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by amarant 2y ago
Oof, this won't help you, but I recall sending a very angry email to me new corporate overlord in the Xbox org for blocking me from using their web services if my user agent said Linux. This was during the "Microsoft <3 Linux&q
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by amarant 2y ago
Oh you guys finally managed!? Cool to hear! I guess Azure must've gotten better then, back when I was there, the conclusion was that Azure simply wasn't mature enough to host Minecraft yet. Again, this is a while ago: I remember w
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by amarant 2y ago
This is a couple of years ago, so I fully expect most of the issues we had back then to be fixed by now, but it was definitely Azure that was the problem. We wanted to use their hosted kubernetes solution(I forget the name) and pods would j
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by amarant 2y ago
Story time! A couple of years back, I was working at Mojang (makers of Minecraft). We got purchased by Microsoft, which of course meant we had to at least try to migrate away from AWS to Azure. On the surface, it made sense: our AWS bill wa
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by amarant 2y ago
You could probably sink plates of some thermally conducting material into the regolith itself? Like geothermal cooling, kinda. Possibly a passive solution could work somewhat? It'll be a temporary solution, the regolith will heat up ev
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by amarant 2y ago
I was really expecting your personal usage of the app to involve invoking developer privileges, and inserting your text through the much more user friendly UX of DBeaver.. I can't decide if I'm disappointed or relieved
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by amarant 2y ago
Simulating airdrag and turbulence the compute-intensive way: simulating all of the air inside the pinball machine! You've got a few tens of liters of gaseous molecules to keep track of, should be enough to slow down most computers I wo
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by amarant 2y ago
Unfortunately, this is an extremely common way of thinking. It's one of the reasons flinging dirt in politics is so effective I think. I wonder if there is any connection with this way of thinking and the many David vs Goliath style st
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by amarant 2y ago
Am I the only one who read this headline to mean that rats were causing global warming at first? I had to do a double take on this one
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by amarant 2y ago
Same! That's One less OS that I have to remember how it works! I'm not sure I understand the whole tinkering thing. Whenever I tinker with my Linux, it's because I decided to try something tinkery, and usually mostly because
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by amarant 2y ago
Wow kiksht sounds like a pretty cool language! Are there any resources you'd recommend for the language itself? I'm mostly curious about the whole "a verb with prefix structure can be a whole sentence" thing, that sounds
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by amarant 2y ago
How do you differentiate from, say, dbeaver, or any similar database management software? What's the main reason to get Mathesar instead of DBeaver?
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by amarant 2y ago
This is exactly the stance that confuses me. Why don't want read a great book? If I told you that The Great Gatsby was, in fact, written by a timetravelling AI, would it seize to be a great book for you? I dunno, I guess I'm weird
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by amarant 2y ago
I'm confused by the seemingly pervasive position that quality doesn't matter if a text was written by an AI. It's a long way off still, but let's imagine we get to a place where chatgpt86-xl-megaturbo-super actually comp
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by amarant 2y ago
The blame game is kind of like a variation of a bikeshed discussion, except it might lead to war. War happens to be my least favourite colour for a bikeshed...
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by amarant 2y ago
I mean they (Google) do provide a service. One could possibly argue that the content creators should pay Google to distribute their material, kind of like an equivalent to a AWS bill, but is anyone arguing that? It would actually be a kind
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by amarant 2y ago
Yeah, what I'm saying is I'm unconvinced that this goal is a good idea to begin with. Even if executed perfectly, I don't think it will be able to compete with programming languages for the purpose of programming.
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by amarant 2y ago
I feel like syntax actually helps in writing unambiguous logic. Doing away with syntax and writing in plain English might sound nice to someone who is just starting to learn how to program and it's tired of not understanding syntax, bu
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by amarant 2y ago
Hey, Linux user with 5 software subscriptions, including all jetbrains products, here. Every Linux user I know has a similar amount of paid software, even the ones that keep talking about how everything should be OSS in an ideal world. Can
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by amarant 2y ago
Huh, I've heard of this in men, but I thought it wasn't an issue for women, as a monthly blood loss is a pretty good ward against iron overload. TIL
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by amarant 2y ago
If I didn't misunderstand completely, he managed to hide a sneaky prompt in an image. If a user then instructed the LLM to view the image, it would insert the malicious memories into that users data. I imagine there will be some humour
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by amarant 2y ago
Nah, drugs are all about the experience. It's only novel the first few times you try a new drug, and sustained use requires the drug to be pleasant! In other words, drugs are better than the internet, and we could all learn a thing or
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by amarant 2y ago
I feel like this is a trend in online writing lately, and it's leading me to more and more withdraw from online discourse. Whenever someone introduces something that greatly helps with something, there are a bunch of people who start p
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by amarant 2y ago
This is quite surprising to me. My (admittedly limited) understanding of R is that it's focused on data analysis and graph generation. What need does react solve in that context?
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by amarant 2y ago
Heh, when I lived in Brasil "paraguaio" (Paraguayan) was slang for fake. Makes the term Paraguayan Mickey (or "Mickey paraguaio" as the Brasilians would call it) more interesting.
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by amarant 2y ago
I have a xolo that has been diagnosed anorectic by a veterinary. I'll agree it's not common tho, I didn't know dogs could get such a diagnosis until my own dog got it
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by amarant 2y ago
I wish I could go back in time and show this study to all those cops who stopped me and asked why my pupils were so large when I was a teenager. They suspected I was high (which where I live is illegal, even if you only have it in your bloo
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by amarant 2y ago
Your points are valid, but I was talking about non-competes specifically, which companies try to apply outside of America too, even if they are not legally binding (I'm Swedish and I've signed a non compete in the past, knowing fu
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by amarant 2y ago
I've heard it said that the main difference between being employed and being enslaved is that you can choose your master when you're employed. It's a bit hyperbolic to be sure, but one does wonder how far we are from going fu

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