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Cake day: December 20th, 2023

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  • For now, I have just saved it in my clipboard application, so I copy-paste.
    When it goes out of history, I just open a file, where I have saved it and copy from there. So it’s pretty crude.

    I was hoping that either the KDE Social web interface would add a “Signature” feature or I would pick some Lemmy application that would allow that, but for now it’s just this.

    Perhaps, if I feel like it’s being too frequent, I may set a compose key for it.

    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0


  • Not every. The quick, very-low effort ones, I just leave.

    Why:
    I saw another post with “Anti Commercial AI License”, then wen on to read the license and went, “Neat!”.

    • It makes it easier for anyone to decide what to do if they want to use my comment/post (in cases where it actually has something useful)
    • It makes life just a bit harder for people data-mining for AI
      • That way, some data entry worker will probably ask for a raise and probably even get it and maybe some entrepreneur going “AI everywhere!” will think twice.
      • Or there will be a chatbot spouting “Anti Commercial AI License” or “CC By-NC-SA” in their answer text, which would be hilarious.

    CC BY-NC-SA 4.0





  • LEAN from the web:

    After each iteration, project managers discuss bottlenecks, identify waste and develop a plan to eliminate it.

    1st iteration:

    Project Manager A: Requiring approval of multiple Project Managers for the same thing is causing a bottleneck. So is having to wait for a specific manager for a specific topic.

    Resolution: Let all managers approve everything and need only a single manager’s approval.

    2nd iteration:

    Project Manager B: There are too many redundant managers. It’s a waste of resources.

    Resolution: Get rid of all mangers but one. Actually, let the engineers manage themselves.

    3rd iteration:

    Consensus: LEAN development is a scam though





  • People do the designing and architecture and programming just because it all pays well, not because they have a love for the craft.

    True.
    I like programming and tend to pride myself in making good code, but when I see other’s attitude at work, it makes me reevaluate what I care about.

    Perhaps this is the reason of the memetic difference between corporate code quality vs OSS code quality. When I contribute to Open Source (at least to other’s projects), I see myself try to be as considerate as possible of multiple factors that I wouldn’t even care of at work.


  • One of my previous employers once told me (abridged)

    It’s not like old times when we could slowly work to get a perfect result.
    Nowadays, we need perfect results, fast.

    They were asking me to do technical content writing for their website.
    I quickly realised that it’s actually the threshold for calling something “perfect”, that has lowered over time.

    Clearly, I was not fit for that work, because instead of just plagiarising and paraphrasing stuff from other websites, I insisted on reading up on material from multiple sources, understanding it well and then writing it down myself. That makes it pretty slow.

    That was a year before ChatGPT, or I would just have used that thingy.






  • I don’t get it.

    We have only 1080px in vertical, part of which is also used for Taskbars, titlebars and toolbars in most cases. Then there is this trend of sites not using most of the horizontal space for main body text.
    So, what reason do we have to not use the wasted side-space and instead congest the already low vertical space?

    I would understand if it were a mobile-only site or if you were explicitly talking about the vertical version of it, but even for 4:3, I won’t consider a sidebar to be a bad idea, unless perhaps, it was German.





  • It is to use along with split. e.g.

    1. You take a single large file, say 16GB
    2. Use split to break it into multiple files of 4GB
    3. Now you can transfer it to a FAT32 Removable Flash Drive and transfer it to whatever other computer that doesn’t have Ethernet.
    4. Here, you can use cat to combine all files into the original file. (preferably accompanied by a checksum)