slindsey

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by slindsey 6mo ago
"CS is the welding. SE is the structural engineering." No. Computer Science (CS) is the basis. It's the fundamentals underneath Software Engineering (SE). The author is trying to convey that current CS education is not enough
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by slindsey 1y ago
With a minimum of googling, it seems that Honda already makes this vehicle in both the U.S. and Canada. They appear to be adding shifts to the U.S. to boost production 30% while lowering it elsewhere. So "Yay" I guess. It's o
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by slindsey 2y ago
The "Intelligent Machines" podcast from twit.tv interviewed them and they get away with this because they are not recording the audio. It is never recorded or kept, it is transcribed in real-time and then sent to the AI and tokeni
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by slindsey 2y ago
For years I've thought of creating a "paid" Firefox fork that is _just_ Firefox rebranded, but otherwise the exact codebase. The money brought in would be used to pay an open source developer to work strictly on things intend
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by slindsey 2y ago
This is the key message in my opinion. I've worked with wonderful software developers who can accomplish far more than others (as well as a few who are a net drain on the team.) The key is to craft an organization that allows anyone wi
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by slindsey 2y ago
He has joined the same substack, The Contrarian
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by slindsey 2y ago
I've heard AI advocates talk about a "right to read" or "right to learn"; meaning that we have the right to read something and then internalize it and use it. Therefore, why shouldn't an AI have the same right?
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by slindsey 2y ago
I HATE working out. One thing I found that worked for me was to simply do 5 pushups and 10 squats first thing stepping out of bed. No matter what. Takes a few seconds and it's done before you can complain about it. After a while I bump
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by slindsey 2y ago
My team recently paid for this on self-hosted GitLab ultimate. I would not suggest this for self-hosted. We've been having issues that seem to be related to self-hosting that are requiring a lot of effort from our System Admins to work
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by slindsey 2y ago
If it's just the text that they're concerned about, then putting that text (email and website text content) into something that can track changes is the right solution. Developers would use git. You could use Google Docs with a se
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by slindsey 2y ago
I would assume that the intention is that the user sets their default (e.g. Firefox) and this prevents Microsoft from changing it back to Edge.
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by slindsey 3y ago
Since it doesn't say it anywhere on the linked page or in the headline, from Wikipedia: Capture the Flag (CTF) in computer security is an exercise in which participants attempt to find text strings, called "flags", which are
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by slindsey 3y ago
I expect there are many careers that are similar. In some ways, your experience doesn't matter. A civil engineer with 40 years of experience building houses, malls, or parking garages is still a rookie if they're building their fi
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by slindsey 3y ago
Based on my experience with Large Language Models (LLM) so far, I see more value in niche sites that marginalia will help the user find. An LLM is regurgitating what it reads, true or false. There's a bias for things it sees more often
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by slindsey 3y ago
There's also that picture of the trucker that shows the damage the sun did to the left side of his face after 28 years of driving a truck. Google "picture of trucker with sun damage"
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by slindsey 3y ago
Based on my mastodon experience, it's a little more nuanced than that. You are on a server (not the star trek one). Someone on your server needs to follow stuff on that star trek server for it to show up on your server. So if your comm
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by slindsey 3y ago
Lazarus on FreePascal
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by slindsey 3y ago
"ReactOS™ is an Open Source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft® Windows™ NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 7). The ReactOS p
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by slindsey 3y ago
ACM code of ethics and a discussion about it below. Otherwise a good general article. We (developer related jobs) need to be able to push back. But then again, some people just don't care, as long as they get paid. I still think a guil
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by slindsey 3y ago
"While Bose is no longer manufacturing and selling SoundControl™ Hearing Aids, we are continuing to offer our complimentary technical support for those who have already purchased SoundControl™ Hearing Aids." https://www
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by slindsey 3y ago
Just to take a different perspective for anyone reading this, your database is more than _just_ your persistence layer. It can be where rules about the business live. Rather than rely on 12 different applications or code in 27 different fil
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by slindsey 3y ago
Twice in the comments you said you wanted to discuss "neopotism" (I'm assuming you mean nepotism). Yet you didn't say that in the main question for some reason. Nepotism wouldn't be a cause of layoffs but a situatio
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by slindsey 3y ago
Maybe others can sympathize with my personal experience. I'm a morning person. But mentally, I can't completely focus when there's things that I have to do later. I'm always worried about those upcoming things (responsib
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by slindsey 3y ago
Part of the problem within this article is the choice of pictures. The first section states, “In nearly every country all people really wanted was a landscape with a few figures around, animals in the foreground, mainly blue.” They then pre
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by slindsey 4y ago
One small anecdote of a project at work. The oldest current project. All our projects are fairly simple and similar. They all use libraries and templates. This one is the last of the early projects before those templates and libraries. It&#
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by slindsey 4y ago
And I hope that every company understands that unless you offer a sane hiring practice, you aren't going to get the best developers. "Every other candidate was desperate and rejected a thousand times so they're happy to waste
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by slindsey 4y ago
Someone else pointed out the recent paper, but I'll also point out that $75k per year in the US puts you in the 1% of global population for salary. So it's not like $75k is attainable for most people. https://howrichami
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by slindsey 4y ago
Around 2 dollars US for a medium coffee that cost them pennies. According to him, the other things they sold were there just to bring people in. Money was in the coffee because it was cheap and easy.
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by slindsey 4y ago
Just an anecdote; I spoke to a manager at a small coffee shop and he said that they make all their money on coffee alone by 9am (and surprisingly, they licensed Starbucks coffee). Everything else was a pain and barely covered costs because
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by slindsey 4y ago
It would be cool if someone who is familiar (OP?) could give a little more context. The only description on the page is the title here: "Better font rendering for Windows". The link to the main website says nothing and only provid

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