Izkata

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by Izkata 7mo ago
> The ads aren’t going into your paid plans (except maybe a highly discounted tier, depending on the market). The ads are a play to offer a free version. Having an ad-supported free tier isn’t new. Sounds like it is new for ChatGPT thoug
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by Izkata 7mo ago
> I would assume most people who would enable an "auto squash" option also aren't carefully creating and curating commits. Or don't have a choice. Our department-wide rules were almost to require that for all repos,
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by Izkata 7mo ago
Like a decade or more ago I remember a joke system that would do something random with the data you gave it, and you'd have to use commands like "praise" and "punish" to train it to do what you wanted. I can't
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by Izkata 7mo ago
Perhaps the apparent hallucination they mentioned in their comment?
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by Izkata 7mo ago
Or how about if you're already logged in and switch tabs - returning to OneDrive / SharePoint lets you start doing something for a second, then it interrupts you to redirect through several pages for an auth flow before returning
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by Izkata 7mo ago
Went to try it out myself and the very first one I got was the HN icon and "The internet used to be fun".
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We turn them into dogs.
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My very first programming language doesn't use commas: x: [ 123 456 789 ]
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by Izkata 7mo ago
That version of the test yeah, there's two versions of chatbots I remember reading about: people who would test their chatbots on dating sites and have to awkwardly inform people they were falling in love with a bot, and one competitio
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by Izkata 7mo ago
I'm afraid you're decades late for something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_language One of the teaching methods is "look at the context, like pictures, and guess what the word is". On
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by Izkata 7mo ago
Indeed.. Mostly-static pages with sprinkled-in interactivity were fine (like a table where you could sort the columns), but a full app? I dread having to touch the one page we have that uses Backbonejs+Mustachejs. Also, things like unidrec
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Wikipedia: > In immediate mode, the scene (complete object model of the rendering primitives) is retained in the memory space of the client, instead of the graphics library. This implies that in an immediate mode application, the lists o
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by Izkata 7mo ago
I don't know what people generally recommend now, but for a long time the best practices with organizing React components had them connected to the store midway down the tree or higher, which definitely would have contributed to the UI
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If there's supposed to be a literal asterisk in there somewhere, you can escape it with a backslash. Right now two paragraphs are italic because of mismatched asterisks.
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Its use here is a decade or more old. Originally referring to a movie over two decades old. The short version, seeing the world as it is instead of how it's fed to you.
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I think they're assuming everyone who prefers being thin would be on one of those drugs, which is what makes being fat a style choice.
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by Izkata 7mo ago
You're both right. Combine the two and you get what doxxing originally was: "Dox" is short for "documents", and it originally referred to compiling a multi-page document of all known personal information, using dis
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by Izkata 7mo ago
1909 short story "The Machine Stops" (Minus the Fermi paradox part)
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by Izkata 7mo ago
> It’s also not as hard as the LinkedIn posts imply. Keeping in mind the LinkedIn posters/audience (marketers/recruiters), it probably was quite hard for most of them.
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Doesn't really matter, the IME shows the input until you confirm which kanji you want.
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by Izkata 7mo ago
"Java is slow" is a reputation it earned in the 90s/2000s because the JVM startup (at least on Windows) was extremely slow, like several seconds, with a Java-branded splash screen during that time. Even non-technical people
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by Izkata 7mo ago
> that was very difficult for many codebases to upgrade for years. In case people have forgotten: python 3.3 through 3.5 (and 3.6 I think) each had to reintroduce something that was removed to make the upgrade easier. Jumping from 2.7 to
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by Izkata 7mo ago
Execution time, not parse time. It's a side effect of function declarations being statements that are executed, not the list/dict itself. It would happen with any object.
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by Izkata 8mo ago
My best guess based on another good series with a similar 5-season arc, the 3rd season would have been when the main characters realize Rossum's larger plans (Topher's breakdown when he puts together schematics from the individual
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by Izkata 8mo ago
Okay so a little bit of out of universe trivia on Dollhouse: It was planned for 5 seasons. With the risk of cancellation, the second season and the two Epitaph episodes were a severely compressed telling of 4 seasons of plans. And, personal
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by Izkata 8mo ago
I don't use it. I know my mind fairly well, and I know my style of laziness will result in atrophying skills. Better not to risk it. One of my co-workers already admitted as much to me around six months ago, and that he was trying not
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by Izkata 8mo ago
> And at that point you could have just done those regulations without UBI. Hmm. Rent control is already a thing, and typically good short term but bad long term: renters don't move out because they can't get such low rent else
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All of that sounds nice, but the current understanding is what fell out when people started questioning the specifics of how all of that would work.
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More than a decade ago I suggested this as a compromise as a joke, but then decided to try it out - ended up liking it more than any other options and have used it for all my personal stuff ever since.
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Also helps with auth failures, I've used it several times with co-workers who can't figure out why their ssh key isn't working. It lists the keys out and some extra information.

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