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polymatter

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About polymatter

software developer and accountant

interested in functional programming, learning chinese

email: glisher (underscore) rock (at) hotmail (dot) com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #45330864

    Maybe being able to follow a set of (seemingly silly) instructions should be part of the interview/onboarding process. And emphasised at job performance time.

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    Comment #44381626

    Thank you for including a non subscription “lifetime” payment option.

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    Comment #43544528

    Second this request

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    Comment #43126005

    But that happens anyway. Patent litigation is expensive and time consuming and is far more often used to punch down, regardless of merits. The fairy tale of the solo patent holder …

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    Comment #42407425

    What’s the “baby formula brouhaha”?

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    Comment #41217194

    There is a race based on that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon It’s often fairly close between human and horse

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    Comment #40882958

    That doesn’t make it less true! It’s a bet because it’s risky “capital is at risk”,“value of investments can go down as well as up” etc. As opposed to a savings account which is fa…

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    Comment #40790336

    And they can be learnt outside of school just as well. I'll never understand how readily people are to accept schooling.

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    Comment #40307562

    Question is asked in traditional characters which are common in Taiwan (and Chinese diaspora). China uses simplified characters (mostly). Might make a difference.

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    Comment #39729763

    How do you use AI to learn internals of massive repos? Surely the context is too big and/or it requires opening org code up and I'd never get approval for that. What LLM do you use…

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    Comment #39062673

    Sounds like time to consider small claims court.

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    Comment #38971713

    Perhaps forced bankruptcy to personally pay back compensation to the Post Office. Follow the money the way they do with terrorists.

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    Comment #37424262

    Yes to my understanding. Parliament makes the laws. No court can override Parliament. No existing law binds Parliament. The only thing stopping this is how incredibly embarrassing …

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    Comment #36963306

    Companies House (part of UK civil service) | Senior Developer | Full time | Remote in UK or Hybrid in Cardiff | Can sponsor Visa to UK We can offer an incredible defined benefit pe…

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    Comment #36401078

    The feeling of community. If you _feel_ like you are with a community then you are more likely to stick with it. Presumably that's why there is a chat.

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    Comment #33230474

    Exactly. They need to vet each project

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    Comment #33230400

    Exactly, the chain of custody is absolutely required for this to be legal because no oracle can exist. It must be able to attribute exactly who contributed the suspect code. It mus…

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    Comment #30683711

    Does Windows Defeneder not count?

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    Comment #30672247

    Dragonbox algebra uses the normal algebra notation for the later stages, so it could be you just need to persist. For example initially the unknown variable is the namesake cute dr…

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    Comment #30670403

    Why do you need reports to drop hints? Once they are even considering leaving for a greater salary enough that they are interviewing, they are half a step out of there already. You…

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    Comment #29916796

    What are RSUs?

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    Comment #29458663

    Unlucky. It might not even be keyword matching, AI systems in use a far dumber than that. AI systems are mostly trained random noise and it can be impossible to know what set them …

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    Comment #29339945

    In general, I'm beginning to feel that habitually updating software is a risk. I have a paperwhite, but I haven't connected it for a while. Generally when I do connect it to a PC t…

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    Comment #29197653

    This is someones property not "free stuff". Its theft if you take it. These packages will actually have names and addresses of the actual owners written on them so you can't even s…