ottoflux

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by ottoflux 21d ago
I’ve been saying people need to do this for over a year. I’ve known (personally) quite a few executive leaders and while I don’t think AI is a good replacement for any _good_ person at a job, the executive team is the low hanging fruit. We
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by ottoflux 3mo ago
the amount of code i've seen either allowing * when it shouldn't because someone was desperately trying to make their code work is astounding. contractors, "specialists", etc. who never took the time to read how CORS wor
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by ottoflux 3mo ago
100% been saying this for a while now. the main thing AI will be able to replace is a C suite.
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by ottoflux 6mo ago
100% and I’m a software developer and have been for ~30 years. Good QA people know how to find regression and bugs _that you didn’t think about_ which is the whole reason why it shouldn’t be under “engineering” and that it should exist. One
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by ottoflux 8mo ago
(and yes — i do love a good emdash, and despise that it makes me look like AI)
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by ottoflux 8mo ago
I'll add that Libre Office can be great but if you already have an ecosystem you like, most of those have online editors too which can handle most of the average user needs.
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by ottoflux 8mo ago
Oh wow. That's wide open then, just about any of them. I run Mint on older mac hardware (happily cruising along on an 11" MacBook Air), I'm a sucker for Ubuntu's default look and feel a lot of the time - and they have a
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Discuss: Linux has been solid for a long time, come on in – the water is fine
8 points by ottoflux 8mo ago|5 comments
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by ottoflux 8mo ago
Get off social media, and go do things you enjoy that aren’t centered around consuming. Volunteer at a museum if you like art, etc. You just have to go live and bump into other people living in the world.
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by ottoflux 10mo ago
this. despite all the ghost stories and war stories. it’s how apple sells you the watch to save you from that bear attack or that time you got trapped somewhere. the stories are real, and in some cases you may need it — in most cases you do
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by ottoflux 11mo ago
not a dig, but it reminds me of how much i used to like tiddly wiki. https://tiddlywiki.com/
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by ottoflux 2y ago
“zero hidden costs” — lol. maybe one?
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by ottoflux 3y ago
lofl. no. like… did they try any 2nd order thinking here?
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by ottoflux 3y ago
for anyone else not able to get past the paywall: from the article, only around 14% think DE&I efforts are "too much", while 54% say "about right", 17% "not sure", 15% "too little". for thinking i
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by ottoflux 3y ago
This is totally true more often than not (in my experience).
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by ottoflux 3y ago
you make good points but i'd argue it's both. i'm talking about the subconscious bias aspect of racism (to your point it's a relic of racism, but it's an active relic) as well - this is the very reason we need DE&am
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by ottoflux 3y ago
“No one”?!? Poorly written headline for a very thin article. Sure, lots of people who are white and deny systemic racism or the effects of it exist. That’s literally the problem we’re fighting and why we need diversity efforts.
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by ottoflux 3y ago
(i'd add that as someone who's made most of my living developing integration software - i'm hoping once things are cemented a bit that there's a non-ridiculous path to having a 2-way relay for sites that want it)
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by ottoflux 3y ago
i agree with a lot of that. i run a Pleroma server (less overhead than Masto), i think the winning combination will be the group that comes up with a universal baseline for online behavior. the intellectually dishonest purveyors of hate spe
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Quick Comment on Blue Sky
8 points by ottoflux 3y ago|3 comments
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by ottoflux 4y ago
I see a comment I’m not going to engage with, but I have two kids and I had them happily in a Honda Fit and a VW GTI (3 door) when they were little. I came here to say this is a great idea, I literally took a loss and sold my Volvo XC40 Re
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by ottoflux 4y ago
This is fantastic - (note: confirmation bias on my part) - it's quite similar to the list I keep in my head and have been trying to gently teach my daughters as they are growing up. Who they are partners with is a good one, that (for m
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by ottoflux 4y ago
100% literally came here to make sure someone said this.
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by ottoflux 4y ago
Yikes - thanks for sharing. I'm one of the few people I know who occasionally call to verify anything on CVs, especially when the interview feels off.
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by ottoflux 4y ago
You can do this (crudely but effective enough) with a any watch if you take a second to make a simple sundial. Rotate it with the stick (or whatever) until the shadow reflects the actual time and you’re pointing North (in the Northern hemis
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by ottoflux 4y ago
I still host some things from home, but Linode, Scaleway, etc. are so cheap for tiny machines it might make more sense to build some APIs that the webserver can call on a machine running from your house.
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by ottoflux 4y ago
I miss QNX.
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by ottoflux 4y ago
aka the subtle art of a55 kissing. if you’re open to it ;) imo we do a terrible job of training managers to be leaders instead of “bosses”. we have an absurd view of leadership equating to a person’s value being higher. it’s not. when you w
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by ottoflux 4y ago
100% i always have pushed to hire based on how the developer approaches problems and thinks about logic. the hype around memorizing referenceable facts about a specific language/stack has always been overblown. i’ll take a hacker who l
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by ottoflux 4y ago
i’d add that you also learn (perhaps more) about what _not_ to do if you pay attention and keep your ear to the ground while working.

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