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by eterm 6d ago
It took a while to find one, but the "Hermès Chess Set" has the board the wrong way round, with the white square bottom left. I like to call this "hollywood configuration" because of how often this happens in film &
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by eterm 7d ago
It's a village fete, what kind of signals do you want from the poster? That's why the "Look here's a 100 identical village fete posters" memes are kind of missing the point, it's actually not a bad thing that I
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by eterm 12d ago
This appears to be a UK new site*, and it's definitely not how they usually happen there. In fact, it's not even how they legally happen. > 100 or more redundancies - the consultation must start at least 45 days before any dism
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by eterm 15d ago
That sound quality did something weird to my brain, I was convinced sound was accidentally coming out my laptop speakers not my headphones. I'm not even on my laptop, and I still took my headphones off to check.
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by eterm 16d ago
You're right, I better do a 360 on my comment ;)
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by eterm 16d ago
Given how long it took visual studio to get 64bit support, I wouldn't hold your breath! ( Edit: I should probably inform the layperson: It was Visual Studio 2022 )
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by eterm 16d ago
There have also been repeated statements from NSA & CISA that they recommend all development should be done in memory safe languages. It's abundantly clear that there is a strong headwind towards memory safety, whether that's
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by eterm 17d ago
> The biggest problem was that the first ~couple of hours were spent getting all of the PCs connected, updated, and working properly-enough. Every lan party would have that one guy who turned up with nothing pre-installed or patched, and
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by eterm 18d ago
I've found it does this in two situations: Firstly when you've instructed it ( possibly through skills ) not to do something. It'll keep reminding you that it didn't do that. So I might say, "Check out and review th
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by eterm 19d ago
It's the classic rules as intended vs rules as written.
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by eterm 21d ago
Oh, that's neat. The -p presumably stands for pInteractive with a silent p :)
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by eterm 21d ago
What does that do, add already tracked files only?
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by eterm 21d ago
I don't feel like this was a piece by someone who has used LLMs too much. I'm fairly confident this is just LLM writing the majority, possibly tweaked by a human. Opening line is a form of, "It's not X, it's Y"
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by eterm 21d ago
It's so meme-worthy next to the astra-max for any situation of "What you were promised" vs "What you received".
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by eterm 23d ago
I own a .uk and it still feels weird not having something in-between.
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by eterm 26d ago
A large part of the problems of Javascript are corollaries of lacking of a good standard library, and the relatively long time it took and is still taking to fix that. It wasn't really until ES2015 that a better standard library really
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by eterm 26d ago
You're right, I was reading the stats for "is-number" and mixing them up for "is-even": https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-number 170M downloads / week. Same author, similar vintage. Arguab
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by eterm 26d ago
As another commenter said, it's "is-even": https://github.com/i-voted-for-trump/is-even From that page: > I created this in 2014, when I was learning how to program. I've nothing against Jon Schl
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by eterm 26d ago
Sure, in the spirit of open source, why not? It's a hobby, and it scratches an itch. I very much enjoy deconstructing things more than putting them together. We also live in a world where a package written by someone learning to code e
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by eterm 26d ago
It's true I've always been better at breaking things than making things, but for someone who was "never really a coder" I've had a good career doing it all the same!
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by eterm 26d ago
What was the point to you? What I took away from the article is that AI adds a bunch of complexity that is making it harder, not easier to understand. And I'm saying that is true, but it's also enabling a kind of complexity and am
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by eterm 26d ago
Yes I'm more than okay. AI has enabled a scale of personal ambition I could only previously have dreamed of. I've never been the kind of coder who could easily sit down and get their thoughts out from mind to written lines. I&#x27
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by eterm 26d ago
You've made me realise a good signal for bug hunting: Search repos with lock files listed in their .gitignore. It's the sort of terrible practice that someone might be frustrated into taking after a nasty merge conflict, and signa
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by eterm 27d ago
While not "only Rust", that development should be done in memory safe languages is the position of the US Government: Held both weakly by CISA: https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/memory-safe-l
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by eterm 28d ago
I've recently spent a night or two with near insomnia going down a performance / security rabbit hole in open source .NET libraries. It feels useful, it feels important. But it's not, it's just addictive behaviour, becau
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by eterm 28d ago
That's an interesting opinion, and I certainly won't downvote you for sharing it, although it's not a position I would ever support. You are right though, that it would strengthen the voted-on position if there were more opt
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by eterm 28d ago
Or being able to get down something that you've had in your mind for 20+ years but could never quite get down into a real working thing.
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by eterm 28d ago
What would "pro-LLM" look like to you?
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by eterm 28d ago
They have to slow down the game tick-rate to accommodate, something they call "Time Dilation": https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Time_dilation How much of that is down to processing time is unclear, but I think it&#x
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by eterm 1mo ago
I discovered recently that a big part of this is that sites weight photos of text higher than text. I learned that the LinkedIn meta of photos of posts is because their algorithm de-ranks anything with a link, so for farming you should post

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