gr_norm

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Indeed, science is a process of discovery and adjusting goals and expectations. It is not a mountain to be summited. It is highly telling that the LLM boosters do not understand this. Those with a genuine interest in pushing forward our und
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Yes, agree with the rest of the article but "open source" most certainly does _not_ include "source-available". This is true regardless of which side of the permissive-vs-copyleft issue you fall on. Being obtuse about th
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Israel and its *genocide in Gaza, according to Amnesty International[1]. Let's call it like it is, so that the funding may be stopped sooner rather than later. [1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2
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There are indeed always exceptions to generalizations, as you've pointed out. Though pulseaudio always trudged along fine for me (not like audio had always worked for me on other systems), and pipewire works perfectly.
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That isn't the denotation of my post; I was not characterizing Linux as a whole, but only responding to your specific (unsound) analogy. It works better for me, for a number of reasons including that above. Perhaps it will work better
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The difference: in Linux it is a usability issue to be fixed, whereas on macOS it is a feature and explicit design goal to make it that way. In general, I have found that things which are difficult on Linux are so because the problem is dif
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It is, in my opinion (as an avid Rust user!). The type errors from most of the major web frameworks/ORMs (diesel, sqlx) are just awful, more often than not. Usually some inscrutable thing involving Send/Sync. Or some hilariously c
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I removed the Pocket button from the toolbar with 2 clicks when I setup Firefox a couple months ago and haven't thought about it since. It takes me about 5 minutes to change the Firefox settings to my liking from a fresh install. Firef
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Yeah, Firefox is quite good. It's fast and gets good battery life. It has the occasional bug, but so does Chromium, with any nontrivial usage. I wish Mozilla would focus on Firefox and on their messaging/what their users want (I d
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Brave Web Discovery Project Overview(github.com)
2 points by gr_norm 3y ago|2 comments