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by gtirloni 2y ago
Maybe gigantic monocultures have something to do with the insect decline? I love watching the ocasional Surinamese cockroach in my garden. Even issued warnings to anyone thinking about killing them. But it's such a small scale that I
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by gtirloni 2y ago
The problem is that going from assembly to advanced compilers still produced the same output every time with variations based on you selecting them from a limited pool of options. With LLMs, statistics play a much more important role so you
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by gtirloni 2y ago
Exactly. Your comment summarizes the situation perfectly.
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by gtirloni 2y ago
If you need Copilot to code in Python, have you really learned Python?
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by gtirloni 2y ago
I thought this had to be an April Fools' Day joke but upon checking the source, it shows the page was last modified on 2023-11-14. It's even more hilarious (in a sad way).
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by gtirloni 2y ago
> investors I don't see anything but this. Similar to startups hiring just to appear big to investors.
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by gtirloni 2y ago
> Ansible playbooks are usually a list of steps to execute in order (imperative) You can't be declarative all the way down because reality is not declarative. You can have all modules being declarative but if you need orchestratio
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by gtirloni 2y ago
ansible-core succeeds pretty well in being both. ansible modules (built-in and community) are a different matter. generally, quality will vary.
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by gtirloni 3y ago
People also will pay a premium to some local craftsperson who makes artisanal stuff I won't, unless it's for the art aspect of it or to help a specific developer/artist that I want to see succeed. But by default, I'll
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by gtirloni 3y ago
Search for Flatpaks.
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by gtirloni 3y ago
If 2ft from a 40" monitor is fine for your neck, again, glad it works for you. But ergonomics is about avoiding strain and injuries not the minimum your retina needs to distinguish letters on a screen.
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by gtirloni 3y ago
Many places you can search for but whatever works for you. One quick example: https://www.dell.com/en-us/lp/best-monitor-size-for-gaming
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by gtirloni 3y ago
Ergonomics suggests most people should sit almost 2 meters away from a 40+ monitors. Not many people have desks with that depth so manufacturers probably don't sell a lot of these units (this lower availability).
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by gtirloni 3y ago
Perfect timing for a HN submission about Rust game dev. /s
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by gtirloni 3y ago
> First of all, git does not preserve timestamps, which causes irreversible damage > the misguided use of git not only made some comment lines too long for MASM, but it also actively destroyed the original source code. Nothing was
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by gtirloni 3y ago
The needs of AI/HPC at the chip level weren't clear to me. Thanks for the insightful answer.
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by gtirloni 3y ago
> This technology is tailored specifically for AI and HPC processors that tend to have both complex signal wiring and dense power delivery networks Uh?
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by gtirloni 3y ago
DB snapshots
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by gtirloni 3y ago
> Electron 30.0.0 has been released! It includes upgrades to Chromium 124.0.6367.49 Chromium 124 broke support for Wayland. I've had to downgrade to 123 to get it working again. Does it mean all apps upgrading to Electron 30 will
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by gtirloni 3y ago
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40087369 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40090341 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38764427 https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by gtirloni 3y ago
Please consider some people might not enjoy working in that arrangement. You can try to convince them by showing concrete benefits (for them or the company). Some people won't have the personality for that or be neurodivergent enough t
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by gtirloni 3y ago
This has recently been working for me: https://github.com/gtirloni/internet-serenity-now/blob/main/...
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by gtirloni 3y ago
The limits of text communication, right? A wink or other gesture or knowledge of this person's previous jokes would let a human to easily identify it as a joke or not. Netiquette would be to add "/s" or an emoji to add m
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by gtirloni 3y ago
*from ISS I don't think we're paying to send junk to the ISS yet.
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by gtirloni 3y ago
Context?
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by gtirloni 3y ago
I'd expect people working in a organization focused on preserving or promoting vintage stuff to be the most enthusiastic about that material and handle it with great care. My mom couldn't care less about computers and she called m
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by gtirloni 3y ago
The lower you go in the stack, the uglier it gets.
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by gtirloni 3y ago
If I were 90yo with health issues, I wouldn't.
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by gtirloni 3y ago
Your mention of police will derail the conversation. I guess you could say family or social worker and people wouldn't be so against it. I think internet usage is a good signal these days. A smartwatch could be as effective.
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by gtirloni 3y ago
Out of curiosity, which browser are you using?

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