dingnuts

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by dingnuts 2y ago
> you can have meaningless sex in a committed relationship and meaningful sex in a non-committed one no, I don't think this is true. The older I get the more I think there's real wisdom in being very careful about who you have
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by dingnuts 2y ago
well, they "hate the software industry" so it can't be too surprising that they ran out of money. If you're allergic to revenue you can only last as long as the charity lasts. I understand why people are unhappy with the
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by dingnuts 2y ago
an aggressively progressive set of new yorkers practically bullied me into using it a decade ago over concerns of sexism so at least when talking about people in those places in tech I can't say I share your experience. lots of coastal
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by dingnuts 2y ago
if y'all is too "ethnic" for John McWhorter (I find this characterization disappointing compared to some of his other work) certainly "folks" is even more cultural appropriation
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by dingnuts 2y ago
I gotta find a new trade
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> There is a shortage of applicants willing to work at what companies want to pay Translation: companies would rather have underpaid immigrants as indentured servants to exploit than Americans who can demand higher wages
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by dingnuts 2y ago
the idea that someone who was 20 in 1995 is too old to be comfortable with computers is a horrifying and offensive stereotype that deeply worries me for my own future our industry is old enough that the first generation of pioneers has died
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by dingnuts 2y ago
he'd say "those are planes" because they are planes
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by dingnuts 2y ago
They realized that if they could do it so could China, probably. LOL.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
What is with Rust evangelicals shitting up Go posts? Shut up and go away! Go talk to other Rust users about it if you love it so much! it's for different things! the things I build in Go simply do not need to be robust in the way Rust
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by dingnuts 2y ago
just convert it from space and into time, duh. can't weigh time
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> go out of business as their customers start to build more of their internal systems with LLMs vs. buy from an existing vendor. there is going to be so much money to make as a consultant fixing these setups, I can't wait!
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> LLMs are useful for coding now *sort of, sometimes, with simple enough problems with sufficiently little context, for code that can be easily tested, and for which sufficient examples exist in the training data. I mean hey, two years a
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> The performance though was never very good, to be honest mostly this is Spacemacs' fault. I left Spacemacs around the time you adopted it and I was shocked at how much more performant Emacs was without all the crap in Spacemacs&#x
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by dingnuts 2y ago
It's inexpensive if you discount the cost of your education learning how to wire in something like that. There's an order of magnitude difference in project size between setting up the old MyQ integration with home assistant and l
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Stop using generative AI as a search engine[0] 0: https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24313222/chatgpt-pardon-b...
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by dingnuts 2y ago
you're describing Kagi
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by dingnuts 2y ago
You should read the article. Vim does run everywhere, including inside Emacs. You don't "choose vim over Emacs," you choose vim, and optionally Emacs if you want to use Emacs in whatever context. evil-mode is a great vim; usi
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by dingnuts 2y ago
>It’s better at search than Google in what world? what it's good at is suggesting things to search, because half of what it outputs is incorrect, so you have to verify everything anyway it does, slightly, improve search, but it&#x27
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by dingnuts 2y ago
The linked article doesn't make this distinction and only talks about reading comprehension in general.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Steam doesn't let you bequeath your account or anything in it and can ban you from your account at any time with no recourse. If my game licenses were on the Blockchain I could give them to my kids when I die. Feels weird explaining th
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by dingnuts 2y ago
yeah but then you have to put up with the rest of Scala, and worse, the ecosystem
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by dingnuts 2y ago
who cares if you're tracked because you have nothing to hide, right? now imagine you're the wrong religion after the regime change. "I have nothing to hide" is a stupid argument that leads to concentration camps
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by dingnuts 2y ago
same experience. Bee keeping is a fairly accessible hobby, actually, and the honey is very good, although you wind up with far too much of it I do prefer my dad's to buying "local" stuff at the supermarket but I'm not su
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by dingnuts 2y ago
this is cultural. not every city is as you describe
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by dingnuts 2y ago
YOU would, but a lot of people with credit cards don't even understand that it's a loan, or what compound interest is. They put the expense on the card and then pay the minimum payment, either until it's paid off with insane
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by dingnuts 2y ago
if this is what you think, I highly recommend you watch some episodes of Financial Audit on YouTube. Lots of people out there living paycheck to paycheck because they spend all their money on DoorDash and interest on bad debt, even with goo
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by dingnuts 2y ago
this does NOT match my experience as an interviewer. Our company went through piles of candidates who were not qualified and it took us months to find a good fit after going through hundreds of resumes and scores of interviews. I hope the f
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by dingnuts 2y ago
ah so every generation shall have its LOLCODE, I see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE for those that don't know
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Yes, that sounds very nice and you are very privileged and lucky. Leisure is definitely a lot nicer than work, but there's a lot of work someone has to do. You can choose to pay people to work, or not, but if you pay people to not work

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