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5,752karma·1,549submissions·February 26, 2009
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I've got a YouTube channel - It's surprisingly successful and people find it interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/atomic14
You can email me: chris -at- cmgresearch.com
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I suspect the people responsible have fully justified to themselves any decisions they made, helped along with any bonuses they got for doing it.
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Teams and SharePoint eventually infect any organisation that uses Office.
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Just feed their response back into GPT...
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I think this has always been the case. Smart, aligned, people will make a success out of pretty much anything.
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Doesn’t seem to be working…
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Given this article is behind a paywall, what on earth is everyone discussing in the comments here?
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Might be worth making it clearer that the chat messages are going to a remote server. So any PII data is leaving the local machine.
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I’m no expert, but a bit of googling tells us. The laws around bankruptcy define the priority of who gets paid and in what order: - Secured Claims - Unsecured Priority Claims - Unsecured Non-Priority …
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I thoroughly recommend this podcast if you are interested in where the English language comes from: https://historyofenglishpodcast.com …
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You would hope that people who visit hacker news would be willing to spend a few minutes doing some research, but I guess that does get engagement.
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> I have seen people take this to some bizarre alternate insanity of their own creation as a law to never measure anything, typically because the given developer cannot measure things. Similar to t…
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I can’t really say, but it’s honestly not very much.
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LLMs still seem to really struggle with layout. These design tools seem to work well for designs that flow naturally like webpages. But try and design say an “An A4 poster with a hero image, main text…
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Exactly this. There are now many great open source coding agents. All we lack is a good model to point them at. Models are going to commodities - just switch the most affordable. Longer term, running …
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To be honest, without the sponsorship from PCBWay I would probably have stopped making videos on my channel. It’s not a lot of money - but there is an informal commitment that I will try and produce a…
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I would add the capability to be able to seamlessly rotate keys. But otherwise, yes, for love of everything holy - keep it simple.
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What’s not surprising is how despite the upvotes this never appeared on the home page.
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Very much like humans when they drown in technical debt. I think the idea that a messy codebase can be magically fixed is laughable. What I might believe though is that agents might make rewrites a lo…
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Would be handy to actually see what these companies do…
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That’s not necessarily true. A lot of companies are very risk averse and will sit there creaming off profit and not making any investment. If someone came to you and said - you have two choices: Work …
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Emotional state, tiredness, drunkenness, a goods nights sleep… the number of factors that drive our responses is ridiculous.
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A lot of the railway network uses a “third rail” to carry power. You don’t necessarily need overhead lines. https://www.networkrail.co.uk/our-work/looking-after-the-rai... …