lrem

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by lrem 21d ago
Eh, it’s nothing new in general. My software development (both at work and private) is being done by teams of semi-antagonistic agents. I only get to see code after the grumpy reviewer bot ran out of reasons to be grumpy and the pedantic fo
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by lrem 26d ago
I find that truly mystifying. I won’t go through the hassle of opening an account on any platform just to see some dumbed down website. I can’t be the only one, can I?
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by lrem 2mo ago
That one final number is all one needs as a reply for "but they help a little".
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by lrem 2mo ago
Uh wait, a cookie that can be reused for a time to fetch the rest of the content? That's the exact opposite of what I'd intuitively want for this system...
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by lrem 2mo ago
In his recent goodbye meeting he very much gave off a "I will die at my desk" kind of energy. Quite unstoppable.
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by lrem 7mo ago
A better system is in beta in Switzerland. Government is the root of trust, but only signs your private cert regarding your ID. All the interaction with third parties is local to your device, the government doesn’t get to know you interacte
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by lrem 7mo ago
Realistically this would be another service attached to the government ID. Something like this does function in some European countries, doesn’t it?
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by lrem 7mo ago
You can notice that memory bandwidth advantage even in workloads like photo editing and code compilation. That and the performance cores reserved for foreground compute, on top of the usual "Linux sucks at swap" (was it fixed? I h
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by lrem 7mo ago
It's slowly approaching what SRE has been dealing with for distributed systems... You just have to accept things won't be fully understood and whip out your statistical tooling, it's ok. And if they get the engineering right,
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by lrem 7mo ago
Even online I get a lot of ads for goods/services I do use, or could see myself using.
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by lrem 9mo ago
Don't worry, I'm willing to bet that there's an AI integration in the works for this...
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by lrem 10mo ago
Society might care about cost _including externalities_. A truck running on discarded frying oil might offer a lower price and there’s no way to account for the resulting health outcomes. Exceeding capacity lowers unit price and usually doe
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by lrem 10mo ago
No I don’t.
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by lrem 1y ago
If only this had the F key row. Why is "fewer keys" the first decision that every fancy keyboard designer starts with :/
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by lrem 1y ago
> all of the videos, [...], all of the user's search interest, ads, everything.. And privacy policies that are actually limiting what information gets used in what.
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by lrem 1y ago
Isn’t the surveillance battle already lost? For at least a couple years now? At least in Europe it feels like you’re passing a camera every couple minutes.
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by lrem 1y ago
Not the only... But for many hobbyists the effort to relearn is too much to save a bit of money.
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by lrem 1y ago
Playing computer games since an early age made me who I am. It required learning English a decade earlier than my peers. It pulled me into programming around start of primary school. I wouldn’t be a staff engineer in a western country witho
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by lrem 1y ago
There’s Darktable which is a pretty good alternative to Lightroom. When I looked into it a couple years back, a friend with Darktable was able to get the same results as I with Lightroom, with the same amount of effort. But when I tried, we
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by lrem 2y ago
Um, after “simple” you’ve listed six different kinds of services. Just operating that any kind of nontrivial scale will require quite a bit of headcount.
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by lrem 2y ago
Switzerland - a public service collects a number of Boolean flags in the vein of “has ever refinanced a loan”, serves the raw set to the person or institutions that can request it according to the regulations. Any EU country - regulations t
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by lrem 2y ago
Why locally? In practice many companies never lose any data. What they lose is the knowledge what the data is and/or how to use it.
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by lrem 2y ago
Haven’t they abandoned that and laid off the team half a decade ago?
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by lrem 2y ago
You're lucky. I've clocked in almost 3000km and over 20'000m of elevation gain cycling last year. I also swim and hike. My resting heart rate dropped by about 1BPM and it's nowhere near as low as yours.
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by lrem 2y ago
Eh, that's not a unique set of strengths. In any European country I know about (at least a dozen) you can get all-English education from kindergarten to PhD. In some for free, in some that's paid, but probably not as expensive as
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by lrem 2y ago
Just wait till AI learns how to pass your automated checks, without getting any better in the semantics. Unused variables bad? Let’s just increment/append whatever every iteration, etc.
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by lrem 2y ago
You seem to be behind on English as spoken. From what I can reconstruct: Algorithm (n) - a secretive set of systems, procedures and data that Big Tech uses to maliciously manipulate unsuspecting general public. Example usage: "Algorith
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by lrem 2y ago
CD? Sure, that was entirely in the good era. But the last two games I bought on DVD (something forgotten from EA I think and the nice Mass Effect Trilogy boxset) were what I described - store codes printed in the box, can use the attached
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by lrem 2y ago
For a very long time “hard copies” were just a physical precache of the download. What you actually paid for was the online store code inside the box. I’ve stopped buying boxes after the second one like this.
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by lrem 2y ago
Consuming high amount of animal protein was pointed out by the urologist as one of the things I should evade. Apparently that contributes to development of kidney stones. So there’s at least one way in which it’s bad for you.

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