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by jimjimjim 10d ago
It depends what you do outside. Historically shoes/boots/foot wraps were to protect your feet from the cold and from sharp things e.g. rocks, stones, spiky plants, spiders, snakes, ticks etc etc. Surely some of these conditions wo
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by jimjimjim 10d ago
Do you have a pet dog or cat?
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by jimjimjim 15d ago
Generally speaking most dedicated PDF readers haven't implemented the nastier parts of the PDF spec that need a sandbox. Except adobe. They support everything because they wrote it. But they keep making it worse so I can't recomme
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by jimjimjim 16d ago
I haven't really tried sixel yet but I run wezterm as a daily driver and it is very convenient to be able to view images in the command line. e.g ls the directory and then run img foo.jpg on the images in the directory without needing
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by jimjimjim 17d ago
Punching Piers Morgan is not a sign of a character flaw.
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by jimjimjim 24d ago
disturbingly, when I was using antigravity with gemini pro it was actually quite good at working out 'why app slow' types of problems. Maybe I've been lucky but it seems really good at determining why something might be wrong
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by jimjimjim 1mo ago
apples to oranges comparison. 1990 is early days for MS. 1990 is gorilla days for IBM.
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by jimjimjim 1mo ago
Yep, if AI could do it so could out-sourcing it to India. AI is great for "almost" but not great at "exact"
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by jimjimjim 1mo ago
"While remaining a going concern." Well, tough. Maybe they should have to find a way. If that means requiring everybody to have to pay to afford the moderators then so be it. All the other companies would have to as well.
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by jimjimjim 1mo ago
I'm not a sociopath but I believe the concept of tipping to be terrible. Everything should be in the price. up front. what's advertised should be what leaves your account. If you get bad service, don't use them again or leave
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by jimjimjim 2mo ago
Cut and Paste isn't broken, Copy is broken (in windows). My muscle memory for copying and pasting text is now: ctrl-c, ctrl-c, ctrl-c, ctrl-v.
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by jimjimjim 2mo ago
uh, the webring idea is OLD. Not quite "And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge" old but
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by jimjimjim 2mo ago
I'm sure it just my personal preference but I hate animations. Most often they do little other than slow an application down i.e. the code of the application could finish the task almost instantaneously but for the sake of appearance,
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by jimjimjim 3mo ago
Don't conflate hiit with crossfit. Crossfit is just one (although well known) type of hiit. There are many other type of hiit activities without the training style of crossfit.
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by jimjimjim 3mo ago
Question about merging: How do you handle merging multiple pdf that have forms? Are the form fields renamed to prevent form field name clashes? And what pdf toolkit do you use?
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by jimjimjim 3mo ago
You've got to be able to deploy. Simple as that.
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by jimjimjim 3mo ago
No, you site sources for your response or retract your response. see how that works?
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by jimjimjim 3mo ago
Yep. When I was in Kuwait, admittedly 20 years ago, there were a LOT of non-kuwaitis there as most manual labor jobs were done by foreign workers. I wouldn't be surprised if it's still the same today.
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by jimjimjim 3mo ago
not harmful. why should women in action films need to be held to a higher standard the men? Hollywood's depiction of action movies in general is unrealistic. Stereotypical Good Guy gets in a fist fight with a Random Thug, and after tra
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by jimjimjim 3mo ago
Make it look weak to draw fire away from higher value targets?
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by jimjimjim 3mo ago
Exactly this. The telemetry stats will bubble up to some level of management and it will show, "after making the play key launch the music app more people are using it". That's it. Explanations won't fit on the slide de
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by jimjimjim 3mo ago
Bit of a storm in a teacup. The article indicts that they knew it was likely to be a target and removed all personnel from it as it wasn't needed.
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by jimjimjim 4mo ago
Just doing random evil things for no benefit? At this point it's just wanton vandalism. Punks in suits smashing windows and setting fire to cars. Can anyone here, hand of heart, say "I agree with this decision"?
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by jimjimjim 4mo ago
Too many keystrokes, people won't use it.
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by jimjimjim 4mo ago
I am actually curious in knowing an answer to this: Does anybody think this is a good thing? A benefit to the world? Not if anyone is cheating or scheming or being a rules lawyer, but is it good?
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by jimjimjim 4mo ago
I think deep cynicism is the correct mindset to have in the current financial/political climate.
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by jimjimjim 4mo ago
This is going to burn through karma faster than a blowtorch but it seems to me that just because something is a tradition doesn't mean it should be respected. The world changes, traditions should change to. And before anybody says &quo
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by jimjimjim 4mo ago
I think I made a HN comment a few months/years ago about driverless cars having problems with floods across roads after watching a downpour in Kuala Lumpur flood half a street in minutes. The road was down to one lane and drivers in bo
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by jimjimjim 4mo ago
Painful. A lot of the Microsoft interfaces these days are asynchronous and are built around the dev experience of c#/c++ with libraries/runtimes that do a lot of the heavy lifting. So you end up calling functions with ridiculously
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by jimjimjim 4mo ago
Yep, it's 2026 and I'm still 8 hours a day in win32.

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