elric

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by elric 1y ago
Sure, but it's always easier to use a tool that's been tried and tested.
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by elric 1y ago
That's not at all an unusual request though. Plenty of recruiters want Word. Probably so they can make changes behind your back or some such nonsense. Or, less cynically, so they can more easily copy/paste stuff into their HRM too
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by elric 1y ago
Reading these comments I'm always amused by how different people/teams have radically different needs & preferences, and how other people seem to be dismissive of those. "I don't need anything more than maven",
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by elric 1y ago
Human locomation is surprisingly complex. Maybe not that surprising, what with roughly 20 bones and 30 muscles in a single foot. That doesn't even include the joints needed for motion and the muscles required to move your legs or swing
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by elric 1y ago
Raising the level of abstraction can greatly reduce tedium, and can make code a lot easier to grok. Introducing LLM generated code doesn't do that in my experience.
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by elric 1y ago
> Sometimes frameworks are a little too magic. And your proposed solution is using an LLM? Because that's less magical than a framework?
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by elric 1y ago
Don't buy into the "couch to 5k" hype. Instead, try "none to run" and don't be afraid to take it even slower than the programme suggests.
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by elric 1y ago
You say that like it's a bad thing. But it's not. It's a good thing.
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by elric 1y ago
So I took the trouble of reading the directive in question. It has a list of substances (like magnesium) which are covered by the directive. Turmeric is not on the list. Making it, unsurprisingly, unregulated.
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by elric 1y ago
Yes. And much more so. There are entire organizations dedicated to tracking side effects of medications. The leaflet with every medication contains a list of known adverse effects and their frequency (at least in the EU).
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by elric 1y ago
Why would supplements supposedly be safe in the EU? They are not regulated as far as I know? They can be sold anywhere. They often contain all kinds of inflated claims..
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by elric 1y ago
Turmeric is notorious for having lead added to it to brighten its colour.
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by elric 1y ago
I had a similar revelation when watching 3Blue1Brown's Calculus series. Had they included those kinds of visual representations in school when I was first learning about Calculus, my understanding (and interest) would have been greatly
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by elric 1y ago
In contrast, I think vibrators and dildos save lives. Now you may think I'm being silly or snarky, but I'm being serious. I worked at a hospital ER when I was still in school. My job was fetching and archiving patient records (phy
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by elric 1y ago
> Send the picture to someone at the other end of the lecture theatre? It's likely that there would be a phone network or Wi-Fi available. Now you're back to using a centralised system using a network you know nothing about, op
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by elric 1y ago
We can communicate in more ways than just with words. Would be great to FINALLY have a sensible, low-friction, secure way to transfer files to people. It's 2025 and that's still not a solved problem.
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by elric 1y ago
This is not a new phenomenon. Back in the late 90s, Virgin Interactive released my all time favourite game: Subspace. I bought the boxed edition. Not long after, they shut down their servers leaving a lot of people disappointed. The communi
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by elric 1y ago
Huzzah for promoting more vendor lock-in. Are there any open standards for "serverless" yet?
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by elric 1y ago
I'm aware, but I think zpeti was saying that this is a recent thing, whereas fast PP payments were already a thing ages ago.
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by elric 1y ago
What do you mean? Europe has had SEPA payments pretty much since the Euro came out. And most of Europe had functional bank transfers using online banking (including international ones) long before the Euro was a thing. Edit: Do you mean tha
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by elric 1y ago
The cognitive load of typing two quotes? Golly. That term is starting to take on "whatever" meaning, apparently.
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by elric 1y ago
How do people find specialised data structure that they aren't already aware of? Stumbling across random blog posts and reading the odd book on data structures can't be the optimal way. Is there a way to search for a structure by
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by elric 1y ago
I don't understand what you're saying? Are you saying that the only reason people don't do crime is because of a lack of privacy? That's patently nonsensical.
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by elric 1y ago
> I think anxiety in the virtual room is high and everyone just becomes paralyzed I don't think that's necessarily anxiety. I'm sure there's a name for it, but it's a bit like the "bystander effect", wh
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by elric 1y ago
DoH in Firefox is off by default (at least in every FF I've ever installed). And it's not hardcoded to any specific DNS server, you can use whichever provider you like.
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by elric 1y ago
> browsers and mobile phones have started using hardcoded DNS resolvers, so the utility of this is limited Got a source for that? No phone or browser that I'm aware of uses "hardcoded DNS resolvers". They all use the OS DN
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by elric 1y ago
Modern problems require modern solutions. But on a more serious note, distraction and focus are difficult topics. When I'm highly motivated, I'm utterly indistractible. When I have to do boring toil, absolutely anything & ever
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by elric 1y ago
I wouldn't be adverse to paying for YT (or similar services) if they took cash payments. But no, you have to get a subscription. Which involves giving Google your personal details, thus giving the world's biggest data hoarder even
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by elric 1y ago
What's surprising is that, over time, Firefox has done virtually nothing to reduce the impact of fingerprinting. Why on earth are we, in 2025, still sending overly detailed User Agent strings? Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:1
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by elric 1y ago
For those who don't get the reference, Plato thought that the written word was not a good tool for teaching/learning, because it outsources some of the thinking. Simiarly (IIRC) Socrates thought the written word wasn't great

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