BeetleB

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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> Pollution is bad but it's a different story if it's curing cancer vs making nudes of female politicians. Completely disagree. That sort of reasoning is why plenty of African Americans were forcibly moved from their own proper
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> Should people disengage with Hn because they don't like your opinion? Neither I, nor the person you're responding to (tommica) suggested anything of the sort.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Correct me if I'm wrong: Is the article about a badly acting LLM?
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I never claimed it was. Are you willing to read pointless stuff just because it's accurate?
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
The statement of irrelevant facts. It's like criticizing Stallman's hygiene. Who cares?
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Then show me a pattern of flouting regulations (which I can easily believe he has). His terrible views on unrelated issues are irrelevant.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I'll bite. The title is about ignoring regulations related to a data center. How is any of what I quoted relevant? If the article were about Elon Musk's racist views, then by all means I'd be fine with it. But his (or Grok&#x
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
There is plenty of the world that doesn't behave this way. Flipping it around: Can you tell me why I need to interact with such articles? What did I lose by not reading it? I can certainly tell you what I gained.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> It’s difficult to find official numbers, but under 1% of US households have no cable, satellite TV, home Internet, or a cell phone. The latter two are how people consume video and TV to a large degree today. Fairly wrong/irrelevan
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I don't like Elon Musk. I don't like Grok or xAI. Or X. Or Twitter before. I also don't like articles that try to bias readers with irrelevant details: > This includes Grok, which has thus far been involved in controversie
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I'm guessing many (most?) people commuting to Manhattan aren't in the category of minimum wage workers. Picking one of the most expensive places in the planet (Manhattan) as your example isn't helping you much. Lots of well k
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Yeah - I mostly watched his videos (the first N of them), and liked it. But later I saw examples from his book and they were terrible .
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> I’ve used the example in other areas - my first team lead bought his house at 300k and sold it for over 1M last year. Yikes. How big is the house? I assure you that I live in an above average COL area, and with $200K it's doable.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I'm guessing you live in a high COL area? I don't think they're saying $150-300K will be easy, but it should be doable in raising 3 kids if you make sacrifices: 1. Seriously cut down on vacations. As an example, in the first
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> "if you cannot afford it, stop complainingb and live elsehwere" they say...sure...but a commuter train into Manhattan can run you $30-50/day. Add in parking at the commuter train station and you're down about $60 or
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> but harmful to late-stage developers who adopt it as dogma. Even Robert Martin, very often in his videos and blogs, espouses "engineering judgment" and is quite fine abandoning advice in his book when the situation calls for
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Almost everyone harbors some scientifically unsound ideas. Especially when it comes to the human body and/or mental abilities.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Yes, but the repair in the article is not all that trivial.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> One issue with Just is that by default each line in a recipe is executed in a sub shell. Set a variable in line 1 and you can’t use it in line 2. Mise `run` blocks are embedded shell scripts. just supports the same. If you begin a reci
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I'm not going to argue since I haven't used mise, but how beginner friendly is it? The nice thing about "just" is literally the "can learn in an afternoon". When I was in a team of, well, less motivated develop
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
just use just! It's really easy to learn - about an afternoon to peruse the docs. And quite capable.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
pandoc was (and still is) critical to some of my flows. I hope it never dies!
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
This is actually terrifying. Ereaders tend to be fairly unique. If my Kobo Forma dies, there's no other Kobo I can replace it with (in terms of size). I don't want to change brands and deal with yet another OS.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
This is the original definition of DCA, but by this point most people view DCA as what everyone else in the thread is talking about. Not a hill worth dying on.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
I believe the general idea is to max it if you can. If you can't, put whatever you can, and forego luxuries like vacations until you can.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
https://www.darktable.org/about/faq/#faq-lightroom
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> probably the first real-world deployment of a self-improving system that beat humans. Isn't that Checkers right from the dawn of reinforcement learning?
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> such as my very commandline, which shouts in bright red if we are on DETACHED HEAD. Fix the command line. Mine just shows the git hash, and the color is only red if there's an uncommitted diff. It doesn't care if I'm in
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
It helps before you get to university, and once you leave. The place you live for work may have very few people with similar interests.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Yeah - the article does over-glorify. I did frequent one rental store where I could chat with the person behind the counter about movies, but none of the others.

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