johncoltrane

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by johncoltrane 8d ago
Well, engaging in subversive activities comes with some level of risk, Emily, you should have known that.
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by johncoltrane 27d ago
Easy: do not hand _any_ decision to LLMs.
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by johncoltrane 1mo ago
Everywhere I worked, PMs were ultimately in charge of deciding what gets shipped and when so "is this feature shipped yet?" is the last question I would expect from them. It's probably a good thing that you build this but the
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by johncoltrane 1mo ago
Yes, "just". Because the Morocco bit of the article is mostly inconsequential. Those unsolicited telemarketing calls are extremely annoying no matter who is calling and from where. That's what this is all about. > Or is it
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by johncoltrane 1mo ago
Morocco is just where lots of french-speaking call centers are located. The industry generates a non-negligible part of Morocco's GDP and most of the clientele is from France. So yeah, Morocco may be right to be concerned by an eventua
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by johncoltrane 1mo ago
Coding _as a job_ stopped being fun a long time ago and I think it has a strong effect on my hobby choices. After a day of dealing with issue trackers, AI-generated accessibility reports and all that crap I find it harder and harder to swit
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by johncoltrane 1mo ago
Everything in Blade Runner is amazing.
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by johncoltrane 2mo ago
There have been lots of civilisations before. Some that we know of and maybe some that we don't know of yet.
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by johncoltrane 2mo ago
There are lots of portable cassette players on the market, starting at 20€ or less.
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by johncoltrane 2mo ago
Or you can learn to use Vim directly in Vim with :help user-manual.
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by johncoltrane 2mo ago
Parent said "impartial", which rules out both The Economist ("pro") and Jacobin ("anti").
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by johncoltrane 2mo ago
Group policy sadly doesn't like newly registered domains so I can't check this one out right now but it immediately reminded me of this one, that I favorited 4 years ago: https://yamanote.style/
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by johncoltrane 3mo ago
Well, debugging is the only intellectually stimulating part left in my job so I enjoy it, a lot, while it lasts. To each their own, I guess.
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by johncoltrane 3mo ago
hjkl AND the cursor keys equally suck for moving the cursor because they only move by one line or by one character. jjjllllljjh is just as bad as <Down><Down><Down><Right><Right><Right><Right><Ri
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by johncoltrane 3mo ago
jkl; are (on QWERTY keyboards). hjkl are not.
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by johncoltrane 3mo ago
hjkl are more of a cult/status thing anyway because they are not _that_ touch-typing-friendly to begin with, and they suck just as much as the cursor keys for moving the cursor around. Insisting so much on hjkl is silly. No one is usin
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by johncoltrane 3mo ago
Happy birthday!
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by johncoltrane 3mo ago
Capitals are good. Use capitals.
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by johncoltrane 3mo ago
The entirety of 1999 and 2000 was a nightmare. "No, buddy, we won't change millenium next january." "Nope. We are still in the 20th century." And so on... I think that's more or less when I lost faith in humani
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by johncoltrane 3mo ago
What's the problem, here?
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by johncoltrane 4mo ago
ext in tonga
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by johncoltrane 4mo ago
When will that "dashboard with tacked-on tablets" trend stop? It can somehow be excused in cheap models because new versions are generally incremental evolutions, which would make proper integration of the touchscreen harder/
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by johncoltrane 4mo ago
That would be a third track since the current Web is already (at least) "two-track": humans and search engines.
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by johncoltrane 4mo ago
The world goes on.
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by johncoltrane 5mo ago
A bunch of William Gibsons. Philip K. Dick's Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, and Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. Clifford D. Simak's City. Classics.
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by johncoltrane 5mo ago
I was 11 when I started roleplaying with gamebooks. I vaguely remember L'œil Noir as a classic among "Livres dont vous êtes le héros". The same year I saw the older kids play a full D&D campaign with the adults during sum
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by johncoltrane 5mo ago
Not sure what's the most surprising to me. That an attack on ANTS happened or that the Entrevue rag still exists. Also, for what it's worth: https://ants.gouv.fr/toute-l-actualite/communication-sur-la-...
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by johncoltrane 5mo ago
> Do you separate the product from the founder? Yes… if the founder does. I don't care on which side of which ring they are as long as they keep me out of their pointless fights.
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by johncoltrane 6mo ago
FWIW, you don't have to do any of that to enter China.
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by johncoltrane 6mo ago
The problem is that compositors typically don't have the notion of 3D scene. It's all just a stack of layers, one window per layer. There is no shadow to speak of, only a mask around the window that provides the illusion of shadow

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