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SergeAx
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Serial technical co-founder / engineering teams builder. Avid sailor and traveler. Hedonist and bon vivant. Fine arts, wine and food aficionado. Currently in Belgrade, Serbia.
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- SergeAxInterestingly, both of your points could be addressed by adopting a company-wide policy: if a meeting has no agenda attached, it is optional to join. Or, in short, "no agenda - no attenda."
- I am and was in touch with several multimillionaires and billionaires, and in no way are they "regular people". One common trait is a gross intolerance for failing to execute their plans. I am not saying that it is necessary bad, but the amount of resources they may throw on their dissatisfaction is often frightening.
- Is it really possible to control file locations on HDD via Windows NTFS API?
- They downloaded 43 GB instead of 152 GB, according to SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/app/553850/depots/ Now it is 20 GB => 21 GB.
- Oracle lawyers want you to think so.
- > It’s virtually impossible for me to estimate how long it will take to fix a bug, until the job is done.
I think what they mean is that after 2 days of working on bug you stop it regardless the result, leaving paper trail behind for the next person.
- I wonder, would it be funny if it turned out that this technique dramatically increases the effectiveness of any prompt? Not by 10-15%, as in "I'll give you a big tip" or "If you do this task poorly, I'll get fired," but by three times?
- > and finally we’ll get a console like experience on PC
What do you mean by that? The PC experience with adequate hardware is almost universally better than the console experience.
- Just put it in your system prompt?
- Shouldn't this fork be publicly available as per GPL license?
- I don't get the logic behind the FFmpeg stance. They have no obligation to fix any bugs, and they are not liable if someone exploits those vulnerabilities, as per the license. Thus, the parties interested in fixes are free to patch bugs at their own expense or pay someone else to do it. Anyways, fixes will end up in the FFmpeg codebase or in other GNU-licensed fork of it, available to cherry-pick.
- What prevents banks, etc, from doing the same with apps for open mobile OS?
- The web is an open platform, and most, if not all, aforementioned applications are happily working on the web.
- Here's a handy recipe for your friend: go to a blind tasting. This way, they will probably find out that they really can't tell a $15 coffee from a $150, or a $500 machine from a $ 5,000 one.
Works like a charm with wine: I know a lot about it, can maintain a conversation for hours, but will never buy anything above $50/bottle except for a gift.
- I would understand people's craving for pixel perfection, smooth 120Hz scrolling, etc, if we had nothing else to want. But I believe that we are now in a totally different era when overall software quality is degrading and we lack some basic stuff here and there, even in the apps of multi-billion-valued companies. In this situation UX should be much more important than UI.
- I am not a Microsoft hater; in fact, I have been using Microsoft products since MS-DOS 3.3. But Outlook and its ecosystem are a horrible shit show and an indicator of terrible decision-making.
Google Workspace is an infinitely better productivity framework; there's no space for discussion here.
- Americans have only the Orange Clown to blame. He wants "back to the Moon in 3 years", e.g., before the end of his term.
- How much longer are we going to tolerate this marketing bullshit about "Designed to provide 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability"?