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OzzyB

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About OzzyB

Hacker of all things Javascript & Python (mostly)

Inquiries: hn [at] ozburo.com

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    Comment #49058464

    I can help with this. I used to work in an industry that adopted this approach.

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    Comment #46064347

    Put in a couple of MIDI ports and I'll pretend it's a modern day Atari ST and run some Cubase...

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    Comment #44052316

    _this_ is the Judgement Day we were warned about--not in the nuclear annihilation sense--but the "AI was then let loose on all our codez and the systems went down" sense crazy time…

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    Comment #43562120

    Thank you for taking up the mantle!

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    Comment #42602187

    So it turns out that AI is just like another function, inputs and outputs, and the better you design your input (prompt) the better the output (intelligence), got it.

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    Comment #36711260

    Perhaps you're a testament to why we actually want "managers who are also engineers" in these roles - for exactly cases like these, where you have the experience to know what "done…

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    Comment #36603571

    Semantic Web FTW xD

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    Comment #35614927

    This was dramatized in Darren Brown's "The System"[1] some years ago, but instead of stock picks he used horse race betting. Its amazing to see the people that won on the previous …

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    Comment #34851842

    > "poor little rich boy story," I think you're taking my example a little too literally there... it's an example. The point is to save the reveal (spoilers?) till the end so that y…

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    Comment #34847777

    That's exactly why it's written this way -- to devoid the reader of any prejudice and humanize this tragic story -- because it is tragic. If it was written "normally", like "Elvis'…

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    Comment #33163838

    > 01:04 "And I can't even say his name" Well, it looks like a big fail right off the bat.

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    Comment #33085942

    I believe that would be BONDS (or GILTS if you're in the UK)

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    Comment #32955663

    Yes, it's a demo, welcome to the Demoscene™

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    Comment #32662517

    Don't worry, by the time this kid's old enough to even care, he'll be unrecognizable. If it's any consolation. I cannot recognize this kid as anything other than a "kid". Good look…

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    Comment #31583661

    Hmmm... not really, irrc you will be bound by memory limits of your browser/wasm context. Small videos would be fine, large ones, not so much...

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    Comment #30790723

    I think prolific in this case is more the "Super Whizkid DJ Creates 100,000 Tracks in a Week" sense -- not in the sense that you may or may not have heard of them...

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    Comment #30678087

    I maybe mistaken but I believe you can create additional aliases under the same account -- I seem to remember doing that a few months back when I got auto-updated to Google Workspa…

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    Comment #29751391

    Yes indeed. IMO this is also a good example of engineers looking for complex bugs and solutions which are simply not there.

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    Comment #29592774

    Opps! Yeah you're right. I need to read better xD

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    Comment #29583362

    > Harvard I wonder how much this plays into your being left alone and not being challenged by your co-workers. My guess is a lot. I'm sure the cachet of being an "Harvard Guy" has …

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    Comment #29002764

    > url imports Aren't they just taking a feather out of Golang's hat?

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    Comment #28361128

    What you really mean is that it was US centric and wasn't spammed to death by bot networks and state-backed actors that want to sow division. The fact that you had to get the disk …

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    Comment #28259682

    Just EFF'ing sign it.

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    Comment #28171502

    The point I'm making is that you can simply modify an already existing font "just enough" for it to be considered a new work. This is essentially what happened with Arial w/ Helvet…

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    Comment #28161411

    Yes, welcome to Corporate Typograhism™ where big corp takes an already existing (copyrighted) font -- change it a little -- then release it as their own. Some Copyright is more Cop…