Arainach

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by Arainach 3mo ago
> But these tools are also becoming part of how software is made. The Open Source world needs to figure out how to engage with that future, not just divide into camps. No. They don't. This isn't a "you just have to deal&qu
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by Arainach 3mo ago
This thread was a "why does remote access matter", not a comparison of Jellyfin and Plex. I run both and Jellyfin is very clearly an open source project. By that I mean that the interesting technical problem (streaming) is impleme
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by Arainach 3mo ago
If exercise was pleasant you wouldn't have to remind people to do more of it. The only thing worse than running for an hour is running for an hour and actually paying attention to the complaints your body is sending while doing so.
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by Arainach 3mo ago
It means access from anywhere. Want to watch an episode of that series while you're sitting at work waiting for a long test pass? Plex. You're hanging out with friends and they want to watch that movie you own? Plex. You're
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by Arainach 3mo ago
We have nothing of the sort. Reviews are bought and manipulated at scale. Dupe brands come and go month to month. Very few of the electronics I've bought on Amazon in the last 8 years are still for sale, but for most of them there are
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by Arainach 3mo ago
> Though closed now, the Star Wars hotel experience was probably the best one on the planet. No. Nope. About the furthest thing from it. Not even the best Disney has done. This video is 4 hours and somehow was engaging to me (who neve
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by Arainach 3mo ago
If a business can't be profitable while treating employees, customers, and the environment well, then it going out of business or leaving is not a loss.
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by Arainach 3mo ago
Not only was Britbox launched long after iPlayer and after I stopped watching both of the shows I mentioned (in fact, Top Gear in its 2002 incarnation was functionally off the air before Britbox launched), but the BBC sold their streaming r
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by Arainach 3mo ago
I'm not seeing this particular paywall, but disturbing in that the BBC is so awful and stupid at this, presumably. For many years I would have gladly paid the BBC $20/mo for some way to legally watch Top Gear and Doctor Who. That
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by Arainach 3mo ago
Not by an order of magnitude. Compared to "pay humans to watch hours of footage and take notes", $700 for a 16TB hard drive that will hold months of video footage is an absolute steal.
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by Arainach 3mo ago
That's absolutely still "recent" when discussing corporate governance.
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by Arainach 3mo ago
On the one hand, news coverage is overblown. But scale and accessibility are absolutely a new class of problem. In the 1960s you could pay thousands of people to watch hundreds of cameras and listen to hundreds of phone lines to monitor p
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by Arainach 3mo ago
24% PRs isn't 24% more productivity. Lines of code isn't productivity, and neither is CLs landed. What's the feature velocity of the team? How much time is being spent on rollbacks, outage responses, etc.? Here's a qu
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by Arainach 3mo ago
> making a big fuss about them in Zig - to the point of maintaining a compiler fork Literal quote (and again, appeared in the original article as well). Forking the compiler to try to get faster compile times is a significant effort tha
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by Arainach 3mo ago
I knew that LLMs had caused reading comprehension to tank, but I quite literally already directly answered that question - as did the original article under discussion here.
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by Arainach 3mo ago
You don't have to claim that they're better, but making a big fuss about them in Zig - to the point of maintaining a compiler fork - and then not talking about it at all in the Rust doc (where it's apparent to anyone who&#x27
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by Arainach 3mo ago
> I don’t think the post was deceptive or dishonest in its claims Presenting only one side of argument (only pros, no cons, etc.) is deceptive and dishonest. The fact that they were incredibly focused on build time in Zig and didn&#x27
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by Arainach 3mo ago
The market can remain irrational longer than any of us can remain solvent. The market is not any good at strategic or long-term thinking, particularly if it takes a generation to realize the scope of the damage, as seen by America abandoni
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by Arainach 3mo ago
> when a parent answers their child's question, does it decrease the curiosity of the child? When the child is able to go to YouTube and find a tutorial rather than having to puzzle it out, yes, it absolute does. We've seen th
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by Arainach 3mo ago
Identifying what questions to ask is often much harder than answering them. Proposing new theorems - and new areas of investigation - is what expands boundaries. Proving them is confirmation. Once the Pythagorean theorem was proposed, man
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by Arainach 3mo ago
That doesn't disagree with this article. Proving a theorem that a human already proposed in an existing discipline of math - math, the most formalized and easiest discipline to involve computers in even before LLMs - is very different
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by Arainach 3mo ago
No, this is significantly more permanent. LLMs are autocomplete generators based off current context, and training generations of people to always ask the planet burners instead of learning to think for themselves - and never having the ex
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by Arainach 3mo ago
You're not going to find many people to do business with in the world if that's your bar.
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by Arainach 3mo ago
Where do people get ideas like this? In what world does this make sense? You have several choices: 1. Work with a supplier and sign a contract guaranteeing support for whatever period of time you want at a mutually agreeable price 2. Host
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by Arainach 3mo ago
> ban any kind of political bias. This sentence has no meaning in a modern context. The US government has declared bike lanes to be "DEI". Everything is political. "Choice" doesn't work. Everyone is under info
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by Arainach 3mo ago
You make them get the results and guidance in writing, and if they forgot to get it in writing, you have them contact the provider and get it in writing. You don't send a tape recorder.
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by Arainach 3mo ago
...while being a painful place to work at, so not really disproving the point. Plenty of other CEOs have thought the secret to Apple's success was micromanaging like Steve Jobs and been proved very wrong. The best CEOs hire people smar
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by Arainach 3mo ago
> The agreed-upon best-designed software in the industry has noticeable problems. The what ? Since when has "the industry" been able to define best-designed, much less agree on it?
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by Arainach 3mo ago
I'm tired of having this debate over and over. I still use Linux devices regularly at work and have a T420S and various RPi-like devices that run it, so it's not like I'm going off memories of 2010. I owned a Framework Lapt
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by Arainach 3mo ago
In medicine, it's a regular trick to find some new patentable formulation or tweak to switch to manufacturing shortly before the original patents expire, so that you continue to have a patent-protected product. It would not surprise me

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