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by easyThrowaway 4mo ago
I hope before I die we finally prove that the human brain has no peculiar qualia but it is an entirely deterministic, albeit extremely sophisticated, machine. And by touching the right triggers, even the worst human being can become a saint
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by easyThrowaway 4mo ago
I was lucky enough to speak with one of the guys who ported Final Fantasy VIII to Windows (A crazy talented guy from Naples and one of the earliest members of the OG playstation emulation scene) and the porting team of several IREM arcade s
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by easyThrowaway 4mo ago
The whole "Taste makes all the difference" has been meme'd to death too: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYuj_4dxVg2/ . Also... I won't add any details to avoid doxing myself, but trust me on thi
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by easyThrowaway 4mo ago
What we too easily forget is that for millennia we had societies where an infinitesimally amount of people (a dozen of families, at best) held almost all the wealth, another thousands ensured that order was maintained throughout the kingdom
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by easyThrowaway 4mo ago
It has become a meme at this point but this sentence still stands: "The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth".
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by easyThrowaway 4mo ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the original source code is probably lost and forgotten in a ZIP drive stored in a basement somewhere in Tokyo. I've made a similar point in an earlier comment, but consider the following: Even if the or
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by easyThrowaway 4mo ago
Only if you're going after the "vibe coders" audience. Regular developers would be fine with a lightweight local llm capable of scaffolding and wiring a dozen of bog-standard components in a few lines of natural language.
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by easyThrowaway 4mo ago
I've been in the "someone performed it" and "someone mixed it" role for some tracks that I found utterly mediocre and yet ended up being some of the most successful stuff I've ever worked on. I mean, sure, prev
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by easyThrowaway 4mo ago
Because the alternative would've been telling everyone "here's the Stochastic Machine. The more what you write looks like the sources we blatantly stol- I mean, trained from, the closer it gets to output working code". A
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by easyThrowaway 5mo ago
It matches the current "2K aesthetic" revival. Probably the last device that fully incarnates that specific time frame. You can commonly see it in major fashion adv campaigns, with models using anachronistic Sony CD Players, digit
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by easyThrowaway 5mo ago
I mean, after having spent some time in both LA and Sicily, I can see some merits on the idea /s. Unfortunately no, outside of the clubbing and the winemaking scene there are way too many differences. Trying to sell a coffee in Palermo
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by easyThrowaway 5mo ago
Calling someone a "bloody... ahem meridionali" sounds a lot like those guys who would address a black guy as an "annoying N...nuisance, I mean". Tell him he can drop the politically correct facade and call us Terroni (o
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by easyThrowaway 5mo ago
We got a 3000m tall volcano in the middle of Sicily (currently full of snow unless it changed somehow since I last saw it this morning) and the Appennini in Umbria and Marche (800-2400m elevation) whose temperatures are roughly on par with
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by easyThrowaway 5mo ago
One of my parents is from Ragusa and I've spent more than half of my life in Sicily. The answer can be summed up in "Culture, Corruption, Infrastructure, in this order". I can see the last point improving over time. I give ab
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by easyThrowaway 6mo ago
> However I think you have perhaps not internalized yet how CSS variables and scoping rules work have created a situation that allows for often elegantly solving problems that one might wish one had a more powerful query language to hand
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by easyThrowaway 6mo ago
I mean... sure, just tell me how to write a fully responsive landing page straight from a PSD file by the marketing dept in roughly less than an hour without using Bootstrap or, for goodness sake, Tailwind and I'm ready to drop any fra
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by easyThrowaway 7mo ago
...just like the divine right of kings!
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by easyThrowaway 7mo ago
Honestly, If anyone asked me "T'as fait quoi?" I'd blurt out "J'ai amené ma voiture chez le lavage". Background: I stopped speaking french when I was ten and my family isn't native, but it feels mor
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by easyThrowaway 7mo ago
Very awkward and formal. Anyone would call it lavage auto, lave-auto or simply lavage if the context is clear.
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by easyThrowaway 7mo ago
It feels more like a question on english linguistic conventions than logic. If someone asked me the same question and I wanted to give a smartass reply, I'd tell them "You want to wash your car, good to know. Now, about your quest
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by easyThrowaway 8mo ago
It's the least convincing excuse used to circle around GDPR and similar laws. "I swear, it's for security! (please ignore the part in our ToS that says we can resell your HW configuration profile and installed software stats
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by easyThrowaway 8mo ago
Thanks!
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by easyThrowaway 8mo ago
> The updates are over https. The default certificates are 10year expiry. I wish I knew this last week while trying to restore a 2010 21" iMac. Apart from this, I encountered another annoyance mid-way; the official download urls for
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by easyThrowaway 8mo ago
Many of the decompiled console games of the '90s were originally written in C89 using an ad-hoc compiler from Metrowerks or some off-branch release of gcc-2.95 plus console specific assemblers. I willing to bet that the decompiled outp
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by easyThrowaway 8mo ago
In the music industry they have a saying about sampling and IP clearance which easily applies here too: "The lawfulness of your actions is directly related to your law firm fees compared to the other part". Are Dolphin and emulati
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by easyThrowaway 8mo ago
The point isn't simply "class removal affects cascading", but "anything upstream is capable of placing the original content in an unrecoverable state". Where "anything" could be your framework, your CMS, y
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by easyThrowaway 8mo ago
A safer assumption would be that our body influences our behavior and tastes, and in turn they are directly affected by changes in our body, like an organ transplant. A more interesting question regarding the case above would be "what&
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by easyThrowaway 8mo ago
Hopefully this will help decompilation projects into generating better pseudocode. Some sort of "generate code -> build and execute -> test against existing executable if it behaves like the original -> change code again"
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by easyThrowaway 8mo ago
CSS Zen Garden is quite the opposite of a good example of your point. Even small changes to the original page layout would completely break most of the provided styles. If I removed the .page-wrapper class it would be also nearly impossible
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by easyThrowaway 8mo ago
For those who don't know, Native Instruments software synths were...uh, instrumental in developing several music genres and styles. Radiohead used Reaktor extensively while recording Kid A. Early Dubstep artists used Massive to get t

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