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by fainpul 9mo ago
This example shows nicely how ugly text processing is: you have to use head and tail simply to trim out the first line of ls (the total). I think it doesn't even work correctly. ls lists files and directories and then picks the first
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by fainpul 9mo ago
Ok if it's not for you. But there is of course a very good reason — work with objects in the pipeline instead of "dumb text". Also PowerShell and nushell are quite nice to learn, whereas Bash is absolutely horrible.
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by fainpul 9mo ago
In PowerShell: gci -file | sort-object size | select name, size -first 4 | % { $_.size /= 1MB; $_ } | ConvertTo-Json
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by fainpul 9mo ago
> Organ Trail Sounds interesting :)
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by fainpul 9mo ago
Yeah, weirdly enough it seems some tools actually make server requests (3rd party even). For example the QR code generator. Seems unnecessary, since certainly there are libraries to create QR codes client-side?
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by fainpul 9mo ago
Many of those things can be done with commandline utilities which come pre-installed with your OS of choice. But you have to learn about them, it's not a clicky GUI.
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by fainpul 9mo ago
I tested Firefox, Safari and Brave on macOS. Results are totally different for each. "for loop, positive" seems to be the only safe bet. Safari was very slow on everything, Brave and Firefox were slow on `for … of`. I'm surpr
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by fainpul 9mo ago
The huge area of intense yellow (or any highly saturated color actually) is very jarring. The eyes get tired quickly. It's really a weird choice coming from a person who is apparently into visual communication. Btw, I'm using a de
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by fainpul 9mo ago
It's an annoying website, but luckily you can just enable reader view and all problems are fixed.
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by fainpul 9mo ago
> This is what happens when the people issuing the orders (assign an icon for every task) are not the ones doing the task. No, this is what happens when the people in charge of UI design have no clue what they're doing.
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by fainpul 9mo ago
Nothing is perfect, but here are a few things I enjoy using: https://www.geogebra.org/calculator https://regex101.com/ https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/ https://www.figma.co
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by fainpul 9mo ago
Thanks, but that's a 404 for me. Maybe a private repo? I would just like to see something more complex than very simple examples — an actual real project.
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by fainpul 9mo ago
I'm not gonna argue with you. That's just silly. Have a read here if you want, but I suppose you're just trolling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_3D https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by fainpul 9mo ago
I think this definition is a bit too strict. CAD just means computer aided design. Architects use Rhino to design buildings. You use it to design airplanes. CAD doesn't even have to be 3D.
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by fainpul 10mo ago
I'd like to see the code for this more complex object: https://github.com/tomasf/Cadova/wiki
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by fainpul 10mo ago
You're not offering anything of value. We all can ask some LLM about stuff we want to know. It's like in the past, when someone would post a link to search results as a reply.
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by fainpul 10mo ago
Let's use the influx of new users to get some money flowing! It would be great if all those "I switched to Linux" articles would mention a few ways to donate to some important projects, helping to make FOSS thrive.
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by fainpul 10mo ago
Ha. That caused quite some reputation damage. However I would say infiltration and spying is more of an intelligence agency tradition, than a swiss tradition.
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by fainpul 10mo ago
If they're going to provide updates or privacy as a subscription, it would be much more interesting to offer the device for free, with just the $/€/CHF 10 fee per month. Stop the subscription and you have to return the device
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by fainpul 10mo ago
So you walk around with a backpack instead of a smartphone? :o
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by fainpul 10mo ago
If you're interested in storytelling and Joseph Campbell's work, Mike Hill has some excellent videos, analyzing some blockbuster movies. [1] Just ignore his podcast / interview type videos. This would be a good start: https:
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by fainpul 10mo ago
> reproduce aspects of feedback and comments on similar pieces of software But this is completely worthless or even misleading. There is zero value in this kind of "feedback". It will produce nonsense which sounds believable. Y
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by fainpul 10mo ago
This is ridiculous. I doubt this would work with a general AI, but it surely cannot work with LLMs who understand exactly nothing about human behaviour.
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"Taking AI Doom Seriously" by Primer [video](youtube.com)
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by fainpul 10mo ago
Nothing. You would use `!` to force unwrap in this case. I think the point of the comment was that in many cases , when constructing a url, you can't be sure that the input will result in a valid url (e.g. when receiving a string inst
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by fainpul 10mo ago
You talk about interactions. In my mind the useful part is the added information density which comes easy (we are good at judging object sizes visually, not by numbers). I also want this information before interacting with the files. The
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by fainpul 10mo ago
But they don't take more time to move (on the same partition). Also it would be nice to see at a glance if a folder contains a lot of data (number of bytes, not files) before starting an operation.
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by fainpul 10mo ago
The size of a file has nothing to do with its importance. But it's a valuable piece of information when you're shoveling data around.
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by fainpul 10mo ago
These vibe coded tests are terrible: https://github.com/Lulzx/zpdf/blob/main/python/tests/test_zp...
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by fainpul 10mo ago
Nice experiment! I agree that providing something more tangible than just a number would be beneficial for some operations. But I think it would get annoying quickly. Having difficulty moving a "heavy" file is the opposite of a go

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