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by globular-toast 2mo ago
This was my point in my comment[0] in that thread. I've used GUI Emacs for years, it's way better than the TUI version and fully keyboard driven. Interestingly, people have seen my GUI Emacs and commented "I didn't know
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
There can be different APIs or different technical implementations with certain performance characteristics. In this case, there isn't any purpose, though. It's just that development has slowed or stopped on the previous libraries
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
"You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it." -- Morpheus ( The Matrix ) UBI isn't abou
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
Same in London, at least for Transport for London (TfL) services (including buses and trams).
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
Smoking/vaping in indoor public places has been banned across the EU/UK for decades so you only encounter unwanted smoke/vapour outside.
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
I hate smoke but I wouldn't say vapes are any less bad. It's rare to get a face full of smoke, though, as smokers are generally considerate enough at this point, while vapers seemingly have no qualms with releasing huge clouds of
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
They are banned in the UK since 2025. I still see vapes littered around in places but not sure if they are from before or technically non-disposable models that people have cast off regardless.
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
The UK is the same as the US in this regard. It's quite a shock going to the continent. The most shocking for me was Germany. Regular suburbs up and down the country have vending machines selling cigarettes on every street corner. You
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
I'm not aware of any PR/MR UI that hides the underlying commits. Some of us do look at them.
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
George Benson is probably a better example. Like another commenter points out, though, it might just be bias due to the media reporting more on drama than celebrity wedding anniversaries. But, I must admit, I do often look up biographies of
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
IME juniors struggle with making single commits in the first place. What I usually see is a scatter brained approach with more "fix" commits than anything else. This doesn't help with that, does it?
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
Use free software. Proprietary software is used by its owners to control you. This is nothing new, just another example to add to the countless ones we already have.
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
That's true, but those lists are interesting because they aren't full of things you should be learning in primary school.
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
Listen more than you talk. Read more than you write. Don't ask people what they want, watch what they do. This is one of my favourite blog posts of all time: https://javlaskitsystem.se/2012/02/whats-the-waiter
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
Yes, but all the "don't care" stuff needs to be inside a "don't care" module. For example, I don't actually care about GUI code. I just need "pressing this button emits this event or callback etc&quot
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
> With LLMs and online tutorials, this isn't even a difficult suggestion. Don't many of the commercial ones prevent you from using them to build LLMs? I would say the reason for the negativity is not because it's a bad ide
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
Article shows a picture of and then starts talking about exterior door handles, but then: > door handles that are "difficult to identify and operate because their colour is similar to the interior trim". The interior controls
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
Only a matter of time until mandatory key disclosure like the UK and other countries. This overrides even the right to silence.
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
Is there any evidence that evidence has been destroyed? To use the analogy I might just decide I don't want anyone reading my personal diary and burn it. It doesn't mean I destroyed evidence. If you knew it was evidence you wouldn
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
On the contrary, multiple windows is normal and the default but tabbed interfaces became popular due to bloated GUI design. This is all down to design and not due to it being a GUI, though.
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
I agree with the author, as long as you keep the good bits of TUIs, i.e. keyboard driven and fast. There is absolutely no reason why a GUI shouldn't be strictly better than a TUI. I'll just copy a comment I made about this in anot
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
If this is true, the frameworks will either move to the specs or, worse, remain in the models. You can't exhaustively write down all the possible ways for software to execute, especially since many programs run forever (e.g. servers, G
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
Most people use roads to get to work. It's definitely not where they want to go.
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
It doesn't sound very intelligent to just brute force iterate until you pass all the tests. This sounds like what Rich Hickey called "bashing into the guard rails". Even if we assume the tests suite is perfect and will guide
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
I've been using OpenAI ever since Anthropic blocked third party clients. Can't believe people are putting up with that output.
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
This was me down to a tee. I took pride in not doing a single piece of homework during the last years of school yet getting top marks regardless. When I got to uni it was a bit of a shock to realise everyone was suddenly at least as intelli
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
That's just how plain git works anyway. Commits are just a tree of hashes which refer to the blobs in the objects store. Diffing is done on demand. If you can implement diff for binary files, then you've got git.
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
Event sourcing normally doesn't either. The only way is forward.
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
This is how I liked to write software pre-LLM. Top down. Write the interface and tests first, implementation second. I think I got it from SICP. "Wish-driven programming" I think I heard once.
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by globular-toast 2mo ago
Congrats, it's 1991 and you've invented Python. Except Python is deterministic, ran on computers in 1991, doesn't require a subscription and doesn't burn the world in the process.

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