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by jclulow 1y ago
I don't use either Go or LLMs, but isn't the point of LLMs that they write the tedious boilerplate for you? What's the value in a small syntactic improvement if the computer is generating it all anyway?
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by jclulow 1y ago
Yeah I agree with the positive part of the thesis; i.e., that it's alright to like things, and it's alright to pick things in part because you are a feeling sentient person and you should have nice things. I think the corollary th
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by jclulow 1y ago
tar streams don't have an index at all, actually, they're just a series of header blocks and data blocks. Some backup software built on top may include a catalog of some kind inside the tar stream itself, of course, and may choos
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by jclulow 1y ago
Yes, LLM-era scrapers are frequently making use of large numbers of IP addresses from all over the place. Some of them seem to be bot nets, but based on IP subnet ownership it seems also pretty frequently to be cloud companies, many of the
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by jclulow 1y ago
Right, this is the bedrock upon which injunctive relief is made available; viz., when money after the fact would not cancel out the damages caused by a party doing the wrong thing. Unfortunately you can't get that relief without hav
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by jclulow 1y ago
I think in many respects these problems are actually _under_-engineering. It's possible to treat software as an artefact with a measurable level of quality, and to use frankly not especially ambitious tools (programming languages with
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by jclulow 1y ago
Generally it creates comparatively few of those new jobs, and they are concentrated in a different geographic location, than the substantially more vast economic violence of destroying an industry.
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by jclulow 1y ago
Depends on which manual you read; e.g., it's documented in https://illumos.org/man/1/head
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by jclulow 1y ago
They are a large and wealthy corporation, with a lot of proprietary software and service products. It may appear, at times, that their interests align with the interests of end users or open source contributors, but that is at best a fleet
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by jclulow 1y ago
Isn't this the same person who literally pays kids not to go to University?
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by jclulow 2y ago
> Canada does the opposite of America even if it hurts Canada - it’s a part of its identity. As a duel citizen of the US and another Commonwealth nation, I have to say that this is exactly the ridiculous self-caricature perspective that
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by jclulow 2y ago
> But such behaviour is still unacceptable from a library perspective: a library should never, ever call abort or otherwise terminate the program. It's true that libraries should not abort for a regular, foreseeable error . I fund
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by jclulow 2y ago
"When I was a child, researching a new topic meant walking to the local library with a list of subjects, an effort that could consume half a day. Back then, knowledge wasn’t cheap or easily accessible." It was literally a free lib
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by jclulow 2y ago
Yeah, you don't have to put up with all the shade cast on someone who "just needs a technical co-founder". So negative. Just keep "re-rolling" long enough, and you can hire a lowly first employee instead and have
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by jclulow 2y ago
The point is generally to recover cents on the dollar from money you can't otherwise use. Imagine you have a network of people moving illegal drugs. They collect money from their customers, and they need to pay it to you, the supplie
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by jclulow 2y ago
The thing is, dynamic linking doesn't mean using LD_LIBRARY_PATH or building full blown OS packages as the only way to find the correct libraries. There's a first class facility for locating shared libraries, using the -R flag to
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by jclulow 2y ago
I would think there'd be a lot of utility in not blocking smoke alarm sounds, for example. The screeching from distressed infants can similarly be both very loud and very high pitched.
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by jclulow 2y ago
I have to say, as an Australian, your reaction is making me want to use the spelling more often. We're generally culturally averse to people taking themselves too seriously!
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by jclulow 2y ago
Geeze, Louise! Did a Koala mercilessly bully you while you were there, mate?
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by jclulow 2y ago
Since at least the introduction of the DeWitt clause, if not earlier!
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by jclulow 2y ago
They're an absolutely staggeringly immense company and they fight tooth and nail to preserve their rent seeking and premium margins. Nobody owes them a positive interpretation of apparently poor behaviour, especially not when discover
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by jclulow 2y ago
As an aside: Solaris is something you can buy from Oracle, which they forked from OpenSolaris 15 years ago. SmartOS is a distribution of illumos, which also forked from the same code 15 years ago. They have since diverged, in some areas d
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by jclulow 2y ago
NB: the author's pronouns are they/she, not he.
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by jclulow 2y ago
You should try other things that force the brain to begin interpreting something again as new input; e.g., I have found success with changing the font, or the colour scheme, or looking at a diff rendition of a change, or looking at the file
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by jclulow 2y ago
If the system was willing to link to the sources from which it obtained particular information, it would be too easy to hold them accountable for having stolen a bunch of content from people who didn't opt in!
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by jclulow 2y ago
I feel like it's actually alright for people to like what they like and care about what they care about, and that it is entirely separate from the struggle between art and commerce and the perils of capitalism and corporate malfeasance
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by jclulow 2y ago
Care should always be taken when using an SSH client to connect to untrusted hosts. Make sure you’re not actually forwarding your SSH agent to the remote host, or they’ll be able to hijack your keys. Consider also that any output is process
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by jclulow 2y ago
Kids being forced to start school in basically the middle of the night is another especially American phenomenon that requires a separate solution, I feel.
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by jclulow 2y ago
I'm glad that works for you! The challenge with executive function issues is that it can be literally impossible to reliably do things like that in advance! Especially months and months in advance. It's also a challenge to dela
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by jclulow 2y ago
Speaking from personal experience: people with ADHD, who don't have their shit together but desperately want to avoid disappointing the people they care about. People who then get hoodwinked by the bald faced lies everybody from Amazo

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