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by beej71 1y ago
I'm running an experiment--just cancelled my ChatGPT subscription and I'm going back to doing things the Hard Way. Which for me is Kagi. I want to see if there are noticeable effects and tradeoffs. Anyone else here tried the same
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by beej71 1y ago
The good old days. We had a bunch of X terminals hooked up with thin net to some HP735 servers in college.
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by beej71 1y ago
My goal is to be better than the LLM. :) As of now, it's a pretty low bar, I think.
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by beej71 1y ago
Smart countries always spare money for speculative research.
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by beej71 1y ago
In general you can do anything on the land that doesn't impede other people's ability to also do anything on general on the land. Permanent houses or crops would impede other members of the public who also own the land. I'm c
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by beej71 1y ago
Not only that but it's the access points that get bought up.
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by beej71 1y ago
Yup, very much so. And Usenet even is coming back to life now that Google dropped it. Always be on the lookout for the next small thing! :)
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by beej71 1y ago
Bad news for all my programming guides that use em dashes properly... ;D Luckily I have a Git history on them that predates LLMs, for whatever that's worth. In Vim, the digraph is ^K-M.
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by beej71 1y ago
On my particular (Ubuntu) system, `debtree pass` shows 301 dependencies (includes subdependencies) for a total install of 130 MB. One of the big trigger is the dependency pass->xclip. That sets off a big cascade of X.
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by beej71 1y ago
The standard library is a far less risky dependency than third-party libraries. It's far more reliable in presence and behavior.
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by beej71 1y ago
I don't think so, but at least awareness of dependencies as liabilities has increased. I installed `pass` (the lightweight password manager) on a fresh headless system the other day and it brought in like 60 packages including a bunch
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by beej71 1y ago
Seconded. I've often wondered what the development cost is and how many ways we'd have to split that at $10/mo.
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by beej71 1y ago
For me, the more pertinent question is should I be liable for not-legally-protected content people post to my comment section on my website?
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by beej71 1y ago
It might depend on the place. At the university where I teach, I haven't seen any such conflicts on group projects. There is strife, but it seems on the same level as when I was in college 30 years ago. I'm not denying it, but it
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by beej71 1y ago
Should be at fun little XML parser to write, converting the thing to HTML. Except that it's a government thing so the parser's probably not going to be little. :) Edit: The thing's basically XHTML without any kind of header.
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by beej71 1y ago
The only way to definitely hold everybody accountable for all crimes is a police state. Like Franklin said, he'd rather 100 guilty people go free rather than a single innocent person jailed. He was definitely willing to not hold some p
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by beej71 1y ago
They are two different things, though. One is actually producing content, and the others deciding which content host and share. And there are all kinds of various legal and illegal combinations, here. For instance maybe they decide that it&
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by beej71 1y ago
It was a massively successful pilot that half the country used. The other option is free fillable forms which is dogshit.
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by beej71 1y ago
> "as a result of a compulsory legal process" What does this mean?
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by beej71 1y ago
Went from 20 years of dev to teaching CS at a university--for as long as that lasts. Call it "semi-retirement". :) After that, who knows. Maybe the whole system collapses and I just go to work as a tutor for some rich peoples&#x27
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by beej71 1y ago
> I like moving the code around and chuckling to myself while I delete all the stupid comments. I have to read the code line-by-line anyways. I'm glad I got out when I did. :) This simply isn't something I want to do for a livi
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by beej71 1y ago
All you fast typists... I'm in the 65 wpm club. :) Maybe I've slowed as I've aged. But I also never in my life have felt restricted by my typing speed.
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by beej71 1y ago
> please get on your ass and do something about it! I do! I wish more people would.
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by beej71 1y ago
So how do you think dictatorships come to be?
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by beej71 1y ago
POSIX and the Single Unix Specification are pretty much all you have I write a lot of shell scripts and they tend to be POSIX-compliant. For dependencies, you can use the `command` command to fail elegantly if they're not installed.
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by beej71 1y ago
I think ones school network is what they make. Over my career I've gotten three jobs due to my school network. (It was a regular state university.) And I do think most people don't effectively leverage it.
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by beej71 1y ago
I switched back to mutt after years of TB and, man, is it sooo easy to quote inline. I'd missed it. I'm sure a bunch of recipients are wondering wtf I'm doing. :)
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by beej71 1y ago
Disregarding the rest of the content, the poster has every right to do that!
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by beej71 1y ago
I'm not the parent, but that seems like a pretty bad misread. But to answer, you worry more about the guy waving a knife in your face than other people who have knives and may have waved them in your face in the past. I'm curious
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by beej71 1y ago
I finally after all those years got my dream gig teaching at the university and it's all crashing down. Too bad foreign countries aren't courting teachers like they are researchers.

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