jamiethompson

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by jamiethompson 4y ago
I suspect you're right there. Yet it forged ahead confidently giving answers anyway!
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by jamiethompson 4y ago
I just thought it would be interesting, given that it has an understanding of XML to see if it could do a simple diff, "by eye" if you will. Obviously I wasn't intending to trust its output. We of course have long standing tr
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by jamiethompson 4y ago
I had a brainwave recently. I was tired and looking at two XML documents which looked identical to me and I thought hey, let's see what ChatGPT thinks. So I asked it to describe to me what the differences were between the two documents
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by jamiethompson 5y ago
I definitely "cheated" some of these by throwing in something horribly verbose rather than whatever a more correct solution would be
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by jamiethompson 5y ago
Europe has entered the chat
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by jamiethompson 5y ago
Draw.io does this. When you export a diagram as a PNG. There is an option to embed the source file in the png. If you subsequently open one of those PNGs in Draw.io you can carry on editing it. I find it really handy.
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by jamiethompson 5y ago
Does anyone else remember "Web 2.0" being talked about as "The Semantic Web"? Because I sure do.
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by jamiethompson 5y ago
Is it 1998 again?
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by jamiethompson 5y ago
Is getting old mostly about watching people rediscover the same mistakes over and over again? I think I am getting old.
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by jamiethompson 5y ago
This is my exact takeaway. I can't decide whether this article and many of the commenters are deliberately missing this point or whether it's actually not understood.
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by jamiethompson 5y ago
This seems to miss the point. Of course these dithered images don't result in a saving in filesize when offered up as jpegs. This feels like a bit of a strawman argument. Some people here weren't web developers in the 90s and it s
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by jamiethompson 5y ago
One of the things that gets to me while working from home is the lack of ambient noise. Where I live is fairly rural and the silence can be deafening
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by jamiethompson 5y ago
One benefit I can think of is that you might be willing to pay to sit somewhere but not actually want to purchase food or drinks. I put on weight very easily and whenever I go to a Cafe or even a quiet McDonalds to use the free wifi, I alwa
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by jamiethompson 5y ago
Not in England, no. But it is in Ireland or Scotland.
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by jamiethompson 7y ago
Yeah, i looked for something like that to keep next to the phone but couldn't find anything. I was sure they used to be a thing. What you _can_ get however are little kits you wire up inside the pulse dial phone which do an on the fly
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by jamiethompson 7y ago
Well, I don't. I rarely use the landline. I'm just saying that you can if you want to.
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by jamiethompson 7y ago
It's just a bit of fun. It's more ornamental than anything. It's just nice that it also works as a phone although I rarely ever actually use the landline.
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by jamiethompson 7y ago
I use an unmodified rotary phone as my main landline phone. In the UK it would seem that our exchanges still support pulse dialling. The only drawback are menu systems that expect to hear tones, but I get around this with a small app on my
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by jamiethompson 7y ago
I can remember teaching myself HTML using a WinHelp file I found on a magazine coverdisk.
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by jamiethompson 7y ago
The main reason is I have kids. In the past, I mainly just used a tablet to watch video.
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by jamiethompson 7y ago
This is my experience. Bought an SanDisk card to pop in my phone before I went on holiday. Changed my camera settings to save to the SD card. Great. I can stop worrying about filling up my phone's internal storage with photos now. Then
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by jamiethompson 7y ago
My current "Smart TV" setup is a 10 year old 42" dumb tv with an Amazon Fire TV stick plugged into the back. I don't know what I'll do when it dies (it's dying). I wish you could just buy modern TVs that are es
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by jamiethompson 7y ago
I think that even our current civilization, if it stopped today, would be pretty easy to miss in the geological record 200 million years from now. But imagine if civilization had ended 500 years ago, or even a thousand. There would be absol
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by jamiethompson 7y ago
Something that has occured to me in the past whilst thinking about this is that given the miniscule evidence our species and civilisation will leave in the geological record, can we really be sure that no other short-lived civilizations hav
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by jamiethompson 7y ago
You're right. To anyone that's not incredibly wealthy the deal on offer, in reality, was: "Two unfeasibly cheap flights to the US plus a free vacuum cleaner"
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by jamiethompson 7y ago
I'm sorry your situation didn't work out as you'd have liked it to. It sounds a lot like the journey I took to be honest. I drifted from "Senior Developer" to "Lead Developer" into "Development Manage
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by jamiethompson 7y ago
I quit being a manager but kinda sideways stepped into a different senior (non management) role in the same company/department. I was quite lucky because I didn't really want to leave the company at the time. I just didn't wa
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by jamiethompson 7y ago
As I developer who accidentally climbed the ladder into management (and eventually bailed) I can say that from my own experience it is by sheer force of pressure from non-technical management above oneself. I fought the management culture h
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by jamiethompson 7y ago
Hands up, who headed straight to ebay looking for old calendars?
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by jamiethompson 7y ago
I thought this too. As a cyclist I'd be absolutely terrified if a motorcyclist did this and I've never experienced such a maneuver. Bikers are generally the best behaved around cyclists.

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