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by k__ 7mo ago
I usually avoid strangers, because those who talk to you are usually weirdos. Thing is, if normal people don't talk to strangers anymore, then only the weirdos are left, reinforcing the idea that only weirdos talk to strangers...
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by k__ 7mo ago
Yeah, GUI code, for example is notoriously chatty. Forms, charts, etc. AI makes using them a breeze.
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by k__ 8mo ago
Yeah, Hyperion had an interesting structure, but the second book was quite basic compared to that. If The Fall of Hyperion were 1/3 of the length and part of the first book it would be perfect.
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by k__ 8mo ago
The first too books aged well.
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by k__ 8mo ago
Pro: Interesting world building, Canterbury Tales in space, Huckleberry Finn in space, strong female characters. Con: Pro Judaism and Christianity (albeit with much criticism to both) and anti Islam, awkward sex scenes, awkward Lolita-esque
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by k__ 8mo ago
lol, that was exactly my thought. The whole birth of an virtual identity part is so dense, I didn't understand half of what was "explained". However, after that it becomes a much easier read. Not much additional explanation,
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by k__ 8mo ago
If content with that license reaches critical mass, a law firm could sue for many at once.
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by k__ 8mo ago
If you liked that story, you might also like Greg Egan's "Permutation City" and "Diaspora". Both having slightly different takes on uploading.
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by k__ 8mo ago
Those programs make economic sense if the successful artists later pay for it with their taxes. If they leave the country, then not so much.
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by k__ 8mo ago
Yeah, I read a zine the other day, where a sociologist warned that the biggest threat isn't that AI destroys jobs, it's that AI is compacting the work per person. Employers expect more from each employee, because, well, AI is help
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by k__ 8mo ago
Yeah, but I studied with a bunch of guys who said they'd go into IT, because they hated coding.
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by k__ 8mo ago
Some people mentioned to me that going Solutions Engineer was a good way to get more non-technical/business skills. I saw a few SEs starting their own companies later, seemingly because their SE roles "trained" them for the b
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by k__ 8mo ago
Yeah. In most companies, IT people just started coding and called it DevOps. Still better than IT folks who refuse to code.
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by k__ 8mo ago
Anti-copyright usually means, anti big corps who hold culture hostage.
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by k__ 8mo ago
Yeah, in some countries private stuff isn't illegal at all.
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by k__ 8mo ago
Anthropic bought Bun and it's creator relentlessly optimizes Claude Code now. So, there seems to be light.
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by k__ 8mo ago
Copilot isn't a model, you can use Claude via Copilot.
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by k__ 8mo ago
It's sluggish in GitHub Codespaces, as it has so many animations.
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by k__ 8mo ago
"How does Poland manage to be industrially active and growing?" Fear of Russia would be my guess.
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by k__ 8mo ago
Yeah. Zero knowledge proof and you're good to go.
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by k__ 8mo ago
I used both Guix and Nix and found both their languages okay for the use-case. Nix was slightly better, since it's easier to format automatically than Lisp.
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by k__ 8mo ago
How do you deploy NixOS to your servers? I started a project with nixos-anywhere, deploy-rs, and compose2nix. However, I struggle a bit with secret management.
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by k__ 9mo ago
I switched to Arch last Summer and I'm quite happy. Even Steam games work, I was quite impressed.
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by k__ 9mo ago
Right now, I'm using a Gantt chart to manage my travels. Probably a bit overkill, since the locations only "overlap" one day max, but I like the clear spacing.
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by k__ 9mo ago
I mean, that was a decade ago and back in the day the only reasonable contenders were Angular and maaaaybe ExtJS.
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by k__ 9mo ago
Came to ask this. React and Vue aren't exactly known for their performance and Svelte does compile time optimizations.
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by k__ 9mo ago
Thanks! We cooperated with Radicle a few years ago, when they wer big in crypto. However, suddenly I saw posts here that were well received and noticed there wasn't any mention of $RAD on the radicle page anymore.
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by k__ 9mo ago
Is Radworks/$RAD still a thing?
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by k__ 9mo ago
I think it's funny that some languages, like TypeScript, use a different programming language to improve their compile times. Then there are languages like Rust who are like, whelp, we already use the fastest language, but compilation
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by k__ 9mo ago
I found Dilbert in 2013, when I was working in a dead end dev job in a small software company. Felt nice to see others seem to have the same issues. I quit that job and started freelancing. Not only because of those comics, but at least the

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