gritspants

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by gritspants 17d ago
The idea is silly because most of it is complete garbage anyway. You'd wind up with a model that might know a very small amount of actionable information, and the rest of it just speculative. Or extremely time sensitive, useful for o
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by gritspants 26d ago
I can see that. Personally, I use that for people who like to go down tedious rabbit holes and want to free up the rest of the attendees to go back to work.
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by gritspants 29d ago
Yeah I had a schedule like that when the kids were very young but it caught up with me, frankly. Having the computer be the first and last thing I interacted with every day was not great for my mood either.
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by gritspants 2mo ago
It is only a single counterpoint in a sea of depressing examples but you may enjoy the story of Yvon Chouinard, owner of Patagonia, who gave it all away to trusts for protecting the environment.
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by gritspants 2mo ago
Then just set aside some time to be bored. People generate some of their best ideas during this time.
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by gritspants 3mo ago
Some on my bookshelf: > Crafting Interpreters, by Robert Nystrom > Re[Coding] America, by Jennifer Pahlka > Systems Performance, by Brendan Gregg
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by gritspants 3mo ago
MC rider. Many accidents occur during the early years, particularly as the new rider gets comfortable. There's a transition period where your muscle memory kicks in for basic riding skills, but not developed enough to keep you out of
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by gritspants 3mo ago
Seems this has more to do with Palestine and Google's involvement with Israel to provide cloud computing.
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by gritspants 3mo ago
Identity? Most folks don't think that way anymore. I try to funnel them from Python to GO. I want to ship binaries. I want them to think about dependencies and if they really need them.
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by gritspants 3mo ago
I grew up blue collar and pitched in with my father's work from a very young age. As a child I was able to balance out the time and expense of raising me by contributing back to the household. I have children and they just cannot con
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by gritspants 4mo ago
If anything Florida (Desantis in particular) more closely resembles traditional conservatism in the US, as opposed to MAGA populism. I think, or hope, that's a good thing in the long run as AI shapes up to be a horseshoe political iss
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by gritspants 4mo ago
I hope someone comes along with a better recollection than I have. When KDE 1 came out there were some bitter licensing discussions on /. and elsewhere, largely regarding Qt. I had high hopes for Enlightenment and later Gnome but the
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by gritspants 4mo ago
I think you and your environment are very different from the average consumer. At least in the office there's a shared community. I think you'd shudder to see what comes to the Starbucks/Dunkin drivethru.
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by gritspants 4mo ago
I don't mind the downvotes but, what? No responsible company is going to want a bunch of unused cups interacting with their gear.
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by gritspants 4mo ago
Bringing your own is a health hazard. It spreads germs all over the equipment.
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MS SQL Arrow(devblogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by gritspants 4mo ago|1 comments
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by gritspants 4mo ago
Disappointed with the lack of Linux performance, though they're working on it. If you're dealing with MS/Azure SQL Server this is a god-send. For years I had to carefully configure CI/CD pipelines, dockerfiles, etc to
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by gritspants 4mo ago
There's no reason to tie every software companies rise and fall to AI. Several years ago they changed their enterprise licensing costs. It was such an aggressive and needless cash grab (1k/dev). The writing has been on the wall
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by gritspants 4mo ago
I recommend anything by jonas schmedtmann for js/ts/react to work colleagues.
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by gritspants 4mo ago
I'm here for white-hate culture. You should, you should know better.
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by gritspants 5mo ago
I've often wondered - what is the exact amount of vacuum (pressure?) that you can get away with without disemboweling someone?
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by gritspants 5mo ago
Then... why are you using it? I used to get some degree of infotainment out of it but then it became this. Here's an idea: I had a need for some custom metal machining (aluminum). I just looked up some local companies and found a gu
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by gritspants 5mo ago
Here's the problem I keep running into with AI and 'history'. We all know where this is going. We'll pick our winners and losers in the interim, but so far, this is a technology that mostly impacts tech practitioners.
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by gritspants 5mo ago
Well then I owe you an apology. Perhaps I inferred too much about your point of view and understood too little, which is my own loss. Sorry.
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by gritspants 5mo ago
I believe the idea that you (or I) might know better than the 'average people' to be incredibly conceited, arrogant, and frankly wrong. It is an attitude that gives you superiority for having achieved nothing.
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by gritspants 5mo ago
Wants and needs are not the same. We are experiencing the difference in real time. AI does not give society a want or need.
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by gritspants 5mo ago
We can absolutely conceptualize what we want or need. I was born in 1980 in NYC. When I was a boy my father took me to a tech conference where they had a demo of ordering TV shows on demand. It was a miracle, to my young mind. Was this
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by gritspants 5mo ago
I don't think you understand. Frankly, AI is a failure if all it does is replace coders. AI needs (given its current investment levels) to conquer all forms of knowledge work. This is an example of tech/industry needing to impo
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by gritspants 5mo ago
At what point do we look at 'Industrial Society and its Future' and go from "yeah that'll never happen", "ok some parts of it are happening", to ...? I swear tech folks are the most obtuse people on the p
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by gritspants 5mo ago
Do fundies! We all failed, initially. We had a blast bunking up and spending days in the water though.

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