nimbix

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by nimbix 3y ago
I worked at a company that had to deal with EY as a part of a tech certification. Tha auditors barely knew why they were being sent over. Out managers and techs had to explain the process to them and assure them the numbers in the report we
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by nimbix 3y ago
The scenario I was referring to is one of many gems found in app we outsourced. The piece of code in question had a very straightforward task: look at some bytes in the input and produce a string label to be stored alongside the whole input
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by nimbix 3y ago
I recently got into c# and it seems really nice, but the "customs and traditions" of the dotNet world horrify me (eg: never write a function when you can write three classes instead)
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by nimbix 3y ago
I gave a UX person a snippet of debugging code to paste into the console, but didn't notice that the chat app ate the quotes around a string. GPT was able to fix the snippet for him. SO far this is the only case where someone I know ma
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by nimbix 3y ago
I asked it to write a trivial c#/dotnet example of two actors where one sends a ping message and the other responds with pong. It couldn't get the setup stage right, called several methods that don't exist, and and had a cycl
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Did Figma manage to patent Flexbox?
6 points by nimbix 4y ago|2 comments
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by nimbix 4y ago
Does a device even know that it's connected to a ded cable? I'd imagine that it's only after you plug in the second device that they both suddenly see they're being connected to something.
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by nimbix 4y ago
Butt where would you hide a chess engine? /s
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by nimbix 4y ago
They made a suite of replacement tools under the name of "Adobe Edge", then they killed those as well.
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by nimbix 4y ago
Isn't XD pretty much dead? The last release that wasn't just bugfixes happened a year ago, while before that they were pushing out something new every month or two.
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by nimbix 4y ago
Domestic or international? I flew with United transatlantic around 10 times and after hearing nothing but bad things about them online for years, I was quite pleasantly surprised by how much better they were compared to companies like Lufth
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by nimbix 4y ago
There was a point years ago when I was surprised to find out that you can throw things other than strings...
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by nimbix 4y ago
Yep, the "magic ingredient" is definitely insulation (along with triple pane windows).
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by nimbix 4y ago
If you pair a heat pump with good insulation, the effect can be quite staggering. My parents moved into a new house 6 years ago and their annual heating bill (for space and water) dropped from ~2500EUR down to around 300EUR. This is in an a
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by nimbix 4y ago
IMHO 4k was the worst thing to ever happen to monitors. Now we have screens ranging from 24" to 43+" all using the same physical resoluton. This means that at all the most popular screen sizes you need to use some weird 1.5 or 1.2
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by nimbix 5y ago
There was another somewhat similar incident in Europe today: an autonomous plane - presumably coming from Ukraine - crashed into a park in the capital of Croatia. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60709952
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by nimbix 5y ago
Many years ago I watched a documentary where it was said that pale mint green was often chosen for control panels because it was deemed it had a calming effect on the operators.
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by nimbix 5y ago
Cypress was such a pain that I simply wasn't writing or running tests just to avoid it. It was incredibly slow, had major bugs that are till open after multiple years, and worst of all, in headless mode it was passing tests that should
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by nimbix 5y ago
I've been using jEdit for probably around 18 years until around a year ago when I fianlly switched to VSCode because, unfortunately, it just couldn't keep up with all the modern development in the dev tools space. There are two fe
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by nimbix 5y ago
Isn't AutoLayout in Figma just a partial implementation of flexbox, an therefore already exist on the web in a more complete form?
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by nimbix 5y ago
I remember building those on my grandma's farm ~30 years ago. The adults woud throw hay to the top and us children would pack it down by walking on it in circles around the pole. Another thing she would store for the winter were whole
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by nimbix 5y ago
The company I worked for had a pretty much identical experience with Unilever: they aggressively reduced the scope of the contract, but expected all the extras anyway; then at the end of the contract made the company choose between getting
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by nimbix 5y ago
Some people think TPB is a comedy. Others know it's a documentary.
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by nimbix 5y ago
I definitely ran into some serialization issues when trying Piscina a while ago. Returning generated images from the workers would keep getting slower and slower until the overhead of data exchange was 20x the time it took to generate it. I
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by nimbix 6y ago
I watched a youtuber go through the whole flow of producing a video using Descript and it doesn't do anything in terms of real video editing. It's useful for removing bad takes out of a longer video, but then you need to export th
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by nimbix 6y ago
The standard rate might be at 10%, but from my experience it still varieas a lot. I know of two B2B companies that deviate a lot: * Company A has a product that practically sells itself - it has been joked that sellers are "just accept
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by nimbix 6y ago
There's a few companies already in this space, but all I'm aware of are of the "Contact our sales for pricing" type and require you to spend at least 100k annually. Many contracts go into millions - just for the apps &am
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by nimbix 6y ago
Isn't there a story about how a supercomputer used a macbook just to display a nice the logo on the door - and for nothig else?
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by nimbix 6y ago
ThinkGeek used to sell them, but that's not much help since I just discovered that TG no longer exists...
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by nimbix 6y ago
Another huge problem for these assistants is unusual band names. I have yet to successfully convince either Siri or Google Assistant to "play Einstürzende Neubauten".

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