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by vogelke 7d ago
+1. One of my favorite quotes: No one hates so bitterly as the lazy and poor contemplating the energetic and prosperous. --Dale Worley
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by vogelke 11d ago
> in, say, two years, we will be all writing and talking like this Shoot me now.
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by vogelke 14d ago
If they can't justify why this is a bug, and why it's worth your time to fix this as opposed to something else, you should be able to revoke their permission to touch your backlog.
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by vogelke 20d ago
This is perfect. Since AI makes it easier for incompetent people to look smart, AI can help us expose those people for what they are.
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by vogelke 1mo ago
By checking the diffs carefully, you're showing how to use an LLM to add value instead of creating a 17000-line PR that nobody with any sense will read. LLMs are really good at making it harder to ignore ignorant people, and you'v
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by vogelke 1mo ago
This is right on the money. It's not that we have way more bad engineers than before; it's that the damage they do is out of all proportion to their numbers.
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by vogelke 2mo ago
> I can't give them any sort of answer that makes sense ... Pride of workmanship. For those who understand, no answer is needed. For those who don't, no answer will work.
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by vogelke 2mo ago
> ...management is making strategic decisions after snorting a long line of social-media-psychosis and TED talks. +1. Straight into my quotes file.
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by vogelke 2mo ago
I love this. Straight into my quotes file.
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by vogelke 3mo ago
Matt Stoller has written some excellent articles about Ticketmaster's monopoly crap.
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by vogelke 4mo ago
Probably. As an American, I have to agree with you -- it's been the case for many years (WAY before Trump) that within 50 miles of our border, your rights go to wherever last year's snow went. It's too bad so few people can
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by vogelke 4mo ago
I have a Dell 2208 monitor with 4 USB-2 ports. If I bought three of these switches, would I be able to share keyboard/mouse/monitor between two machines? My monitor does not have HDMI, just VGA.
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by vogelke 4mo ago
Best part about open source -- Mercurial is still around, I use it for my home servers, and it's being maintained. I can use git, but Mercurial's workflow just makes more sense to me.
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by vogelke 4mo ago
The "Demon Seed" book was creepier (and a lot more pervy) than the movie.
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by vogelke 4mo ago
I hope you're kidding. I've seen lots of 'Net people claim to be experts, and I wouldn't trust most of them to feed my cat.
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by vogelke 5mo ago
https://lwn.net/Articles/343828/ describes Alan Cox trying to fix the TTY layer, being trashed by Linus, and removing himself from the maintainer page.
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by vogelke 5mo ago
Exactly. Legal drugs get weaker because you can exchange information about minimum required dosages (saving money) without risking arrest. Illegal drugs get stronger for exactly the reason you stated in your first paragraph.
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by vogelke 5mo ago
> It's a one lane road and "over taking" is not possible. Best poop-related comment I've seen.
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by vogelke 5mo ago
Your core skills are fine. Unfortunately, appreciation for those skills has already been blasted into orbit by the AI-BS bubble. This tech has made it easier for second-handers to pass off inadequate work as the equal of your work. They&#
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by vogelke 6mo ago
Thank you for this article. If I want to be told when to upgrade, I know where to shop, i.e. Bill's Bloatware in Redmond.
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by vogelke 6mo ago
Great example of a commonplace book. Jillian Hess has written extensively about this -- her books are well-researched and organized.
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by vogelke 8mo ago
I've read at least 8 articles this week about LLMs having massive hallucinations/brain-farts when writing testbeds for code. Unfortunately, the author didn't see the problems until he tried adding a test; then he had a huge
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by vogelke 8mo ago
If I treated reading like a chore, it would start to feel like a chore. I'm not being graded. If I start a book and I don't care about the subject or the characters after 50-100 pages or so, it goes in my Goodwill pile. The only
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by vogelke 1y ago
> I don't think I've ever seen a school essay back then that wasn't obviously written by a parent. That's when you discuss the essay with the kid, and if he can't understand something that presumably he wrote, im
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by vogelke 1y ago
I'd recommend the book "Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think". Published by O'Reilly, ISBN-10 ‏ : 0596510047
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by vogelke 1y ago
> millions of victims from false advertising of Big Tobacco People have known that smoking is bad for your health for around 400 years. You can't fix stupid, not even by making advertising illegal.
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by vogelke 2y ago
I use it for two things: * saving webpages as text with the links nicely organized at the bottom, and * calling it from mutt (MUA) to display HTML parts of mail messages. It works great and it's consistent.
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by vogelke 2y ago
I keep my history in a format showing the current working directory next to each command. If you're interested, have a look at https://bezoar.org/src/dotfiles/README.htm#command-history
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by vogelke 2y ago
Sounds like "Landru" in ST:TOS.
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by vogelke 3y ago
Sounds a lot like working with the US Air Force, unfortunately.

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