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by andrepd 2mo ago
> Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebel
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by andrepd 2mo ago
Yes, I'm very annoyed that I cannot look at historical data (even from the past couple of days) in weather websites!
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by andrepd 2mo ago
Jesus, what a bizarrely aggressive response.
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by andrepd 2mo ago
I'm shocked, astonished even, that enterprises on which trillions of dollars are being poured would consider cheating on marketing benchmarks.
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by andrepd 3mo ago
The first "scenario" starts with this description > By 2026, when a human with a customer service inquiry has to deal with another human instead of a robot, they get upset and ask to speak to a machine instead. It's genuin
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by andrepd 3mo ago
> there has never been something so powerful it's kept me up past 3 AM every single night working beyond every fiber of my body telling me to sleep. I feel empowered as if I command an army. And there are millions of us Yelling &quo
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by andrepd 3mo ago
Yeah, an AI generated blogpost telling me about human emotion...
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by andrepd 3mo ago
I actually fucking do this, and have done for a year or two. Sad state of affairs.
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by andrepd 3mo ago
No need for that even. Just git reflog and rewind back to any spot your want!
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by andrepd 3mo ago
Exactly! The most interesting arguments for Rust that I've ever read have come not from people who hate C++, but precisely from people who are really into C++, because those are the people who actually recognise its shortcomings are
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by andrepd 3mo ago
Indeed. LLMs produce truly atrocious code, unmaintainable and unreliable. If you're vibecoding a toy to amuse yourself or something similar low-stakes, that's perfectly fine! For higher-stakes code, it's definitely not.
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by andrepd 3mo ago
> Casey Muratori and Jon Blow have pushed this concept frequently Ah... The school of what I like to call "maximum opinions and minimal evidence". Aggressive arrogant dismissal of anything except their exact view (and for Murat
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by andrepd 3mo ago
> you should be celebrating what Elon and his companies have achieved The level of servility of some people never ceases to amaze me. This sentence is viscerally repulsive to me.
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by andrepd 3mo ago
You're not the only one: "Beyond the limit: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787042
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by andrepd 3mo ago
Make a "reverse vote" to reject passing a law = abstentions mean you don't reject passing the law = abstentions mean you support passing the law
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by andrepd 3mo ago
This comment makes no sense. For one, "you need the absolute best performance and you decide to drop to down to C++", no, C++ and Rust are virtually equivalent in that they pretty much expose the underlying machine fully; if anyth
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by andrepd 3mo ago
Static guarantees are better than stochastic parrots. A static linger beats telling Claude "check this idiom". Etc etc.
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by andrepd 3mo ago
There's a Hyundai car whose name literally means "pussy" in Portuguese and Galician x) It's marketed as something else in those territories.
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by andrepd 3mo ago
Cars sold for the past years already record and transmit all your movements and telemetry, I'm sad to say.
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by andrepd 3mo ago
Handy, but a book lover with an ereader probably already uses Calibre :)
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by andrepd 3mo ago
Anti-vandalism bots have been used for much longer than 10 years lol
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by andrepd 3mo ago
> If building a world-class (almost revolutionary) product with your own programming language doesn't count as "making your thing notable", maybe it's time to revisit what notable means? JangaFX/EmberGen been cov
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by andrepd 3mo ago
> The Wikipedia Mods view themselves as "journalists" and trying to do the "morally ideological" thing by only allowing certain posts on there I don't know any of the people in this post, since I firmly believe t
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by andrepd 3mo ago
It was GP who came up with the gaming forum-ads reply! :) As a straw man, super defensive in response to a mild comment.
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by andrepd 3mo ago
Exactly. The "tree" part you can argue whether it's good or bad. The "upvote" part is universally bad. The fact that upvotes bump comments while downvotes will completely hide then... It's just terrible for d
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by andrepd 3mo ago
Sounds like it hit a nerve to be honest
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by andrepd 3mo ago
> the researchers estimate that permanent standard time would result in some 300,000 fewer people having suffered from a stroke and result in 2.6 million fewer people having obesity That 2.6 million people are obese because of a 1h short
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by andrepd 3mo ago
> Yes, if you overwrite binaries executed by ghidra, you can trigger code execution. > but it's probably worth noting that "RMI" stands for Remote Method Invocation This reminds me of someone submitting a (clearly vibec
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by andrepd 4mo ago
Dutch grandmas can transport 3 kids to school on a cargo bike but young parents in the US need a 4-ton lifted truck? Odd.
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by andrepd 4mo ago
It's really astonishing how virtually every single quality of life indicator is negatively correlated with number of cars in the road. One of the most effective things you / your city / your nation can do do improve your live

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