bambax

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by bambax 1y ago
But... dOn'T hUmAnS dO ThE sAmE tHiNg????
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by bambax 1y ago
> Which animal best represents your Firefox browsing style? I'm not an infant so I don't need pretty pictures of animals to express myself. This is offensive and ridiculous. Please fuck off. I use Firefox as a fucking browser
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by bambax 1y ago
True, Excel is in the same category, yes.
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by bambax 1y ago
The problem with LLM is when they're used for creativity or for thinking. Just because LLMs are indeed useful in some (even many!) context, including coding, esp. to either get something started, or, like in your example, to transcode
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by bambax 1y ago
> If we take the influence in the field of politics and human and privacy rights truly seriously, a ban on American tech in Europe is crucial, according to this scholar. In addition, we must work to create a European Big Tech industry.
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by bambax 1y ago
Alien 1 is a true masterpiece with real, actual characters and a monster that is terryfing because of how it behaves, not (just) of how it looks. We almost never see it in adult form.
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by bambax 1y ago
> But Ebert’s opinion that the film lacks “a sense of awe and wonderment” is—I’ll say it—stupid and wrong, and to a puzzling degree. When John Williams’ theme swells as the Brachiosaur hoists on its hind legs in front of Grant and Sattl
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by bambax 1y ago
Very nice! but why not a webapp as well (for those of us who seldom use their phone and can get bored at the office)?
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by bambax 1y ago
Laundry machines are indeed extremely simple, and I remember my grandmother had one that could be hand operated. Wahing machines for dishes are much more complex and have many more points of failure.
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by bambax 1y ago
The current one may be repairable! Repairing it would satisfy the requirement and be probably much cheaper. What is the problem exactly? (Or, buy a used one from a reputable brand.)
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by bambax 1y ago
People living in houseboats along the river have been swimming in the Seine forever. And every summer, young people, possibly a little drunk, jump into the water as a dare from bridges near Notre-Dame. But yes, this is more mainstream and o
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by bambax 1y ago
> I bought a Bosch 500 series because our old one broke, and we needed one quick. Slightly OT (or maybe not) older dishwashers are usually not very hard to fix (depending on the problem). My dishwasher is over ten years old. The pump b
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by bambax 1y ago
The incident we are discussing absolutely disproves this! Apple is happy to jeopardize privacy and the very idea of it, for a quick buck blasting an ad to all its users. They don't care one way or the other. But the truth is, nobody re
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by bambax 1y ago
> lack of openness Lack of openness means lack of privacy. If we can't install apps on the side that have proper adblock filtering, then all the promises in the world are hollow.
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by bambax 1y ago
> That Apple can be trusted in ways that other “big tech” companies cannot. That's funny. Why would Apple be "different"?
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by bambax 1y ago
What? No, that's not the same at all (and on the web, the best adblock is free).
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by bambax 1y ago
Glasses that block none of the ads have other purposes and are light to wear; I'm guessing ad-blocking glasses would be bulkier and pricier so they would have to have something to show for it. Also, on the web (on non-Google browsers)
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by bambax 1y ago
Nobody will buy glasses that block some of the ads; but I would pay for something that blocks all ads everywhere, including when I'm at a friend's house watching TV or YT and they don't have an ad blocker.
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by bambax 1y ago
> XSLT 1.0 is still dominant How, where? In 2013 I was still working a lot with XSLT and 1.0 was completely dead everywhere one looked. Saxon was free for XSLT 2 and was excellent. I used to do transformation of both huge documents, an
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by bambax 1y ago
> i have a static website with a menu. keeping the menu synchronized over the half dozen pages is a pain You can totally do that with PHP? It can find all the pages, generate the menu, transform markdown to html for the current page, a
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by bambax 1y ago
> In those days you needed a massive wobbly tower of enterprise Java to make it work You needed the jvm and saxon and that was about it...
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by bambax 1y ago
I made many transformation pipelines with XSLT back in the days, and even a validation engine using Schematron; it was one of the most pleasant experience I had. It never broke, ever. It could have bugs, of course! -- but only "program
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by bambax 1y ago
That's a ridiculous position. We can't organize today's world based on who was where 4 millennia ago. (If we did, most if not all countries would immediately cease to exist, starting of course with the US but not limited to t
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by bambax 1y ago
> Britain donated land to Jews Land it didn't own. Most people can be very generous with what they don't have.
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by bambax 1y ago
> and they believe god has ordered them to destroy you Maybe, but obviously the other side thinks exactly the same. Religious wars were lots of fun five centuries ago. They will be funnier still in the nuclear age.
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by bambax 1y ago
> In a hyper-mobile, distributed global economy, you can destroy billions of dollars in value just by reducing the speed at which goods and people can securely travel. Maybe, but the goal of terrorism isn't to destroy "value&
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by bambax 1y ago
Interesting choice of username, given this comment ;-)
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by bambax 1y ago
> The younger person also addresses the older person, usually with a title or another word that fits their relationship, but not their name. Only the older person addresses the younger one with their name. (There can be more nuance.) I
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by bambax 1y ago
Every expert will tend to miss the forest from the trees because it's their job, and mission, and billing criteria, to find every possible tree and categorize it. But you and I don't care about the trees, we only care about the fo
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by bambax 1y ago
It's surprising how bad most people are at debugging. They make hypotheses but don't test them in isolation, so they can't reach conclusions. I see this everywhere, from IT issues to trying to fix a broken vacuum cleaner. The

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