lengau

joined 2 years ago
[–] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly? Get a large monitor and a sound bar.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If I were in the market for a new monitor and I could get an 8k monitor for under $1000 I'd consider it, but right now if one of my monitors broke I'd just be getting another 4k to replace it. The price isn't worth it for me to have high DPI.

For TV my only justification for my 4k TV is that it was free.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 20 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Most sources are worse than Wikipedia.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

I initially read that as "stop using VPNs to watch child porn, ministers told" and was expecting a very different article.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Integer storage in spreadsheets... There are a ridiculous number of ways to store any integer, and I don't just mean because you could theoretically store 1 and 00000001 and they'd be interpreted as the same thing.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Given that part of my job is evaluating applicants' ability to do the job, and given that LLMs are very good at answering the sort of questions many people ask in interviews, AI is making my job significantly harder.

If someone could make a prompt that actually made an LLM write good code, I wouldn't have nearly as much of an issue.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I would agree, except that every piece of it is significantly more complex than it needs to be. ODF is considerably simpler in part because it makes use of other pre-existing standards for things like dates and times. OOXML redefines so many of those things, and in many cases Microsoft Office's implementation isn't actually compatible with their own standard.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 27 points 1 month ago

Lie down and take out my phone. The two cats who immediately get between my face and my phone are mine, as are my 198 new cats.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

Having to use Outlook was a significant contributor to me leaving my last job.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah I find it easier to just accept the terminology of natural numbers and whole numbers so we have simple names for both.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 5 points 3 months ago

I'm grateful to Microsoft for Windows 11 providing me a bunch of free machines to stick in my basement and put Linux on.

view more: next ›