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by jlarocco 2y ago
I’m sure some UX idiot at Microsoft will be along to “fix” them any time now.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
> Not cast to just a concrete type, but to an interface. Literally duck typing. That's not duck typing, though. It's similar but not the same. With duck typing there isn't an interface to cast to, but the runtime object h
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by jlarocco 2y ago
How worried are you that it's giving you bad advice? There are plenty of, "Just disable certificate checking" type answers on Stack Overflow, but there are also a lot of comments calling them out. How do you fact check the A
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by jlarocco 2y ago
"This is what happens when apps are developed by engineers who don’t have a strong knowledge of customers" I'd replace "engineers" with "product owners". I'm sure the engineers at Microsoft know some
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I'm surprised, but not too surprised. I read somewhere that there can be over 10 billion virus particles in a liter of sea water. There's no way we know everything in there. It's easier to see and count larger things, but w
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by jlarocco 2y ago
There's a slippery slope there. Is a Word document a program? Is a PNG file? A computer program is a data structure, but data structures are not necessarily computer programs.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Unless the toaster's plugged in (and I don't see how it could be) AND as long as it dries completely, then it's probably fine. <goes to skim the article> Yeah, sounds about right.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Why is there even a Patreon app? Should've sent people to the website. You bought into the platform, so you have to pay by their rules.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I knew it was going to go down hill when they killed off 3rd party clients.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I'm surprised they're not using ChatGPT by now.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I'm not so sure. Google already had a reputation for slurping up user data, even in 2008 before they bought DoubleClick. It's a no brainer that a targetted advertising company can target ads better if they have as much informatio
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Yeah, the over defensiveness really does make sense here, I think. Most people won't use enough for this to be a problem, but no doubt it'll be used to push prohibition. Meanwhile, alcohol and tobacco are at least as bad, but no
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Honestly, I just don't think it bothers people much. When I need a specific version of a library, I clone it to my local projects directory and checkout the version I need. Problem solved. Quicklisp is just downloading a snapshot of
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by jlarocco 2y ago
IMO that's the big question AI companies need to answer. If I can get a movie summary from a real intelligence for free online, why would I bother with an AI generated summary?
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Maybe, but not always. My company keeps a req open on the off chance somebody in the domain (CAD data translation) will see it and apply. It's a small enough niche that if somebody with the right skillset comes along we'd like a
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I thought so, too. I'm not interested enough to benchmark it, but for all practical purposes it's instantaneous on my machine. As fast to open a new terminal as it is to switch to the existing one.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
The "Allow Apps from Anywhere" setting, amongst others. Linux works better for me, anyway.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
It's ridiculous that you would claim this isn't a problem. I'm typing this on a 12 year old MacBook Pro running Debian whose hardware perfectly fine, but hasn't been supported by Apple in years. FWIW, Debian supports it
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I stopped using it a few years ago, but IMO it was definitely being dumbed down and not respecting users any more. Things like upgrades reseting settings that I went out of the way to change - Apple has a "we know better than you&quot
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Wow, that mouse pointer effect is obnoxious.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I don't like the Oracle influence either, but the free version still works well enough for my personal use - playing old Windows games a few times a year and occassionally trying out different Linux distros or BSDs - that I haven'
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by jlarocco 2y ago
There aren't many "innocent" countries out there. In your opinion we should all focus our energy on shunning and hating each other because of it?
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by jlarocco 2y ago
There is a Debian package for "iwd".
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by jlarocco 2y ago
> The chances that your distro ships with network manager are multiple orders of magnitude higher than it shipping with iwd though… I don't think iwd is the default anywhere? It doesn't matter what the default is, though. Some
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by jlarocco 2y ago
You can always use a library or roll your own.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Not everybody has a Google account.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Because they're fugitives on the run, and the airport is the place to go to run away quickly.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
That kind of misrepresents the situation because our social and economic systems screw over the employees whose jobs are automated away. Initially there's the same amount of work, but if they don't find something else to do, the
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by jlarocco 2y ago
Sure. It doesn't change anything, though. NASA's doing what they're told, and Congress is doing what we asked them to.
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by jlarocco 2y ago
I think the point being made is that NASA is wasteful because the people in charge (Congress) told them to be wasteful.

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