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by barnabee 1y ago
I still use serial ports pretty regularly… …via USB-to-serial adapters plugged into the USB C port of my laptop.
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by barnabee 1y ago
Yep! I keep a couple of C to A adapters in my bag and have literally zero desire or need for USB A ports anywhere else, be it laptops, chargers, or wherever.
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by barnabee 1y ago
Many of these features are more IDE than editor to me and that perhaps explains our different points of view. Personally I’d be quite sad if the core Helix editor ends up like a VS Code style IDE, or even like some of the more heavyweight v
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by barnabee 1y ago
I am not convinced the stagnation or downward trend is either inevitable or irreversible. The impact of the last 1–2 decades of policies and global/regional events may continue feeding through and making things worse (or at least stopp
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by barnabee 1y ago
What important features are missing? While I’m looking forward to the plugin system for a few nice to have tweaks, and amrunning the dev branch alongside the main build to check it out, there’s nothing really essential missing to me. I appr
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by barnabee 1y ago
I’ve found the Pixel 8 and 9 Pro to be quite a reasonable size and they run GrapheneOS pretty nicely.
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by barnabee 1y ago
There’s no social contract in advertising supported content. It’s a business model based on calculated, long term psychological manipulation[0]. At this point I’d prefer it all to disappear entirely along with the content that “can’t exist”
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by barnabee 1y ago
I don’t understand how the kind of “power user” that’s looking for an advanced terminal app could care so little about what goes on under the hood that they’re ok with a terminal emulator that depends on an entire browser engine. No thanks.
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by barnabee 1y ago
> I don't want subtractive reality where parts of the world are being hidden from me I’ll make an exception for ad blocking as long as there’s a visual marker where the ad was.
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by barnabee 1y ago
> a lot of people, specifically in large companies, perform worse with significant WFH. Better to give them the choice to start coming to the office more and see if it helps their performance, and fire them if not, than force everyone el
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by barnabee 1y ago
If anything, the store download is the case where it’s not installing. There’s nothing “installed” about something which can be yanked from your device or prevented from working at someone else’s whim.
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by barnabee 1y ago
It’s reasonable to allow adults to choose to harm themselves. It’s far less reasonable to allow companies to advertise and promote that harm as if it’s exciting and beneficial to anyone.
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by barnabee 1y ago
I’d rather use every LLM that can search the web (including whatever local model I’m currently running on my MacBook) over Google. I also prefer the results from Kagi (which I generally use), DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia. I still don’t think a co
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by barnabee 1y ago
I have a strong feeling that speaking to a lawyer might reveal that to be untrue
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by barnabee 1y ago
I’d agree with you if the someone else shared their code… But then I doubt AA would be taking the stance they are.
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by barnabee 1y ago
It appears not to have been updated since 2019? See https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum
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by barnabee 1y ago
> 00. Users should be free to run whatever code they like. > 01. Vulnerable members of society should be protected from scams. 00: yes, always; 01: yes, but not at the expense of 00 (or probably some other things)
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by barnabee 1y ago
Sounds to me like these companies and those candidates deserve each other. I’d leave them to it. Network. Talk to your friends and acquaintances. Go to meetups and talks, maybe even conferences. Speak to some recruiters. Find one who isn’t
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by barnabee 1y ago
If you have 15 years experience as the OP does and you’re trying to get a job by replying to “public” postings on the internet, you’re probably making your life harder than it needs to be and missing out on the best opportunities. If you ca
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by barnabee 1y ago
When times are tough, accept less growth (or sometimes none) so that when times get good again or someone builds a competitor, all your customers don't leave you.
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by barnabee 1y ago
I’ve used “real” em-dashes and en-dashes in my writing generally since I switched to using Macs about 20 years ago. Before that I used them for e.g. academic writing, which I mainly did in LaTeX, but not so often elsewhere. They’re simple e
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by barnabee 1y ago
Defining one's worth by shareholder value is pretty dystopian, so yeah, even "make the world a better place" is preferable, at least if whoever said it really means it…
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by barnabee 1y ago
No. It's spyware. Software authors/vendors have no right to collect telemetry and it ought to be illegal to have any such data collection and/or exfiltration running on a user's device by default or without explicit, opt
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by barnabee 1y ago
I'd see less need for this fork if Zed's creators weren't already doing nefarious things like refusing to allow the Zed account / sign-in features to be disabled. I don't see a reason to be afraid of "fragmente
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by barnabee 1y ago
Every human who defines the purpose of their life's work as "to deliver shareholder value" is a failure of society. How sad.
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by barnabee 1y ago
I have an account on LessWrong. Heck, I even try to act rationally most of the time. I don’t consider myself a Rationalist or part of the Rationalist community. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if that number turns out to overstate the size b
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by barnabee 1y ago
_Good_ engineers fit their entire understanding of the problem domain in their head The best engineers understand how big a difference that is
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by barnabee 1y ago
~80% of the basic questions I ask of LLMs[0] work just fine locally, and I’m happy to ask twice for the other 20% of queries for the sake of keeping those queries completely private. [0] Think queries I’d previously have had to put through
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by barnabee 1y ago
Yeah, encouraging using and engaging in a single off topic channel would create far less overhead on all but the smallest teams
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by barnabee 1y ago
I agree. I've used first Kitty and more recently WezTerm (and now occasionally Ghostty, too) for years and every time I've tried tmux/zellij I've found nothing (except as you say for occasional long running server sessio

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