Yoric

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by Yoric 9mo ago
Oh, the web version doesn't support them? I hadn't realized that.
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by Yoric 9mo ago
I find the UI clunky and a clear regression from older versions. A family member has recently written a book on the latest version of MS Word. It's not their first book written with MS Word. It's also not the first time I give a h
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by Yoric 9mo ago
Maybe? I have friends working on IT in public administrations, starting to prepare for a switch from US tech to EU tech.
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by Yoric 9mo ago
And frankly, MS Word is really bad. So are pretty much of all their services. Not sure whether Excel is still good.
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by Yoric 9mo ago
FWIW, when I was studying, I trained on some decades old physics exams. Some of them were largely about calculating things by hand. So, yeah, calculators did lead academia to change how exams had to be designed, because it solved some quest
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by Yoric 9mo ago
Yeah, the Marshall plan was a master stroke. Shame the US didn't manage to reproduce it in Irak.
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by Yoric 9mo ago
> Then they should have points deducted for that. Effective communication of answers is part of any exam. ...even when it's for a medical reason?
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by Yoric 9mo ago
A long time ago, when I handed out exams, for each question, I used to program my exam questions into a generator that produced both not-entirely-identical questions for each student (typically, only the numeric values changed) and the matc
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by Yoric 9mo ago
I don't know if it's the reason, but some students do need a computer for medical reasons.
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by Yoric 9mo ago
I mean, yeah, if a country declares war on us (or claims that it's going to do so) and does its best to trash our economy, we will embrace whichever allies we can find, cut off relations with the country that has declared war, and our
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by Yoric 9mo ago
> This will hurt Europe a lot more than it will hurt America. It will hurt Europe a lot. But Donald Trump keeps repeating that it is going to declare war on the EU. Sadly, it makes sense for the EU to align more closely with China. And y
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by Yoric 9mo ago
He doesn't have to follow through. Announcing a stimulus check might be sufficient. Do people still believe that the tariffs are somehow decreasing taxes?
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by Yoric 9mo ago
At least the second hypothesis relies on the assumption that there will be a return to some kind of normalcy. Watching this from the other side of the ocean, I'm not convinced that it's the most likely outcome.
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by Yoric 9mo ago
Big Tech is trying to push forward a model in which technicians use LLMs without understanding them. That's where all these "you don't need to learn coding" PRs converge towards. That would be a nightmare scenario for al
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by Yoric 9mo ago
For what it's worth, I tried that a few years ago. It worked for a while. Then I realized that my church relationships were paper thin and that I'd be forgotten the day I stopped coming and/or I started showing that I didn&#x
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by Yoric 9mo ago
Because pretty much nobody is willing to pay for it.
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by Yoric 9mo ago
All of this is true, but it's a problem of the entire web platform and specs, so if you want to favor untraceability above compatibility, you'll need a dedicated privacy-hardened browser. Firefox aims to be better at privacy, but
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by Yoric 9mo ago
Profilers only work once you have identified the problem. Telemetry lets you find out about it in the first place.
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by Yoric 9mo ago
> And Mozilla usually ignored user protests while pointing at telemetry, and did whatever they wanted to, users be damned. When I worked on Firefox, most of the changes happened exactly because user research determined that users wanted
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by Yoric 9mo ago
> Additionally, my perception (from posts and discussions like these, I'm not a financial analyst and I have no meaningful insights into their business) is also that they probably receive enough funding through non-advertising means
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by Yoric 9mo ago
For context, I recall that for years and years, Firefox was the highest ranked mobile browser. Mozilla invested a lot in mobile, Firefox devs had to rewrite the Android linker, invent new ways of starting binaries on Android, etc. just to m
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by Yoric 9mo ago
I feel that, at some point around the Brendan Eich-gate, the Internet decided that Mozilla was always wrong. Change the shape of tabs? We received rape threats. Change it back? Bomb threats. Bringing in new APIs for add-ons that make Firefo
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by Yoric 9mo ago
> Disabling Javascript or even just third party scripts does lead to major breakage, but reporting spoofed values for identifiers like Tor does not. The Arkenfox user.js does all of this and more, but these options are not enabled by def
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by Yoric 9mo ago
It's a really hard line to walk. If you put too much in your Telemetry/crash reports, yeah, users become fingerprintable. On the other hand, if you return spoofed values, it means that Firefox developers cannot debug platform&#x2F
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by Yoric 9mo ago
Hum. I have at home 13 year old hardware running Firefox and no performance complaints.
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by Yoric 9mo ago
Yeah, that is one of my main uses for AI: getting the build stuff and scripts out of the way so that I can focus on the application code. That and brainstorming. In both cases, it works because I can mostly detect when the output is bullshi
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by Yoric 9mo ago
You intrigue me. > have it learn your conventions, pull in best practices What do you mean by "have it learn your conventions"? Is there a way to somehow automatically extract your conventions and store it within CLAUDE.md? &gt
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by Yoric 9mo ago
Of course, any attempt at safety or security requires defense in depth. But usually, any effort spent on making one layer sturdy is worth it.
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by Yoric 9mo ago
The answer to that would very much be: "it depends". Yes, of course, network I/O > local I/O > most things you'll do on your CPU. But regardless, the answer is always to measure performance (through benchmarki
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by Yoric 9mo ago
Seen from the other side of the Atlantic, I've regularly felt that the US is rather prone to hero worship, see e.g. the passion dedicated to presidential candidates, former presidents, billionaires, but also how the main characters of

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