khendron

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by khendron 7mo ago
Claude is helping me learn French right now. I am using it as a supplementary tutor for a class I am taking. I have caught it in a couple of mistakes, but generally it seems to be working pretty well.
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by khendron 8mo ago
When I was in grad school my faculty advisor joked to me that to accurately estimate any medium to large software project, take your best estimate and multiply it by 3. If hardware is involved, multiply by 8. Yes, he was telling me this ton
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by khendron 1y ago
When I first tried an LLM agent, I was hoping for an interactive, 2-way, pair collaboration. Instead, what I got was a pairing partner who wanted to do everything themselves. I couldn't even tweak the code they had written, because it
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by khendron 2y ago
> You've spent so much time explaining why enterprise software is terrible, we're starting to think you might be the person who designed Salesforce. That's a low blow.
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by khendron 2y ago
You are right, but it doesn't take many extroverts not understanding this concept to make it feel like it's everybody :) My mother, for example, is a serious extrovert. When I explained to her that socializing seriously drains me
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by khendron 2y ago
No, I just avoid it.
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by khendron 2y ago
Not for me. Coffee, anything caffeinated actually, makes me sick like I have the flu. The older I get, the more sensitive I become. I can't even eat chocolate anymore because of the caffeine content.
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by khendron 2y ago
You don't. Explaining what happened is not going to help the user at all. You can only explain what options are available to the user. Something like the following "Sorry, this message can no longer be saved. Copy this message b
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by khendron 2y ago
This reminds me of the time at my work when the CTO gathered all the devs together, and told us "We have to innovate more". With no real further instructions. He even showed us a graph (without any numbers) that had Profit on the
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by khendron 2y ago
> but of course plenty of orgs figure out how to collaborate effectively while remote. Some do, but most don't. Too many companies seem to think becoming remote means just installing Zoom on everybody's computers and sending th
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by khendron 3y ago
Perhaps everybody in the world needs some sort of signing key, so they can officially "authorize" public media that contains their likeness.
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by khendron 3y ago
> There is almost no atmosphere for friction so basic Newtonian mechanics should be able to make a decent landing Actually, I think that is the one of the biggest challenges. No atmosphere to slow you down means you have to rely entirely
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by khendron 4y ago
I remember reading a sci-fi story in which aliens who are covertly observing the Earth see this happening and secretly rescue Laika just before she dies.
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by khendron 4y ago
One of the advantages of functions is that a well-named function is self-documenting. If you can take a bunch of lines and wrap them in a function whose name summarizes exactly what it does, then you have improved readability in my opinion.
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by khendron 4y ago
I always did best at the exams I had nightmares about. To the point where having an exam nightmare would make me feel better about an upcoming exam, I would actually start to worry if I had a big exam coming up and I hadn't had a night
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by khendron 4y ago
> I feel there is a lot of room to develop better tools that are not so horrid Isn't that where Salesforce came from? At least in the CRM space. It is not as horrid, though that is not saying much :P
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by khendron 4y ago
Oooh! I have a copy of that at home! https://imgur.com/a/rWHmft0
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by khendron 4y ago
Getting flashbacks to the sci-fi short story "Grenville's Planet". First contact may not go very well.
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by khendron 4y ago
Amazing! Love this! How do you choose the books to added to your library?
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by khendron 4y ago
Something similar happened to one of my corporations. Somebody targeted by scam the was suspicious and contacted me via LinkedIn. Discovered somebody had setup a completely separate and very legit looking website using a similar domain name
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by khendron 4y ago
Same. It shaved 8 years off of me, and then called me ugly.
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by khendron 4y ago
Unless getting in and out of VR becomes as easy as putting one and taking off a pair of sunglasses, it's never going to become mainstream. Some serious disruption is going to be required to get there. Compare it to the PDAs (e.g., Palm
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by khendron 4y ago
> [Pathfinder 3] will be the largest airship built in the United States since the Macon was built [by Goodyear] in 1932 They conveniently do not mention the Macon's sister ship, the Akron, which crashed in 1933 killing 73 people.
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by khendron 4y ago
One trick I know of is to add site:myshopify.com to your google search. For example https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amyshopify.com+mens+sw...
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by khendron 4y ago
Nah, it's not terrible. It's just not very professional—probably intentionally for humorous purposes. It reads like a story being told over beers at the local pub.
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by khendron 5y ago
Why does it insist I live in Cork, Ireland when I live in Canada?
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by khendron 5y ago
This article seems to contradict itself. Near the beginning it says storing at a low temperature can increase toxicity. Then near the end, it suggests storing potatoes in a cool place. Which is it?
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by khendron 5y ago
I used to have a large collection of sci-fi, mostly paperbacks but some hardcovers. Plus a large number of non-fiction books on a variety of topics (e.g., investing, gardening, sailing, skiing, wine). Not to mention my obligatory collection
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by khendron 5y ago
This brings to mind the time I was at the national art gallery listening to a tour/talk by a well renowned sculptor. Somebody in the group gestured to one of the pieces and asked “does the transition of the floor from green to grey sig
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by khendron 5y ago
> If your programming no longer excites you, learn something new in programming, or even learn something that isn't programming and do that. This is the key right here. If what you used to do is no longer exciting you, it is time to

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