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by jfultz 4d ago
Zero-tolerance no-AI policies are tiresome. I get why people have concerns. No PR reviewer wants to review drek the submitter him/herself doesn't understand. And LLMs have been a disproportionate source for such drek. But the
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by jfultz 20d ago
Contrarian take. So, yes, it's amusing to see clear Claude-isms like "load-bearing", "outright", and "genuine" in a [very nice] bit of analysis like this. And there's a (maybe negative? or not?) arg
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by jfultz 2mo ago
This is a really impressive amount of effort. Every entry has a fairly even quality to it...screen grabs and contextual descriptions of even one-off episodes of television shows, yet alone decades worth of movies.
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by jfultz 5mo ago
In some cases, reviewing PR diffs commit-by-commit (and with the logs as the narration of the diff-by-diff story) is a substantial improvement over reviewing the entire PR diff. Concrete examples... * A method or function that has code you
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by jfultz 8mo ago
"Quality ratchet" is such a great name. Thanks for that.
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by jfultz 9mo ago
I'm not willing to cede the point on hardware design for as long as their primary mouse product cannot be charged during use. It's such a simple and obvious mistake, like a throwback to the days of hockey-puck mice.
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by jfultz 1y ago
I remembered a comic panel that I'd seen in the New Zork Times back in the day, and I just found it...page 7 of this: https://infodoc.plover.net/nzt/NZT4.4.pdf The comic pokes fun at the ridiculously cruel babelfi
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by jfultz 1y ago
I left Slashdot for HN...but I didn't leave Slashdot because of HN. I was frustrated with Slashdot and was actively seeking alternatives. About 2 days after I discovered HN existed, I was done forever with Slashdot. Among other frust
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by jfultz 1y ago
Growing up in the 70s, among the things I sought out in our house to play with was an old manual typewriter. It was endlessly fascinating to me. I liked playing with all of the mechanical bits. Trying to jam keys, working the carriage re
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by jfultz 1y ago
An alternative to securing or recreating the entire technology stack top to bottom would be to own one critical piece of the stack. If European interests owned a vital slice of the technology stack that was difficult to recreate and too ch
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by jfultz 1y ago
The 1200XL was my first computer. My family purchased it at a department store at a fire sale price (IIRC Montgomery Ward's, $199) after Atari stopped manufacturing and began dumping its inventory to make way for the 600XL/800XL.
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by jfultz 2y ago
Solved, and it was fun! But...some of the colored lines were hard to see. Particularly the light yellow ones. I had one "alternate" solution that it was marking incorrect for reasons it took me over a minute to spot...and it wa
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by jfultz 2y ago
Fortunately for me, you left this comment, so I upvoted the article and your comment. Which kind of scratches the same itch.
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by jfultz 2y ago
THIS! I had hope at one point to set up a Kindle with large fonts on a treadmill, but that was just totally hopeless. I tried again with a music stand next to the treadmill, but it was too far away, badly angled, and touching the device to
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by jfultz 2y ago
_Thank you_. I read this story probably around 1980 (I think in a magazine that was subsequently trashed or garage-saled), and I have spent my adult life remembering the bones of the story, but not the author or the title.
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by jfultz 3y ago
They can absolutely be checked out to the same commit. They cannot be checked out to the same local branch. But checking out to the same SHA, or even the same remote branch (which, really, is just another name for a given SHA) is just fin
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by jfultz 3y ago
This can come up even with application software (which is my area). If it worked before and it's broken now, or if your application appears to be the only thing that is broken for the user, from most user perspectives, it doesn't
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by jfultz 3y ago
A reborn version of PLATO is available at https://www.irata.online/ (JS client if you hit the Login button at the top, various other clients enumerated below). I haven't played with it much, but I did find "Bugs
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by jfultz 3y ago
Surrogate pairs were new to Unicode 2.0. Unicode 1.0 didn't anticipate the need for more than 65,536 code points (who would ever need more?); the main perceived threat to that limit having been resolved by Han unification.
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by jfultz 3y ago
A couple of cases I'm aware of... * Coding ligatures often display as a single glyph (maybe occupying a single-width character space, or maybe spread out over multiple spaces), but are composed of multiple glyphs. The ligature may &qu
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by jfultz 3y ago
Last month, my wife and I visited the Musée d'Orsay (as visiting American tourists). As it happens, we were in line when the museum opened and I had the bright idea to go straight to the top floor...partly because I was interested to
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by jfultz 3y ago
Yes, there's a lot of messiness in how fonts work. Doing cross-platform desktop GUI development, I feel that pain firsthand (and not just for fonts, but for all kinds of rendered constructs...controls, lines/curves/polys, bi
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by jfultz 4y ago
Looks like Apple's dumping their final handheld* device with a 3.5mm headphone jack. Let's once more admire their courage. * There's still one iPad model with a headphone jack, but that's not quite in my definition of &
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by jfultz 5y ago
The television show Person of Interest had an episode that featured a technology called "ShotSeeker" that was modeled after ShotSpotter. In the storyline, ShotSeeker is paired with human oversight to help distinguish real gunfire
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by jfultz 6y ago
Every faithful watcher of the Six Million Dollar Man series in 1977 and 1978 had at least some awareness of the Soviet Venus probe program. A two-part episode in 1977, and another two-parter in 1978 featured the so-called "Death Probe
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by jfultz 6y ago
Yeah, I've seen some similar problems with my Surface Book 2. I didn't see this initially, but I now see frequent, .5-to-3 second lagging response to the touchpad, seemingly fixable only by reboot. Googling suggests a lot of othe
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by jfultz 7y ago
My editor (Sublime + GitGutter plugin) is set up so whenever I click in a certain line of code, it displays a hint out to the right with the summary line of the most recent git blame on that line. It's pretty fast...maybe 1/2 sec
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by jfultz 7y ago
I'm at CppCon and attended the talk today where Microsoft announced this to the CppCon attendees. The folks speaking made it clear that they do intend to accept pull requests, and that they're positive about it being used outside
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by jfultz 7y ago
Apple basically found a way to game the system and ended up with a design that had fewer compromises and lower cost (on this front). I've heard several interviews on ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast with various designers of the Atari co
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by jfultz 8y ago
I put all untrustworthy devices on my guest WiFi. My game consoles, e-readers, streaming devices, and Internet appliances don't need access to my privileged network, and they don't need access to each other. And if I were so inc

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