cwillu

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by cwillu 6mo ago
Excel is also a shared DB: it has supported multiple concurrent users accessing and modifying the same spreadsheet for decades.
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by cwillu 6mo ago
Grub2 is scary and complicated. Remove grub from the equation, and all the scary goes away.
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by cwillu 6mo ago
Friends don't let friends use grub. rEFInd is _so_ much simpler: one efi entry, one text config file in the efi partition, nothing that needs to change when the kernel updates, and no massive pile of templating and moving parts to myst
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by cwillu 6mo ago
Too bad about the bystanders.
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by cwillu 6mo ago
“uselessness” he says…
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by cwillu 6mo ago
We were promised GlaDOS, and were given Wheatley.
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by cwillu 6mo ago
Do you have an analog sustain pedal? The fine control with partial pedaling made some difference for me re: pianoteq's feel.
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by cwillu 6mo ago
“I don't know what it is, but that ain't it” is just the standard confused thinking on consciousness. We don't know what consciousness is apart from the direct experience, and at best we have informal arguments for why data
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by cwillu 6mo ago
Isn't that asking for consent?
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by cwillu 6mo ago
Two things can be true. We rejected our fascist clown in a landslide, but local-first is still necessary to avoid your fascist clown.
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by cwillu 6mo ago
American laws aren't something I can meaningfully influence.
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by cwillu 6mo ago
> Linux stores plenty of passwords in plain text in /etc That's gonna be a big ol' [CITATION NEEDED] from me, dawg.
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by cwillu 6mo ago
You've made a great argument for calling a general halt to AI development, but I'm not sure that was your intent.
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by cwillu 6mo ago
“Linux” needs to do nothing of the sort. People who want to save their work by moving to a platform without those issues need to be willing to either do the work or pay for it.
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by cwillu 6mo ago
I care about what my best friend finds interesting. I care about what the people I willingly interact with daily find interesting. I categorically do not care what jauntywundrkind finds interesting, and if that bothers them, they'r
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by cwillu 6mo ago
No, I'm saying I downvoted you after I saw the chatgpt content. Have you considered that maybe you got _more_ downvotes after your edit? Edit: nice of you to edit out the vitriol…
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by cwillu 6mo ago
> What Does LibreOffice 26.2.3 Fix? > > LibreOffice 26.2.3 focuses on stability and compatibility. > > The update includes m…login to view the rest of this post
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by cwillu 6mo ago
Copy/pasting shit from an llm is an automatic downvote from me.
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by cwillu 6mo ago
The commit is from 10 months ago, and as others in the comments are discovering, was already corrected.
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by cwillu 6mo ago
Are we pretending that the gp wasn't exactly the sort of test you suggest?
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by cwillu 6mo ago
Because a system being in an unstable attractor of behaviour requires none of those things It is at least as much of a mistake to reason about these systems the same way we do a misbehaving compiler as it is to reason about them as if they
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by cwillu 6mo ago
“I hope it's obvious that this is a criticism.”
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by cwillu 6mo ago
I'm not sure what you think the MAID program is, but (leaving aside your ineligibility for health care in canada until e.g. you gain permanent resident status) if you're not suffering from a grievous and irremediable health condit
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by cwillu 6mo ago
If the relative humidity is 100%, then being wet won't make you colder: the water has to evaporate in order to cool you, and it can't do that at 100% relative humidity. The problem that high humidity cold causes is increased conv
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by cwillu 6mo ago
That's fine while we're talking about countries with all volunteer militaries, but that list does not include any of Russia, Ukraine, Iran, nor Israel.
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by cwillu 6mo ago
> Meta's glasses have a light in the corner of the frames that is turned on when the built-in camera is recording. Because nobody knows how to put a dot of nail polish on an led they don't want seen, right?
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by cwillu 6mo ago
There's even a word for it: “cliché”
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by cwillu 6mo ago
Intelligence is compression. And frankly, if this means the end of copyright: good riddance.
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by cwillu 6mo ago
Email hn@ycombinator.com
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by cwillu 6mo ago
I expect nothing less from the creators of unity, upstart, and snap.

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