creesch

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by creesch 2y ago
I mean yeah, that is all true as Matrix has slowly been improving over the years and is more user-friendly than it was years ago. But the reality is also that it has also been a decade since Discord was released. Meaning that for almost a d
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by creesch 2y ago
It was, someone already pointed you to ircV3 which attempted to bring a lot of modern features to irc. But besides the specification process being slow you also had to content with all the different clients and networks. Most of which at th
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by creesch 2y ago
Looking at the statistics I can't help but notice how small IRC is these days. Specifically when you compare it to how many people use the internet. The biggest channels have a few thousand people in them, but those seem to be rare. On
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by creesch 2y ago
There is a "submit network" button in the menu ;)
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by creesch 2y ago
Discord community servers can already be searched and discovered. Which is effectively what this is about. I suspect you are more talking about the conversation on discord? I don't think the actual chat conversations need to be indexed
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by creesch 2y ago
Key word is "often", I have heard too many stories where that is not the case.
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by creesch 2y ago
> And which email provider are you using? You rely on them too, right? Not really, as I use my own domain so can just move that between providers. Exactly because I also don't want to be beholden to a free mail provider either. >
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by creesch 2y ago
The simple solution is to do email signup in my opinion. I don't want to be beholden to oauth providers for my account. A lot of services that provide OAuth signup/signin do it in a way that locks you out of the account if you can
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by creesch 2y ago
> And that is a problem for a company with 20k employees? It is for a company where the promotion culture rewards new initiatives and products and doesn't reward people maintaining products. Which was most certainly the company cult
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by creesch 2y ago
From what I have seen a lot of people who make these claims seem to be people who are working at a level where there is a lot of text being produced that nobody actually cares to read. That, or I am actually a much better developer and wr
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by creesch 2y ago
Dunno, does VC money being thrown at you in the billions count as profit?
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by creesch 2y ago
Yes, because the world is just binary like that. You can only choose on or the other... /s
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by creesch 2y ago
Just so you know, text using the em-dash like that combined with a few other "tells" makes me double check if it might be LLM written. Other things are the overuse of transition words (e.g., "however," "furthermore,
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by creesch 2y ago
Oh man, I totally forgot about the delphi IDE and the drag and drop editor for making GUIs. I only ever did encounter it in college (early 2000s) and for group projects it was really nice. Simply because it allowed you to prototype GUIs in
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by creesch 2y ago
> Finally, my commercial display can run Crysis! (Ok, maybe not, but that USB 3 upgrade is sweet). It actually can! .... if you also plug in a GPU. https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/amd-radeon-pro-w7700-...
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by creesch 2y ago
As far as browser prefixes go, you know that browser vendors have largely stopped using those? Not even recently, that process started already way back in 2016. Chances are that if you are using prefixes in 2024 you are supporting browsers
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by creesch 2y ago
While this is a nice essay, it also is purely an emotional argument hanging together from assumptions and fallacies. Even if you are right in this instance, just brushing things off with the "you are old" argument will ensure th
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by creesch 2y ago
In theory, it isn't that difficult, in practice writing _accessible_ text takes a lot of practice and feedback. Letting go of your own biases towards base levels (curse of knowledge) is something that already trips most people and what
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by creesch 2y ago
I'd be curious to see what the slowdown is, because my gut feeling is that it simply comes down to QoL stuff tools like maven do. If we keep it to compiling only, stuff like resolving dependencies from the pom.xml and such.
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by creesch 2y ago
Or, things are not as black and white and both are true in a sense. School is important, up to a certain point. I admit, this highly depends on the country and schooling system, and I have too little insight in how hiring works in the US. B
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by creesch 2y ago
- General welfare, where often the amount is determined based on minimal wage and other things. - Various benefits and subsidies for various necessities like rental support, support for child care, etc. And to make it extra clear, a lot of
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by creesch 2y ago
Yeah, I was afraid it would be replied to through a US pov. A lot of these essentials are actually "handed out" or at least subsidized to some degree for people with lower incomes in many countries. Of course this could also be do
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by creesch 2y ago
Exactly, many of which now need to be requested through online portals. I know that the US is oddly a bit backwards in that regard (even though it houses Silicon Valley) but in many other countries in the world they have moved many if not a
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by creesch 2y ago
> I'd argue that a browser should be a part of the OS or be a paid product I am getting Microsoft flashbacks now. There is no way that bundling browsers with OSes and making all the others paid will have negative side effects! Oh wa
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by creesch 2y ago
Pfffft, nobody is banning driving. Self driving cars are not going to be rolled out that widely for a while. Also, moving away from car centric infrastructure doesn't mean that cars are getting banned. That's such a weird US centr
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by creesch 2y ago
How about a simple tiny safety hammer instead. The ones a lot of cars (at least here in the EU) are already outfitted with. As others have pointed out, any car should have such a hammer.
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by creesch 2y ago
I found that specifically when it comes to proper flow and grammatical rules, chatGPT and other LLMs tend to break down. Certainly when translating from English to another language. From another language to English often goes a lot better,
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by creesch 2y ago
Their translation is still substantially better than what most LLMs can offer. Certainly for languages where LLMs have very little training data for.
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by creesch 2y ago
That's true, but since then we also have had some sort of global event. One of the side effects of that event has been that remote work has become much more normalized around the globe. Which is reflected by the fact that the lifestyle
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by creesch 2y ago
Fair, I should have clarified that I am mostly talking about supermarkets. These close fairly early in Germany on weekdays (where here they are often up until 9 in the evening) and are all closed on Sundays.

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