em-bee

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by em-bee 6mo ago
what are you suggesting? XML is a simplified form of SGML. an SGML parser can parse XML so it was already possible to write an XML like document before XML was defined.
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by em-bee 6mo ago
can either of you elaborate what you mean? are you talking about support for structured data passing between scripts/programs?
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by em-bee 6mo ago
that's not the preferred format for writing XML, this is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <claims> <claims_I_did_not_make description='Claims that I did not make or defend.
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by em-bee 6mo ago
it sounds like you are asking a question, but there is no "?" at the end, so i am slightly confused. if it is a question, my answer is no, because the tools i use to read or edit the code are completely distinct from the build too
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by em-bee 6mo ago
AI is dumb is because I tell it to do things, it does them in a dumb way, and I complain at it and tell it to write it in a sensible way. It screws that up, and I tell it to do it again, and not to screw it up. I'm still not coding. I
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by em-bee 6mo ago
I no longer write code myself this is just like being promoted from developer to manager. some people like it some don't. with AI there is another dimenstion: some people like managing machines instead of people, some don't. it&
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by em-bee 6mo ago
just putting windows side by side is not enough. i need to be able to treat those two side by side windows as a unit: see how i use it as an example here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913202 no windowmanager anywh
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by em-bee 6mo ago
actually neither are complete rewrites. i played around with diff and found that the new version of OpenPGP seems to keep about 60% of the old one and LibrePGP seems to keep 90%. so the rewrite claim was exaggerated. i didn't compare t
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by em-bee 6mo ago
i occasionally need to compare two tabs. previously that meant that i had to open those two tabs in separate windows and then use window tiling to place them side by side. setting that up was a lot of work. and also it makes switching windo
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by em-bee 6mo ago
i just had the all lowercase discussion (i wasn't even the reason it started) so i am just going to refer you to that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889553 (that link is a top level comment responding to the
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by em-bee 6mo ago
what are you implying here? take a look at my posting history. i have been writing like this since before LLMs existed. also i am not an english native, but i lived in various english speaking countries with very diverse accents for many ye
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by em-bee 6mo ago
woha, this is totally twisted and the opposite of what really happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47909640 GnuPG did not unilaterally implement new non-OpenPGP formats. it kept supporting the old version of the
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by em-bee 6mo ago
it's not that simple. the new standard is a complete rewrite of the old one. they are not even compatible anymore. things the old standard used to support are not supported in the new standard. that makes any implementation of the new
644.
by em-bee 6mo ago
sure they can, but they would have to justify that change, and we have a better argument to oppose such a change. better than had they never added an exemption in the first place.
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by em-bee 6mo ago
that's a very cynic take. it's the same as the tiring old argument that the GPL is not free, because true freedom should allow you to do whatever you want. but that's not true freedom, that's anarchy. if you take the arg
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by em-bee 6mo ago
and discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362528
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by em-bee 6mo ago
Is that in-conflict with a reproducible build process or can we have both in part the question is what makes a build reproducible. what actually needs to be reproduced? the point of a reproducible build is that a version of source code al
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by em-bee 6mo ago
more importantly there should be a time once a day where asking is not a disruption. you are not in the flow for 3 days in a row. we used the daily standup for this. or any break time.
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by em-bee 6mo ago
i don't know what it takes to get out of depression, but "it isn't going to fix itself" doesn't contradict that the depressed person can't get out of it on their own. it's like telling someone stuck in a h
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by em-bee 6mo ago
my experience was different. yes, i get that sharing my thoughts sometimes doesn't feel safe, and when i was younger i did have that experience too. but i had and have no interest in popular sports, so that topic is poison for me. i ha
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by em-bee 6mo ago
hah, i have been arguing this for years. first time to see someone else making the same argument. nice!
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by em-bee 6mo ago
ok, that's helpful, thank you. but i think some background matters here: i was always (yes, since i can remember, at least starting from first grade) treated like an outsider. i was always treated like i was different despite growing u
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by em-bee 6mo ago
funny you should say that, i frequently feel uncomfortable greeting people, because i don't know what greeting is appropriate. (this is exacerbated by the fact that i travel a lot and different cultures have very different ways to gree
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by em-bee 6mo ago
yes, this. zooming out doesn't mean moving away from my values, but moving away from the disagreement, to facets that we agree on. then build rapport on that, and figure out what causes the difference in opinion.
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by em-bee 6mo ago
the thing with uncommon beliefs is not that they are likely wrong. but that digging in your heels is surely going to fail, regardless of who is actually right. so your suggested response is the right approach, but it doesn't end there.
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by em-bee 6mo ago
right, the reason does not matter. only my reaction matters. coming to a negative conclusion only induces rage. think positively but be cautious. it's simply self protection.
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by em-bee 6mo ago
i am not autistic, but i hate smalltalk too. i can't bear it. it takes all the fun out of talking to people and i feel like it's a waste of time. not sure where i am going with this argument other than maybe saying that it's
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by em-bee 6mo ago
hmm, i have been writing all lowercase almost anywhere since a few decades. but it most people have complained about readability. this is the first time that someone suggests that it is manipulative, status seeking. if i want people to read
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by em-bee 6mo ago
yes, but that means that hope is not lost yet. for me, all hope is lost when people stop listening if i said something they disagree with, even if i follow up with something they do agree with (which is usually my tactic in this case, find
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