fergie

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by fergie 12d ago
I am suspicious of "articles" in this format. They seem to be simultaneously pushing an agenda whilst deliberately targeting midwits.
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by fergie 12d ago
Its called "free movement of labor" and its a very good thing. Arguably the reason that Silicon Valley happened in the first place.
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by fergie 15d ago
For me, the actual thing that git is not fantastic for is versioning data(bases), but this article doesn't seem to address that. In fact I am struggling to parse the article's proposed problem/solution.
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by fergie 15d ago
Right- but why not let the LLM program directly in Java?
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by fergie 15d ago
In the age of LLMs, I get why you would dump portablity in favour of close-to-the-metal Swift and Javascript codebases. However I don't really understand the need for Kotlin- surely thats just an unnecessary complication and performanc
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by fergie 17d ago
I read a prediction maybe 30 years ago that women would eventually start to beat men in endurance events, so its really interesting to see it actually happen. It seems that one slightly overlooked aspect of the research is to look at the wa
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by fergie 17d ago
It should be obvious that AI is already capable of inducing humans to think or do things, and that this power is only going to increase over time.
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by fergie 18d ago
Yes, but the point is that maybe in 2026 we should be looking at ways to pay contributors/creators, rather than steal from them (slightly hyperbolic, but you get the gist)
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by fergie 18d ago
I am slightly on the fence about this. If the goal is simply to provide a good platform for people to create and share information with each other, then it shouldn't matter if the wiki is indexed in Google or not, in fact "invisib
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by fergie 23d ago
I don't know. Something just feels... "off" about it? If you were so inclined you read equivalent stuff in the Telegraph every week, so why go after DHH and his projects so enthusiastically? It just feels like there is someth
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by fergie 23d ago
Does DHH actually deserve to be cancelled, or Omarchy "defunded"? I just read the OOTL on Reddit, and I have to say that I am not entirely convinced. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1oa74wh&#
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by fergie 24d ago
I'm not totally sure about the specifics since despite being an engineer, I cannot distinguish electricity from witchcraft. That said, I do know that if you want to charge your phone from your dynohub you need to ideally have some sort
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by fergie 26d ago
I'm suprised that the author didn't consider dynohubs which were also a thing in back in 2011, and are getting slightly better all the time.
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by fergie 1mo ago
Unless I'm missing something here, this is all wrong. Markdown is OK, but for a variety of reasons, HTML is much better. What you _should_ be doing is ensuring that your page works with screen readers. That simultaneously solves any ki
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by fergie 1mo ago
Are you a bot? Are you sure that you are answering in the thread that you meant to?
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by fergie 1mo ago
Have also struggled with this- would be great to see a fix
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by fergie 1mo ago
Would there be any disadvantage to simply having all of the code style stuff in a CONTRIBUTING.md file and the "how to talk to me" stuff in an AGENTS.md file, since code style stuff also applies to human contributions? Similarly,
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by fergie 1mo ago
The article said that a "limitation" of worktrees is that a branch can only be checked out in one worktree at a time- however, this seems like a feature, because if you could have several worktrees each with their own overlapping
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by fergie 1mo ago
Meanwhile, my Flickr account still has my pics despite threatening to delete them for like 15 years.
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by fergie 2mo ago
The irony here is that ABC is the platfrom doing the rage-baiting.
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by fergie 2mo ago
I use it (sbx), but I don't 100% trust that it actually works, and I would prefer something open source where the limits of the sandboxing could be tested and explored. Maybe we should just ssh into separate development machines to ens
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by fergie 2mo ago
To be fair- one of the interesting things about TikTok is how it rewards good commenting. It seems to bury negative commentary and reward positive commentary with the result that the comment field is generally some combination of genuinely
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by fergie 2mo ago
But surely the openapi spec is more mature and widely adopted?
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by fergie 2mo ago
It does seem like a return to RPC/REST over HTTP (maybe I am missing some subtleties), which makes sense to me since I never really understood the advantage that MCP bestowed.
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by fergie 2mo ago
> O’Brian’s ear for dialogue produced some of his finest comedy. From The 13 Gun Salute (1989): > > “A lovely young woman indeed, Heaven,” said Jack. “Mrs Heaven, if I do not mistake?” > “Why, sir, in a manner of speakin
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by fergie 3mo ago
Is this an actual think that is actually going to happen? I really want a simple notech ev.
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by fergie 3mo ago
Wait- wut!?
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by fergie 3mo ago
Boycott. Divestment. Sanctions.
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by fergie 3mo ago
Having thought about it, I wonder if Klein, Ferris and maybe some of the others were there to give talks.
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by fergie 3mo ago
Interesting to see that the progressive journalist Ezra Klein was in attendance. Also Kaja Kallas. Not quite sure what to make of that.

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