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by bartread 9mo ago
Yeah, I’m sort of hopeful it’ll experience a similar resurgence to vinyl. Despite being terminally online for literally decades now I never got out of CDs just because it always bugged me that I could buy a physical copy with better (or, no
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by bartread 9mo ago
> RIAA I get you but there’s also an element of pick your poison. Not all the online options are great either, particularly not on the streaming front (cough, Spotify, cough[0]) in terms of their treatment - and payment - of artists. I t
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by bartread 9mo ago
I’m increasingly conscious of being an outlier here. I prefer physical, for a variety of reasons (ownership being one of them), but also prefer CD to vinyl. Nobody loves CDs any more and I don’t get it. I own vinyl, I like vinyl, but CDs ar
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by bartread 9mo ago
> I usually find artwork that accompanies a text to be distracting. I love reading work that can stand on its own, invoking images in the mind. But the images are a part of the work, not separate from it, no?[0] You might have a preferen
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by bartread 9mo ago
There's an assumption, that people sometimes state explicitly, on HN that the discussion is more interesting or valuable than whatever's on the end of the posted link. Sometimes that's true - often even - but sometimes it&#x2
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by bartread 9mo ago
Yeah, very WarGames. EDIT: Actually thinking about it some more… - Imagine what you could do with 16-bit games of the era with one or more of these models embedded. Swap the model depending on the use case within the game. Great for adventu
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by bartread 9mo ago
This is excellent. Thing I’d like to do if I had time: get it running on a 48K Spectrum. 10 year old me would have found that absolutely magical back in the 1980s.
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by bartread 9mo ago
Be serious, will you? He is, very directly and in shorthand form I’ll grant you, expressing concerns that many people share about both AI and the oligarchs in control of it. But if you find the language offensive consider the very real poss
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by bartread 9mo ago
> unhinged rant Seems pretty hinged to me. Grounded firmly in reality even. The data centres used to run AI consume huge amounts of power and water to run, not to mention massive quantities of toxic raw materials in their manufacture and
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by bartread 10mo ago
*Employer NI contribution, not employer AI contribution - a pox be upon autocorrect
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by bartread 10mo ago
They’d have to be hiring recent graduates for you to hear that perspective. And, as much as what I’ve just said is hyperbolically pessimistic, there is some truth to it. In the UK a bunch of factors have coincided to put the brakes on hirin
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by bartread 10mo ago
In future this will be cited as a canonical example of enshittification. They’ve extracted 80% or whatever of the value out of customers in the current markets and now, rather than figuring out a new value adding product or service they can
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by bartread 10mo ago
> Probably because Microsoft knows vibe coding is _not_ an actual viable way to build production ready code and does not want to deal with the liability issues of prompting customers to move from a working Excel sheet to a broken piece o
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by bartread 10mo ago
Nope, bang up to date, disabled all extensions - just did all the obvious stuff that can hamper sites from operating.
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by bartread 10mo ago
It is cool. I am irked that on desktop it does not work in Firefox, but only in Chrome (and presumably other Chromium based browsers). I'm not a big fan of Chrome, for a variety of reasons, but principally because I don't trus
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by bartread 10mo ago
I love the optimism: it thinks GTA VI will have been released. The headline about writing code manually without prompting as well - so on point.
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by bartread 10mo ago
Yeah, I spent years in Java and then even longer in .NET and it felt like everything I was getting a bit fed up of in those worlds had invaded JS. 20 years ago I could never have imagined defending JS as a language but, as time wore on, I s
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by bartread 10mo ago
> You don't think the rewrite to TS did not bring any value? I mean, I don't really like TypeScript, and I never have. It's ugly, boilerplatey, and inelegant. I am not a fan. So... no. But, again, some battles you have to
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by bartread 10mo ago
I actually used this back in the day: once at university, and then again for a telecoms project in my first job. But it doesn't mean there's much commonality - beyond superficially C-like syntax - between the languages, and certai
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by bartread 10mo ago
Yeah, I agree with you. I remember being annoyed by the name in 1999 because, as you say, JavaScripts's not got much to do with Java other than both languages being superficially C-like... but I don't see it as being confusing for
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by bartread 10mo ago
You aren’t wrong. I basically stopped using any OSS code backed by Google as a result. I’d pushed Angular over React[0] for a massive project, and it worked well, but the migration to Angular 2 when it came created a huge amount of non-valu
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by bartread 10mo ago
I've never worked at Microsoft. However, I do have some experience with the company. I worked building tools within the Microsoft ecosystem, both on the SQL Server side, and on the .NET and developer tooling side, and I spent some time
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by bartread 10mo ago
Interesting that "Small - Brainstorming" is marked as a bad meeting flavour. I mean, for starters, I'm not the biggest fan of brainstorming anyway: I tend to be more creative on my own, and then we can come together to compar
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by bartread 10mo ago
I've become a fan of Cobi. Our eldest daughter loves airliners and wanted a model of a particular type of plane earlier this year that we could only find as a Cobi model. I've always been a bit wary of Lego-alikes (principally bec
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by bartread 10mo ago
Vibe around and find out.
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by bartread 10mo ago
> Who are you thinking of? It’s pretty clear that @Aurornis is talking about people they know personally. They literally mention that they’re talking about people they grew up with. Whereas you are talking about a completely different gr
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by bartread 11mo ago
> Still not as bad as when Jason Manford finished a show, turned up at the Village Hotel in Bournemouth, and because he checked in late, they'd given his room to someone else. This isn't quite what happened. He turned up befor
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by bartread 11mo ago
It's funny. I objectively know that 9MB of RAM is tiny by modern standards and, indeed, has been tiny for decades now. My friend's dad got a PC with 32MB of RAM in 1996, or maybe early 1997, to put it into perspective. But I can s
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by bartread 11mo ago
Yeah, for me there's something about the sound of the power supply, CPU and (sometimes) graphics card fans, coupled with the ticking of an old school hard disk that takes me right back to the nineties. I know spinning disks were a thin
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by bartread 11mo ago
I don’t think GP has missed the point at all. If the “political aspect” brings no concrete benefits for EU citizens, what’s the point?

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