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by blauditore 9mo ago
Nice! Now add colors and we can finally play Doom on the command line. More seriously, using colors (not trivial probably, as it adds another dimension), and some select Unicode characters, this could produce really fancy renderings in cons
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by blauditore 9mo ago
This reminds me that I should update https://morningtunes.music.blog/ (I'm keeping track of the songs, just haven't posted updates in ages)
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by blauditore 9mo ago
Can it run Doom? Also, it's fun to imagine someone building whole racks of these (e.g. recycled ones) for a computation farm. Or a cheap home server, whatever.
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by blauditore 9mo ago
Same here! Never found a replacement for it in Gnome Shell.
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by blauditore 9mo ago
I'm super surprised there is still free shipping for small things. In (some) other parts of the world, they will charge significant delivery fürs for anything below $50 or so. It basically changed during Covid, and since every shop is
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by blauditore 9mo ago
>They imposed this on desktop users even though nobody asked for it I loved Unity on desktop, and I know many others too. But there was a very loud group of complainers who made them kill it. I still use it on some installations, bit it&
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by blauditore 9mo ago
I know some (or even the official?) JavaDoc style guidelines require <p> woithout closing counterparts. But to me this feels the same as omitting semicolins in JS -yes, xou can get away with it, but it's bad style in my opinion.
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by blauditore 9mo ago
>unify the look and feel of mobile and desktop Lol, that's what Microsoft tried 10+ years ago and everybody gave them shit for it, especially Apple fans. Now Apple is "inventing" this again.
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by blauditore 9mo ago
It's a global pandemic of oversized cars. People love SUVs because it makes them feel powerful and successful. Explanations why they need them are generally along the lines of "because we have kids" (but SUVs don't actua
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by blauditore 9mo ago
I saw an IBM presentation about AI at a conference years ago, during the previous wave of AI hype (2018-ish). IIRC they were advertising some specialized AI chip/hardware. The presentation was kind of meh, but it shows they've bee
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by blauditore 9mo ago
As the other comment mentions, it might be due to brick size, but also note that many people considered blind still have some non-zero vision (just e.g. extremely blurry, or a tiny field of view etc.). Although this guy had a glaucoma at th
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by blauditore 9mo ago
So, we've spent ages, blood, and tears building better UIs than text, and now with AI everyone is suddenly expected to type instructions on the phone? Yes, I realize this is hard to avoid for coding in particular, but generally I'
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by blauditore 9mo ago
The problem is that the energy it takes to switch banks is way too high given the inconvenience, and they know. This applies to many small annoyances that are not big enough to vote with your feet, so companies abuse these things. Classic d
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by blauditore 9mo ago
Pet peeve: Skip/close button appears after a few seconds - bht it only leads to another view whose close button is hidden for a few seconds too, and sometimes in a different corner.
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by blauditore 9mo ago
Google's Pixel phones (near stock Android) famously do NOT have the option.
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by blauditore 9mo ago
There are e.g. banking apps doing that.
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by blauditore 9mo ago
Even when checking once a day, it's still worse with spam notifications. It's like getting 20 spam phone calls on your answering machine between the real ones.
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by blauditore 9mo ago
This has been a huge pet peeve of mine. I generally leave bad Play store reviews with a note, because that's usually the only thing they care about.
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by blauditore 9mo ago
That's another pet peeve of mine: Why the hell can't we block internet access for apps in (native) Android? Everything else is a permission, but this is not, somehow.
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by blauditore 9mo ago
I did silly things like this as teenager too. Always thought it would be a nice way to hide secret messages on an open signal.
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by blauditore 9mo ago
I know many people who would always prefer their cars over trains or bikes, simply because that's what they know, and they would not leave their comfort zone unless there's something nudging/pushing them.
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by blauditore 9mo ago
Now I wonder how long until AI chat tool are riddled with ads, and with shitty content because of people trying to game them just like they've been gaming search engines.
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by blauditore 9mo ago
2. is not really true. There are famous people claiming that AI will fix climate change, so we as humans should stop bothering.
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by blauditore 9mo ago
Because that's the vision of many companies trying to sell AI. Saying that what it can do now is actually already good enough might be true, but it's also moving the goalposts compared to what was promised (or feared, depending wh
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by blauditore 9mo ago
Tangential, but: Cars are in part so problematic because they are a means of transportation designed for a handful of people, but mostly used by a single person. All the alternatives are either unpopular to most people (like bikes, or publi
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by blauditore 9mo ago
If you want to disincentivize usage of certain things, money is generally the most effective option. Yes, some rich folks won't be bothered, but even fairly low amounts make most people think twice. Too many cars are a problem in many
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by blauditore 9mo ago
You could make the same mocking argument towards people who find anything good that Apple produces.
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by blauditore 9mo ago
I agree, but reality is often different, even for cars. Sometimes because of incompetence, sometimes because of dark patterns. Many newer cars do have space for putting your phone somewhere on the middle console, but it's arranged in w
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by blauditore 9mo ago
Which languages are you talking about? It looks unfamiliar to me.
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by blauditore 9mo ago
Have you ever noticed some people can't even use basic punctuation like question marks.

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