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by bityard 1y ago
I don't see what that has to do with my comment, but okay: A lot less than are unwillingly bringing undue burden and stress to their family and neighbors because there is no legal mechanism to avoid it. Even fewer if we acknowledge tha
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by bityard 1y ago
Uh, new years resolutions are not exactly what I would call the ideal metaphor for assisted suicide. Plenty of people here who reacted negatively to OP's suggestion seem to not have had to deal with a loved one who dealt with Alzheimer
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by bityard 1y ago
> I am really pro assisted suicide as a way of shortening suffering You don't consider years of mental trauma on the individual and years burden and stress on loved ones to be suffering?
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by bityard 1y ago
I don't think anyone was suggesting that it would be society's call to make.
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by bityard 1y ago
I don't have direct experience with either Helix or Kakoune but after only a few minutes tinkering around, I can see one big reason: In Helix, most of the basic commands seem to be the same as vi. Whereas I understand Kakoune inverts t
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by bityard 1y ago
This is what I'm using right now. I like that it has a built-in "reader mode" where it fetches the target article from the website and removes all the crud. But I do have a wishlist of creature-comfort items that would probab
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by bityard 1y ago
I don't know why, but I expected quicksand to be an Australia thing. "Even the dirt tries to kill you."
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by bityard 1y ago
If the cell is fully discharged, there isn't much danger because all of the energy that _would_ cause an explosion/fire is gone. However, a LiPo cell that has entered Spicy Pillow mode (empty or not) can still theoretically burst,
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by bityard 1y ago
> in places near busy airports I hear that a sizable fraction of all cloud cover is due to lingering contrails Hmm. I don't know about that. My understanding is that contrails only (or mainly?) form at higher altitudes. Most of the
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by bityard 1y ago
Open source but backed by venture capital, so what is your monetization strategy?
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by bityard 1y ago
Not just Usenet, although it's the most well remembered example. Anywhere people could congregate on the early internet had its share of dark alleys where people would trade porn, warez, and political diatribe. IRC especially but also
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by bityard 1y ago
It is insanely hard to build basic things in the US anymore, even if there is a market, even if the market will pay your prices, even if you have the capital to start, and even if you can hire reliable workers. And those are all HUGE ifs. T
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by bityard 1y ago
In the mid 2000s, there was a model of inkjet printer that came with full size ink cartridges. It was usually priced "on sale" for less than the price of a new set of ink cartridges. Meaning if you did a normal amount of printing,
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by bityard 1y ago
I haven't fully digested the PEP but perhaps there would be a command-line flag or external tool for dependency validation, a bit like how there are external tools for type annotations?
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by bityard 1y ago
I don't know/care about "fair source," but the "open source" label in particular has ALWAYS had a well-known and specific meaning in the software world. Attaching it to a proprietary product for the marketing a
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by bityard 1y ago
You are not the crazy one. Em-dashes in Internet content has been one way to spot a Mac user "in the wild" for a long time. (MacOS automatically converts a double-dash in almost any text field to an em-dash. Even when you actually
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by bityard 1y ago
I hope it comes back too, just not with Kent as the lead developer.
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by bityard 1y ago
Not misquoted, paraphrased. I didn't feel like bothering to check the output of "import this" before posting.
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by bityard 1y ago
I don't care much about hype one way or the other, but I find that continually asking for changes/improvements past the first prompt or two almost always sends the AI off into the weeds except for all of the simplest use cases.
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by bityard 1y ago
Somehow you eventually have to square the fact that if you do things outside of your home, you are going to run into other people, who are very much going to do whatever they want, regardless of any existing laws, customs, or mores. And fac
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by bityard 1y ago
"There should only be one way to do it" has not really been a thing in Python for at least the last decade or longer. It was originally meant as a counterpoint to Perl's "there's more than one way to do it," to
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by bityard 1y ago
.tk was widely known for taking back domains once they got popular and turning them into ad spam. That's how they made money "giving" the domains away for free: lead generation, basically.
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by bityard 1y ago
There are so many good concepts to borrow from in pilot training, it's almost ridiculous. I'm not even a pilot but have studied risk management, crew resource management, decision making, etc. Anecdata of course but I feel it made
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by bityard 1y ago
Blazingly fast, even
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by bityard 1y ago
Ha. I'll see your genuine fraudsters and raise you an authentic counterfeit.
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by bityard 1y ago
25. Left-clicking in a window to raise it _sometimes_ performs actions in the app (e.g. clicking a button or scrolling the window) and _sometimes_ only raises the window. It seems to depend on the app. 26. No ability to use focus-follows-mo
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by bityard 1y ago
Can you tell me about these voice satellites?
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by bityard 1y ago
I can think of SOME decent--if suboptimal--reasons to build an RPi cluster, but it never would have occurred to me to try running an LLM on one. Even if you could cluster hundreds or thousands of Pis, it's still just entirely the wrong
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by bityard 1y ago
I have used essentially all of the Linux desktop environments over the course of decades and my impression is that GNOME attracts developers with a strong interest in "design" as a hobby. And apparently ones who take the whole, &q
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by bityard 1y ago
I can't speak to Kubuntu or Pop OS, but KDE itself is much improved these days. I don't have a high tolerance for a desktop that gets in the way of my daily work, but I switched to KDE on Debian back when 12 was in testing and it&

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