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by II2II 1y ago
Freedoms are a balancing of rights between two or more parties, and are never absolute. Complicating the matter futher: it is very unlikely that all parties are going to agree what that balancing of rights looks like. For example, someone w
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Homebrew is a reputable package manager (a.k.a. software installer, for Unix applications on the Mac). That said, I'm pretty sure the version of ssh shipping with the Mac could do the key generation for you so you wouldn't need pu
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Windows has shipped with OpenSSH (client and server) for years. Windows Terminal has also been available for years, and now ships with Windows. So you do not need PuTTY. That said, some people like PuTTY. It is much easier to setup and use.
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It is both possible and feasible to drive in the old parts of the city. It is a North American city, so old is not that old. It just predates the automobile. Yet virtually all of the roads are plenty wide for two lane traffic, on street par
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I live in a "walkable city". By walkable, I mean the old parts of the city that predated the automobile (and weren't destroyed in the name of modernization) are walkable. New parts of the city are completely unwalkable. If yo
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There are two different issues here. One is tied to how authoritative we view a source, and the other is tied to the weaknesses of the person receiving advice. With respect to the former, I firmly believe that the existing LLMs should not b
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by II2II 1y ago
I've never been to a therapist for anything that can be described as a diagnosable condition, but I have spoken to one about stress management and things of that ilk. For "amusement" I discussed similar things with an LLM. At
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by II2II 1y ago
> I mean look at the first plane, then first air-jets: it’s understandable to assume we would travel the galaxy in something like 2050. To someone who did not understand what flight is, perhaps. For anyone who understood the laws of phys
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by II2II 1y ago
Judging from how most of the reports are phrased, the shutdowns and blocks are initiated by the content providers. Some are for legal reasons, some because they are legitimately concerned that they may be covered by the act, and some to pro
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by II2II 1y ago
> I couldn’t care less what’s pushing pixels at my screen as long as it works. I didn't know or care what was pushing the pixels on my Debian install, since it works. Being Debian, it could go either way: some of the desktop environ
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by II2II 1y ago
In order to truly appreciate what you are looking at you may need to: acquire a teletype machine, purge your memory of everything you know about computers (except FORTRAN and COBOL), and travel back to 1976. I guarantee you that you will be
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by II2II 1y ago
No. AI is a tool to make ourselves look stupid. Suggesting that it makes people stupid suggest that they are even looking at the output.
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by II2II 1y ago
I hardly ever use gvim. From my understanding, there are a few relatively minor GUI specific settings for the GUI version. Contrast that to emacs. It's possible to present documents with multiple fonts and images in the graphical versi
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by II2II 1y ago
Vim and Neovim are pretty close to being infinitely customizable, but vi is a different story. Likewise, Emacs can be used as is. If anything, the difference was in the core audience. A sysadmin is more hesitant about customizing their to
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by II2II 1y ago
> The problem is that an online comment is not a dialogue. I agree, but I think it has more to do with how online comments are presented. Start with that word, comments . The very word suggests a response rather than a dialogue. Or look
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by II2II 1y ago
A couple of points here: - People need to learn how to write. The quality of student writing was one of the biggest criticisms of students when I was in university, and that was 30 years ago. Writing will only improve with practice and some
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From my experience: We were not permitted to use a TI-89 in math courses since we were expected to learn the underlying concepts, which is much more than learning how to use a tool. The reasoning was similar in physics. The instructors coul
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by II2II 1y ago
> Towards the end of my tenure there, a PM said to me “the last thing these people want is to have to learn yet another workflow”. I suspect that people entering medicine do so to address human needs, and have very little interest in dea
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by II2II 1y ago
If you can load application software onto them, I think it's fair to say they are general purpose computing devices. (I say application software since something like a thermostat may have a general purpose "computer" inside t
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Get back to me when it actually happens, because I've been hearing that line for about 15 years now and it has not happened. The reality is that PC's address the needs of a fundamentally different market than "TiVo"s or
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by II2II 1y ago
I can't speak for Microsoft since I've never dealt with them directly, but descriptions of the level of support offered to consumers in the eighties and early nineties would be beyond belief to those who didn't live through i
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> If you didn’t realize that making teens verify their age online meant that everyone had to verify their age and identity online, that’s just a dangerous level of stupidity. And it is completely unnecessary in many cases. There are many
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> Also, god forbid you're researching a complex and possibly controversial subject and you want it to find reputable sources or particularly academic ones. That's fine. Recognize the limits of LLMs and don't use them in th
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Mostly. It was noted that the split/ergonomic keyboard was never shipped by IBM. (Though it mentioned that the patent is cited by Kinesis, presumably because the 1968 patent had expired and was being used as prior art?)
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These books shouldn't be dismissed since they provide people with a foundation for further learning. They also offer a friendly introduction to programming, rather than imposing an intimidating wall that will keep people away. It is al
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by II2II 1y ago
I tend to use Reddit on mobile as a read-only medium, but I don't see why one couldn't contribute to conversations/wikis with a mobile browser. One can certainly do so through their website with a desktop browser. If there
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by II2II 1y ago
Take Reddit, which is one of the few sites mentioned here that I use. At least initially, the value provided is getting rid of the constant prompts to load the site in the Reddit app. Even though I use old.reddit.com, which doesn't hav
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by II2II 1y ago
If I recall correctly, the DB-25 RS-232 cables also facilitated two serial connections.
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The cables I saw were handmade. You can get connectors which are just the shield and an insulator with holes in the place of the pins. You crimp the pins onto the wires, then slide the pins into the insulator. You may have saved a few cents
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How would you even count those 3 giant pins? If I recall correctly, they were for coax cables that ran within the main cable. So each of those pins would have a contact for the shield and the conductor.

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