dcminter

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by dcminter 2mo ago
Speak for yourself.
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by dcminter 2mo ago
Hmm. Using Claude, it will tell me words to the effect of "this won't work, here's why, want me to try this instead?" That's a polite "no" in my book.
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by dcminter 2mo ago
Such as Tradera in Sweden where I live (they don't try to make me install the app on Tradera at least). If I'm buying random funkis furniture or computer bits and bobs I can probably use Tradera, and if I want fancy furniture or j
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by dcminter 2mo ago
Brazil is one of the scariest films I've ever seen.
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by dcminter 2mo ago
I got temporarily banned from the Sun Java Forums years and years ago because of something like this. I tried creating a few test accounts and it seemed to be the first name, not even the full name, that was the "match" ! I assume
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by dcminter 2mo ago
There's some alternate timeline where browsers kept competing on widgets and every website now looks like a native application. I don't know if it would be better or worse.
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by dcminter 2mo ago
Ah yes, I shall use that other auction site. Which was it again?
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by dcminter 2mo ago
eBay stops me from typing in the thing I want to search for so they can try to persuade me to use the app that I have expressed zero interest in for a decade or so. Guys, I'm trying to press money into your thieving little hands - why
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by dcminter 2mo ago
And?
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by dcminter 2mo ago
For personal stuff I have a separate physical machine on the network that Claude runs on in yolo mode and the worst it can do over there is wipe the machine. It doesn't have privileged access to anything else unless it starts trying to
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by dcminter 2mo ago
> since functional programmers pride themselves on the elegance of their code while programmers using hybrid languages just want to get the code working Says who?
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The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)(aresluna.org)
391 points by dcminter 2mo ago|58 comments
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Incentives Are for Losers(experimental-history.com)
2 points by dcminter 2mo ago|0 comments
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by dcminter 2mo ago
Despite calling it baity in my other comment, I actually think that it's more word-play. In my reading the title means that this subject of the book was "intelligence through artifice", not necessarily anything to do with wha
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by dcminter 2mo ago
Before clicking through to the article I honestly expected it to be about AI!
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by dcminter 2mo ago
The AI title is veeeery tenuous/baity, but this is a fun read nonetheless. Upvoted.
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Rust All Hands 2026 Retrospective(blog.rust-lang.org)
110 points by dcminter 2mo ago|61 comments
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by dcminter 2mo ago
Pretty much every job I've had has involved integrating with highly imperfect, changeable, and inaccurately implemented (and barely documented) third party APIs. That's where most of the work went and I don't see formal metho
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by dcminter 2mo ago
It's not "gibberish", but it's got the stink of AI prose about it. The author's comments here do too. Of course I might just be over-sensitised to certain turns of phrase and the author might be completely abstainin
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by dcminter 3mo ago
Speccy guy back in the day here, but these days I love Linux, and you know Linus cut his teeth on the QL, right? I feel like storage has improved slightly since microdrives were state of the art too...
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by dcminter 3mo ago
:) Me too, but it seemed like the people who knew would know and for the ones who didn't "grey" was going to be close enough...
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by dcminter 3mo ago
It's so interesting that the intuitive meaning of this has changed - first meaning grey, then bright blue, and now... perhaps black, perhaps nothing? What does "a dead channel" mean to kids today? I recently re-read the spraw
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by dcminter 3mo ago
I was issued an equivalent Latitude 7490 at a gig in 2019 and enjoyed using it (under Linux). It's robust and easily upgraded, but a little heavier than I would like. I replaced the battery a year or two ago. I generally haven't h
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by dcminter 3mo ago
They have it in one place and never ever use it anywhere else? Do you know why?
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by dcminter 3mo ago
Ok, I don't know anyone at all who does that. Your friends are odd.
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by dcminter 3mo ago
0. Developer 1. Dell Latitude 7490 2. As long as I can. I think I've been on the Latutude for about 4 years now, but it's a second-hand device coming up on seven or eight years old. I generally don't need much oomph for the s
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by dcminter 3mo ago
Taking your puzzlement at face value... > I don't quite understand why people have laptops at home if they always use it in the same place. A lot of people wil be using it from the sofa or generally in a shared space where it's
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by dcminter 3mo ago
Hilariously, no. That would be the Monster Raving Loony party who will apparently also be standing in this by-election. Count Binface has ruled out a pact with them.
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by dcminter 3mo ago
Yeah, for a lot of systems it really is more trouble than it's worth - I remember enjoying this article when it came out: https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/ramblings/18_s...
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by dcminter 3mo ago
Ah, you're assuming distributed, which I wasn't. We are not at home to partition tolerance :) Makes sense in the context of the original post though.

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