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by isityettime 2mo ago
I've been using compose keys on desktop operating systems and the default keyboard on Android to write em-dashes for 10 years. I also use LLMs every workday, but I have never once used one to write, review, or edit prose because my voi
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by isityettime 2mo ago
I've also noticed this but it sounds kind of infantile to me. It's a common pronunciation that a lot of children make seemingly by mistake and then eventually stop doing. When adults do this it sounds wrong, but I admit I have hea
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by isityettime 2mo ago
Most Americans don't pronounce the "h" in "herb" or "herbal" afaict. We do usually pronounce it in people's names though, like "Herb".
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by isityettime 2mo ago
It seems to me like the more intellectually honest characterization of things like hiring quotas and admissions quotas is "discrimination in the interest of the good" or "compensatory discrimination" rather than "th
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by isityettime 2mo ago
> They seem to be very unhappy about Japan building up its war fighting capacity. Maybe because of Japan's history of horrific war crimes and occupation in China? You know, the actual imperial conquest for which their constitution p
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by isityettime 2mo ago
I've never worked somewhere that had a Salesforce integration which wasn't an eternal disaster. Have you? Why is every company's Salesforce team absolute bottom of the barrel developers with super high churn, no responsibilit
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by isityettime 2mo ago
It's a weird situation in that the standards for mobile devices like cell phones and tablets are on the floor compared to those for PCs, so Apple's same 6-year cutoff feels respectable for smartphones but miserly for laptops.
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by isityettime 2mo ago
Breadth of support and retention of historical support are also priorities that differ between other software distributions, especially free operating systems. See Debian vs. Ubuntu, or NetBSD vs. DragonflyBSD. Some software distributions e
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by isityettime 2mo ago
I use basically every general-purpose package manager available on macOS simultaneously in a kind of tiered hierarchy of preference. Homebrew's best differentiated strength imo is the whole Cask subsystem, which basically automates GUI
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by isityettime 2mo ago
That hardly happens on desktop/laptop Linux. Seems like a proprietary OS problem tbh.
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by isityettime 2mo ago
Sure you can. You could use an LLM to write a prototype or test cases, satisfy yourself that it works, then reimplement it by examining the generated code and deciding on your own implementation, and typing it out. You'd have to replac
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by isityettime 2mo ago
It's not actually difficult to see how this works. "Piracy" means "doing stuff some particular IP rightsholders (or sometimes, upstream/downstream stakeholders) don't like". The fact that a behavior is &qu
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by isityettime 2mo ago
How about just learning to use `git add` correctly? Are you so committed to just slamming `git add -A` all the time? It's not hard to have uncommitted files sitting in your working tree without messing with .gitignore at all.
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by isityettime 2mo ago
> But they DO have credibility in the sense that there's a long history of people following this advice and feeling a little better. There's also long histories of people following folk medicine advice and being hurt by it. And
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by isityettime 2mo ago
This is one of the things that makes the contemporary Chinese treatment of TCM as credible so jarring to me. Many people seem to regard it as some unique inheritance of their culture, but in fact it closely resembles many other pre-scientif
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by isityettime 2mo ago
PowerShell unfortunately just isn't that first-class, even on Windows. You'll inevitably discover, if you do this, that certain things simply can't be automated via PowerShell, that some PowerShell modules wrap or lag behind
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by isityettime 2mo ago
Yes, although it's buried among a huge number of other shortcuts now, and not particularly easy to search for.
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by isityettime 2mo ago
The new app is an unbelievable mess. Settings are senselessly organized, too. The whole thing has this aesthetic slickness and then underneath it's like the people who make it have never even used it. It's not surprising that it&#
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by isityettime 2mo ago
IME it's not too bad, but I see what you're saying. I guess we're mostly in agreement.
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by isityettime 2mo ago
Windows does have a native sandboxing API that Docker is capable of using IIRC, but nobody uses it. The macOS situation is even worse in that the kernel lacks the requisite capabilities.
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by isityettime 2mo ago
Rootless Podman (and rootless Docker for that matter) is not difficult to set up automatically. There is a little complexity involved, namely in configuring subuid and subgid mappings, but not much. That said, I think Arch Linux itself has
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by isityettime 2mo ago
> Palestine Action has been designated a terrorist group in the UK as well after sabotaging military aircraft (the article says they sprayed paint, but does not say it was sprayed inside jet engines, rendering them inoperable). That pret
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by isityettime 2mo ago
The US sanctions the PKK because we're obliged to do so by our NATO ally Turkey, which gave rise to the PKK by carrying out a genocide against its local Kurdish population. Meanwhile the SDF, the armed wing of the PYD, follows the same
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by isityettime 3mo ago
The other advantage here is that it's really easy to tell at a glance if one of these "shortened" links authentically points to a real government website; just answer: does it start with nyc.gov? That's a really good thi
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by isityettime 3mo ago
GitHub Actions is really, really badly designed. The security model is fundamentally broken, the YAML hell is as bad as any, the log streaming lags like hell, they charge self-hosted runners for using their coordination plane, jobs queuing
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by isityettime 3mo ago
> That sort of system cannot exist in harmony with other systems for any extended length of time When you mark the scoresheet according to actual number of invasions, our capitalist liberal democracy has performed much worse than their m
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by isityettime 3mo ago
I imagine for some end users a lot of this stuff is happily invisible, just like you say. But for me, a few kinds of changes have been highly visible as a user: - basically all filesystem changes, especially the mainstreaming of copy-on
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by isityettime 3mo ago
You sure it isn't a euphemism for "heart attack"?
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by isityettime 3mo ago
That was a different situation, more like "agile". DevOps actually meant something once. There was a real idea there. But a lot of companies wanted "in" on it without actually doing it. So the meaning of the name was per
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by isityettime 3mo ago
True. But it's also an illustration of how relying on an OS' native sandboxing capabilities is nicely composable with other isolation techniques.

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