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by dhosek 3mo ago
Having started using Claude Code at work, I think coding as we now know it will probably no longer be a career path in 5 years at the outside. I’m old. If I had to, I could retire tomorrow, albeit on a restricted budget. But I worry about t
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by dhosek 3mo ago
You could trust it to be probably correct but he wouldn’t have tried compiling it.
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by dhosek 3mo ago
The phone cluster was especially amusing to see in the context of visiting a small history museum in Ohio earlier today with my kids (12 years old) and explaining to them about how a rotary dial phone worked. (The added bonus comes from wat
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by dhosek 3mo ago
This is true, but even in print, properly typeset, mixed LR/RL texts can end up having ambiguities thanks to line breaks.
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by dhosek 3mo ago
The millions of people who write in RL languages would like a word…
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by dhosek 3mo ago
Mixing R-L and L-R scripts (as has been discussed here on many occasions) is a ripe arena for mysterious behavior. Given that even monolingual texts in R-L scripts will often include L-R characters, it can get hairy quickly. A desire to try
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by dhosek 3mo ago
But who exactly will he be helping?
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by dhosek 3mo ago
What I’m impressed by of late is that a lot of contemporary horror films (thinking of Weapons, Backrooms, Obsession) rely much more on a creepy mood than on gore to do their thing (which is not to say that they lack gore, but they don’t rel
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by dhosek 3mo ago
The Linux on the desktop one was the biggest “hell, yeah” moment for me. 99% of the desktop preference is familiarity. Since my personal computing has been on a Mac exclusively for the last 24 years and I’ve not used Windows for work more r
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by dhosek 3mo ago
“memorizing obtuse key commands which you never use on a regular basis” is exactly why I prefer Emacs over vi(m). The default configuration on Emacs works like most other contexts—I can just use the arrow keys to position a cursor and type.
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by dhosek 3mo ago
That photo ws in the main article as well.
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by dhosek 3mo ago
It was below when I left the comment.
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by dhosek 3mo ago
I was looking at the controller support and apparently there are game controllers designed to follow the layout of a train operations controller with the same two levers that you can see in game.
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by dhosek 3mo ago
No eye patch, peg leg or parrot, not a pirate.
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by dhosek 3mo ago
Costco is also an anti-Amazon in that they treat their workers and their suppliers well.
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by dhosek 3mo ago
Or taking a walk. There’s an intersection two blocks from me where a pedestrian was killed in a hit and run accident shortly after I moved to town. The roadside memorial remained in place for nearly two years (I remember thinking that the p
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by dhosek 3mo ago
Back in the 90s, I went to see an IMAX film about climbing Everest and at the beginning, I was thinking, “I could do this,” but as it continued my view turned into, “I will never do this. This is insane.” What’s really scary now is that it’
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by dhosek 3mo ago
When I first started using CarPlay, the screen that has the music and map showing simultaneously was not obvious and it wasn’t until well into my third long trip with CarPlay that I finally discovered it. I had thought the only display opti
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by dhosek 3mo ago
Right now it’s only dropped in GM’s EVs. Of course when this causes a drop in EV sales, they’ll use that as an excuse to kill off their EV lines.
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by dhosek 3mo ago
Same with Toyota (fun fact—I discovered earlier this year, over three years that I bought my Prius, that there were whole displays in the dashboard I didn’t know existed while trying to adjust the volume from the steering wheel while I wa
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by dhosek 3mo ago
From everything I’ve read about BYD, I’m thinking it’s almost certainly going to be the car I buy after my move to Mexico.
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by dhosek 3mo ago
I think some of it is just aligning with more modern computing technologies combined with the people who write the materials have lived rapid evolution of computing technology and decided it was best to use a generic abstraction that better
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by dhosek 3mo ago
I’m likely moving to Mexico next year, so I’ve switched the temperature reading on my watch to Celsius in preparation. The problem is that bands of ten degrees in Fahrenheit translate nicely to comfort levels,¹ which is not really true for
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by dhosek 3mo ago
I feel confident it would be one of the six permutations of 2, the, run.
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by dhosek 3mo ago
I rarely have cause to give people my phone number anymore, but I always like to give it as three billion, 128 million, …
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by dhosek 3mo ago
As a writer and amateur linguist I can always spot the people who don’t understand how AAVE works because they seem to think that it’s just “bad grammar” and don’t realize that it does in fact have its own grammatical rules. One that’s not
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by dhosek 3mo ago
Yep, we do have free OTA television. Basic Cable generally comprises the local free OTA channels plus a number of mostly ad-supported channels. The basic cable A&E began its life as “Arts & Entertainment” and was originally a mix of
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by dhosek 3mo ago
I got that last reference. That episode has the funniest exchange in the history of television: —He keeps talking about the war. —Well you started it. —No we didn’t. —Yes, you did. You invaded Poland!
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by dhosek 3mo ago
I would edit the US item to remove “historical” given the current efforts to reinstate everything in parentheses and add new ones.
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by dhosek 3mo ago
It is now.

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