klardotsh

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by klardotsh 11mo ago
It really isn’t, and especially not when one of the browser’s unique selling points is its multi-browser extension compatibility that no other browser offers. Also some of us simply don’t want to learn new UIs and/or risk dealing with
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by klardotsh 11mo ago
Aside from game dev, Rust is being used in quite a lot of green field work where C++ would have otherwise been used. Game dev world still has tons of C++, but also plenty of C#, I guess. Agreed that it’s not really behind us though. Even if
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by klardotsh 11mo ago
Teams is one of the only exceptions I can think of to my "blame the system, not the developer" rule with regards to corporate software. No, in Teams' case, they somehow managed to take a trivial problem that was solved quite
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by klardotsh 11mo ago
What? I’ve been active frequently on Mastodon since 2018 and I have no idea who or what you’re talking about. A link would be helpful rather than playing the “oh you know who…” game.
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by klardotsh 1y ago
I don’t know the “correct” answer, but here’s my answer as someone whose TOTP are split across a YubiKey and Bitwarden: I store TOTP in Bitwarden when the 2FA is required and I just want it to shut up. My Vault is already secured with a pas
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by klardotsh 1y ago
Yes. “Socials” has been functionally interchangeable, especially in written form, for probably 2+ years now, in my experience.
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by klardotsh 1y ago
* what they changed it to is worse _for you_ Some of us hated that floating overlay with a passion and wish it only the best riddance on its way out the door.
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by klardotsh 1y ago
This is yet another example of why open bootloaders to allow alternative firmwares for all gadgets must become legally required. Stuff turning into eWaste (or at least losing what some folks would likely call major functionality) because th
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by klardotsh 1y ago
Washington State having full vote-by-mail (there is technically a layer of in-person voting as a fallback for those who need it for accessibility reasons or who missed the registration deadline) has spoiled me rotten, I couldn't imagin
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by klardotsh 1y ago
To me that sounds more like a good endorsement for having a guy legally authorized to use force against you standing guard. Any old padlock is probably safe when a uniformed agent of the state with weapons of varying lethality is standing n
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by klardotsh 1y ago
Two of my deGoogled Android phones were Pixels (4a and 7a) and one was a Nexus (6p). I know them well, though I never ran Graphene on them. Pretty sure I read Google was no longer going to publish device tree sources for Pixel phones, which
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by klardotsh 1y ago
That’s possible on very few phones these days. Only a handful of OEMs still ship phones that can be bootloader unlocked at all (at least in the US), and even several of THOSE require phoning home to the OEM to get an IMEI-dependent unlock k
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by klardotsh 1y ago
And yet some of us never asked for that. I didn't ask to come to a page and have a conversation about the data on it, I came to the page to read whatever that data was. I didn't ask to come to a page and have a conversation about
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by klardotsh 1y ago
I find this tends to stem from libraries refusing to declare 1.0 for fear it would lock them into bad decisions, not from being unstable. Chrono is a great example: v0.4 for EIGHT YEARS while they make sure the design and APIs are worthy of
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by klardotsh 1y ago
That's one heck of an extrapolation from one incident, or even one project, in a language that has been post-1.0 for a decade and has a wide variety of users with a wide variety of update/upgrade preferences and subcultures.
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by klardotsh 1y ago
This feels like the same question as in consumer goods: "do I buy this thing now, or do I wait for the potential refresh in 6mo to see if it's better?" Just get the thing you need now, there's no promise the grass is get
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by klardotsh 1y ago
Human trust has to be earned, why should AI trust be any different? If I’m supposed to yolo-approve any random code a machine spits out, it had better prove to me it’s nearly flawless, otherwise I’m applying the same review regiment I apply
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by klardotsh 1y ago
You're probably right, DDG and Kagi have been returning significantly better results for technical queries for many years now.
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by klardotsh 1y ago
What a terrible world we're barrelling towards when "LLMs don't know about it" is considered a blocker towards something taking off. Read a blog post, read a man page (which GP says was indeed their solution), or just pl
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by klardotsh 1y ago
Which would be less of a problem if the window manager and desktop environment weren’t some of the absolute worst parts of the entire OS.
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by klardotsh 1y ago
I don't have kids and I'm still more on team 2x/yr than 4x/yr by a large margin, but I'll still take 4x/yr for ~3 days each over in-office daily (or even twice a week). Mentioned it mostly as a compromise optio
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by klardotsh 1y ago
I’ve worked in plenty of startups (the overwhelming majority of my career, actually) and did not perceive the performance of in-office teams to be significantly better than the remote teams I’ve been on. The floor is probably lower for remo
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by klardotsh 1y ago
Yep, 2-4x onsites together a year to develop human relationships, and otherwise 100% remote, is by far the most effective team arrangement IME. It is especially the most accessible format for people who do not necessarily perform their best
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by klardotsh 1y ago
The office or otherwise mandatory frequent in person work sessions bit seems pretty at odds with the underlying idea that you’re a team focused on actually delivering and building with deep focus. What does commuting a half hour, hour, or m
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by klardotsh 1y ago
Optional error checking based on a second return value is just asking for footgunnery, Go made this same (IMO) mistake.
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by klardotsh 1y ago
Thanks for disclosing your use of GenAI, that kind of transparency is nice to see up front. On that note though, I took a random example (`calc.rs`) and noticed there was no unit or integration testing validating the parsers or etc. did wha
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by klardotsh 1y ago
If you can remember all of that off the top of your head and find it ergonomic to type out, then sure. But much like how I prefer someone else to do my content syncing as an ergonomic appliance rather than using FTP + curlftpfs + a VCS [1],
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by klardotsh 1y ago
Alaska is beautiful, but the polar opposite (no pun intended) of where someone should be looking for LCOL. Alaska is outrageously expensive for myriad reasons, and it is also not exempt from the nationwide housing crisis / greed crisis
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by klardotsh 1y ago
Yep. Even worse, the problem is recursive: a town I lived in for a while growing up, Vandalia, Ohio (a suburb of Dayton, itself not exactly a booming metropolis in this millennium, but I digress) was settled by westward migrants aiming for
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by klardotsh 1y ago
This 12GB update managed to trigger the bizarre Steam behavior on my Linux desktop where the game patching process pegs all cores to 100% and thrashes the disk so hard the system eventually stops allowing eg. launching new processes (though

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