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by deergomoo 2y ago
> evolving their skills from there What skills? If you are just asking a computer for what you want you're not developing any skills, apart from maybe how to describe your requirements better†. If you take the code the LLM outputs a
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by deergomoo 2y ago
> It sounds like ordering all pencils be made illegal because they can be used to write threats My country enacting overreaching and ill defined laws concerning technology? Colour me surprised…
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by deergomoo 2y ago
Porting GTA3 to the Dreamcast has been the most recent example I’ve seen: https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2024-the-new-grand-...
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I’m with you, my blog is a static site with no JS hosted on GitHub pages. Unless I ever see anyone discussing it or linking to it I have no way of even knowing if it’s being read or not. I write for me, mostly.
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by deergomoo 2y ago
Overall I think Xen was much better in Black Mesa than HL1, but why they felt the need to make it so long is a mystery to me. Half to two-thirds of the play time could have been cut and it would have only improved things.
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by deergomoo 2y ago
There's still a lot of value in playing the original, but what the Black Mesa team achieved with what is effectively a fan project is incredible. And in a world where Take Two goes after people doing cool stuff with 20 year old GTA gam
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by deergomoo 2y ago
It mentions parking which is a similar category of annoyance, but I think the multitude of mutually incompatible apps for EV charging pose a real barrier to adoption too. Maybe not in a way people are explicitly aware of, but it certainly m
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I guess it was to be expected, but I struggle to imagine there's many people out there excited about this. The Vision Pro is an incredibly niche product to begin with, and many of the early adopters are going to be the sort of folks wh
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by deergomoo 2y ago
At this point there’s only really one thing I want from an iPhone and that’s an option for a 12/13 mini sized device again. Surely those phones didn’t sell so few that it’s not worth doing at all?
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by deergomoo 2y ago
The no-adjective MacBook hasn’t been sold for years. It’s just Air and Pro again now.
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by deergomoo 2y ago
Always with the prices. There is more to a functioning society than the cost of goods and services.
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by deergomoo 2y ago
There’s an interesting middle ground also. I live in a city where you still need to be a licensed taxi driver to drive for Uber and the cars must be marked (in the UK; it doesn’t seem to be that uncommon here). I don’t in all honesty know h
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I would happily pay through the nose for their language and refactoring features as some sort of LSP or plugin for other editors. I use their products because that aspect is best-in-class for many languages, but the actual applications them
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by deergomoo 2y ago
In production almost every `foo, err := callSomeFn()` is followed by ``` if err != nil { return err } ``` too; it’s the ones that get missed that are the problem because convention will do nothing to prevent silly mistakes. Like many th
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by deergomoo 2y ago
Maybe I'm just a billy no-mates, but even with perfect accuracy the kind and volume of notifications I get on my phone just wouldn't really benefit from summarisation. Maybe for a group chat I haven't checked in a while, bu
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by deergomoo 2y ago
The inability to say no is the pattern I loathe the most in modern software. Fuck you, this is still my computer, stop removing my agency.
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I have thought about this actually. Federighi seems to have a positive sentiment for having a sense of humour about himself and managing to deliver presentations sounding the least like C-3PO in human clothes out of all the execs. But I gue
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by deergomoo 2y ago
Prior to it being force opted-into I never enabled it and I was worried that disabling it wouldn't free up the space taken up by the models. Glad to hear it does. I don't even need the space, I'm just loath to lose multiple g
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by deergomoo 2y ago
> Apple used to be better than this Unfortunately I find this to be true for their software in general these days, even outside of the AI junk. I'll continue to roll my eyes at the "Jobs would have never allowed this" trop
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I'm firmly of the belief that most software would benefit immensely from us all slowing the hell down and putting more thought into what we build. But it would appear stability and a focus on core strengths doesn't sell nearly as
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by deergomoo 2y ago
> I.e. in cases you know what code you want to write, but it's tedious, LLMs can do for you I feel like I'm living on another planet when I see this point. I have almost never in my career encountered the situation where actual
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by deergomoo 2y ago
Apple are setting a good example for sure, I use them a lot for rentals if it's something I don't know if I want to physically yet, or otherwise just want to watch there and then. Their original content on TV+ looks and sounds inc
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by deergomoo 2y ago
So is all the stuff I pirate because I have no reasonable path to get it elsewhere
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by deergomoo 2y ago
Hm, I’m curious too now. One could quite easily, though not cheaply, put this to the test with a RetroTink 4K which has excellent CRT emulation options. I suspect it would look pretty cool, and probably better in some way than a plain upsca
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I have started building a UHD Blu-ray collection too now the price of discs has come down a little vs regular Blu-ray. They’re fantastic. I have a new annoyance though: many new movies are offered in Dolby Vision on streaming services, but
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by deergomoo 2y ago
DVDs I would rip and donate personally, purely because if you care about image quality they are just not going to look very good on modern TVs. Maybe if you have any special editions, cool box sets, or stuff with sentimental value then hold
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by deergomoo 2y ago
If it’s a good 4K stream then yes, it’s fine. The problem is many of them aren’t, whereas damn near all Blu-rays look spectacular even upscaled 1080 -> 4K. Bitrate is the issue, not resolution.
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I recently used SQLAlchemy for the first time and was delighted it has something I’ve always wanted in Laravel’s Eloquent: columns are referenced by identifiers on the models rather than plain strings. Seeing `.where(Foo.id == Bar.foo_id)`
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by deergomoo 2y ago
> He even shows up sometimes with a builder Something I’ve ran into a lot over the years is people not realising that (at least in MySQL) prepared statement placeholders can only be used for values, not identifiers like column names. Bec
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by deergomoo 2y ago
I fear that the death of physical media releases for movies is not far off now. Ownership issues of streaming or DRM-encumbered digital releases aside, it’s a shame because Blu-rays are typically so much better quality, and as a movie buff

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