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by WolfeReader 6mo ago
Physical books burn - just ask the Library of Alexandria. Ebooks have so many more ways to be preserved and replicated.
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by WolfeReader 6mo ago
I buy "licenses" to read DRM'd ebooks all the time. Even though I disagree with DRM, I still want to reward the author/editor/illustrator/translator/etc for their artistry. As for whether I leave the books
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by WolfeReader 6mo ago
"Reading on a E-device is a bother, I have to sift through all the "sponsored" books and whatever other crap the ebook reader company decides to add, and be at the whims of whatever they decide they want to do with "your
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by WolfeReader 6mo ago
Weird thing to say about an article with over 600 comments.
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by WolfeReader 6mo ago
This is the only sane reply on this entire comment tree. To me, the verbosity of both Git and JJ commands to do these things are an indication that neither of these tools are meant to do them.
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by WolfeReader 6mo ago
Super Mario Bros. is a movie [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Super_Mario_Bros._Movie
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by WolfeReader 6mo ago
1-based indexing is great. It's just _different_ - from C, where the array index is just sugar for pointer arithmetic, and from other languages which borrowed the practice without reasoning.
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by WolfeReader 6mo ago
I cannot fathom why anyone would use a code freeze. Just create a branch at the commit you want to "freeze" and let dev teams keep working with their regular branches.
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by WolfeReader 6mo ago
"The hardest part of learning any creative skill is that your taste develops faster than your ability." I needed to read this sentence. Thank you!
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by WolfeReader 6mo ago
Nope, its a well-researched article which shows its sources and qualifies its conclusions. You may not like the conclusions, but that doesn't make it FUD.
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by WolfeReader 6mo ago
Same. I've managed to convince exactly one person how great password managers are; the others just let Chrome handle it. (It's always Chrome.)
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by WolfeReader 6mo ago
Thanks for the correct link! AST-based version control sounds like a great idea.
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by WolfeReader 6mo ago
Darcs did this decades ago with the "replace" command. It's not a legitimate semantic replacement, though - it's more just telling your VCS to do a find/replace.
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by WolfeReader 7mo ago
The behaviors of NFT advocates and AI advocates are shockingly similar. Remember how NFTs were supposed to be the future or art ownership, and all it amounted to was awful pictures of bored apes and ahegao lamas? The NFT bros proudly disp
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by WolfeReader 7mo ago
I wish I remembered the source of this quote: "If you didn't take the time to write it, I'm not taking the time to read it." This saved me from reading the story.
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by WolfeReader 7mo ago
My favorite part was the illustration from inside the car. The rear-view mirror clearly shows un-mirrored store signs. Prompts in, garbage out.
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by WolfeReader 7mo ago
"it's boring to see how a human and an AI bot can collaborate to create writing like this." FTFY
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by WolfeReader 7mo ago
Encrypted messaging like Signal and Briar is so much more accessible thanks to smartphones. People who would've never touched GPG can get a lot of its benefits thanks to smartphone apps. (Which doesn't mean we have to give in to
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by WolfeReader 7mo ago
Why would you want to be non-political in 2026? The current administration is awful in ways we couldn't have imagined. There's no sense in not talking about it.
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by WolfeReader 7mo ago
You should spend less at Amazon. $100 less per year.
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by WolfeReader 8mo ago
I am simultaneously grateful that you told us about this, and also kind of wish I didn't know. There's so much.
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by WolfeReader 8mo ago
It happened not too long ago! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990729
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by WolfeReader 8mo ago
People who agree with you are right-minded and sensible, and people who disagree with you are "jumping on the bandwagon".
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by WolfeReader 8mo ago
"every critique of AI assumes to some degree that contemporary implementations will not, or cannot, be improved upon." They're token predictors. This is inherently a limited technology, which is optimized for making people
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by WolfeReader 8mo ago
"productivity theatre" is a brilliant phrase. Thank you!
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by WolfeReader 8mo ago
I'm starting to see a new genre of post here in the AI bubble, where people go to topics that aren't about AI at all, and comment something like, "this doesn't matter because it's not AI". This is the third I&#
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by WolfeReader 8mo ago
The Ars Technica journalist's account is worth a read. https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p Benji Edwards was, is, and will continue to be, a good guy. He's just exhibiting a
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by WolfeReader 8mo ago
Honestly, this. The mainstream coding culture has spent decades dealing with shoehorning stateful OOP into distributed and multithreaded contexts. And now we have huge piles of code, getters and setters and callbacks and hooks and annotatio
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by WolfeReader 8mo ago
We have enough headlines about LLMs already. Let's just enjoy a cool Lisp site without some AI advocate telling us that non-AI things are irrelevant.
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by WolfeReader 8mo ago
What would a "legitimate competitor" look like to you? Samsung and LG make high-end phones, and there are plenty of good personal computer vendors. And Windows is certainly a desktop OS that some people choose. Apple doesn't

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