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by jlarocco 9mo ago
Sorry to be a wet blanket, but Magit for Emacs already has a convenient UI for reviewing diffs (as well as viewing status, logs, rebasing, etc.), so I don't know if I personally would use this tool from Emacs. But it wouldn't hurt
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
I think use cases like that will be where "AI" has the biggest wins. That's a task that I could automate as a developer, but other than LLM "vibe coding", I don't know that there's a good way for a lay per
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
That raises the question of why not just use Signal and avoid a company whose founder thinks we're all "dumbfucks" and has a long history of scandals and privacy violations? The evidence is pretty clear that Facebook wants to
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
You don't have to remove other WMs to try a new one. Most login managers will let you choose at login.
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
I dont' follow. The argument is that browsers can't respect a user's text size settings because LinkedIn has a terrible design that limits it to using less than 1/3 of the available screen space. Just one more reason I
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
Not to crap on this project too much, but this, and most of the other small CAD projects that get posted here, always have a condescending, "Look how easy I've made this" vibe to them, and then they're always light years
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
> I don't understand this model. Such significant layoffs would indicate that there is no real appetite for expansion or growth. To play devil's advocate, maybe there's a point where a product or service needs to stop evol
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
I wonder if there needs to be a single reserve currency any more. In the past it made things easier for everybody to use the same currency, but is that still the case with modern electronic transactions? Maybe it splinters into Euro, BRICS,
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
It definitely has knock on impacts. Most directly, when foreign products become more expensive, people may choose a local product that was previously seen as too expensive. So it generally has a negative effect on the foreign economy and b
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
It's circular logic. The market is "AI everything" because they (and Google, OpenAI, and Facebook) are shoving it down people's throats so they can desperately try to recoup their investment in GPUs.
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
Sadly one of those countries is the United States. Here in Colorado they've started pre-emptively shutting off power during wind storms when it's hot and dry because there have been multiple instances of wind blowing down power li
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
It looks like the final images have some kind of vignetting to make the corners and outter edges fade away. Probably grabbing OSM tiles and doing some image processing. Looks neat!
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
Split hairs if you want, but some people will be manipulated into blowing a ton of money once AI starts pushing products. Just wait till they teams up with sports betting companies. On a side note, researching this a little just now, the L
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
There's a whole design niche dedicated to making that label as subtle and hard to see as possible. And I'm skeptical ads will remain outside of the ChatGPT output for very long. You can hide a div tag, but you can't hide an
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
If it can talk people into suicide [0] then surely it can talk them into buying stuff. https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/us/openai-chatgpt-suicide-law...
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OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT in bid to boost revenue(reuters.com)
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
A previous CTO at my company would do this and it always weirded me out. Standing at the urinal, and suddenly hear him talking to a customer over in the stall. Very strange and uncomfortable. I won't lie, though, I secretly enjoyed t
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
The VC funding model is broken in general - it's not only bad for open source projects, it's bad for most projects. Modern expectations that a VC pumps in millions (or billions) of dollars and then extracts 10s of billions a few y
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
Why not? I strongly prefer Linux, but if somebody wants to use Windows, why not use XP? It was definitely a better user experience. I stopped using Windows at work as Win7 was rolling out but got another job using it again as Win11 star
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
This isn't really news. Apple has to pay market price like everybody else. NVidia gets the capacity because they're willing to pay more. If Apple wants to, they can pay more to get it back.
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
The data center builders are hesitant, too. https://youtu.be/K86KWa71aOc?t=483
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
But a lot of the people who buy trucks for image want the image of somebody who's going out towing, carrying a bunch of stuff, and doing "truck things". They don't fit the image if they drive an e-truck because e-trucks
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
But a lot of people buy trucks so they can tow and carry stuff when they need to, not because they're doing it all the time. Downvote all you want, the sales numbers speak for themselves.
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
Honestly, both the Lightning and the Cybertruck are just bad trucks. Some review of the Lightning I read said it has less than a 100 mile range towing a full load. It's a fashion statement, not a work vehicle.
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
Orion is using WebKit. Chromium itself was a fork of WebKit. I don't know how much Chromium code gets upstreamed to WebKit any more, but Google certainly doesn't control it the way they do Chromium. WebKit development is mainly
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
I've noticed a similar trend. There seems to be a lot of babysitting and hand holding involved with vibe-coding. Maybe it can be a game changer for "non-technical founders" stumbling their way through to a product, but if y
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
It's crazy that people on a tech forum get confused by a basic website. All of those questions can be easily answered with fewer clicks and far less typing than it took to whine about it.
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
That limitation is only on iOs, though.
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
FF and Chromium are controlled by the biggest advertising company on the internet, while Orion is developed by a privacy focused search engine.

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