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421.
by dmd 1y ago
Did a fungus write this? That’ll just spread it wider. (cf. The Genius Plague by David Walton)
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by dmd 1y ago
Because the people approving the contracts typically used to work for the consultants, and plan to work for them again in the future.
423.
by dmd 1y ago
I typed in a long description, was immediately sent to a login page. Nope, goodbye. edit: Wow, even tried logging in (with Google)… and it doesn’t even work anyway. Just bounced me back out.
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by dmd 1y ago
And before you say “I don’t have a girlfriend”, by the time you’re good enough that fingernails are important, that will no longer be an issue.
425.
by dmd 1y ago
Yes, I got a perfect score. It just took me several minutes, whereas coworkers of mine got 15+ in just a few seconds.
426.
by dmd 1y ago
I’m so confused. This is something people know? I mean, I can work it out from first principles knowing how color mixing works, but it sounds like people just … know them? I’ve been programming for almost 40 years and it would never have o
427.
by dmd 1y ago
Well, color me not impressed. On my very first few tries, out of 10 short-ish (no more than 300 lines) python scripts I asked it to clean up and refactor, 4 of them it mangled to not even run any more, because of syntax (mostly quoting) err
428.
by dmd 1y ago
If they hadn’t called it “edit” you wouldn’t have thought of it as a rewrite.
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by dmd 1y ago
Same here. I’ve been using Unix of some flavor or another since 1989 and generally prefer minimalism and simplicity - but I also prefer “opinionated good defaults”, and starship gives me that. (I’ve even switched to Fish, because it does w
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by dmd 1y ago
But the inline_height seems to be a constant, rather than a percentage of the window, which is weird. As long as you're here, do you know if the column showing the amount of time the command took can be removed? I know you can remove i
431.
by dmd 1y ago
If I explicitly DON’T want sync between machines (my workflows are very machine specific), does atuin give me anything significant over my current fzf based C-r?
432.
by dmd 1y ago
Here are some ways to do it: https://qntm.org/destroy
433.
by dmd 1y ago
“EVs bad, oil good.”
434.
by dmd 1y ago
Except they want it both ways. I tried Youtube Premium for a few months. Slowly but surely the ads came back, so back to blocking and not paying I went.
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by dmd 1y ago
No, you didn’t. You fed it into a LLM that does it. Literally the first sentence containing “diving in” gave it away. Please don’t post “I fed this into chatgpt” comments. Everyone has access to these tools if they want to use them.
436.
by dmd 1y ago
Or you can full real time text, like we all used to have. https://typeto.me
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by dmd 1y ago
The United States Military (Waterhouse has decided) is first and foremost an unfathomable network of typists and file clerks, secondarily a stupendous mechanism for moving stuff from one part of the world to another, and last and least a fi
438.
by dmd 1y ago
agreed, agreed, … wait what
439.
by dmd 1y ago
tell me you didn’t even glance at the article without telling me you didn’t even glance at the article
440.
by dmd 1y ago
The strong impression I always get from the entire Apollo program is "they didn't know it couldn't be done at the level of technology available, so they did it anyway".
441.
by dmd 1y ago
Some airline someday is going to figure out that if you guarantee overhead luggage space, people will pay more to get on the plane last instead of first.
442.
by dmd 1y ago
The only thing stopping a Waymo from doing that is laws.
443.
by dmd 1y ago
The ~10 or 20mA or so one of these things draws would take months to do that.
444.
by dmd 1y ago
Sorry, Beethoven, you just don’t seem to be a match for our org. Best of luck on your search! You too, Monet. Scram.
445.
by dmd 1y ago
It would depend on which side got the data plate.
446.
by dmd 1y ago
Go work at a big company. The patent lawyers come around and ask what you've been working on, and a month or two later, your name's on 10 patents, none of which make any sense whatsoever. If you're very lucky you might get
447.
by dmd 1y ago
oh come on please it's easy just /etc/init.apt-get/frob-set-conf --arc=0 - +/lib/syn.${SETDCONPATH}.so.4.2 even my grandma can do that
448.
by dmd 1y ago
Bear's support of embedded things like pictures and especially PDFs is atrocious compared to Notes, unfortunately.
449.
by dmd 1y ago
> I take all of my notes on ChatGPT now I can't even imagine what this even means.
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by dmd 1y ago
Where did you hear knitting is easier? I was under the impression that crocheting is much easier.

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