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by davidwritesbugs 8mo ago
In other words "democracy" - people with an agenda tell their version of its benefits. Saying "the vote was invalid because the poor uneducated people were too stupid to realise they were being lied to"
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by davidwritesbugs 8mo ago
The snowflakes are all flocking together! Can you have a murmuration of snowflakes?
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by davidwritesbugs 9mo ago
Bloody poor people deciding for themselves what they want. Shouldn't get a vote unless you have a degree and property. If only they'd had the sense to listen to their betters.
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by davidwritesbugs 9mo ago
That's particularly true of tech books. I want to hang on to my copy of "Tinker Tailor" but "Adobe Air in Action" 2008?
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by davidwritesbugs 9mo ago
Ditto. It is very very slow but I never hit quota limits but people on Discord are complaining like mad it is slow even on the Pro plans. I tend to use glm-*air a lot for planning before using 4.7
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by davidwritesbugs 9mo ago
> This is why the common "There's no such thing as talent, it's just hard work" line can't possibly be true. please stop killing my delusions.
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by davidwritesbugs 9mo ago
Read his books as a schoolboy, stopped taking him seriously when in one of his books he reproduced an ancient picture of a skeleton and said “this was /centuries/ before x-rays were discovered. How would they know bone structure
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by davidwritesbugs 9mo ago
This always makes me laugh. Comically pretentious & naive. Like schoolboy poetry.
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by davidwritesbugs 9mo ago
I recently learnt that Douglas Adams wrote code and the ultimate answer was '*' - 42 in ascii
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by davidwritesbugs 10mo ago
There was a homoerotic element in the fishnet stuff I always thought. And HR would have a fit if you asked women to wear that stuff now, err, I mean in 1999.
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by davidwritesbugs 11mo ago
Ahhhhh, nzbs
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by davidwritesbugs 11mo ago
I did the same: tended to use Apple services then when I hit poverty I was able to use my NAS copies of music and videos after cancelling subscriptions. Had a "so why was I paying for years?" moment especially with all the enshiti
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by davidwritesbugs 11mo ago
F# would be awesome but for the dogs*t .Net backend that made the tiniest error insoluble
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by davidwritesbugs 11mo ago
"illegal fluid" what would that be? And why illegal? And do you submit the recovered data anywhere, for data archaeological purposes? Seems an important thing.
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by davidwritesbugs 11mo ago
"Boil it down and this means the quantum clock loses only one second every 30 billion years, which, for navigation purposes, means a drift of a mere 1 x 10⁻⁶ degrees per hour. " What does this mean in terms of metres off a desired
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by davidwritesbugs 11mo ago
This. I still use xnxx but via a VPN now, same for Pornhub users I'd guess
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by davidwritesbugs 1y ago
Perhap his punishment will be that he has to walk barefoot over every piece.
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by davidwritesbugs 1y ago
I've tried nanonets but it seems very sensitive to the prompt, changing it slightly turned the output to rubbish. When it worked it was pretty good.
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by davidwritesbugs 1y ago
I abandoned ocaml just because I couldn't get a stepping debugger to work. Can't remember the exact issues but I tried to install in vscode to no avail & I've no interest in emacs
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by davidwritesbugs 1y ago
interestingly the shadows of the tears on the wall didn't get fixed, but a very convincing job otherwise
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by davidwritesbugs 1y ago
This makes me so sad. I wrote a number of articles for them when Nick Veitch was editor. They paid well and respected my copy.
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by davidwritesbugs 1y ago
I seem to recall stories of stealth vans being uncovered by passing dogs and I'd imagine he'd be similarly vulnerable.
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by davidwritesbugs 1y ago
Yes I second this. I use sqlite for local use and also for prototyping data designs, so sqlite support is very useful indeed - not a deal breaker but definitely a tick item.
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by davidwritesbugs 2y ago
If you take a photocopy/scan are the dots detectable in the copy? Asking for a friend.
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by davidwritesbugs 2y ago
It's stunning to think how well these missions have done and what we've learnt. I'd love to see new missions aimed at much greater longevity with more modern instruments. I wonder how long one could make the mission? 100 year
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by davidwritesbugs 2y ago
Great informative reply, thanks.
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by davidwritesbugs 2y ago
It wasn't clear to me how this was like a Venus fly trap: the wasp grabbed prey with a rib cage and... what? Hung on to it till it's larvae developed and consumed the victim ... or what? Sorry, can someone ELI5?
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by davidwritesbugs 2y ago
or "DietLLM, RegularLLM, MealLLM and SuperSizedLLMWithFries"
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by davidwritesbugs 2y ago
I'm using Cursor & Claude/R1 on a file with 5000 loc, seems to cope OK
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by davidwritesbugs 2y ago
I played with parser combinators in Elm and found it very useful c.f. regexes - the issues were mainly down to the Elm implementation. Not sure how effective they are in Rust or Go

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