em-bee

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by em-bee 8mo ago
unfortunately deepl is not free. i used to prefer it over google translate until it told me that i used it to much so i would be blocked for 18 days. google translate on the other hand i suspect is using LLMs in the background because somet
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by em-bee 8mo ago
and acťually i believe the opposite is true: we are entitled to be treated nicely. we are entitled to an open and friendly relationship. and while i agree that we are not entitled to get to know you, i'd prefer to deal with an authenti
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by em-bee 8mo ago
in some cultures getting to know you is a crucial part of a business relationship. no connection -> no business. likewise for friends (not just your girlfriend), getting to know you is part of developing friendship. so family, friends, w
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by em-bee 8mo ago
"I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time." i can ramble without an LLM, and i suppose you can ask an LLM to keep it short. but both are results of not taking the time to craft an appropriate message.
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by em-bee 8mo ago
i do that when i don't trust the persons ability to translate to english without error. if they are using a tool to translate to english, then i might as well use that tool myself, with the benefit that i then have the original untrans
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by em-bee 8mo ago
and the reason for that is that we passively understand more than we actively use, but when reading something we often can not distinguish our active and passive knowledge of an expression. so when you read a filtered text, it will sound fi
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by em-bee 8mo ago
i don't trust the search engine. i open the first half dozen links to check them, and if they are not good i try a different search engine. if an LLM actually returns multiple links, than that's better, i haven't actually use
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by em-bee 8mo ago
oh wow, i never realized that this is there, in such a convenient location too. and you can't just change the icon style, but also disable the tool groups which was the most annoying change i found because it makes finding the right to
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by em-bee 8mo ago
OP is sharing their experience, and you are sharing yours. neither experience is universal, and it has nothing to do with wanting to privatize education. rather it is a call for reform of the school system. (all public schools should adopt
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by em-bee 8mo ago
how is that supposed to work? i mean, i agree that this would be ideal, but i believe it is far from the norm. at best advanced students get some extra work, and students who are behind gt some additional tutoring. i got advance work too, b
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by em-bee 8mo ago
some people are working on that, among others there is bruce perens: https://web.archive.org/web/20251206160538/https://perens.co... (sadly his site seems broken, the static files still work however: ht
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by em-bee 8mo ago
with originally i meant before the use of version control systems became common and expected. i don't know the actual history here, but i just found this thread that looks promising to contain some interesting details: https:/&#x
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by em-bee 8mo ago
yes, and no. there is profit and there is excessive profit. if i build something to make my linux experience better and share that with the world, and a few consultancies use that to make the linux experience for their customers better, the
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by em-bee 8mo ago
just found this curated list of self-hosted discord alternatives. https://github.com/Vigno04/discord-selfhosted-alternatives unfortunately though i think self-hosting is one of the problems. one of the features of disc
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by em-bee 8mo ago
in smalltalk you make the changes in the image while it is running. the modern process is that you then export the changes into a version control system. originally you only had the image itself. apparently squeak has objects inside that go
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by em-bee 8mo ago
you can trust the tests that you have written, but what about the tests that you didn't write? can you be sure that your testsuite is complete? when i do test driven development, all the thinking goes into the tests, and the actual cod
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by em-bee 8mo ago
not true at all for most alternative brands (they are not knock offs, the patents are expired so they are legal, and comparable in quality), same for cloned sets (shady companies cloning lego sets using alternative bricks (the bricks are le
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by em-bee 8mo ago
lego compatible bricks made from wood do exist. they probably don't last as long though.
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by em-bee 8mo ago
there is also the use of return from main(), in particular return -1; which doesn't exit. i was debating whether i should post this discussion on the pike language discord, but now i will. you two made my day!
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by em-bee 8mo ago
it would actually be very simple to change the world that's the problem. it isn't simple. it requires hard dedicated labor. it requires conviction to accept some suffering in order to improve things for others. (by suffering her
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by em-bee 8mo ago
things are better, but they are getting worse again. wages are not rising long with inflation. why? because capitalism defines that the wages are set by market value. as i see it only socialist tendencies are fighting against that. (i don&#
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by em-bee 8mo ago
if then by that definition we are not in a capitalist system, then in which system are we? robber barons and anarchism? keep reading on wage labor and in particular on wage slavery, and how it relates to actual slavery. in my opinion neith
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by em-bee 8mo ago
i have caps as compose. i like to have both alt and control keys to work the same way as it was always the case on US keyboards.
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by em-bee 8mo ago
Twenty-seven years since Microsoft did so, Apple too wanted a Windows-style key that only they could control. i always thought that was the command key, it even used to have an apple logo on it. and i thought it was microsoft that created
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by em-bee 8mo ago
you assume that capitalism implies that everyone gets to participate. but that is not a necessary condition. you can have a capitalist system where not everyone participates. slaves did not participate in capitalism, but their owners did. o
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by em-bee 8mo ago
exactly, i mean water after use. using water to create or clean diapers pollutes it, and because overall we use and pollute water faster than nature recycles it through rain we have to add our own cleaning mechanisms to keep up. that's
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by em-bee 8mo ago
water is not entirely free. it has to be cleaned, which costs energy. energy is free, but access is still limited. likewise cotton also requires effort to produce. i agree with your overall point though.
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by em-bee 8mo ago
but the point is that the metal process should be done by yourself. it is the difference between finding the answer myself or asking my classmate to just share his answer with me. in the latter case i am not learning what my classmate learn
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by em-bee 8mo ago
but that is being addressed. there is a difference between looking at 10 search results vs clicking "i am feeling lucky". asking an LLM always just gives you one answer without an opportunity to research and compare multiple possi
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by em-bee 8mo ago
saying the most popular hides the actual reason why it is popular though. it is the original python implementation. it defines the standard and functions a reference for all others. for better or for worse other implementations have to be b

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