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by arendtio 4mo ago
Actually, it isn't that complicated. If you have a basic understanding of how git works (a little beyond just clone, commit, and push), this can be quite helpful when working with a slow connection or large repositories.
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by arendtio 4mo ago
So ironic that I had to start Chromium just to read his blog post, because my Firefox 151.0.3 was unable to render the font on his blog... To some extent, I share the view that forms should be simple (e.g., at one point I built a reservatio
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by arendtio 4mo ago
I think it is part of Web 2.0 with its user-generated content, but I think it lacks most of the central aspects of Social Media: - contacts/friends - personalisation - followers I think some central feeds + comments are not enough, esp
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by arendtio 4mo ago
Same here. And I had some pretty f**ed up file systems. At one point, I had one where the directory structure was completely broken and had circles in it (broken SSD). To be fair, in that particular case, I did not look for lost+found and j
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by arendtio 4mo ago
Cool result, but just so much work for something that should be a no-brainer. My Sennheiser RS 180 still works with normal rechargeable AAA batteries (charging on the official station). Yet another case where the newer models are just worse
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by arendtio 4mo ago
The irony is that LLMs can make it much easier to learn new skills. You just have to use them in the right way, and obviously most people take the easy path and don't learn...
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by arendtio 5mo ago
Sounds more like a problem with the Debian upgrade. Sure, better error messages could help, but when it no longer even starts...
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by arendtio 5mo ago
I have been using it for a while as well (started with OpenOffice). However, not all apps can keep up the pace. As a word processor, I like Writer even more than MS Word, but Calc, for example, is just much slower than MS Excel when you bui
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by arendtio 5mo ago
> SQLite for everything is just wrong, and I don't think that the SQLite fans are that crowd. Taking a database server for everything is probably possible, but often unnecessary. With experience, one can properly judge when SQLite i
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by arendtio 5mo ago
Yes, the data protection people are always blamed for the banners when, in fact, the marketing people are responsible. If you build a website without all that tracking stuff and without 'free' services from the data collection com
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by arendtio 5mo ago
Maybe the problem is not the artificial intelligence, but the thing we call copyright, and AI training is just showing us how weird the concept of copyright is. I mean, it seems to be okay to replicate information if it has been remixed wit
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by arendtio 5mo ago
So how does it compare to - JS - Go - Java - Python I think adding a page about that in the docs could help evaluate the language.
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by arendtio 5mo ago
Better use it now, because it has a best-before date of 2026/2027 (depending on when Google will enforce the developer identity registration).
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by arendtio 5mo ago
/dev/mapper/vg_system-arch 207G 192G 4,7G 98% / Just don't keep free space around :-D
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by arendtio 5mo ago
That's another valid point: when you just keep a battery around and don't use it, it also loses capacity at a certain point. So even when you don't use them, you have to babysit lithium-ion batteries. That's why I still
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by arendtio 5mo ago
But what exactly is a charge cycle? I mean, the effect on a battery being loaded from 0% to 100% and drained to 0% again is vastly different from a battery being charged from 40% to 50% and being used until 40% ten times in a row.
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by arendtio 5mo ago
I always wonder why everybody is so hyped about the cli harnesses. I am quite happy with Cursor (even though I used to do coding with tmux+vim in the old days). One of the features I like very much is that I can switch between different mod
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by arendtio 6mo ago
I am not a big Apple fan, but when I see what they did with the M-series MacBooks, it feels like they are from the future. And not just a year ahead or so, but more like a decade. This is something Tim and John both deserve credit for.
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by arendtio 6mo ago
I appreciate such a law very much. I find it very irritating how people always want new phones. And I think there are three major reasons to upgrade to a new phone: 1. lifestyle 2. software updates 3. battery capacity While it is hard to ch
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by arendtio 6mo ago
I love it, because it shows that advertisement is communication as well. Communication is highly regulated for good reasons, and advertisement is not. This is as if telecommunication companies would disconnect calls when what is being said
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by arendtio 7mo ago
For those who don't know, 'Apfel' is the German word for Apple.
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by arendtio 7mo ago
Do you do those checks only for users without accounts or also for those with accounts?
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by arendtio 7mo ago
I think it is more like the newest incarnation of sub-optimal user experience decisions. 20 years ago, their system was great for the time. However, nowadays it feels like a system that has been developed over time by different people with
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by arendtio 7mo ago
I don't get the downvotes, as I had trouble understanding the intro as well. It seems it was written for a very specific audience.
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by arendtio 7mo ago
24H forced wait time?!? WTF When I side-load open-source apps for other people, I want to do it right in the moment, not activate the feature, and the next time I see them (like half a year later), install the app. When Google announced the
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by arendtio 7mo ago
I would like to add that Braid is not a normal video game. To me, it is a piece of art. It contains so many mind-bending mechanics that I think it is a real possibility that you could have worked on some of that stuff for years, making it u
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by arendtio 7mo ago
I don't think that this is a good idea. For medical applications, I can understand that LLMs are not the best solution, since they are so bad with numbers/probabilities. But for legal advice, I think they should be pretty good. So
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by arendtio 7mo ago
But where is the line? Is a spell checker okay? How about one that also suggests alternative wording? I think, in the end, it is less about the tool you use and more about the purpose you use it for. It is more like when you use certain too
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by arendtio 7mo ago
Pre-Plasma days? OMG, that seems like a really old version, like KDE 3.x?
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by arendtio 7mo ago
> KDE is amazing. For an open-source project the desktop environment looks really slick. That is clearly an understatement. For me, it is the best desktop environment out there. I don't want to say that it is perfect (there have bee

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