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by scioto 2mo ago
Back in the later 70s a Chicago three-letter AM radio station used to speed up songs so they could stuff in more commercials. And the DJ would do the parent’s talking when there’s no lyrics, even to the point of talking through the entire
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by scioto 5mo ago
I still prefer my pre-2016 Intel Mac since I can do more things that I want to do on it than my newer M4.
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by scioto 8mo ago
As John Scalzi once said, "The failure mode of clever is asshole." [1] That has prevented me from posting what I thought was a clever or cheeky response in case it didn't come across the way I wanted. --- [1] https:/&#x
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by scioto 9mo ago
My output as a software engineer is now zero (I'm even letting my JetBrains personal subscription lapse). True, I am now reaping the rewards of having been a software engineer, but all that is past effort. My LoC since I retired is zer
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by scioto 9mo ago
-100%. With this looming Shiny Toy plus other sub-optimizations at my last place of work, I decided to retire. Didn't want to deal with it.
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by scioto 11mo ago
One of the biggest reasons I left a company was because the CTO and his toady, both coming from company X, made a unilateral decision to switch to X's proprietary and expensive framework above senior developers' objections because
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by scioto 1y ago
The company I worked for, a not-for-profit, didn't want to hire juniors because after training them in modern software development techniques, etc., that they didn't get in their undergrad, they'd leave after about three or f
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by scioto 1y ago
(commenting late in the game, so the point may have been made already) I personally believe that "AI" is mostly marketing for the current shiny LLM thing that will end up finding some sort of actual useful niche (or two) once the
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by scioto 1y ago
My $0.02 with 708 comments ahead of me. I currently use Windows, 10 to be exact, to play games, and in a VM to run an income tax fat app (since the online version is so much more expensive). My game machine cannot upgrade to 11. A mobo upgr
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by scioto 2y ago
I had a somewhat repugnant second-level boss whose philosophy was to give people a little more work than they thought they could do to get the best performance out of them, and I believe he was right since, at least for me, I worked harder
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by scioto 2y ago
It'd be nice if something similar were available to traverse, say, directories of writings in Markdown, Word, LibreOffice, etc., and output a single text file so I have all my writings in one place. Plus allow plug-ins to extract from
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by scioto 2y ago
I still have the Infocom game Leather Goddesses of Phobos, complete with scratch and sniff card, and the 3-D (blue-red) glasses for the enclosed comic book. If you don't have VR or first-person, it was the next best thing: they told yo
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by scioto 2y ago
Move to Texas, specifically the ERCOT grid. Texans love power suckers like bitcoin miners, so AI should fit right in.
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by scioto 2y ago
This reminds me of John Scalzi's early SF book, Old Man's War. One of the MC's motivations throughout the book was the love of his wife. Apart from the pew-pew aspects, it's one of those stories that can hit you in the f
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by scioto 2y ago
What he should have done was to create a foundation for supplying forks, making him and his roommate the officers of the foundation. They could have then solicited funds, including matching from other organizations. From those funds, they c
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Ranking Science Fiction's Most Dangerous Awards(reactormag.com)
1 points by scioto 2y ago|0 comments
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by scioto 3y ago
Tiny data point to support: when the PS5 first came out and for what I perceived a long time afterward it was hard has heck to get one, so I lost interest and put together another Windows gaming machine. Never came back on my radar.
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by scioto 3y ago
Well, if it "just works," then it wasn't that hard to do anyway. No raise for you.
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by scioto 3y ago
More like in a year you'll need to subscribe to the 14.99€/month tier to get it to work at all.
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by scioto 3y ago
I also remember working with punch cards as a non-CS engineering major doing FORTRAN. Then in the middle of the course I discovered the timeshare terminals for another mainframe that had a link to the IBM 360 on which we submitted our jobs.
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by scioto 3y ago
This is natural progression. The apex predator takes over and over-grazes the land, so to speak, to the point where it no longer supports the apex, so eventually the apex predator dies off, and the other species that are left can flourish.
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by scioto 3y ago
When iOS introduced the long press, that pretty much did it for me: I couldn't tell what user interface element did what when I pressed on it, so I tried tapping everything. And now we have to long-press on things to make them do other
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by scioto 3y ago
Oh yeah. Just a little bit of snark-slash-commentary since humans are being treated as profit centers. My FP of 20+ years also retired after selling his practice, as per the article. I do think it's sad (no, I'm not depressed!) t
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by scioto 3y ago
I've already outlived my ancestors, and the world's a pretty dismal place, or at least the US is, so why not let an otherwise preventable disease take me 20 years earlier?
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by scioto 3y ago
And that is why I don't have any "smart" devices in my house. Except for my Internet-connected bathroom scale. It's been giving me the side-eye for a while now.
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by scioto 3y ago
I only use Windows for games.
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by scioto 3y ago
And that's why I don't leave reviews on Amazon, or pretty much any site these days. I have purchased (okay, indefinitely rented) too much media on Amazon, eBooks, videos, etc., and I don't want to lose them because of a non-f
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by scioto 3y ago
Be glad you don't live in Texas, where using your turn signal is tantamount to issuing a challenge, and is seen as aggressive behavior: "Oh, you want that right lane? No, it's MINE!" Or worse, people don't see turn
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by scioto 3y ago
In the early days of computers it was a struggle. A struggle to get time on a machine, whether it be by punched card, paper tape, standing in line to submit your job, getting on a timeshare terminal, or connecting to the mainframe via 300-b
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by scioto 4y ago
In the Navy you usually don't put geniuses at the helm of a ship. They're told what to do, and you judge their experience by how straight the wake is behind the ship (angular momentum).

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