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by cgh 6mo ago
I'd say fully 25% of the ads I see on YouTube are for the Baerskin "tactical" hoodie. I'm pretty sure it's just generic dropshipped Chinese junk but the advertising is relentless. And how the hell is it possible for
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by cgh 6mo ago
The same corporations that insist upon private Maven repositories to control all code dependencies are nevertheless fine with establishing a massive dependency on a privately-held corporation in order to write software that hardly anyone in
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by cgh 6mo ago
The Vatican Library contains roughly 1.1 million printed books and around 75,000 codices, only a small percentage of which have been digitised.
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by cgh 6mo ago
I don’t think either of those are patentable so I doubt you’ll see studies or trials any time soon. A lot of strength athletes at all levels, not just elite, are absolutely convinced of their efficacy and their usage sometimes seems as comm
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by cgh 6mo ago
You should hang out at a climbing gym sometime. There is nothing that unites climbers more than injury talk.
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by cgh 6mo ago
Clippy: “Hi, it looks like you’re trying to go to the Moon”
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by cgh 6mo ago
Testosterone and estrogen are not magic substances that eliminate bone density, preponderance of type II muscle fibres, favourable tendon insertions and all of the other athletic advantages conferred upon males in the womb. I have experienc
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by cgh 7mo ago
New cryptography algorithms, particularly post-quantum cryptography New zero-knowledge proofs Video compression And so forth.
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by cgh 7mo ago
What we once called “vibe coding” is increasingly known as just coding. There’s no reasonable way to review thousands of lines of code a day and many organizations simply aren’t. No review fatigue there! Just a black box of probable spaghet
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by cgh 7mo ago
All of this shit is just so goddamned ridiculous.
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by cgh 7mo ago
Username checks out stares into abyss
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by cgh 7mo ago
Las Vegas hotels are currently offering to take Canadian dollars at par.
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by cgh 7mo ago
Same. We had two month-long trips planned and canceled them both. I realize California is not exactly “enemy territory” or whatever but we’ll spend our money elsewhere.
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by cgh 7mo ago
Not a hot take at all. Probably the best take in this thread.
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by cgh 8mo ago
You think VSCode’s ui is more complicated than eg Microsoft Excel? Or am I misunderstanding?
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by cgh 8mo ago
This comment on the article sums it up for me, at least in part: “Nobody knows how the whole system works, but at least everybody should know the part of the system they are contributing to. Being an engineer I am used to be expert of the v
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by cgh 8mo ago
> no, I'm not looking for a hoax, or a deliberate comment on the situation. I'm looking for something that drives home the point that a lot of academic papers that look legit are actually meaningless but, as far as we can tell,
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by cgh 8mo ago
Exactly this. At work, I’ve seen front-end people generating probably 80% of their code because when you set aside framework churn, a lot of it is boilerplatey and borderline trivial (sorry). Meanwhile, the programmers working on the EV bat
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by cgh 8mo ago
At the beginning of my career, sometime around 1999 or 2000, I was at Microsoft with our team because we were trying to integrate our product with this absolute piece of junk called Microsoft Biztalk. It simply didn’t work. I complained abo
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by cgh 9mo ago
Light-duty pickups still exist, eg the Nissan Frontier with the 6’ bed is probably the most reliable, sturdy and cost-effective pickup out there. Europeans may know this truck as the Navarro.
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by cgh 9mo ago
Yes, the lack of context or history has annoyed me in the past too. Also, Liam Neeson just catching strays over here
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by cgh 9mo ago
I think the OP is referring to the company Palantir.
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by cgh 9mo ago
Conan the Barbarian: co-written by Oliver Stone, directed by John Milius, music composed by Basil Poledouris. Oh, and co-starring James Earl Jones and Max von Sydow. An astounding lineup.
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by cgh 9mo ago
I updated to version 10.5.7 and now I see Samsung ads in my peripheral vision, wtf
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by cgh 10mo ago
It’s available for purchase from multiple sellers, from bookshop.org to Amazon.
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by cgh 10mo ago
Zig could include the file at compile-time with @embedFile.
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by cgh 10mo ago
You graciously omitted the article’s follow-on conclusion: the public is being gently trolled. “On the other hand, at a time when trust in the honest intentions of experts is at a low, it may be unwise for experts to troll the public.”
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by cgh 10mo ago
Yes, Dead Internet Theory went from joke to reality in what feels like overnight.
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by cgh 10mo ago
The ring runs a JVM in hardware.
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by cgh 10mo ago
Yeah, Sceptre's site shows a bunch of dumb TVs that max out at HDMI 2.0, 4K/60Hz. Basically, they are ten years out of date.

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