millerm

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by millerm 3d ago
I was literally not aware of this. I don't know if I'm going to be coming back to this site anymore. I've got some thinking to do. I am so ridiculously anti-Flock that I am not willing to discuss it, because it would be a poi
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by millerm 5d ago
Executive Protection Agency
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by millerm 8d ago
Yeah, it's infuriating.
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by millerm 9d ago
Reddit does this. Every keystroke you type into a comment box is sent back to them. So, that means even if you decided to cancel posting something, they still receive what you wrote. I have been known to write responses that were harsh and
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by millerm 1mo ago
I remember that good feeling when getting a new windows 9x machine up and running or installing a new video card, updating the graphics driver to get the display into 16M colors, and enjoying the darker teal. The color itself felt like an u
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by millerm 1mo ago
Hey, I know that sound. Hah!
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by millerm 1mo ago
I agree. I think it's an escape hatch phrase for people to try to avoid criticism. A.I. tooling is so similar to a highly addictive drug. Users think they can control how much they use, they eventually start using so much, and eventual
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by millerm 2mo ago
Because someone commenting leads to others spending time and effort responding. Deleting the comment breaks the chain. Don't comment if you feel that it's something you might want to delete. Think of commenting as like sending an
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by millerm 2mo ago
Exactly. People buy those automated circular floor vacuums. Anyone can get it done with a regular broom/vacuum in a small fraction of the time it takes for those things. Just like I drive an electric car. It charges while I sleep. It d
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by millerm 2mo ago
When I decided to leave my last job (I say last as I have no idea how to find work anymore), one of the top reasons is because they were pushing AI so hard on everyone. From support, development, management, to marketing, etc.. They started
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by millerm 2mo ago
The only thing good to come out of LinkedIn is Kafka. That's it. I deleted my account about a year ago. It does suck, I lost all those "network connections" from past contracts and employers. It's so hard to keep up with
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by millerm 2mo ago
Sure, but right now we are talking about Cloudflare Drop. Whataboutism doesn't dismiss this specific issue. What we need then is someone that is good at collecting, digesting, and disseminating this information to the masses so that pe
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by millerm 2mo ago
Wow, that's awful! Considering how incredibly easy they open anyone up to uploading sensitive content, it's ridiculously unsafe to have open like that. I only saw the home page, and clicked the buttons to see what they asked for.
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by millerm 2mo ago
You got me with the rewrite, you lost me with AI.
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by millerm 3mo ago
This just means I am done with buying game consoles. I'll be done with buying any new games soon. I've been around long enough where there is a backlog of games that can last for the rest of my life. I don't need $2000 video
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by millerm 3mo ago
I can deal with a launch problem. I am looking forward to being able to check it out. I stopped coming to HN as often as I used to because there has been too much AI talk. It's like a dang AI subreddit. I don't want anything to do
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by millerm 4mo ago
Yeah, I have dropped out of the tech biz completely. I'm unemployed and kind of screwed now. I couldn't take it anymore. I used to work with intellectuals and thinkers. This is why I was in the industry for 20+ years. I liked the
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by millerm 5mo ago
No, that is not correct. It's a symptom of unbridled capitalism. It has nothing to do with our ability to manufacture. It has everything to do with maximizing profits.
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by millerm 7mo ago
Great tools!
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by millerm 7mo ago
Wow, I haven't written any Objective-C since around 2012. I just went back and looked at some code I had written back then and that really brought back some memories. I was much happier then. I'm perpetually sad and unemployed now
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by millerm 7mo ago
I simply run GrandPerspective (GUI app, https://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ ), or dust (terminal app, https://github.com/bootandy/dust ), to give me an idea of what is going on with disk usage.
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by millerm 7mo ago
They have $. They pay others to execute their plans. There is no bright side.
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by millerm 7mo ago
I was the king of Descent for a long time at a place I worked at. 4 of us would play at lunch just about every day. I was so f'n good at that game. That and Duke Nukem.
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by millerm 7mo ago
As others have stated, there is no point in a "reveal". Simply show the comparison upfront. User interaction should not be necessary as it only needs to be a plain old html document. You didn't need to write any script. When
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by millerm 8mo ago
It's JSON.
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by millerm 8mo ago
What would be the point of avoiding linux?
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by millerm 9mo ago
Yeah, I'm not a paid shill. I have been using IntelliJ since version 2 way back in 2003(?). Yes, it's had its performance issues, but people tend to forget the feature set they brought to market, and have continued to do so. But,
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by millerm 10mo ago
I'm in the camp of "If your target is Go, then prototype in Go." I don't bother with the intermediate step. Go is already so very close to being a dynamic language that I don't get the point. Just write "bad&qu
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by millerm 10mo ago
I haven't been able to find a job anywhere, using any language, that didn't require all that stuff these days. I wish I could go back to pure development, but now we all get this entire infra-crap thrown at us too. Which then mean
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by millerm 10mo ago
Yeah, I've been there. I would get passed down horribly formatted code from another repo and it showed the data scientists writing it barely knew what they were doing. It was their repo, we couldn't do anything about it. They woul

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