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If it's cheap enough, it'll be just like email spam - basically everywhere worth influencing in any way will be flooded. And it'll be much harder to filter than email. One possible solution would be to change basically any co
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That's basically the Western story of the devil, more relatably portrayed as Sauron during the second age, giving gifts and teaching people, all the while sprinkling the teachings with heretical thoughts until, many generations later,
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There are perfectly valid reasons to downvote AI answers, no matter the content: - Whoever submitted the question very likely doesn't understand the question well enough to answer it themselves, so any feedback is not going to get a re
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That's not suspicious, getting ~130 reputation in a day is not at all unusual.
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I'm wondering whether the @Troppen answers to [1] are AI-generated: - Posted from a new account 8 minutes after I posted the question. - Clippy-style "It looks like you're trying to […]" intro. - Zero formatting on the i
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I fully expect new sites¹ to become invite-only to avoid this sort of thing. If anyone is strongly suspected of degrading the quality of the site, they, and everyone they invited, are banned, and will have to get a new invite. ¹ Old sites
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Must be the first time I've agreed with every point in such a list. Is the company still in business though? Looks like the site is broken in several ways in both Firefox and Chromium.
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You're both right, but not all languages give you the choice. And a lot of types are implemented badly. For example as a subclass of a number class, so that `amountDollars + timeSeconds` and other nonsensical statements aren't err
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Do you need to `git config notes.rewriteRef refs/notes/commits`[1]? [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/14601464/96588
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Every "why" question on the Internet contains at least one wrong assumption. Here's yet another data point.
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Good article, but the "Bullshit Industry?" section doesn't fit with the rest. Adtech is pure evil as far as I'm concerned, but that is orthogonal to whether it's pointless. A pointless adtech job might be to add &
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At this point Web N is is basically just snappy advertising for a bundle of concepts which was useful precisely one time in history: Web 2.0. [This is the space where I'd love to write a long message about why it was important, why it
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Yeah, right now signal/noise for this statement is huge, because IMO at most 50% of people (likely much less, only the kind of people who are more used to graphs than mountains) who have a good grasp of English but have never heard t
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Is there some way to stage individual lines? I do this all the time, and `git gui` seems to be the only tool which does this in a sensible way (right-click a line or selection to stage/unstage it). `git add --patch` is far too much man
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IMO, since they're not suggesting anything better they are not helping. It's like telling people "just don't do that if it's causing problems". Well, what's the alternative? We still have this concept we n
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The "steep learning curve" entry is bizarre. Is it so difficult to envision that it's a straightforward analogue to real life? Climbing a steep mountain (that is, a steep slope or curve), if you manage (since a difficult trav
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Yep, it's the classic self-fulfilling prophecy. Even a lot of non-techies are aware that there are multiple browsers, and will just switch to whichever gets the job done. So if you're seeing less % of any specific browser than the
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Using your suggestion I ended up with the following for a Canon 7D: services.udev.extraRules = '' ACTION=="add", \ ATTR{idVendor}=="04a9", \ ATTR{idProduct}=="319a", \ ENV{SYSTEMD_
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WTF. 5/6 on Haskell despite having barely touched it 10+ years ago. Pretty descriptive signatures, although the function names could do with some clarification.
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Interesting! Got an account, but I wonder how you/we are going to pay for it. Even with just a few million bookmarks you're going to need a non-trivial DB setup, and (according to some napkin maths on my Pinboard account) ~2.5 MB
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Follow-up: Weirdly, it seems the backend for the archive feature is working fine - it's reporting what looks like a correct number of bookmarks, and says the backup is currently 51 GB, up from 30 GB when I last downloaded in July 2020.
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The archiving happens automatically; you shouldn't need to do anything except request an archive backup[1]. Unfortunately those requests are not honoured, and haven't been for a long time (my last successful backup was in July 202
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As a power user (21k bookmarks, 16k tags) I'm sorry to see Pinboard dying. I don't want any more features, but the killer feature introduced a few years, ago, archiving, is long dead: > You asked to download your archive on
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Is there a reasonably neutral comparison of Mathics vs Mathematica anywhere? Based on an amazing showcase[1] Mathematica is right at the top of my list of languages to learn if it (and at least some of the surrounding tooling) ever becomes
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I don't remember anything about artifacts; I just went to the web page and there were no further buttons to click to continue playing - I'd have to reset.
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I've played through UP twice. When it comes to time sinks, it's nowhere near the ultimate death spiral that is Kittens Game. To date it has taken me about 5 times as long as a UP playthrough (and 500+ lines of JS automation which
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Kittens Game – a Dark Souls of incremental gaming(kittensgame.com)
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> The time needed to verify that the result is exactly what I expected can take 15-20 mins. If the verification isn't automated, you're not running automated tests. So I'd add the 15-20 minutes extra to the test runtime.
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I don't want any kind of sign-in for stuff like this. Just send me straight to the interface.
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Totally. Guesstimating interest rates for various types of tech debt is a fun exercise: - Using a single-letter variable: 10% interest on any code which uses that variable. That is, any work involving that variable takes 10% longer than it

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