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Please be kind and rewind!
But just wait until all consumer image display and capture devices start using invisible-to-the-naked-eye watermarking and content protection, only allowing you to photograph sources which have explicitly granted permission to be photographed. :-)
Re:Rust Solves the Issues with Exceptions on Saturday November 30, 2024 @03:19PM (#42283775)
Click the triangle icon next to that question to see the answer. :-)
Re:Syncthing Android App Discontinued on Monday October 21, 2024 @07:31PM (#41909637)
Appreciate the feedback. For some reason I feel like I dismissed this as an option at one point, but that was long ago. I'll take another look!
Re:Syncthing Android App Discontinued on Monday October 21, 2024 @07:30PM (#41909634)
Thanks for the info. I haven't looked at this in a while. I'll take another look!
Re:Syncthing Android App Discontinued on Sunday October 20, 2024 @05:04PM (#41898451)
Same. I wish there were an alternative (a practical pocket computer), but there really isn't. So I too gave up on fighting my phone, and have also completely stopped doing mobile development. I now treat my phone essentially as an untrusted, prepackaged walled garden with limited utility. :-/
Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your prompts in ChatGPT? on Monday September 09, 2024 @02:49PM (#41492052)
Hah! This resonated with me. Maybe I'm just "getting old", but I fail to understand the value of 99% of this stuff...
Re:Our Audit of Homebrew on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @08:35PM (#41115464)
Hah! IIRC, it was a binary tree of some sort.
Because everything is buggy these days. ;-)
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Re:A Senior Engineer's Check-List on Thursday September 21, 2023 @02:01AM (#37593756)
Apologies for the late reply (too busy!), but thank you for your response. I appreciate it!
Re:A Senior Engineer's Check-List on Thursday September 21, 2023 @02:00AM (#37593747)
Sorry for the late reply (I have been too busy!), but I appreciate your helpful response. Thanks!
Re:A Senior Engineer's Check-List on Sunday September 10, 2023 @02:59PM (#37458853)
I always find advice like this a little confusing. A lot of these things seem (to me) to be none of the engineers' business.

To me, engineers receive specs from management and implement solutions that meet those specs. And that's it.

I suppose my personal experience must not be how things work elsewhere! Kind of fascinating, and it makes me wonder if people enjoy all this extra responsibility and how things go when engineers disagree with management.

Re:Food rations in communist Poland, early 1980s on Sunday August 06, 2023 @07:57PM (#37028278)
"The central planning system, while intended to ensure equitable distribution, was riddled with inefficiencies and mismanagement."

I'm shocked. *Shocked*, I say!

Re:Food rations in communist Poland, early 1980s on Sunday August 06, 2023 @07:57PM (#37028277)
"The central planning system, while intended to ensure equitable distribution, was riddled with inefficiencies and mismanagement."

I'm shocked. Shocked, I say!

Re:Silicon, Silica, Silicates and Silicone (1998) [pdf] on Sunday July 23, 2023 @12:55AM (#36832652)
My impression was always that this was an east/west-coast thing. I could be wrong!
Probably. Everyone has also long since forgotten the original purpose of HTML! ;-)
Re:An Elm Fork on Saturday June 10, 2023 @06:53PM (#36276092)
I keep clicking on Elm stories, thinking they're going to be about Elm the email client... :-)
Re:Why Men Are Hard to Help on Saturday October 01, 2022 @05:40PM (#33050389)
No.
yup, same here.
Re:How “let it fail” leads to simpler code on Saturday July 16, 2022 @07:57PM (#32123062)
I've seen a lot of new developers shocked by this approach, which surprises me a little. They seem to think that it's up to the application to handle all errors, even those of the programmer(s). This, of course, is unreasonable since it would essentially require knowing all the bugs in advance. :-)
Incidentally, my plumber comes packing. :-)
Re:Who Owns 4chan? on Sunday May 29, 2022 @08:54PM (#31554442)
Yup. They were only interesting to me for 2-3 years. :-)
Re:Who Owns 4chan? on Sunday May 29, 2022 @07:50PM (#31554026)
I thought they were pretty useful until roughly the mid-'90s. They seemed to go into full hype mode at that point, IIRC... I cancelled my sub around that time.
Re:Remote Pseudoterminals on Sunday May 01, 2022 @04:47PM (#31228532)
FYI, somewhat related:

https://mosh.org/

Re:California's Vanished Dream, by the Numbers on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @05:22PM (#31020464)
We were, but society has resurrected it for cynical political reasons.
Re:The Miniscribe Brick Fiasco [video] on Sunday April 03, 2022 @06:57PM (#30901590)
Thanks for the tip. I'd never come across this channel before, but I now love it!
In general, I think a large part of academia is basically "toe the line or get out". And I've worked in academia for 28 years.
Re:A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar on Sunday January 30, 2022 @04:39PM (#30141389)
> These people know literally nothing about human perception

I'm sure there's a legitimate way to interpret this statement, but it still made me scratch my head a bit. :-)

Re:Tabby – A Terminal for the Modern Age on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @01:45PM (#29555545)
Thus "for the modern age"... ;-)

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