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by dsign 2y ago
I preferred the native Windows API[^1] from the point of view of organization. In theory, you could use it to design the data flow in your application in whichever way you wanted. And yes, the operating word is "design", meaning t
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by dsign 2y ago
Not directly related, but compared with the event hell that UI development was twenty years ago, something like Vue.js (or React, but I haven’t used React) is a pleasure to work with. So it kind of makes sense to have something like electro
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by dsign 2y ago
> 35 books out of 100 are profitable I don't think that's right. It's just too good. Imagine that you are an author and maybe you pay one line editor and get beta-readers for free, maybe you do your own cover, and you don&
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by dsign 2y ago
4a in page 37 is most tellingly crossed out. So I’m going to copy and paste 4a and instead of crossing it out invert its meaning: This Regulation shall lead to the general obligation to monitor the information which providers of hosting ser
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by dsign 2y ago
It it's not your employer, then for tax purposes it will be considered that you bought your pizzas at $12.5. You always get to pay sales taxes on the $25 amount. If it is your employer giving you the pizza, there is a different story.
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by dsign 2y ago
> Firefox now more proactively blocks downloads from URLs that are considered to be potentially untrustworthy. I got a hit yesterday from a plugin I wanted to download from blendermarket. After fiddling with Firefox, I downloaded the pl
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by dsign 3y ago
What did you buy the last time you paid for software? I bought a license for FontCreator, from High-Logic. There is a long list of softwares I would be willing to pay some amount of money for, as a lone developer, but I most certainly can
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by dsign 3y ago
Business as usual: somebody funds it--not necessarily the developers--in exchange for a slice of the pie if the project is successful. If it will be succesfull, time will tell. But serverless postgres would be really sweet to have. Hell, AW
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by dsign 3y ago
> When someone needs something composed, they don’t learn to write music… Speak for yourself! There is only one thing that scares me more than composing music, and that’s paying somebody a few bucks in fiverr to do it for me.
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by dsign 3y ago
I see lots of people wanting to go after shell companies here, and with good reasons. But if you live in a country where the state takes away 65% of the money the employer sets apart to pay you, and then your means are precariously sufficie
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by dsign 3y ago
Page 36 here: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/202... Basically, it imposes an obligation on "information society service" (the term uniformly used to denote anybody doi
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by dsign 3y ago
> When using binaries, you can let Linux Systemctl handle the process “Systemctl” instead of “systemd” ? Hm, do I detect reticence to publicly admit the undeniable, vast superiority of systemd by confusingly using the name of the utility
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by dsign 3y ago
- A one-off payment makes life infinitely simpler for accounting purposes. In my jurisdiction, a software license owned by the business is an asset and shows as that in the balance sheet, and can be subject to a depreciation schedule just a
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by dsign 3y ago
I couldn't agree more. I've tried some of this ".ai" websites that do voice-cloning, and they tend to use the following dark strategy: - Demand you create a cloud account before trying. - Sometimes, demand you put your c
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by dsign 3y ago
That was awful. Thanks God we are months away from truly controllable spy-birds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXg-qoRN0co . I wonder if the CIA and the other three-letter agencies are already filing orders for them.
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by dsign 3y ago
I tend to see music as an idiosyncratic language. I know from experience I can't hear harmonies that well, and that I had to find out about chords in Wikipedia and was completely deaf to them until I trained myself. Meaning and emotion
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by dsign 3y ago
I remember when the omission of stack frame pointers started spreading at the beginning of the 2000s. I was in college at the time, studying computer sciences in a very poor third-world country. Our computers were old and far from powerful.
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by dsign 3y ago
Tons of people scared of mental and other forms of decline here. Hey, I got news! It's 2024. We understand a fair deal more of how our biochemistry works. We have more computing power than ever, and it's going to be increasing tha
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by dsign 3y ago
Exactly. It's bad motivations all the way: - Nature published a paper twice after the reviewers voted "no". Of course, it is not a voting process, the editor makes their decision. But evidently the editor didn't use the
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by dsign 3y ago
At my job, we have been merrily replacing Oracle products by open-source ones. You know, the common thing any employee feels morally obligated to do as soon as they realize there is an Oracle product in the stack. But the interesting bit is
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by dsign 3y ago
> And, as an institution, they are largely all too convinced that an all-seeing universal surveillance state would be a good thing, actually. Not that I disagree, but where is the light in this tunnel? Increased police surveillance seems
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by dsign 3y ago
Easy: it would make the desert a little bit less inhospitable, and it would make the average person a little bit less in shame of the environmental havoc they cause. Both things would beget more humans on the planet, which would be bad for
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by dsign 3y ago
Only 11 weeks? Are these guys available for an acqui-hire? At my $dayjob, we have been working 22 months in a similar project.
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by dsign 3y ago
The evidence we have is exactly the one you said: moderns humans living in conditions of scarcity. Sure, they don't resort to as dire extremes as the one I described. Mostly[^1]. I was simply extrapolating. But the rule of law, rules o
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by dsign 3y ago
I came to read the comments here, and I wasn't disappointed! There are a lot of links to articles and additional information on the Neanderthals, which I really appreciate. There is also a bit of "poor Neanderthals, we Sapiens are
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by dsign 3y ago
The sanctions are abusive, but what is the alternative? To allow a kingdom that is so pro-depravity to subsist unmolested? And, is it a matter of sanctions, or national policy that causes the most pain? We don’t have a lot of data, but we h
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by dsign 3y ago
I grew up in a country that defines itself as opposition to another (“the enemy”, “the imperialism”), and everything else, including the lack of everything and the long blackouts, goes by undiscussed. Our Literature professor was a bright l
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by dsign 3y ago
I’m running Ollama with the hopes of putting together some grammar/typo checking workflow for my writing. Not directly related to Ollama, which is working great so far, but does anybody know of any place I can turn to for questions? Li
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by dsign 3y ago
> If you treat the future like a carbon copy of today but with workers replaced by robots then it’s bleak, but that’s a failure in acknowledging that economies evolve with technology. No. Economies evolve with technology. Of that I'
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by dsign 3y ago
Just this. And there are things we can do. Those of us who live in democracies can influence outcomes a little. It may be too early for political action, but perhaps is not too early for writing and reflecting, and for coming up with theori

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