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by fian 1mo ago
How could you establish what parts of the code was produced by an LLM vs updated by a human afterwards? The LLM will output different results over time as the models get updated. Are we heading towards needing to retain a full prompt histo
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by fian 2mo ago
That could be a real experience for children in the not too distant future. We are seeing more and more appliances coming out with less buttons and a mobile app to access advanced features. Also cars (annoyingly) are coming out with more ph
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by fian 2mo ago
This is probably going to push me to completely close a couple of AWS accounts I setup when doing training courses so I could get certified (mandatory requirement from my work). I'm not currently running anything and have no plans to a
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by fian 2mo ago
It's also so that rescue personnel can see into the plane in the event it crashes.
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by fian 5mo ago
The AI tool providers need companies and customers to pay for the tools and automation. If all the white collar jobs in the Western world are replaced by AI or AI generated SAAS products, some 60% percent the workforce suddenly won't
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by fian 1y ago
I work for a bank. There is a strategic focus on the mobile banking app over the web app. Younger generations are doing everything through their phones. Including applying for home loans. Many banks are moving towards being digital only
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by fian 1y ago
As I teenager and then poor uni student, I rode a number of bikes or bike parts to failure. I first snapped the top tube of a stell framed BMX near the stem after many years of using it for a local paper round with a milk crate roped onto t
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by fian 2y ago
The Book of Eli War of the Worlds 2012 Day of the Triffids (TV series) The Bodysnatchers Waterworld The Postman Contagion
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by fian 2y ago
I know this is a late response, but for anyone curious you would need to use an official Oracle or Sun JDK/JRE from Java 8 or older. OpenJDK doesn't include support for applets. You also need a browser that has NPAPI. IE 11 was
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by fian 2y ago
Using your restaurant example, if the restaurant closes it may not have much obvious effect on other nearby businesses. However, that restaurant would have given business to various food and consumables suppliers, to waste management compa
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by fian 2y ago
There are broader implications for the economy if a large percentage of people continue to WFH. In larger cities, many smaller businesses, like food outlets, are sustained by workers coming to their city offices most weekdays. Many such bu
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by fian 2y ago
You are probably thinking of dowels used as loose tenons, where a blind hole is drilled into the mating pieces of wood and the dowel is not visible once the joint is together. Sometimes people glue a butt or mitre joint, then once the glue
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by fian 2y ago
Shorter words mean less time with your mouth open which means less chance for the flies to get in.
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by fian 3y ago
Some pedestrian crossing buttons play different audible beats so blind people know when they can cross. Famously the beat of one in Sydney was sampled for a Billie Eilish song ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-zeJRjP6xA s
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by fian 3y ago
Due to my age and work experience, I'm also familiar with archiving involving storing physical documents in cardboard boxes. My current job really is paper free and graduate employees joining will never deal with archive boxes. Simila
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by fian 3y ago
I'm ok with adding more functions to the titlebar, it's something I experimented with myself for a desktop app some 15 years ago. I found there was a heck of a lot of special behaviours tied to the titlebar and that overriding th
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by fian 3y ago
Java has been around for a longish time. Around the early 2000's there was at least a perception that you should avoid creating too many objects as that carried performance overhead for construction and garbage collection. https:&#x2
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by fian 4y ago
In my current role I work as a developer in the finance sector. We are interested in secure coding. Every year we have to complete a secure coding course and pass an assessment. We have a team dedicated to performing security reviews for
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by fian 4y ago
Agree with you on laptops not being ergonomic by themselves for long term use. Perhaps not an issue for many development activities, but anything involving lots of calculations (CPU or GPU) will inevitably generate a lot of heat. Desktops t
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by fian 4y ago
I regularly get apologised to by customer service people when I have been waiting for coffee of food. Usually something like "Sorry for the wait". While I am waiting, I often retreat into my own thoughts, mentally processing some
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by fian 4y ago
https://www.casio.com/intl/watches/protrek/
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by fian 4y ago
For many people, being selected for a layoff can feel like you have been judged as a lower performer than your colleagues. The thinking being that the company would always want to retain their best performers. This can cause a big loss of
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by fian 4y ago
Many more people can now access dental/orthodontic treatments and minor cosmetic procedures. Getting your teeth straight makes a big difference to your appearance and make you more likely to smile in photographs.
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by fian 4y ago
To expand on this a bit, oil and particularly liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facilities are hard to stop and restart. Many systems need to be at a particular temperature, hydrates can form in gas pipelines during long shutdowns and
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by fian 4y ago
I have experienced a roofing nail puncture as a cyclist. In Australia roofing nails usually are galvanised with a washer to spread the load held by the head across a corrugated sheet of steel or plastic. I was riding at around 35 km/h
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by fian 4y ago
A few companies I have worked for have had a strict no gifts policy. Many of our customers had similar policies, to the point that we couldn't even pay for a customer's coffees if we have a meeting at a cafe. These policies are a
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by fian 4y ago
I just recently replaced a cheap wired keyboard and mouse with a Logitech MX Mini keyboard and a MX Master 3 mouse. My current WFH desk is not ideal and having a full sized keyboard with numeric keypad meant I couldn't center the keybo
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by fian 4y ago
Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) is mostly methane with some ethane and is typically transported in cryogenic containers as it would require too much pressure to otherwise keep it in a liquid state. Even when transported in cryogenic tanks ther
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by fian 4y ago
Yep, we did some deep customisation of a couple of key UI widgets and found it very time consuming. Changing the Look and Feel to Nimbus was a major improvement, but that came with semi-regular breakages when performing minor version JVM u
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by fian 4y ago
Java Swing apps were portable across Windows, Mac and Linux desktops waaayy back in 2004 and probably earlier. Write once run everywhere _was_ very much possible back then. The biggest complaint was they didn't look native. From work

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