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by Kwpolska 1y ago
All actions listed in your first paragraph, except for installing specific Python versions, are actions related to the area of packaging. Doing it in one tool is completely sensible. I'm not a fan of uv managing Pythons, but I guess th
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Git blame won't show you the history you care about if the line is changed in the future.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
With all the SPAs out there, if you want to crawl the entire Web, you need a headless browser running JavaScript. Which will pass Anubis for free.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
GPT-4 starts many responses with "As an AI language model", "I'm an AI", "I am not a tax professional", "I am not a doctor". GPT-5 does away with that and assumes an authoritative tone.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
If Windows were to steal your SSH keys (lol), would you really think using a third-party program would protect you? The evil code could just read the key you configured in PuTTY.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
cmd looks pixelated.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Chinese models won't talk about Tienanmen Square, but they will talk about things US-politically-correct models won't.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Why is it always Google employees that want to kill things?
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Where would this downtime come from? Your setup is really badly configured if you need downtime to serve a new static file.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
This “one model” was supposed to be the state-of-the-art model, from the company that had a model named “strawberry” in honor of the same problem. And other models struggle with this extremely basic question too.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
The Internet has been poking fun at LLMs failing to count letters for many months. Are the AI companies really living in an echo chamber? They should have implemented a thing to count letters (and to search for palindromes, and…), and just
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
"Version 2002" also appears in the System Properties window.
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> For 64bit versions, both AMD64 and Itanium, support ended on the 30th of June in 2005. Even Apple would not deprecate an OS two months after its release. The AMD64 version was supported until 2014, the same as the x86 version. Itanium
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Or you can look at the start button. If it has an uppercase S, and the rest of the system is in English, it’s a clone.
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Developers working for Apple platforms are used to their software being broken by Apple every once in a while, so they need to update it to match the latest OS’s expectations. In the Windows world, 30-year-old Win32 apps can still run on Wi
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
In the long run, all VC investments lead to enshittification.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Running a successful platform is not enough for VC grifters who funded them, the only thing that matters to VC is growth.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
> The Win8/10 taskbar's code predates Avalon (the prototype/codename for WPF), and trying to change/fix it at all usually ended up breaking it. It's one of the few binaries on Windows that would not be recompiled
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Who hosted the backend? If you did, you could demand a fix, as the bad frontend code caused increased server load and wasted resources.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Many Windows Server admin tools (such as Server Manager or Virtual Machine Connection) and MMC snap-ins (e.g. Event Viewer, Hyper-V Manager) are written in .NET Framework 4. PowerShell is .NET Framework 4. Everyone’s favorite bloated IDE (V
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
As a free YouTube user, I was able to disable the Shorts stuff by disabling watch history on my YouTube account. I can watch shorts from my subscriptions only, on the subscriptions tab, by explicitly clicking on them.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Favicons are usually a thing you do once in a blue moon, is a MCP server really something useful for this? A standalone console application would be much easier, require less setup, and less requests to a LLM.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Depends on which part of the theory you care about. Lists in Python are a magic structure that can grow and shrink at will. That's a bit too high level to be useful for learning the theory.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
People working at Microsoft in the SharePoint team also program in a language/framework they know (and they must be masochists if they're working with ASP.NET WebForms). Knowledge of the language doesn't prevent vulnerabiliti
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
If dependency == library, it is hard in C or Python, but it isn’t in Rust or Java. You could easily run a Rust program on bare Linux, but using Docker might simplify the version management story. But even if you use a language with a sane d
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
This setting is disabled by default.
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
I have tried this a year or two ago, with something that was not LTS. I was using KDE though, maybe GNOME is a bit less broken in that regard (but is in others).
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by Kwpolska 1y ago
Have you ever used Linux with high DPI monitors? Windows handles them OK since Windows Vista, and really well since 8. I've seen the classic Windows XP bug of measurements not being scaled and labels being cut off on modern Linux. How
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It doesn't do crypto bullshit, for example.
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> people born without a uterus who do identify as a woman Those cannot get pregnant. What's the point here? It's obvious that the phrase "pregnant woman" does not imply all women are pregnant.

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