Hendrikto

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by Hendrikto 4mo ago
Git has had native partial checkout for ages.
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by Hendrikto 4mo ago
Ultimately, it is the CEO who has to take responsibility. They are the chief executive officer, after all. And they are well compensated for it.
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by Hendrikto 4mo ago
It is crazy how much more wealth per user that can be created in the tulip space, compared to other products.
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by Hendrikto 4mo ago
> Most people don't want to pay for better. A lot of people want to pay for better, but that is hard. Better is more expensive, most of the time, but being more expensive is no guarantee for being better. It feels like the correlati
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by Hendrikto 4mo ago
The amount of times people asked me for help without even reading the very obvious error message is astonishing. Many people just completely switch off their brain when anything goes wrong.
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by Hendrikto 4mo ago
> Short, well-done This is the neglected key point. None of the examples were short or well-done.
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by Hendrikto 4mo ago
> experienced users will often start typing without looking based on what they trust the eventual state of the UI will be Does that not still point to bad animation if for a different reason? The animations seem to be a workflow hindranc
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by Hendrikto 4mo ago
So the exact opposite of what you said initially.
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by Hendrikto 4mo ago
> The URL contains the entire schema. Isn’t that going to be a problem due to the URL length limitations? > It is RECOMMENDED that all senders and recipients support, at a minimum, URIs with lengths of 8000 octets in protocol elements
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by Hendrikto 4mo ago
Just have slightly different versions then. This has always been possible.
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by Hendrikto 4mo ago
That are still 4 words, imo.
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by Hendrikto 4mo ago
> I could find a book that hadn't been thoroughly translated to English and then I could give a proper analysis on how good the translation is, but since I'm a very stereotypical American I know exactly one language So you actu
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by Hendrikto 4mo ago
> I have to say that AI translation has gotten so good > I do not speak any language outside of English So you are entirely unqualified to judge this, and you acknowledge yourself that your test is flawed to the point of being complet
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by Hendrikto 4mo ago
> I now eschew the em in favour of en They have different meaning and are not interchangeable.
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by Hendrikto 4mo ago
> I mean, how would you even write an em dash? With a keyboard shortcut. Just because you are incompetent, that does not mean everybody is.
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by Hendrikto 4mo ago
> Imagine […] what you could do, ask, plan, or learn, if you had the full undivided attention GPT or Claude. not a commercial, guard railed, fine tunes, beat into submission version that is splintered into hundreds of millions of iterati
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by Hendrikto 4mo ago
> One of the "smells" that gives away a quacky ranter is they speak in impassioned, "Why doesn't everyone understand this?" tones, but in fact their argument just doesn't flow. Exactly what the AI evangelist
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by Hendrikto 4mo ago
> There's even a copilot button on new keyboards! But not because anybody asked for that. It is part of the force feeding so execs can make this exact argument, and pretend that demand is there.
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by Hendrikto 4mo ago
> API calls just aren't on the menu Even if they were an option, your 300ms latency requirement would exclude them anyway.
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
> but it's a problem easily solved by just letting in more immigrants This has been tried extensively e.g. in Germany, France, Sweden, Canada, …. It did not work out great.
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
Not even the most extreme FOSS zealots (RMS, FSF, …) ever claimed that taking public contributions was ever a part of that.
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
Accepting contribution has never been a requirement for open source.
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
You are also not cultivating any new contributors by just accepting slop the submitter did not write or understand. I guess they will have to introduce some kind of trust-based system.
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
Those corporations are not doing that out of the good of their hearts. They are doing so to assert control, in order to protect their business value. If it stopped being economical for them, they would stop tomorrow. I do not think we shoul
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
> quality of tooling are subpar - those are all areas that Python severely lacks in I do not think subpar means what you think. Or maybe you rewrote the sentence and forgot to change that word? Anyway, this does not make sense.
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
This was in the original, because without that solenoid, typists accustomed to the sound of typewriters were not sure their presses registered correctly. The times were different.
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
> > People will [make] requests [that] rsync [should be able] to make a sandwich. That is not really in-scope for the project though. > Why do you decide what is in scope for the rsync project and what not? If you are arguing for m
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
And then AV3: Tokyo Drift, and after that AV Episode 1.
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
I think he means “large arrays”.
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by Hendrikto 5mo ago
> I work with domain experts often and it’s usually the most difficult part of the process. Now, I can ask an LLM the questions And you will not notice the obvious errors in its answers to even basic questions, because you are no expert

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