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by btschaegg 8mo ago
You write "wherever possible", but: Have you ever seen the beancounting itself having been under scrutiny? I'd wager a big part of it is also the same politics based asymmetry that's visible everywhere; like nobody ever
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by btschaegg 8mo ago
Obligatory Casablanca reference: https://youtu.be/vxnpY0owPkA?si=EoXUYz35joG4Imrl
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by btschaegg 9mo ago
If I can add to that: A precursor to both of those would be the precision lathe, from which eventually two of the most crucial prerequisites for the industrialization stem: The ability to a) produce machine parts with a high degree of preci
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by btschaegg 9mo ago
Not really a recent observation ;-) https://thecodelesscode.com/case/118
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by btschaegg 9mo ago
> I always assumed Java would eventually prevail I can understand that from an ecosystem perspective (at least to a degree), but based on language merits alone? Hard nope.
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by btschaegg 9mo ago
Came here to comment on Gothic, too. I'd have picked the original Gothic even more as an example, though -- there, you are in a prisoner colony, even if you are in a settlement. Anger the wrong people and you won't survive the exp
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by btschaegg 10mo ago
Even worse, some people seemingly aren't even able to produce a question. "I tried to $ACTION and $FUNCTION throws an error." Followed by awkward silence (or the written equivalent in chat rooms). Great, why are you telling y
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by btschaegg 10mo ago
It might not be the OS, but just statistical inevitability. If you're talking about CPU utilization on Linux, for example, it's not all that unlikely that the number you're staring at isn't "time spent by CPU doing
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by btschaegg 1y ago
All well and true if all you have to do is process the data programmatically. And yet, as I said, if the same thinking gets applied to e.g. a store of JSON documents (like ELK), chances are good the thing will ruin the UX for countless peop
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by btschaegg 1y ago
Since RFC 4627 (the original): > An object is an unordered collection of zero or more name/value pairs, [...] Further, since RFC 7159: > JSON parsing libraries have been observed to differ as to whether or not they make the order
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by btschaegg 1y ago
Well that one at least has appreciable parallels :) Letting an LLM loose on a real system without containing it in a sandbox sounds about as predictably disastrous as letting a glorified chess program run all ENCOM operations…
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by btschaegg 1y ago
If she has little experience with video games, Journey and Gris might be good candidates. For a more "technical" argument how gameplay mechanics can be a unique way to deliver an emotion to the player (arguably a major part in the
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by btschaegg 1y ago
> whether you write them down or not. Note that "types have been written down" != "the program was written with static typing". See, for example, what's doable with clojure.spec. While loose, "from the hip&q
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by btschaegg 1y ago
I love this song, but it wouldn't be nearly as perfect without the slight hint of irony ("efficiently dangerous") and the SEGFAULT at the end. Things I feel "Write in C" is dearly missing.
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by btschaegg 1y ago
That's just cousin Itt on a scuba trip ;)
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by btschaegg 1y ago
Jira, Confluence, MS Teams. Slow, disorganized, delaying every navigation, screwing up things as simple as copy+paste and other basic functions (Teams: muting/unmuting with a headset in voice calls, Jira: apparently, simple text templa
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by btschaegg 1y ago
This. I just learned this recently. Intuitively, I had assumed that I could .gitignore a file and have it not show up in `git status`, even after staging it with `git add -f` and committing it this way. Turns out: That's not how it wor
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by btschaegg 1y ago
Note: If you're going to use an SBC _only_ for wake up signals, you might want to look into alternatives for the RPi such as the Radxa RockPi S [1]. My home server, for example, runs continuously at 7W, which beats many RPi models. Of
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by btschaegg 1y ago
> […] rather than things that have lots of examples. Well, one glaring issue with the assumption of the quality of LLM output being mostly dependent on a large volume of examples online would be Sturgeon's law.
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by btschaegg 1y ago
I think you have a good premise for a science fiction story right here: Say some "magic" (i.e. invented) physics quirk allows you to travel both into the future and the past, but all you can do is essentially accelerate and rewind
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by btschaegg 1y ago
> (I can't remember if it was Moore that came up with the distinction that humans are the only story-telling ape and that is what makes us so different) Is this what you meant? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo
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by btschaegg 1y ago
Right, I didn't think that through… But, to note: There's another alternative that should mostly still work here, even in the absence of Ctrl: Alt-Backspace
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by btschaegg 1y ago
Well, if control is missing, too… Of course, there are still more creative ways. Like :.! kill -9 $(pgrep -u $(whoami) vim)
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by btschaegg 1y ago
IrfanView, at least AFAIK: https://www.irfanview.com/
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by btschaegg 2y ago
Terminology proposal: "Gremlins" :)
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by btschaegg 2y ago
Boy, do I hate being right all the time. -- Dr. Ian Malcolm
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by btschaegg 2y ago
To add to this, I would say :g in combination with :norm would be my choice. Edit: Oh, also, since vim ships with xxd: xxd -r -p is a very useful thing to know.
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by btschaegg 2y ago
For very niche-y photography: Allison Pollack https://linktr.ee/AlisonPollack Ironically, iNaturalist is the better source than instagram for browsing her pictures (at least if you don't want to open an account). http
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by btschaegg 2y ago
I was wondering the same thing and found this in the Plugs section: https://silverbullet.md/Plugs/Git
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by btschaegg 2y ago
How can this not mention BFS (or BeFS)?

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