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by dormento 2y ago
> I don't think Trump and Elon are serious people. I still can't get over the stupid name. "DOGE".
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by dormento 2y ago
Reddit web nags are famous around here. "It has cats on it". Not only I won't install the app, I'll keep using old.reddit.com (might as well be called actually-useful.reddit.com...)
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by dormento 2y ago
I got curious and went looking for the source. Is this go-htmx-forge? Looks cool.
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by dormento 2y ago
Adol has a thing for shipwrecking into interesting places.
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by dormento 2y ago
> Before rewriting the whole thing, are you SURE that you can't make that thing faster? Hear hear! This is _very_ often true. You can profile your database from the command line, looking for query optimizations. Usually, adding some
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by dormento 2y ago
Now that you mention it, it never occurred to me that Snake's radio transmitted video as well. "Did you like my new sunglasses?" If you could reserve a small portion of the radio bandwidth to broadcast a thumbnail + low bandw
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by dormento 2y ago
Its so sad, windows used to be a production ready system in the early 2000s.
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by dormento 2y ago
Well, its a Jesuit university. Jesuits are commonly thought to be liberal, controversial and fairly accommodating of other religious doctrine. I like this joke and think it exemplifies this a lot. A Franciscan, a Dominican, and a Jesuit are
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by dormento 2y ago
Based on my experience I bet at the very least 90%+ of them could do it today, with no downside whatsoever, and I feel like I'm being generous.
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by dormento 2y ago
> And don't worry, there won't be some VC investment or big company buyout. I fell for that trick 27 times already, you can't fool me! j/k Thanks for the ride, wish you the best of luck.
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by dormento 2y ago
> “You’re going to have the most powerful PC ever,” says Yusuf Mehdi, executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer at Microsoft, during the briefing. “In fact, it’s going to outperform any device out there, including a M
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by dormento 2y ago
> A prototype of FORGE is implemented in MacRelix; a port to FUSE is in progress. MacRelix was recently featured on hn. It is a Unix-like environment for classic Mac OS.
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by dormento 2y ago
Just yesterday we were talking about Discord (on Discord) @ job. I said something like "discord might be convenient, but searching for things is difficult in comparison to IRC". Then people asked me "what is IRC". Hit li
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by dormento 3y ago
> WebHardDiskPartitioner Made me look.
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by dormento 3y ago
In theory, nothing will stop you. In practice, nothing stopped GAMBAS ( https://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html ), which can do a lot of what VB did. Problem is, the multitude of platforms, screen sizes, capability s
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by dormento 3y ago
"prove you don't know" It might be my lack of coffee, but how would that work? You can prove you know something, but how would you prove you don't?
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by dormento 3y ago
Emscripten sausage. Or a kind of a web turducken.
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by dormento 3y ago
I like the "terseness" of it, looks refreshing after working with Laravel or... shudders Java. (Sorry if I sound mean, but there are no examples of an AI generating a model, nothing about "AI" on the page, makes it loo
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by dormento 3y ago
> I intended to make it simple to understand, it uses only four C keywords. Fantastic
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by dormento 3y ago
IMHO, not even a /j. Under the current guidelines, doesn't all music performances that make use of some sort of pitch correction assist are technically "digitally altered"?
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by dormento 3y ago
> computational overcooking The two words make perfect sense together. Reminds me of the "deep-fried memes" subculture.
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by dormento 3y ago
Always felt funny to me how the common japanese immigrant stereotype in Brasil includes ending every question with "né?" Makes total sense now.
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by dormento 3y ago
I do it that way with toolchains for exotic architectures. Its easier. (I'm from the "Hey as long as it works" school of thought).
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by dormento 3y ago
MUMPS is a hoot isn't it.
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by dormento 3y ago
To be faaair, it is not wrong per se, it's just something you would never hear coming from an actual person who is addressing you. A shoopkeeper _might_ say "bem vindo" ("welcome"), even though that would be hella c
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by dormento 3y ago
On our company (hosting & PaaS), I was contacted on our internal messenger by a person I've never seen before, asking me to "please" run some commands as root and send back the results. After the initial shock (and due in
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by dormento 3y ago
> Now the result tastes good Not that I could really tell, after having it twice. Edit: having the disease, not your soup. I bet it tastes wonderful.
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by dormento 3y ago
Eek @ that page. This is the "latinx" situation all over again. "Damos as boas vindas" ("(we) bid you welcome"), while syntactically correct, sounds weird to portuguese speakers. The language has masculine and
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by dormento 3y ago
I had a dream yesterday, that scientists managed to create a new kind of EMP bomb. This bomb was unusual in that, by varying the level of EM discharge in the payload (dreamy-sciency explanation), it could target all hardware created after a
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by dormento 3y ago
And its wrong! Its not difficult to find whole paragraphs that were entirely made up. LLMs are not fit for this sort of thing.

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