BeetleB

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by BeetleB 3mo ago
It's not an all-or-nothing. If you live in a society that really devalues everything you like, having that online outlet is the difference between giving up on life[1], and being passionate. Imagine being told you're broken becaus
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US Government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference(reuters.com)
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Difficulty is on par with 90's adventure games (and actually easier than Sierra games). Story: Without any spoilers, I'll just say the ending isn't satisfying in the least. He does the equivalent of "I woke up and it was
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
And do that on every machine? Easier to just use jujutsu. It has a lot of benefits than just this.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> I do think that as nice as jj is, the git add -p and git rebase -i are both still tools that base jj could do much better on, that people rightfully are going to miss & feel absolutely stranded, bereft, alone for when they are not
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
I've used git for many years and never remembered the command `git reset -p`. I'd have to look it up. Since that's a pain, I simply didn't. Whereas with jujutsu, after learning it once, I never looked up `split`. And i
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
I think by almost everyone. Crater Lake is a pretty special lake: It was formed purely from rainwater into a crater over the last 7000 years. It is still the clearest lake in the world. With fish, however, came a whole ecosystem. When fish
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
I don't let LLMs make commits for me - git or jj. OK, OK - I lie. For personal projects I do - some handle jj decently well. But at work I don't let it make any commits ... and it never tries to. What tools are you using that won&
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Related: Fish were introduced to Crater Lake in the US a little over a hundred years ago, and is generally considered to have been the wrong thing to do. If you go there, you're free to fish to your heart's content.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> If you’re not already using git add -p to stage your commits then you’re missing out. After switching to jujutsu, I assure you I don't miss this feature. jj takes the opposite approach. It keeps staging things, and you use split
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
I felt that way because my prior RAW editing tool did photo organization/collections. But when I switched to Darktable, I didn't really miss it. I have a simple organization: Year/description/YYYY-MM-DD/* (So 2026&#
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
You shouldn't. But I point it out because people keep posting "Ditch Gimp. Use Krita instead." Krita's better for painting. Gimp's better for photo editing.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> Darktable is however, bad at photograpy organization and collections. It's like saying Microsoft Word is bad as an IDE. That's because it's not and IDE. And Darktable is very explicit that it is not for photography org
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Upvoting you, because I actually use Gimp. While it has its headaches, for photo editing it's still the best after Photoshop. (Yes, still better than Krita). But this is all a digression, as Lightroom/Darktable are not Photoshop
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
I used to be somewhat of a news junkie. When life finally happened, I had to force myself to "slow" down. By "slow" I don't mean read less news, but rather I'd dedicate a week a month for catching up to the pri
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
How much money are you directly paying per month to news organizations? News organizations have been in decline for a few decades because of two reasons: 1. Lack of ad revenue (all vacuumed up by Google) 2. Loss of subscribers because they
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
I remember when I read the original story by Stephen King, I thought it was one of the best stories ever. A year later, I saw the movie at a rental store. I had totally forgotten the name of the Stephen King story and rented it only because
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Both were in the same story collection: Different Seasons Apt Pupil was also made into a movie but didn't do as well.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> I think the only acceptable response is to answer his argument if you can read it. When indulging in a discussion with others, one has to realize that the universe of what people consider acceptable responses isn't limited to your
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
You're forgetting the 5 cent charge per recipient who hasn't put you in their approved list.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Everything you said could apply to computers many decades ago. Think of the nuclear fission simulations our enemies could carry out! We'll be fine.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
No. He refused the use against US citizens domestically. He had already agreed for military use against others - this is well reported.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
The discussion is about Google Search results vs LLM services (summary or otherwise). So what I'm saying is: Google Search Results > LLM results And yes, that includes: Google Search Results > Google Summary on search results pag
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> The problem is the cost of creating fake identities. As long as creating fake identities has a fixed cost (increasing linearly with the number of identities you create), there's no way to charge the "same person" exponen
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
Yes, but I want the rate to be variable depending on volume. I want it to be $0.0001 for a simple personal email. But if you send 10,000 emails today, I want it to cost you $100 (or more). Many schemes to do this. Things like: The first 10
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> Oh, I understand. It's the nature of the voting system of comment feedback. Reddit behaves the same way. Arguments become competitions to see who can inject enough vitriol while still maintaining a placid genteel demeanor. The one
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> Actually I'd say that the LLM is doing a better job at that. You click a button and see 9 URLs to 9 news sites. Does it show relevant snippets for each of the 9 URLs? If not, then it's as bad as Google's AI summary. It&
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
The thing you have to ask yourself is: Which do I prefer? 1. Someone puts me on a list and I have to do the work to get off. 2. They work to get me on their list, and I do virtually no work to get off the list. I went with 2.
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
> This is impractical because micropayments are impractical. Well, one can dream :-) Micropayments may be impractical, but email as it is currently used is also impractical for personal use cases. Outside of the tech world, how many p
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by BeetleB 3mo ago
https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2018/Sep/solving-my-email-probl...

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