berkes

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by berkes 3y ago
I should have clarified better. Because, indeed, I have the same experience with copilot. Where it suggested code that I disliked but was actually the right one and mine the wrong one. I was talking about X-Y on a higher level though. Archi
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by berkes 3y ago
> that coding a Jekyll site to equivalent functionality. With me it's the exact opposite. Jekyll, a GH actions, deploy to a static site hosting takes under an hour. I know Jekyll, so it's a bit cheating, but yesterday I did th
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by berkes 3y ago
> Humans (since Erectus) _can't_ eat more Again, the question is not if they can (they can't) but WHY. Or, differently, what is the cause, and what the effect.
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by berkes 3y ago
> if you know where to find something no point in knowing it. Nonsense. And you know it. First, you need to know what to find, before knowing where to find it. And knowing what to find requires intricate knowledge of the thing. Not
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by berkes 3y ago
I ferment a lot, and know of only a few dangers: some rare fruits or veggies can produce toxins when fermenting, but non that I can easily buy in a European market. Spices and some herbs can be dangerous too, but the quantities needed for t
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by berkes 3y ago
Yes. But the parent commentor asked "why". As in: why can a gorilla sustain it's immense needs to build muscles by eating a lot, but humans cannot do this to build a large brain? To ask that question differently: why would hu
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by berkes 3y ago
English isn't my native tongue. Sometimes stupid mistakes slip through. Apparently this one sounds like a metaphor. It was just a mistake, though.
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by berkes 3y ago
On rereading my notes: the book by Ehrenreich is "fear of falling".
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by berkes 3y ago
In "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America" Barbara Ehrenreich poses that universities are (in my words) merely a fictional moat, "invented" by the new class that became rich through education and work, rather
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by berkes 3y ago
Screen resolution is literally the amount of pixels that fit on a square inch.
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by berkes 3y ago
"readable". I'm 45, been looking at screens for 30+ years almost daily now. There's no way I can read that with or without my glasses. It's truly impressive feat to get it this small. I used to do texts like this, o
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by berkes 3y ago
I've worked at many startups and companies where 80% of the revenue comes from 1 or 2 companies. That's still "just" a B2B relation and not "that one company is funding is". Now, I'm not arguing about how
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by berkes 3y ago
> Mozilla is funded by Google You aren't saying it, but it is implied or can easily misread as such. But Google is not directly funding Mozilla. Mozilla gets its funds from many places, and one of them is Google; paying for being th
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by berkes 3y ago
What is your point?
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by berkes 3y ago
You could have stopped at "means". No need to be condescending or telling me I don't know how stuff works. I know how stuff works. My point is, and remains, purely non-technical though. And I also know how language works. If
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by berkes 3y ago
In most countries it's still possible, but Apple announced to remove this feature¹, then announced it's not removing it b/c the EU told them it's not going to accept that or so. I've lost count by now. In any case,
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by berkes 3y ago
> There’s literally nothing stopping There's literally apple stopping that. By limiting APIs, by removing the ability to treat them as other apps (home screen icons), by blocking apps that are hybrids etc.
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by berkes 3y ago
> The web was designed to deliver pages, this was well designed It was well designed, using Hypermedia. Which works extremely well for hyperlinks and forms. Instead of leveraging and improving these primitives, corporates¹ and web-devs
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by berkes 3y ago
> Apple doesn't actually care about safety and security, when in fact Web Distribution is more secured than Marketplace distribution. That's a contradiction in logic there. If they cared for security, they would choose the mor
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by berkes 3y ago
Also, and too often overlooked or silently ignored: You don't need cookie popups! Really. You don't. You only need to get consent to track users with software you don't run yourself. Or when you sell your data off to other co
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by berkes 3y ago
If they'd use static typing, the IDE could easily rename it with one command, though. /S
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by berkes 3y ago
It could be an onFocus as well, I presume.
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by berkes 3y ago
It doesn't?
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by berkes 3y ago
Won't share to and from a Linux desktop though. LocalSend works on all platforms.
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by berkes 3y ago
I use Joplin. And that has no way to share a part of my notes. And I'm really not ready to share my woes with my wife with the world. These are all mixed with my Kobo notes. Also. Notes have always been a mess. I note a lot with pen an
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by berkes 3y ago
That's some great advice. When you say "don't overwrite", di you mean to start from scratch every chapter? I can imagine this would work for me: repetition is key. But also to get frustratingly boring after a few chapter
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by berkes 3y ago
"This old culture clearly worshipped violence and torture" - some researcher in 3009 ACR (ACR-After Climate Restore)
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by berkes 3y ago
As mentioned, I have ADHD. Which means I cannot handle distractions. So I try to uses processes and tools to manage distractions as much as possible for me. But I guess a neurotypical zoomer can code fine with a TV in the background, a podc
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by berkes 3y ago
yes! Very much. And turn off copilot. The code from the book is very likely in its training set. It will produce it almost verbatim. And you learn nothing.
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by berkes 3y ago
I read about fifty books a year for a decade now. Only about four of them per year, are programming books. They are indeed to be read very differently. Here's how I read them, ymmv. - never in bed. never as audiobook. But sitting. At a

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