Karellen

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by Karellen 3y ago
> I needed to Google SMOP, which tells me: "small matter of programming". Correct? Yes, it can mean either "small..." or "simple matter of programming", which is more the meaning I had in mind. But either fi
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by Karellen 3y ago
The worst part for me is all the flashes and redraws as it gradually loads more and more separate resources. "Hey look, here's a paragraph to read... nope, I just realised there's an image near the top that I think is going t
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Moderators exist to moderate a community, not to shut it down wholesale. [...] If the majority of your userbase likes sub X and some mods want to shut it down, then of course Reddit would open it back up. I wonder how that will work fo
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by Karellen 3y ago
> a willing user with the intention to keep a sub running as is, I think it's probably worth splitting this category into two, with one of them being the kind of user who would like to help keep a sub running, but has no idea of wha
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by Karellen 3y ago
I suppose it depends how active that 3% of the userbase is. If those 3% of users are responsible for e.g. 20% of the page views, and therefore potentially 20% of ad placements, maybe they are really having a big impact?
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by Karellen 3y ago
> all you really need to do is [SMOP]. But it's a very solvable problem. Awesome! I look forward to seeing your PR shortly. ;-)
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by Karellen 3y ago
But that goes against @devjab's experience upthread: > [gamification] isn’t for good intentions. It’s a tool to make people spend time on something they might not want to spend time on, so why did we ever think it would be a fitting
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by Karellen 3y ago
> What is the term for when there's a worker strike and instead of engaging with organizers/union representatives, the company approaches some individual workers [...] to start an inner conflict between the workers and have the
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by Karellen 3y ago
> A good example is the Odin project study paths, or Khan Academy courses. One other example that has a few of my friends hooked is Duolingo. Learning another language was something they'd wanted to do, and had tried to do in the pa
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by Karellen 3y ago
If I am permitted to sacrifice correctness for performance and resource usage, I can provide an answer to any problem in fewer than 100 bytes of memory and 100 cycles of CPU time.
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by Karellen 3y ago
But it will look disconnected from every other app on the user's system . Whatever style the user currently has installed on their system, if the scrollbars on your app look the same as all the other scrollbars they ever use, they&#x2
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by Karellen 3y ago
> This isn’t Debian’s niche though. Point 1 of the Social Contract[0] is literally "Debian will remain 100% Free" Please explain how championing Software Freedom would not be Debian's niche. [0] https://www.de
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Linux is typically not the first OS to be installed on any given piece of hardware. And because those are exactly the people that benefit from having a working PC I'm all for maximizing their chances. Choice is a luxury. But they
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by Karellen 3y ago
Mitochondrial DNA is still DNA. Symbiotic replicators that rely on the presence of each other to reproduce (like cycles of quines?) are also still replicators.
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by Karellen 3y ago
And if you write a quine computer program on a piece of paper, it won't create a copy of itself further down the page. Or if you put a fully-functional cell in the vacuum of space, or the heart of a star, it won't replicate either
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by Karellen 3y ago
DNA includes instructions for how to build all the machinery needed to make a copy of itself, including the surrounding cell, and RNA, and proteins, and the organism that is capable of gathering food/fuel to obtain the all the raw mate
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by Karellen 3y ago
Not all feedback is generous. There is an industry of some people, rather than looking to provide feedback which accurately reflects the merits and flaws of a given work, who seem to deliberately hate-review everything to a) get clicks, and
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by Karellen 3y ago
You'll need to do a little bit more if you want paragraphs in your text, because otherwise HTML will just smush them together.
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by Karellen 3y ago
> But why it isn't markdown? What does [Gemtext] add that markdown does not have? I think that's the wrong question. Based on what I've read of Gemini, its focus is on simplification . The question the Gemini authors are
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by Karellen 3y ago
1) sounds like intent is present there? 2) "the camera cannot lie" - cameras have no intent? I feel like I'm missing something from those definitions that you're trying to show me? I don't see how they support your
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by Karellen 3y ago
A person who is mistaken looks like they're lying. That doesn't mean they're actually lying. That's the thing people are trying to point out. You can't look at something that looks like it's lying and conclude
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by Karellen 3y ago
Lying implies intent, and knowing what the truth is. Saying something you believe to be true, but is wrong, is generally not considered a lie but a mistake. A better description of what ChatGPT does is described well by one definition of bu
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by Karellen 3y ago
Also, Wil Wheatons https://wilwheaton.net/2022/05/yes-i-was-forced-to-be-a-chil...
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by Karellen 3y ago
> the notion of consuming "natural" food, in its strictest definition, seems quite untenable. If not strictly natural foods, then what? I can't stand supernatural foods - the ectoplasm really doesn't agree with me. I&
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by Karellen 3y ago
It depends. Did the contract that you agreed to and signed of your own free will, without coercion or duress, give the publisher the right to send goons to break into your house and burn all the issues they already sent you after you cancel
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Tangential remark: substack is becoming as annoying as medium now. [...] On medium it's become so bad now that I don't even open their links anymore. FWIW I find that Reader Mode works fine for making posts on substack and me
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by Karellen 3y ago
"Put up or shut up"? Or maybe "patches or GTFO" :-)
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by Karellen 3y ago
But nice of them to give the site four and a half months to think about it.
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by Karellen 3y ago
But also, and more relevantly here, git is designed to be usable entirely offline. And if you do need to have some connection with remotes, git allows you to do so extremely sporadically if your network connectivity, or remote availabilit
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Dave continues, discussing a P.K. Dick story in which the characters take turns holding their fingers in a cigarette lighter. In the story, they're not burned, because Dick, but you could imagine playing this as a brutal game in o

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