teapot7

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by teapot7 27d ago
"structures that use non-traditional methods and materials" ... "built on the foundation of Christ" Ok, got it. That is a non-traditional building material.
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by teapot7 5mo ago
I am in fact a bear at this very moment.
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by teapot7 5mo ago
Ok - bear mode activated: I'll add 'The Star Bear' by Michael Swanwick, where a man's series of encounters with a bear in Paris echo his feelings about being a Russian emigre. https://reactormag.com/the-s
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by teapot7 6mo ago
Similar to when someone said that the rule of thumb should not be DRY (don't repeat yourself) but WET (write everything twice) - that is, be happy to repeat similar code once or twice, and wait for the need for abstraction to become ev
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by teapot7 9mo ago
I'm pretty sure I've seen that one in a list, by a French person, of things they wish other people wouldn't say!
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by teapot7 11mo ago
> I don’t believe it. There are just as many variables involved in writing a short story. Surely you're not implying that writing a good short story is a solved problem for computers?
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by teapot7 1y ago
Or because they're shy and antisocial but it's nice to think that they're part of the gang - as the original article was all about.
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by teapot7 1y ago
For me the followup was the most obviously AI bit of writing - it's exactly the tone you get when the AI admits it's been utterly wasting your time.
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by teapot7 1y ago
My ex boss read too much Ray Dalio and it ate his brain.
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by teapot7 1y ago
Yes! The number of lousy articles and blog posts I've seen that talk about "imperative, oo and functional programming"...
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by teapot7 1y ago
Oh a bug, surely. How is the quiz supposed to give you insights when it's unanswerable?
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by teapot7 1y ago
Cron is definitely not the biggest problem in my life. I've never had a problem with its format. I think this is a solution to a problem I don't have - and I tend to find that "English like" formats don't do me any
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by teapot7 1y ago
I remember how much I liked my old iPhone 4. I liked the straight edges and crisp look and feel. I upgraded eventually to an iPhone 6 and hated the roundness - the design language of the phone said one thing to me, and that was "drop m
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by teapot7 1y ago
I'm closing in on 62 and I've been saying for a while now that as soon as I turned 60 my body sent me a note saying "That's it - I'm done now. The rest is up to you". I feel validated by this study.
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by teapot7 1y ago
The comments on the apple insider piece are quite something - apple fans have the most amazing cases of Stockholm syndrome.
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by teapot7 1y ago
Yeah. Bloody Apple. Google too. Like (I'm sure) plenty of other people here I've written an app and put it up on the Apple and Google app stores. It does what it does with no problems and it amuses me. Occasionally someone buys it
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by teapot7 1y ago
> We attacked Iraq because we were attacked on 9/11 Yes, by 15 Saudis, 2 from the United Arab Emirates, one Lebanese and one Egyptian. Funny old world.
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by teapot7 2y ago
Thanks - I got annoyed with their site for not (as far as I noticed anyway) mention what their gadget actually was .
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by teapot7 2y ago
I got a nice numpadless mechanical keyboard to conserve my deskspace, and because I never used the numpad anyway. Then I promptly got into Blender, which makes great use of the numpad for zooming, rotating etc. Off to buy another keyboard..
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by teapot7 2y ago
"A product should be owned by a lean team of experts, focused primarily on the architecture of their code rather than the implementation details." Sheesh! The Lizard People walk among us.
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by teapot7 2y ago
"Ayn Rand exists as a roundabout litmus test for assholes" is a pretty widely held idea. I've never read a book of hers, but the extracts I've read... well, I can see why people say that.
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by teapot7 2y ago
Though not as dull. Rand's writing can send you off to sleep in no time - and then if you're reading in bed you risk having the book fall on your head.
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by teapot7 2y ago
I believe you'll find that's a direct quote from Winston Churchill. Or was it Dorothy Parker?
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by teapot7 2y ago
Australia too.
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by teapot7 2y ago
This is a non-answer in a way, because it's set in the past. I think it might have been in the early '90s - certainly it was when mobile phones were new and faddish and the province of people with more money than sense. There was
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by teapot7 2y ago
That's rather evasive. The broccoli must have done something quite traumatic.
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by teapot7 2y ago
> is like asking what the economic consequences were of King Midas’s reign. Massive devaluation of gold, rampant inflation :)
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by teapot7 2y ago
My first job (mid 1980s) was writing video games in Z-80 assembler for chickenfeed. I still remember that in my interview my boss-to-be talked a bit about the company, and then hired me - literally without asking a single question. He knew
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by teapot7 2y ago
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/flying-citroen-cars-look-... :)
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by teapot7 2y ago
That's awful.

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