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> VSCode is a good tool, but it’s unbearably slow, and it breaks my heart that so much development has converged on something written in electron with such a low regard for performance by any measure. I'm on a 3+ year old laptop wri
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I've been remote for over 10 years, far before the pandemic, when the competition for remote positions was extreme. At the time, I decided I wasn't going back to an office again if I could help it. Then the pandemic hit and sudd
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> Every year, some generation of engineers have to learn the concepts of "there is no silver bullet", "use the right tech for the right problem", "your are not google", "rewriting a codebase every 2 yea
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I actually do. Since I've been on the site for 17 years, I remember old.reddit.com well. But things change, times move on, we adapt. So I'm using the new layout, dark mode, compact mode, no subreddit styles. As simple as I can ge
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> I'm glad it works for you, but its never worked right for me. It always seemed to be messing up links and the UI is so bad. It's not that it works for me really, it's I'm not the target market. I obviously getting o
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> but there's a quieter, larger group that is fine with the official app and just wants a place to post. That'd be me, although slightly different. I've been on that site a long time. I have an account is amongst the fir
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I wrote some "CNET 5-star" award winning software (if anyone remember them) and its website back in 1996. HTML/CSS/JS/SQL. CSS/JS were just getting started (CSS 95, JS 96). I did it by hand, but Microsoft Fron
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> half the modern developer ecosystem via VSCode Granted, there is a reason it got to that place. It's pretty good. Otherwise it wouldn't have the userbase it has. How that was pulled off in Electron is insane to me. They took
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> With remote work it always fascinates me to see how many people leave the weather (& news) bar displayed next to the tray on the taskbar I leave it there and I've been a SWE for over 20 years. I just like seeing what the tempe
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Well given that the brain has evolved from single-celled organisms into humans today, through all the stages in between, there have been varying levels of consciousness. You have things with just nerve nets, like jellyfish. Then you have
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So what exactly needs to be built with individual atoms to make something become self-aware? I highly doubt that this has to do specifically with the structure of the brain. While I believe that animals such as dogs, lions, etc are conscio
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It's not as if one additional atom added to a structure turns it from "unconscious" to "conscious". There must be a sliding scale, where at some point, somehow, these structures exhibit tiny bits of consciousness.
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My biggest question has always been, and probably always will be, how non-sentient matter can become sentient. Now, I'll have to set aside things like panpsychism for now. We'll have to assume that individual atoms are non consci
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by EMM_386 3y ago
Lots of reasons watermarks would be useful if they could be detected. Cheating on essays, bots spamming AI generated content all over the web, StackOverflow submissions can be instantly rejected, propaganda identified, etc.
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There are obviously ways it can be "watermarked" easily, put some zero-width unicode characters in the output and you'll notice right away when it's copy and pasted. But clearly, that can be stripped out easily by anyone
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> I see the name “Brave Browser” and my brain just refuses to engage. Not sure I follow. I used Firefox for 20 years but had to switch to a Chromium browser due to performance. Went with Brave, seemed to be the best of the bunch. I&#x2
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> My wild guess aligns with Dr Gabor Mate. Dr. Mate emphasizes the significance of psychosocial factors, including stress, trauma, and emotional experiences, in the development and progression of various diseases, including autoimmune co
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> The better question is: Why use Javascript at all for a static website? I've been developing websites professionally since 1996. HTML/CSS/JS and SQL. I am still amazed there is the crowd out there who is "anti-Java
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Got Ketamine in the ER to reduce my dislocated shoulder. Fell into what addicts refer to as the "k-hole". Felt I was falling into a complete void. All I can remember is yelling "no, no, NO!". Highly NOT recommended.
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Topical, because Angular 16 was just released with ... Signals. Used in some places to simplify RxJs or not need it at all. Some , not all. They are looking towards a future where they can get rid of Zone.js and its strategry to change
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DarkReader is your friend. https://darkreader.org/ I use it on every site except a select foew that have beetter Stylus UserStyles. HN happens to be one i use a custom stylesheet for.
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If I am reading this correctly, they have enough to cover this: > The Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) balance was $128.2 billion on December 31, 2022, up $2.8 billion from the end of the third quarter. https://www.fdic.gov/a
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In less then 20 tokens, you can get ChatGPT simply via the web interface to become snarky and swearing like a drunken sailor. And it is indeed hilarious at times.
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I am close to your age range. I have 22 years of C#, 27 years of HTML/JS/CSS, and I am still coding. I took this job as a remote IC with a very small team of senior devs who could help them replace their old, highly complex but
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by EMM_386 3y ago
> As a maintainer of several large JS packages, and being so dreadfully burnt out on JS, there are other words I'd use to describe the whole thing than "delightful". My first project that used JS was in 1996, so I've
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I am a lead on a project that uses a 'nearshore' team to augment a very small team of very senior devs. 20+ years each respectively. That decision was made above me, but has turned out well. Code quality is good and the pay shou
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> Police would spawn right next to you if you messed up, for example. I think that has been patched as of 1.2. The patch notes include: > The game's infamously speedy police department have been told to take a chill pill, with a
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> I do think microservices were over sold as the answer to everything, and I think this may have arisen from vendors who wanted to sell Kubernetes with a simple marketing message that enterprises needed to modernize by using Kubernetes
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Wow ... I am getting old and jaded. I was so into locking down systems, making sure I knew where every packet was going, not trusting anything. Meanwhile I'm also "wardriving", phreaking with a red box, running an undergro
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The part I can never figure out is how do you get the entire mechanism required to self-replicate, which is not just a couple molecules, to get to the point where it actually does what it "was intended" to do? Meaning, what is 1&#

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