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by donatj 1y ago
Yes. It's the violent kids like doom versus doom makes kids violent debate for the modern age. Unstable people like ChatGPT, it didn't make them unstable.
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by donatj 1y ago
From an economic standpoint probably not. The individual queries cost real money. They want you to like the service and pay for it, but there's not much in it for OpenAI for you to use it obsessively beyond training data.
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by donatj 1y ago
I mentioned on a recent one-handed keyboard discussion that my father only has one hand and only one finger on said hand. For his particular case I feel like having a radius like this wouldn't provide any benefit over a standard keyboa
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We Made a One-Handed Keyboard [video](youtube.com)
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by donatj 1y ago
I feel this way about the keyboard community and their love of old IBM keyboards. In the mid-to-late 90s I had probably fifteen of them laying around and couldn't give them away. No one wanted these heavy bulky noisy keyboards. Now peo
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by donatj 1y ago
I really hate animations I have to sit through just to use the site. Even if it's just a second or two, that's a second or two per time I use the site and that adds up over time especially if I am forced to use the site like certa
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by donatj 1y ago
My question is kind of in this brave new world, where do the domain experts come from? Whose going to know this stuff?
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by donatj 1y ago
I was there, 3,000 years ago. I remember fights over whether or not navigation in frames was bad practice. Not iframes, frames. Who here remembers frames? I remember using HTTP 204 before AJAX to send messages to the server without reloadin
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by donatj 1y ago
Is this the Japanese equivalent of The Onion?
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by donatj 1y ago
These all seem like things that are more work to instruct and AI to do then to just do yourself
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by donatj 1y ago
My dad has the same situation, one arm and one finger on said arm - the beefiest pinky you've ever seen. He does most of his typing these days with voice-to-text on his Android phone, and he's pretty adept with it. Otherwise he ge
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by donatj 1y ago
I apologize. I genuinely did not mean snark, nor to be dismissive. It was a sincere honest-to-god "oh wow this actually explains the situation over there" mixed with an expression of frustration with their service quality. A lot
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by donatj 1y ago
And this goes at least part of the way towards explaining why Fly.io has been the second least reliable cloud provider I've ever used, after Azure.
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by donatj 1y ago
I have vivid memories of Digg back in the day censoring out absolutely baffling things in the middle of otherwise regular words.
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by donatj 1y ago
Something we have had to deal with in managing educational software with a writing aspect is trying to manage what is offensive to who, in what context and where is not universal at all. One of the most prime examples, at one point a number
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by donatj 1y ago
Back in I want to say around 2012, maybe earlier I got some sort of eReader for super cheap, less than $30. As I recall it had some sort of non-backlit color LCD, similar to the GBA but easier to see. It was ok in direct sunlight but not gr
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by donatj 1y ago
Hah, this comment took off! My colophon if anyone is interested https://donatstudios.com/colophon
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by donatj 1y ago
It's interesting that they're actively promoting using it with a shebang. I find it pretty appealing. Go prior to modules worked really well this way and I believe Ubuntu was using it like this, but the Go authors came out against
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by donatj 1y ago
Sure. Here's my full criteria: Is it a net positive for the world at large? It's worth doing. That's it. Go out unto the world and do with that as you will
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by donatj 1y ago
I yearn for the early days when I could just "View Source" to see how something neat on a page worked. Now there's rarely anything neat, and when there is you can poke around with the inspector but it's likely buried dee
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by donatj 1y ago
But did you enjoy tweaking the backend?
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by donatj 1y ago
There are plenty of things worthy of doing, spaces left to explore and discoveries to be made. Destroying a natural wonder in the name of impressing your buddies doesn't fall under that.
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by donatj 1y ago
Why does mountaineering need a future ? Mountaineering should just be done. Stop. The mountains have been scaled. All of them. We've been there, website seen what's to be seen. It's done, it's over. Just leave these gra
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by donatj 1y ago
I've never understood the whole centering a div meme. width: 60%; // define your width as desired margin: 0 auto; Now go start your blog!
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by donatj 1y ago
Hah, yes! Whereas most of my developer friends have long ago moved to off-the-shelf Hugo or Jekyll templates for their personal sites, I stubbornly maintain my blog with entirely bespoke css and a backend only a parent could love. For me, t
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by donatj 1y ago
I was really hopeful this would do something to address Japans convoluted address system, anything really, sort of like Open Location Code is trying but with the backing of the post office. If you don't know the storied history of
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by donatj 1y ago
With the only real tangible thing I know about rust being that the "Rust by Example" introduced a macro in the very first example, it took me waaay too long before it clicked that this might be a joke. The WASM related annotations
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by donatj 1y ago
Radio buttons and checkboxes really are magic when it comes to doing neat things in pure CSS. We used to have a lot of neat stuff like pure html/css tabs and toggles but they didn't pass an accessibility audit.
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by donatj 1y ago
I don't love Mermaid and generally find it less well designed than something like Graphviz/dot. I generally find a lot of the syntax needlessly strict for something non-programmer humans are meant to interact with, but the big sel
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by donatj 1y ago
I don't know if it's possible, but it would be cool to be able to share saved Docks as a file of some kind. In the last 20+ years I've basically perfected where I want everything and expect everything to be where I like. I tr

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