ETrade also started recently to include that disgusting thing in their News feed for watch lists -- as if it can really predict anything, with no way to turn it off (AFAICT). It's clear that it's being pushed in many…
I can't understand why this company won't rebrand itself to something a bit catchier or better-sounding name than DuckDuckGo -- who the hell wants to say that ? Unless it's a self-selection filter...
Medium always is the message, eventually.
Lovely article with a happy ending! One thing that I am glad to have been taught early on in my career when it comes to debugging, especially anything involving HW, is to `make no assumptions'. Bugs can be anywhere and…
I wonder if they had meetings or 'design committees' to find the most optimal shape with respect to the ease of killing prey eventually. One possibility on origin (totally made up by me) could be that there were large…
As a supporting point, I think it's connected not only with mental functions, but also our senses. I have a weak memory in general, but I always remember the most mundane things in my life that I had no idea I still…
I was adamant on using one of those health/exercise tracking devices, mainly out of distaste of our modern habit to be constantly in the know of everything, but I gotta say, since I've started using one, it's just so…
This discussion reminds me a beautiful sentence I read in 'The Power and the Glory' by Graham Greene: "Hope is an instinct that only the reasoning human mind can kill."
> VS (ctrl+,) takes several seconds and intermixes search results for files and file contents, when I'm only interested in files. I hate this a lot. It's gotten so bad the last couple of releases to the point that I try…
Or any time one dares to criticize Israel for their recent contributions to peace on Earth (wink wink) -- it has to be prefaced with "Let me say that I'm the biggest defender of the Jews and fight against…
> Unrelated to the article, but related to the topic, the compliment that gives me the most dopamine is when somebody I respect and is above my level of knowledge tells me “that’s a great question”. It just makes me…
That's a good point, thanks.
I recently started using one of these. The other day, I was working out on a rowing machine and received an alert (twice!) that my heart rate was extremely high. I was surprised because I wasn't even pushing myself that…
My parents and their generation suffers a lot from this, I feel. They grew up in a time (and in a country, I guess) where any information that they'd digest on TVs, newspapers, etc. came vetted officially or…
Is it really that much different than e.g. a cook preparing carrots while onions are being cooked? Nobody needed to invent this as far as my knowledge of history goes; so, maybe there really is nothing new under the sun…
My concern is slightly different; it's the ease of debugging. And I don't mean debugging the code that I (or sb else) wrote, but the ability to freely modify the code to kick some ideas around and see what sticks, etc.…
That was a lengthy, but nice article/review about someone that I didn't know of before. Not strictly similar, but this brings to my mind Graham Greene's masterpiece, The Power and the Glory, and his 'whisky priest'.…
This book is so unexpectedly funny! Once I was reading it on the train and couldn't help but laugh loudly a couple of times. People in the compartment were perplexed.
So, you needed to rewind the tape to the beginning if you wanted to return it after having partially watched it i.e. at 40%? Now I wonder, did the store owners check each tape on return for this? I hope it was a quick…
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Funny that you bring this up -- I feel exactly the same way and I even had more math background than average SW person. Being on the engineering side of things without much knowledge/focus on programming languages…
I'd say it's first and foremost a political tool. Pseudo dictators especially love it. Let's say you're a mayor who needs to increase the price of a public utility by 10%, what do you do? You announce that this price…
Thank you! This sounds like it's what I am after. I've been using Xiaomi phones for the same purpose, but they started neglecting software side heavily since last year or so. This should be a good replacement.
I'm considering getting a Pixel 7 or 8, how do you like your device in general? I'm looking for a cheapish, hassle-free device that doesn't require much maintenance or tinkering with and that just works.
Yeah, I had to check if it's one of those bots. It's fascinating to me that a person has the urge to spit out two paragraphs devoid of any correct information or value for that matter, as an answer to a question online…
ETrade also started recently to include that disgusting thing in their News feed for watch lists -- as if it can really predict anything, with no way to turn it off (AFAICT). It's clear that it's being pushed in many…
I can't understand why this company won't rebrand itself to something a bit catchier or better-sounding name than DuckDuckGo -- who the hell wants to say that ? Unless it's a self-selection filter...
Medium always is the message, eventually.
Lovely article with a happy ending! One thing that I am glad to have been taught early on in my career when it comes to debugging, especially anything involving HW, is to `make no assumptions'. Bugs can be anywhere and…
I wonder if they had meetings or 'design committees' to find the most optimal shape with respect to the ease of killing prey eventually. One possibility on origin (totally made up by me) could be that there were large…
As a supporting point, I think it's connected not only with mental functions, but also our senses. I have a weak memory in general, but I always remember the most mundane things in my life that I had no idea I still…
I was adamant on using one of those health/exercise tracking devices, mainly out of distaste of our modern habit to be constantly in the know of everything, but I gotta say, since I've started using one, it's just so…
This discussion reminds me a beautiful sentence I read in 'The Power and the Glory' by Graham Greene: "Hope is an instinct that only the reasoning human mind can kill."
> VS (ctrl+,) takes several seconds and intermixes search results for files and file contents, when I'm only interested in files. I hate this a lot. It's gotten so bad the last couple of releases to the point that I try…
Or any time one dares to criticize Israel for their recent contributions to peace on Earth (wink wink) -- it has to be prefaced with "Let me say that I'm the biggest defender of the Jews and fight against…
> Unrelated to the article, but related to the topic, the compliment that gives me the most dopamine is when somebody I respect and is above my level of knowledge tells me “that’s a great question”. It just makes me…
That's a good point, thanks.
I recently started using one of these. The other day, I was working out on a rowing machine and received an alert (twice!) that my heart rate was extremely high. I was surprised because I wasn't even pushing myself that…
My parents and their generation suffers a lot from this, I feel. They grew up in a time (and in a country, I guess) where any information that they'd digest on TVs, newspapers, etc. came vetted officially or…
Is it really that much different than e.g. a cook preparing carrots while onions are being cooked? Nobody needed to invent this as far as my knowledge of history goes; so, maybe there really is nothing new under the sun…
My concern is slightly different; it's the ease of debugging. And I don't mean debugging the code that I (or sb else) wrote, but the ability to freely modify the code to kick some ideas around and see what sticks, etc.…
That was a lengthy, but nice article/review about someone that I didn't know of before. Not strictly similar, but this brings to my mind Graham Greene's masterpiece, The Power and the Glory, and his 'whisky priest'.…
This book is so unexpectedly funny! Once I was reading it on the train and couldn't help but laugh loudly a couple of times. People in the compartment were perplexed.
So, you needed to rewind the tape to the beginning if you wanted to return it after having partially watched it i.e. at 40%? Now I wonder, did the store owners check each tape on return for this? I hope it was a quick…
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Funny that you bring this up -- I feel exactly the same way and I even had more math background than average SW person. Being on the engineering side of things without much knowledge/focus on programming languages…
I'd say it's first and foremost a political tool. Pseudo dictators especially love it. Let's say you're a mayor who needs to increase the price of a public utility by 10%, what do you do? You announce that this price…
Thank you! This sounds like it's what I am after. I've been using Xiaomi phones for the same purpose, but they started neglecting software side heavily since last year or so. This should be a good replacement.
I'm considering getting a Pixel 7 or 8, how do you like your device in general? I'm looking for a cheapish, hassle-free device that doesn't require much maintenance or tinkering with and that just works.
Yeah, I had to check if it's one of those bots. It's fascinating to me that a person has the urge to spit out two paragraphs devoid of any correct information or value for that matter, as an answer to a question online…