it is just an internal tool, but then someo
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by eitland 4mo ago
Obviously it was not the same s since models that could write programs were not available 10 years ago. And if you just mean your friend taught himself programming on his own, well that is actually very cool, I did too back in the 90ies and
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by eitland 4mo ago
My friend who has never taken a programming class (or even touched an IDE before AFAIK) has now put a small app into production. Complete frontend + backend + database. Yes, it is an internal app, but it works and everyone loves it. Does t
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by eitland 5mo ago
Back in the days we had this in programming as well with palettes of drag & drop components. It is kind of broken now, much thanks to using web applications (and applications that are basically just wrappers for web applications), but I
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by eitland 6mo ago
It absolutely isn't free here in Norway either, around $86 is what I'd have to pay now to get an id card as an adult (same price as a passport but easier to carry).
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by eitland 6mo ago
> That's a big flaw of LLMs, not limited to RAGs: it lacks the fundamental understanding of "good and bad", like Richard Sutton said in that Dwarkesh podcast. After paticipating in social media since the beginning I think
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by eitland 7mo ago
There is always the option to use battery (some modern mines use this),for example RAAMS. The problem is of the enemy know you use only mines that work for max n hours or m days they just wait for n + 1 hours or m + 1 days. There is a lot
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by eitland 7mo ago
My take is that Bluesky got the network effects right, with hyping and gradual release and careful curation of who seeded the network and that is - IMO - the important thing they got right.
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by eitland 7mo ago
Let me present my take on why the federated alternatives struggle to replace X: Twitter didn't succeed because it was a particularly good solution - it really isn't. It succeeded purely on the back of the network effect. When ever
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by eitland 7mo ago
How do you combine them?
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by eitland 7mo ago
It is really interesting for me to hear your experience. I have lived in Norway all of my >45 years on this earth and I can say that in the first half of my life were I lived on the west coast, power outages was totally expected. We had
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by eitland 7mo ago
Personally I ignore most ads but I have also bought some really good products based on ads and there are companies I wish would advertise more, for example relvant conferences that I only find out about because someone posted about their ex
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by eitland 7mo ago
In my case I was kinda OK with Google ads until around 2010 and IIRC only began blocking them actively after they had been feeding me trash ads for years. Maybe you are right in most cases and I was the victim of a fluke. But from what I ha
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by eitland 8mo ago
https://kagi.com/search?q=apple+ad+network&r=no&sh=6Khbxq4uM...
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by eitland 9mo ago
My experience as well: Stack Overflow used to (in practice) be a place to ask questions and get help and also help others. At some point it became all about some mission and not only was it not as useful anymore but it also became a whole l
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by eitland 9mo ago
Late, but thank you! Both for explaining the simpler way to do it and also for the contect. (Why? Because it feels good to know that I am not the only one who cannot find documentation for this and other things.)
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by eitland 10mo ago
After 7 years I learned. Thank you! How did you learn this hack?
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by eitland 10mo ago
>>> Just grab any man you see on the street, throw him in the van and ship him to the conscription office for processing. >> 1. This is a wild exaggeration: [1] There are lots of men walking in Ukrainian streets. > With t
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by eitland 10mo ago
Didn't MS fire most of the QA people together with the translation people a few years ago? Or is that just a rumor that many of us fall for because it seems like a great explanation of what we see?
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by eitland 10mo ago
1. This is a wild exaggeration: There are lots of men walking in Ukrainian streets. 2. Why single out Ukraine here? Isn't this what any country does with people who don't appear for the draft? (Unless they can pay a doctor to diag
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by eitland 10mo ago
My understanding is they are just stubborn. They once did it this way and now it is "the Apple way". Recent example: Apple used to hide "search in page" in the share menu in mobile safari. Far from obvious, but at some p
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by eitland 10mo ago
Especially when it happens at night. But I'll not preted Google is any better. Last I used it would have call "CTO of the company I worked for" or "Send message to random friend-of-a-friend that I once helped" as su
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by eitland 10mo ago
This is a problem all over our industry: - almost every search field (when an end user modifies the search instead of clicking one of the results for the second time that should be a clear signal that something is off.) - almost every chat
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by eitland 10mo ago
Could borrow the concept of FRAND (Fair, Reasonable And Non Discrimatory IIRC) from tech companies licensing patents? I don't know much about it and I do not think it is perfect, but from what I remember from discussions here it preven
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by eitland 10mo ago
They actually do mention bloatware in Windows 11, so it is a bit confused.
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by eitland 10mo ago
TypeScript isn't primarily meant to be enjoyed. It is meant to be a much better alternative to Javascript while dealing with the fact that the underlying engines use and existing programmers were used to Javascript. That said I absolut
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by eitland 10mo ago
Are you serious? It is rather obvious why a software designer want to know how a piece of software is used and also to know it over time. If number of cancelled screenshots increases (or decreases) compared to general usage of the screensho
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by eitland 10mo ago
Someday they'll stop changing the context menu if I accidentaly select something. (Some UX designer or developer thought it was a great idea to remove the back and forward buttons from the context menu if text is selected so now I have

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