muzster

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by muzster 2y ago
I lament the decline also. Hopefully all of that lost energy has been put into good use on side projects. On a tangent, but think it's related, the curiosity, exploration and research by the kids maybe stalling too. Just a thought.
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by muzster 2y ago
not all hours sleep/awake hours are equal - for example, I may be more work productive late at night, a better listener/learner in the mornings and better sleeper post meals, in the bath tub, travelling (my kids used to love falli
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by muzster 2y ago
Just tried to programatically take a picture on my MacBook Pro 2012. Managed to take a picture in sub second. The LED flashes briefly and you could easily miss it . Would be good to keep that LED ON well after the Camera switches off (Not s
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by muzster 2y ago
True - but that cost just halved with today's introduction of "GPT-4o". The other cost is time. IMHO - I think there is more to worry about than email scraping..
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by muzster 2y ago
Agreed - it's a waste. GPT is not too bad at reading text from image and with the added bonus that you can reason with it.
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by muzster 2y ago
Heavily guarded fortress would indicate something of value inside, and the big crooks may spend a little more effort. In the age of AI, this becomes even easier. { "model" : "gpt-4-turbo", "messages&q
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by muzster 5y ago
I presume this Cloth is covered by AppleCare. Would be terrified to drop it.
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by muzster 5y ago
Thank you Sir Clive. I will wear my clashing outfits for the next 8 days.
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by muzster 5y ago
Peter Falk really was a fallen angel. Wings of Desires https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2-26rb7S38
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by muzster 5y ago
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
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by muzster 5y ago
if you listen carefully you can hear the music...
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by muzster 5y ago
is it fair to use line count alone ? maybe the character count should be used as well (excluding whitespace)
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by muzster 5y ago
It would be interesting to see how diverse each of the diversity groups are - for example, breakdown of Indians by caste.
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by muzster 5y ago
Off Topic: In case anyone is not familiar with the phrase : "I've got a bridge to sell you when you're ready" (1) A con artist who sold a bridge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Parker Not
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by muzster 5y ago
Agreed. Though catching and handling that exception maybe more performant if majority of those indexes are within the bounds of the array. >> I'm not sure why having the separate exception is better than letting the array access
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by muzster 5y ago
the irony is that there is a bounds check already within the str.charAt() method...
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by muzster 6y ago
would be nice to see the git commit.
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by muzster 6y ago
RIP: British Scientist John Yudkin - The man who tried to warn us about the perils of sugar.. Source(s) : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/wellbeing/diet/10634081 ... https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by muzster 6y ago
0xcafebabe
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by muzster 6y ago
Breaking Bad. Refused to watch it for years due to the hype.
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by muzster 6y ago
Getting Started with Color Basic - TRS-80 Color Computer
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by muzster 8y ago
Flight risk is another term one could use.
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by muzster 9y ago
Great article... Makes you wonder how ELF's brother (PE) and daughter (WASM) are doing.
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by muzster 9y ago
This is not a Cat Stevens song. However, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam did write "Father & Son" - which brings tears to my eyes... when I think of my son and my dad.
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by muzster 10y ago
Operation Rosebud
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by muzster 10y ago
>> How would you feel if a fellow developer left in the circumstances described? I would feel happy for you and try my best to make sure we got a good handover. Your problem is with the management and not your fellow developers. >&
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by muzster 10y ago
Sounds like an amazing product - would love to try it here in the UK. It might help to add a mail subscribing list to your website to capture early oversea adopters. Does the app allow you to take a picture of the aftermath to account for t
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by muzster 10y ago
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
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by muzster 10y ago
I have my very own anecdotes (based on my own definition of success) - The most unsuccessful people I know work a lot of hours. Don't get me started about my successful 4-hour week friends !
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by muzster 10y ago
>> The most successful people I know work a lot of hours. That's also anecdotally untrue.

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