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by kccqzy 2mo ago
This article is so badly written that I cannot tell whether its main point is homogenization or land use. Perhaps the author is just conflating the two intentionally. Take this sentence from the article about how a strip mall with a grocery
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
I still use memory but I constantly prune and delete obsolete or incorrect memories.
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
No. You can look at the recent Hudson Yards development. Largely owned by two companies, Related and Oxford Properties, the development is quite pleasant. The point is the city needs to be friendly to mixed-use development, not that big cor
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
The article spends a lot of time describing problems that I would see as a result of car centricity and land use patterns, but it just fails to make a point on why it’s a problem caused by REITs. You can easily go to NYC and find entire nei
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
Old newspapers have overly narrow columns that make both full justification and hyphenation ugly. I don’t think we should be looking at 100-year old newspapers for inspiration. Maybe look at them and see how far we’ve come and how much impr
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
Having any kind of threshold now makes your idea too complicated to implement, and more importantly, too complicated for mere mortals to understand.
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
It is quite quantifiable in fact, but I just worry people won’t take the time to quantify it. I do this exercise myself for code that I really care about: after AI has written the code and I think I have achieved a full understanding, I una
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
AI data centers need electricity, which can be from renewable sources and non-renewable sources, and the exact mix can change from day to day as well as long after these data centers are constructed. The electricity grid is decarbonizing at
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
There’s a big difference between AI generated code that the human understands completely, the human understands mostly, or the human understands not at all.
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
A few people certainly refused to use AI at all, but several actually used AI for programming and agreed it was useful, but stopped due to being conscious of the environmental footprint. (That’s very similar to the last proposal in this Deb
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
This indicates you might be in a bubble. I interact with people with a very wide range of opinions on AI and I’m not surprised by any of the proposals here.
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
A technical person might think this TV uses HDMI vendor extensions and so a driver would help.
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
That seems very wrong and unintuitive for U-turns.
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
You can do FROM scratch, and use still glibc; it’s just that you need to copy more than one file. I don’t really understand if you are already dealing with images why you still need the image to contain a single file.
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
The philosophy was that anything visible in a context menu should also be in the app-wide menu bar. Instead of bring up a context menu and click Copy, you would find the Copy menu item in the menu bar. Therefore such menu items can be assig
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
That’s the old school of thought. These days, designers of newer serialization formats realize that designing a more compact format doesn’t really buy much on modern CPUs and modern networks. See for example Cap’n Proto (whose inventor, ken
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
It probably depends on the background and the company. For example if one works at a startup that happens to use technology, it’s unlikely to happen because SWEs just translate business rules to code. But if one works at the place where the
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
> for most tasks The word “most” is doing a lot of work here. On a percentage basis perhaps most tasks a typical SWE needs to do when they aren’t in meetings or writing docs are just glorified autocomplete. But that’s boring and that’s w
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
What? Ctrl/Shift Insert is supported basically everywhere in Windows, from the lowly Notepad to the behemoth that’s Microsoft Word. Browsers support it. Terminals support it. On Linux all Linux apps I’ve tried support it. Even Emacs wh
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
Right. And if a person knows they are shooting at 24fps they will take greater care to ensure they won’t pan too quickly. Panning too quickly is just bad video, whichever fps you choose.
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
I’m the opposite. I take videos with 24fps, the standard for film. Lower frame rate gives me that film-like look which suggests sophistication, but 60fps feels like unedited screen grab or raw footage from a camcorder. I can’t explain it: i
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
Doesn’t matter. When companies pay for support contracts they don’t care whether the code is GPL or MIT. They care about the support they get.
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
They are probably talking about streaming to an audience (upload speed).
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
Red Hat grew on GPL licensed projects to become a $34 billion business. Canonical does the same except it’s Ubuntu not RHEL and charges more than Red Hat. You really underestimate the value of support contracts.
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
Where is the full compile log? The UI seems to provide a very abbreviated log that’s clearly not full.
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
Interesting. I usually use pandoc for converting my Markdown, which goes via LaTeX. Is there a specific reason you picked ConTeXt?
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
Yeah and I would say that another important factor is Cython, which compiles Python with minimal modifications to C extensions that can in turn be imported in Python. It really makes it easy to get started in Python and worry about performa
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
Ooh. That worked. Thanks.
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
I copy-pasted a random LaTeX doc from many years ago (I made sure I wrote it before 2020 so it did not use any new features not in TeX Live 2020), and upon compilation I got the error Font OT1/cmr/m/n/10.95=cmr10 a
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by kccqzy 2mo ago
Does this work on Firefox or Safari? You say “Firefox or Safari fall back to a virtual filesystem” but somehow I can’t get this fallback to work. When I click New Project I just get a reminder to use Chrome or Edge. Is there a button to pre

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