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_ugfj

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About _ugfj

dang: please delete my account

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    > Built with o1. Yes, yes, database with AI written code. NoSQL with a database that can't be trusted with your data? I. have. seen. this. before. To quote a classic: > I suggest y…

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    > If the airline knows your name, and their attendants see and verify your face when boarding anyway, then are we losing anything through the use of face scans? Your face scan is n…

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    had WPEngine (and a horde of Emanuel Urquhart lawyers led by Rachel Kassabian) are taking him to the cleaners. This won't be pretty. A preliminary injunction is not easy to get, it…

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    And it never will The first 90% is easy, it's the second 90% that is very hard.

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    > I was more awed by Stonehenge than Notre Dame. Recommended reading: Dawn Of Everything.

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    This brings up a very old memory: the readme of Volkov Commander said the author of it is some nuclear institute in Kyiv. Yup. (Also, I uploaded Volkov Commander to SIMTEL 31 years…

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    This is a popular narrative but really, those nukes were a burden on Ukraine and nothing more -- the forces possessing and maintaining those weapons reported to Russia and any laun…

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    Yes, yes, yes, of course, the infamous CPU released just so Intel middle managers can get their bonus. GPU disabled, CPU gimped, the whole thing barely worked at all. Let's call it…

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    Most of the stock buybacks happened under Bob Swan though. Krzanich dug the grave of Intel but it was Swan who kicked the company in there by wasting forty billion. (No wonder he l…

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    The first iteration of Intel 10nm was simply broken -- you had Ice Lake mobile CPUs in 2019 yes but desktop and server processors took another two years to be released. In 2012 Int…

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    The essence of being senior, I feel is "I have made the mistake you are about to make". This echoes in language learning. When I was learning Go I could easily pinpoint what langua…

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    hopeless AI cultists everywhere as I said above: I already asked dang to delete this account, I do not want to be here anymore

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    That's not the next thing that's the same thing

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    I listed like half a dozen things that could go wrong and the only reply is "look this particular one in this singular case the bullshit is accidentally correct". Hopeless, as I sa…

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    Y'all are hopeless. I already asked dang to delete this account.

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    Yeah but this is where a human is indispensable. Suppose the source language has words which could be translated into multiple English words -- look at all the power banks which ar…

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    Yes but GP said > Where I live, you can only select from a central, though frequently updated, list of names when naming your child I was born in such a country too and still have …

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    In 1985, my parents went to West Germany with an organized tour and smuggled a ZX Spectrum for us. At the same time, they sent me to a computer - focused daycamp at a community cen…

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    Not only that but if you have a multiple continental team then no one needs to be waken by an emergency meow. (My PagerDuty is set to a meow sound. So we practice meow driven devel…