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Jesus_666

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  • Germany: Digital Minister wants open standards and open source as guiding principle

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  • There is the whole thing with Schleswig-Holstein at least. I'm not sure about how far around that is but they are planning to move to an open source stack. I'm also not sure how much money Microsoft will try to throw their way; I doubt they'll offer to move their German HQ to Kiel.

  • Interviews as seen by HR and the candidate

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  • Very true. Good coworkers can make work a lot more bearable.

    Looking a bit into the company's business can help, too. If they do something vaguely interesting that can be a bonus. I ignored that once in favor of perks and that got me into the complete disaster area that is fintech. Don't make the same mistake.

  • You can't "skill issue" yourself out from every situation

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  • Oh, don't get me wrong, I fully agree. Undefined behavior is terrible UX and a huge security risk.

    Undefined behavior was kind of okay when RAM and storage were measured in kilobytes and adding checks for this stuff was noticeably expensive. That time has passed, though, and modern developers have no business thinking like that, even ones working on low-level languages.

    I should've phrased my comment differently.

  • You can't "skill issue" yourself out from every situation

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  • Yeah, that's basically the kind of logic you use when designing a low-level programming language: If we didn't define what happens here then anything that happens is correct behavior and it's up to the user to avoid it.

    Of course applying that logic to a GUI application intended for a comparatively nontechnical audience is utter madness.

  • You can't "skill issue" yourself out from every situation

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  • That one's easy. Is the crash part of the program's design?

    If not: It's an implementation bug, the program is not behaving as intended.

    If yes: It's a design bug, crashes shouldn't be intended behavior.

  • Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year

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  • Ever since the BE200 debacle I don't know if I can trust Intel to deliver. Sure, the stuff that's already out there works but who knows if any of their future stuff will?

  • We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

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  • AI usually got better when people realized it wasn't going to do all it was hyped up for but was useful for a certain set of tasks.

    Then it turned from world-changing hotness to super boring tech your washing machine uses to fine-tune its washing program.

  • Github Discussion: Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories #159749

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  • Why not submit a million vibecoded PRs against various Microsoft repos? At some point they might get it.

  • 1/4>1/3 but 151>113

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  • Yes, I've literally seen baked goods advertised like that. One bakery in my town is proud of its bigger-than-average pretzels and puts the weight right there on the ad posters.

  • xkcd #3089: Modern

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  • Wasn't there a Dark Age after Bronze? The one where everyone was scowling the whole time and the stories were so tryhard edgy you could use a typical Youngblood issue as a letter opener?

    (Basically the "pouches" era the sibling comments talk about. Rob Liefeld's contributions to fashion will never be forgotten.)

  • Gul Dukat but without the charisma

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  • Welcome back; you're always a welcome sight. And know that we're 100% behind you whenever you need a break. Looking after yourself is important.

  • Sen. John Fetterman raises alarms with outburst at meeting with union officials

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  • Oh, please don't take that remark as an excuse or endorsement. The intended tone is one of resignation – pseudonymity reduces the social cost of bad manners to near zero and there's not much we can do about it.

    I will forgive people for being blunt in their criticism, however. High-ranking politicians are exactly the people who have to be able to take a certain level of verbal abuse since their decisions can change other people's lives in directions that justify the liberal use of expletives.

    Which plays back into my perception that Fetterman is currently not suited to his role.

  • Sen. John Fetterman raises alarms with outburst at meeting with union officials

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  • I can understand both sides here.

    On the one hand I have empathy with him like with any victim of such a life-altering injury and wish him a swift and full recovery. I don't want people to suffer and, quite frankly, "the brain doesn't work right anymore" is one of my personal horror scenarios.

    On the other hand this kind of behavior is a huge problem in someone capable of making decisions that can alter the lives of other people – millions of them, in this case. He has enough power to ruin a lot of people's lives, intentionally or not.

    Even as someone who isn't impacted by his mental fitness in any way, I'd agree that removing him from office seems like a good move. That man needs rest, not the stress of a high-profile political office during interesting times. And his state needs someone with a level head, which doesn't mesh well with a semi-recent traumatic brain injury.

    And, well, this is a politics community so guess which part the discussion will focus on. (Also, this is online so people are inclined to be assholes.)

  • Conception begins at ejaculation

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  • Conception begins at meiosis. If you don't want to procreate, don't produce ova/sperm. Produce a million sperm cells and only make one child? Off to death row with you, mass murderer!

  • The courage to be decent

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  • Well, the camera needs to talk to your onsite storage in order to store video. A simple consumer device like a Ring isn't going to be hardwired; it just uses Wi-Fi (which every household can be assumed to have) to connect to your LAN and talk to the storage device.

    The question is why the Wi-Fi could be turned off on the first place. Probably an ISP-managed router; I doubt they'd go and jam the entire spectrum between 2.4 and 7 GHz.

    That's one reason why people should use their own router and/or access point whenever possible.

  • Choices

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  • Looks like Yotsuba with a skull for a head. Perhaps some 4chan thing?

  • What do you think will the tech bros jump on next?

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  • We've been productively using AI for decades now – just not the AI you think of when you hear the term. Fuzzy logic, expert systems, basic automatic translation... Those are all things that were researched as artificial intelligence. We've been using neural nets (aka the current hotness) to recognize hand-written zip codes since the 90s.

    Of course that's an expert definition of artificial intelligence. You might expect something different. But saying that AI isn't AI unless it's sentient is like saying that space travel doesn't count if it doesn't go faster than light. It'd be cool if we had that but the steps we're actually taking are significant.

    Even if the current wave of AI is massively overhyped, as usual.

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  • And Paul Fisher really just wanted to make a cool pen that can reliably write upside down. Congress and The Party agreed that the pen was cool and bought a couple hundred each.

  • Ditch the DIY Drama: Why Use Fedify Instead of Building ActivityPub from Scratch?

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  • Of course you wouldn't use an existing database engine as the foundation of a new database engine. But you would use an existing database engine as the foundation of an ERP software, which is a vastly different use case even if the software does spend a lot of time dealing with data.

    If I want to build an application I don't want to reimplement everything. That's what middleware is for. The use case of my application is most likely not to speak a certain protocol; the protocol is just the means to what I actually want to do. There's no reason for me to roll my own implementation from scratch and keep up with current developments except if I'm unhappy with all current implementations of that protocol.

    Of course one can overdo it with middleware (the JS world is rife with this) but implementing a communication protocol is one of the classic cases where it makes sense.