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by colonial 1y ago
> (this is an anti-pattern in other container technologies) It is? I have no issues packing my development containers full of concurrent running processes. systemd even supports running as a "container init" out of the box, so
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by colonial 1y ago
This is a decent heuristic, although (IMO) you can usually get away with ~100 lines of shell without too much headache. Last year I wrote (really, grew like a tumor) a 2000 line Fish script to do some Podman magic. The first few hundred lin
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by colonial 1y ago
I can't remember the last time I touched a hi-DPI display. They really aren't that common still, even in technical office environments - regular 1440p or 4K ~150 PPI displays work just fine. E: Actually, I suppose my Samsung count
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by colonial 1y ago
To some extent, sure - but Rust leans heavily on static analysis even for "simple" code. Something as fundamental as File::open is still generic over "types that can be coerced into a &Path" - which is obviously use
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by colonial 1y ago
Seconded. GNOME is simple and cohesive. Sure, some of the apps are a bit feature light, but I do most of my heavy lifting in the terminal anyways - I really don't need my "core" GUI tools like the file explorer to do a whole
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by colonial 1y ago
The official Discord for Rust alone easily hammers it with hundreds of snippets a week. You just say "?godbolt" + a code block and one of the bots will respond with the assembly. It's incredible for answering quick questions
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by colonial 1y ago
When I interned abroad in Singapore at a small-time IT firm, the office was in an industrial building that had, uh, less than stellar communal facilities. I at least had the foresight to test the sprayer before use, but I swear it was binar
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by colonial 1y ago
Just spitballing, but assuming the fake stars are added in a "naive" manner (i.e. as fast as possible, no breaks) you could distinguish the two by looking for the long tail usually associated with organic traffic spikes. Of course
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by colonial 1y ago
Asthma inhalers (at least, some types) are available over the counter here. As far as I know, only "narcotics" (opiates, psychostimulants...) require regular check-ins (due to byzantine legislation) - but even that's been wor
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by colonial 1y ago
It should be qualified that this depends on what you're putting in the prompt box. An actual homework question - in whole or part - is (anecdotally) definitely considered cheating from a policy standpoint. On the other hand, "How
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by colonial 1y ago
I participated in a competitive university hackathon recently. It was sponsored by some B2B cloud company peddling an "agentic platform" and an ill-defined (but also AI oriented) Google program. Shockingly, all the cases demande
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by colonial 1y ago
If you're interested in creating time dilation, then a planetary mass black hole unfortunately won't get you any further than, well, a regular planet with the same mass. (Aside: time dilation already occurs on and around Earth. GP
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by colonial 1y ago
They're no more dangerous than a regular rogue planet, which are pretty common on a galactic scale. The gravitational effects (disruption to planetary orbits) are the same, and Earth would not meaningfully survive a collision with eith
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by colonial 1y ago
They're going to listen to both if given the opportunity. I'm sure most chatbots will say "go take your meds" the majority of the time - but it only takes one chat playing along to send someone unstable completely off
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by colonial 1y ago
> ... their opinion on them and their output has no value This is ridiculous. Even if the author has never typed a single character into a prompt box, he can still come to perfectly valid conclusions about the technology just by observin
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by colonial 1y ago
> RustAssistant is able to achieve an impressive peak accuracy of roughly 74% on real-world compilation errors in popular open-source Rust repositories. 5 cents, for every compilation error, for a 3/4 chance of success (which is lik
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by colonial 1y ago
Tokens cost money, either directly (APIs) or indirectly (wall power for your GPU). I would prefer not to spend my hard-earned dollars on slop advice.
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by colonial 1y ago
> Do you also sterilize your kitchenware? In the US, the FDA requires commercial dishwashers to hit 165F. Consumer washers usually start around ~120F (from the water heater) but even my "landlord special" cheap GE washer claims
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by colonial 1y ago
That probably plays into it as well. I have yet to see any convincing evidence that contradicts LLMs being mere pattern parrots. My personal benchmark for these models is writing a simple socket BPF in a Rust program. Even the latest and gr
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by colonial 1y ago
> presumably copilot will help introduce better code into applications than a daydreaming developer would Copilot is trained on Github (and probably other Git forges w/o permission, because OpenAI and Microsoft are run by greedy so
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by colonial 1y ago
If this is true (it isn't) then no wonder the web version of PowerPoint was so shit when I was forced to use it earlier today. Constant lag, random buffering popups, janky element snapping that can't be turned off... I hate Google
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by colonial 1y ago
Probably. Methane is easier to synthesize than fuel alcohols, and has better synergy with existing infrastructure (dead simple, highly responsive gas plants don't care where their fuel comes from, after all - they'll just take t
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by colonial 1y ago
> Clean, firm, dispatchable power Besides the examples you listed, there's also synthetic fuels. I don't know if they'll pan out, but the concept is intriguing. Essentially, the argument goes that there's a critical s
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by colonial 1y ago
Revenue != profit. Discord, like almost every 2010s SaaS startup, has revenue (from your Nitro) - but not nearly enough to cover expenses.
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by colonial 1y ago
> A note on our fair-use policy > Basically our policy states that you can use AI models based on your plan’s value. Although I likely won't use Assistant, stuff like this is why I love Kagi. My relationship with them as a custom
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by colonial 1y ago
I think it's due to the fact that (unlike crates) cyclic dependencies are allowed between modules without any extra ceremony (e.x. forward declarations in C.)
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by colonial 1y ago
A few months ago they were AGI vagueposting. Now they're working on SlopBook? This plus Ed Zitron's excellent investigative writing on their finances [0] makes me think that OpenAI is going to fold within a year, maybe two. [0]:
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by colonial 1y ago
Server management has gotten vastly easier over time as well, especially if you're just looking to host stuff "for fun." Even without fancy orchestration tools, it's very easy to put together a few containers on your d
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by colonial 1y ago
Given the absolute security tire fire that was Recall, I would absolutely not trust any password management solution blessed by Microsoft.
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by colonial 1y ago
I've actually been pleasantly surprised by how well most Linux stacks work in resource constrained environments. I have a first-generation Framework - the ones with the shitty Intel CPUs that don't support proper S3 sleep, only th

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