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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Which is... an odd thing to say because Apple's support is ~7 years nowadays, which is more than most of their competition, and their devices are not EOL by then. And yet they're one of the biggest / wealthiest companies in t
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Maybe the web version still works? Worth a try.
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
While true, the default and naive sort of anything is alphabetical, and you'd need to implement this more advanced nondefault sort in every possible client. Personally I've never seen any sort where "The Republic of Moldova
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Sometimes they have good ideas, America's Army was pretty popular for a while for example.
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
I had a colleague (now friend :D) whose dad was a manager for a company, he taught him to talk to anyone so he's got a number of conversation starters / makers. I mean I (think I) can tell it's a very active intellectual proc
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
That was rather rude I think, why'd you stop talking to him instead of the purpose of communication - learning about other people? Killing conversations because of a difference of opinion - and one where you didn't even explore th
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Of course, not everyone wants to talk while in public, and not everyone knows how to politely decline a conversation. That's also fine, everyone's somewhere on the social spectrum(s).
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Categorising / knowing yourself is important for sure - I think in the case of the extrovert/introvert thing, it's an important first step to helping yourself, because in my experience/anecdotally, a lot of introverts kn
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Yes, because it's important. And also figure out why you don't enjoy it, and whether that's a self-reinforcing thing. At the very least you can make it something neutral instead of something you actively dislike and avoid.
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
I'm no game developer, but I'd say don't create an engine if what you want to do is build a game. Do create an engine if you want to create an engine though. But yeah, it is like learning a new language. But that's not a
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
SDL is used in Factorio, which IMO is the best showcase of what is possible if you go all-in on e.g. C++ when it comes to performance, both in terms of what is rendered on screen and the mind-blowing numbers of what your factories are doing
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Speaking for myself (who can program and all that), AI solves some of the tedium in my day job (building UI components). Most of that work nowadays is boilerplate. But at the moment it's also helping me solve more complex issues with b
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Slop is a garbage in, garbage out deal - in the hands of a competent developer who can review the changes, AI generated code is fine.
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
As someone else pointed out, the short story is cost. Mines are cheap, make them more advanced and they are not cheap. That said, even if the trigger is disabled, it's still an explosive device and should still be cleared (or never pla
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
There's potential there (with the pocket-PhDs), the question is whether it'll actually make a measurable difference in the long run. I mean I'm sure it will make a difference, the question is whether it's what they say
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
What if it was a stock photo? Better to actually read the text than go by heder images that are rarely ever anything but stock pictures.
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
I really wonder why breakfast is the way it is, because since it's the first meal of the day, you'd think a big breakfast (e.g. dinner) would make sense as you need the calories during the (work)day. But maybe breakfast is relativ
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
I mean yeah but it's not up to a comment-tone-fixer-upper to decide that, the ideal is some kind of neutrality for the sake of decorum, and one of the major issues that's causing political divide and (worse) movements towards extr
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Also doomerism, but I'd argue that a prominent figure that might fit this nihilism bill is / are Elon Musk and similar technocrats / futurists who strongly believe in Roko's Basilisk ( https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
I'll keep using teflon frying pans for eggs, but we do most cooking in stainless steel pots and pans anyway.
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Can you cite some sources? Because most countries have a functioning vaccination program, in part thanks to now-cancelled USAID funding. But vaccination rates have been dropping, just like in the US. https://www.unicef.org/l
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Here's one, googling is probably faster than asking for a source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12940-025-01165-8
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
My armchair scientific answer to that is: eventually, maybe. The problem we / science / medical / life expectancy has right now is that so much has and is changing as we speak. PFAS and microplastics only really became a thin
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
It hasn't really changed, the only thing that's truly different is what they publish. But the Snowden leaks confirmed what many people already suspected - the American agencies have silent, backdoor access to all US based internet
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
I've had that once (caffeine withdrawal headaches), we had mediocre coffee at the office for ages, then they got a new contract and we got these Italian real bean grinding things. I uh, had double espressos a few times a day.
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
ChatGPT is not OpenAI's product, it's the demo. The product is selling their technology to tens or hundreds of thousands of companies that embed it in e.g. customer support chat services.
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
or 10-20 outside of the US.
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Ideally you should be able to set a global property somewhere (as a web developer) that disallows outdated APIs like `innerHTML`, but with the Big Caveat that your website will not work on browsers older than X. But maybe there's web s
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
Probably this, but despite that people keep trying - e.g. Reddit's gaming forums are full of "I made a concept for xyz!". I mean it can work; especially for smaller studios, community members and modders are often hired to
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by Cthulhu_ 8mo ago
The gamification of microwaves and food preparation has gone TOO FAR! ...or not far enough, if there's anything that a smart microwave would have any benefit it would be this, lol.

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