mnd999

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by mnd999 9mo ago
Why does a robotic vacuum cleaner need to connect to the internet at all? Mine doesn't (Neato Botvac D85) and it works fine.
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by mnd999 2y ago
Not if all the slots are booked up online. Look at what happened with driving tests. They moved it online and all the tests are booked by bots and sold to the highest bidder.
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by mnd999 2y ago
Yeah, this has to be the way. Suppliers get paid.
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by mnd999 2y ago
The major vendors are adopting it. Most people don't read the ISO SQL spec to learn SQL. They read their vendors documentation.
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by mnd999 3y ago
Is that you Chris? I think I did a CS poster project with you.
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by mnd999 3y ago
It likely won’t meet European safety standards so there’s a whole market it will just miss. But maybe it’s too big to be practical in European cities anyway.
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by mnd999 3y ago
I’ve had ads for drugs, cloned credit cards and devices for stealing cars with keyless entry all in the last month on a major social network. Reported, but they don’t seem to care.
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by mnd999 3y ago
Sure, but its NYE. In most neighbourhoods there are going to be parties anyway, AirBnB or no.
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by mnd999 3y ago
Parties are not the problem. Damages, illegality and annoying the neighbours are what they should be trying to detect. It's a shame that people planning a small get together with friends should have to suffer because some idiots like t
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by mnd999 3y ago
I've definitely seem benefits from working in open plan. Sometimes it's helpful to overhear what others are doing because maybe they're lacking some information or maybe that thing has already been done elsewhere. Does a fres
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by mnd999 3y ago
My views are my own and as such I do not disclose my employment or otherwise on here. I did think twice about posting it, as I don't usually but it's relevant and i might be helpful so why not? If you don't like it, thanks fo
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by mnd999 3y ago
Neo4j are mixing vector embeddings with knowledge graphs - https://neo4j.com/generativeai/
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by mnd999 3y ago
It doesn’t even work on half of the GPUs (Navi23 hello). It’s like they’re not even trying which is insane when there’s so much cash on the table.
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by mnd999 3y ago
I’m sure you know this but the reason for taking computation off the database is that it’s much easier to horizontally scale a stateless middle tier than it is to scale a sql database. Some DBAs I’ve worked with even advocated for taking so
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by mnd999 3y ago
I think it started as pretty much crud and then just grew features that were more complex backend logic. But I was the one brought in to fix it, not the original architect - he had left the company at this point so I don’t know the whole hi
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by mnd999 3y ago
The only postgREST app I ever worked on was awful. Why? Because like most of these ‘simple’ frameworks it’s only simple until your requirements get complicated. Then the original authors had to resort to writing a ton of stored procedures
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by mnd999 3y ago
Yes, but any unknown password is enough to put most people off, particular if the contents of the wallet is unknown.
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by mnd999 3y ago
There isn’t really a left in the US. You have right and righter.
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by mnd999 3y ago
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
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by mnd999 3y ago
I think ‘readily accessible’ was the important bit.
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by mnd999 3y ago
I always thought slashdot’s community moderation and meta-moderation was excellent. I always thought it curious that nobody copied it. Of course, dang based moderation also works well but you need a dang for that.
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by mnd999 3y ago
Applets are still a thing. We just call them webasm and canvas these days.
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by mnd999 3y ago
There's no power rail. It's overhead power - that was the problem. According to the union a manager providing strike cover was responsible for damaging the overhead lines - https://www.standard.co.uk/news/tran
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by mnd999 3y ago
As usual, his tweet on the subject is excellent - https://nitter.net/JamesBlunt/status/1733129524467163589#m
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by mnd999 3y ago
If they’re lying the ad should be banned, it would be in the UK. But anyway, who cares? Racing sports cars is not what you buy a truck for, and even if you did the sports car would destroy it on corners. Make the truck slower, make it chea
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by mnd999 3y ago
If you really need a job why would go go through these processes? They’re long and complicated and it’s basically a crapshoot anyway because they do it so badly. Even if you get it you’ll have no negotiating power so you’ll get screwed on c
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by mnd999 3y ago
The arrogance of these companies makes me never want to work there. I did go through the Apple process once though and it was pretty much as described.
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by mnd999 3y ago
And then the wiiscale?
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by mnd999 3y ago
The same was true of the fix for the completely deterministic cp from unencrypted to encrypted with block cloning. There doesn’t seem to me much incentive to write tests.
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by mnd999 3y ago
Same with sway. It also tiles the windows for you, which doesn't help.

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