fergie

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by fergie 1y ago
I'm not sure if thats true. I would love the ability to be able to save battery by turning off my mobile. At the moment iPhones seem to drain power even when they are "off" which makes me suspect that they aren't, in fac
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by fergie 1y ago
I like the vibe, but is this vibe coded?
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by fergie 1y ago
> There was a decade of opportunity for OSS to coordinate around an IDE protocol, but that didn’t happen, because OSS is bad at coordination. Its also because a lot of the key people in Open Source, and senior hackers generally, don&#x27
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by fergie 1y ago
Europe has a number of loopholes for the accumulation of wealth that have traditionally been used by the aristocracy. These apparently only become problematic to the signatories when members of the bourgeoisie, for example tech entrepreneur
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by fergie 1y ago
There were some cool ideas- I particularly liked "psychology of AI" Overall though I really feel like he is selling the idea that we are going to have to pay large corporations to be able to write code. Which is... terrifying. Als
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by fergie 1y ago
Theres something nice about the idea of living in a cell and just programming.
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by fergie 1y ago
That does sound insane, but what is the argument in favor? Genuinely curious.
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by fergie 1y ago
> They don't have time to read - say - a lengthy biography If theres one thing all the wealthy people in my life have it is in fact _time_, which in turn means that they take their leisure activities really, really seriously.
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by fergie 1y ago
OTOH this seems like exactly the sort of thing that Apple could suddenly announce at a september event. As you say, there are no hard technical barriers to getting this working.
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by fergie 1y ago
One big one is the multi-user mode
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by fergie 1y ago
Thats nice and all, but I really, really like screen and its commands are burned into my muscle memory. I've been using it for more than 20 years.
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by fergie 1y ago
Bugzilla was really good, and in retrospect decades ahead of its time. There is probably no self hosted bug tracker that comes close (or it there?)
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by fergie 1y ago
There is a strong AI-smell from this page
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by fergie 1y ago
LOL(lipop)
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by fergie 1y ago
* Dons tinfoil hat * They want you scared alone and staring at a screen. These services allow people to withdraw from the social interaction of ordering food in person- they feed off of and encourage social anxiety.
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by fergie 2y ago
OP is dunking on Tiktok, but the comments and quality of dialog on Tiktok are far better than any other social network, even with more than a billion users.
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by fergie 2y ago
It was a good essay- thanks for writing it :)
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by fergie 2y ago
(Article starts off be asserting that they don't talk politics with friends then proceeds to describe how to talk politics with friends?) Friends are people you should support and build up. You shouldn't try to make them feel bad
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by fergie 2y ago
You are talking about taxonomy, and specifically multifaceted classification. In practice a module system with unique names is sufficient- like for example npm. However its worth noting that all of the systems that rely on databases to stor
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by fergie 2y ago
Yes, and private education is a prime example of an area where the Guardian "inexplicably" pulls their punches.
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by fergie 2y ago
The Guardian is fairly protected from commercial influence but its not that well protected against elitism, which unfortunately still means a lot in the UK today. This is why the Guardian is simultaneously "progressive", yet also
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by fergie 2y ago
I feel like both standpoints are true. Yes the tech is miraculous, and yes it has a very long way to go.
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by fergie 2y ago
Very elegant code. Somebody will surely find a way to make it much less robust and readable by converting it to Typescript
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by fergie 2y ago
Right, but lets get real here: GitHub Actions is fundamentally insecure. You are blindly trusting upstream libraries and GitHub itself to respect and protect your secrets.
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by fergie 2y ago
It turns out that industry regulation can actually be a good thing sometimes.
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by fergie 2y ago
100% agree. FWIW I use ctrl-r all day every day in emacs and also in the shell and its... fine. In my opinion, the one thing that would make a difference is a longer and broader history.
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by fergie 2y ago
I'm not sure if Linkedin is actually that 'broken'. My LinkedIn-feed has always been worse that my Facebook-feed, but that is simply because the world of work has forced me to spend time with a small minority of terrible peop
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by fergie 2y ago
As a developer based in Norway, one fairly major drawback to YAML is the way that it processes the language code for Norwegian ("no").
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by fergie 2y ago
Mindblowing that people actually use these things
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by fergie 2y ago
"if you find yourself drinking a martini and writing programs in garbage-collected, object-oriented Esperanto, be aware that the only reason that the Esperanto runtime works is because there are systems people who have exchanged any ho

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