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by latexr 5mo ago
Also relevant to note that some European countries dub everything while others sub. That no doubt plays a part in the population’s understanding of foreign languages. > and "shortcuts" for pointing/hand-waving through what
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by latexr 5mo ago
Just wait until everyone is using AR glasses which listen to your conversation, run it through an LLM, then use the speaker to bark an answer at you with the wearer’s previously synthesised voice, while they’re scrolling instagram inside th
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by latexr 5mo ago
I get why people like indentation for this. I don’t think there’s a right or wrong answer and it’s a matter of personal preference. That said, my preference is curly braces (or whatever) because I’ve found indentation is often a bother. Yes
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by latexr 5mo ago
Why would someone who thinks Ruby is slower than Rust (which apparently includes you) be surprised it’s faster than Python? Why does one thing have to do with the other?
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by latexr 5mo ago
According to Google, “there’s no wrong way to prompt”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bBfYX8X5aU&t=48s
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by latexr 5mo ago
I hadn’t looked at the settings page in ages. Some interesting stuff in there. You can even block certain websites now (goodbye, Pinterest). It’s time I give DuckDuckGo another go. As I fiddle with the options, I was about to suggest there
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by latexr 5mo ago
That doesn’t work for me because it’s very common that I’ll just repurpose the page I am on by doing ⌘L and typing something. Plus, my tabs open with the Start Page, showing my Reading List and iCloud Tabs, so I never even see the homepage.
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by latexr 5mo ago
It annoys me to no end that Safari only gives you a limited set of search engines to pick from. Changing it to anything else requires a cumbersome trick of catching a search URL and redirecting to something else, which not only stops you fr
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by latexr 5mo ago
> It messes up sometimes (very rarely) but so do websites. I disagree with “sometimes”. But anyway, the gargantuan difference is that with websites you can get a feel for their credibility. As a simple example, documentation on MDN is mi
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by latexr 5mo ago
> An interesting thing about humans is that they are not good random number generators. If you ask a person to "pick a random number between 1 and 100", they are remarkably predictable. Stephen Colbert used to ask guests, as pa
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by latexr 5mo ago
Important context: This is from 2014.
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by latexr 5mo ago
This will inevitably lead to tired discussion of “there are two types of developers, those who care about the craft and those who want to get things” done. I believe that to be a false dichotomy, and will link to someone else’s comment in a
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by latexr 5mo ago
I don’t think they’re suggesting you do it like a sleeping pill and play some didgeridoo right before bed. Rather, it’s about regular practice like with any other instrument.
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by latexr 5mo ago
> FWIW, I don't consider surgeons to be extortionists. Of course, that’s the point of the comparison . If I thought you thought surgeons were extortionists I wouldn’t have used the example because it wouldn’t have served to illustr
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by latexr 5mo ago
You lost me. As in, I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make. Are you saying you don’t trust climate science but you would trust them if they declared some other branch of science which has nothing to do with them as being unscie
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by latexr 5mo ago
Think of it like a sprint versus a marathon. If you run at full speed you can get farther than someone keeping a steady pace in the same amount of time, but you’re going to tire yourself out and become slower. You’ll lose in the long run de
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by latexr 5mo ago
> universal healthcare, 4 day work weeks, WFH where possible, walkable cities, and a lot more housing My my, seems like we gots ourselves a socialist o’er here. We don’t take kindly to your kind ’round these parts. What’s yer idea? Impro
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by latexr 5mo ago
Edit: It’s becoming ever more increasingly common on HN to get downvotes for innocuous respectful posts. If you’re downvoting, I’d genuinely appreciate if you explained what is it that you find offensive about this post. You’re not going to
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by latexr 5mo ago
> Sorry for the unnecessary nitpicking. Thank you for the apology. Accepted. > I do donate to a few nonprofits I like, like those working on fediverse and my favorite langs. You already do more than most, and I commend you for it. &gt
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by latexr 5mo ago
> What do you mean by "should be"? I meant “would be”. Not that I think it makes that much difference here. > Surgery is free and available to everyone. That’s definitely not true worldwide. I think if you stop for a minut
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by latexr 5mo ago
But they’re saying it feels like extortion. The problems of the web aren’t the fault of those extension developers, nor can they do anything about it besides trying to mitigate it. It’s in our best interest that they can do so sustainably,
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by latexr 5mo ago
> all these things are already fixable by browser extensions Which is what StopTheMadness is and does.
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by latexr 5mo ago
> The community should never have a say in this. Of course they should. I’m not saying they should get to unilaterally decide, but you should listen to the people who are affected. Don’t just ignore the people, the law is meant to serve
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by latexr 5mo ago
Good point. Yes, I also have all of that turned off and can ignore it. Not that Apple is without its pushiness, though, I still get frequent nags to “upgrade” to Tahoe and iOS 26 without an option to turn those off, and every time I go to S
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by latexr 5mo ago
In the context of the comment they’re replying to, I think they’re saying the opposite: That the photos were released when they could plausibly imply they were fake, thus complying with the mandate while also giving their base the ammunitio
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by latexr 5mo ago
> I wonder how Steve Jobs would've reacted to this GenAI boom. Steve believed “you’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology”. https://youtu.be/EZll3dJ2AjY?t=114 Which, to the
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by latexr 5mo ago
> the time and effort of doing this is 5 minutes. Yet the consequences for the victims may last a lifetime and be both intrinsic and extrinsic. Sexually forcing themselves on a drunk colleague at a party or taking their dad’s gun and sho
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by latexr 5mo ago
> any kind of sex/nudity Worth considering that this isn’t “any kind”, it’s a very specific kind. It’s nudity of minors they personally know, shared in their community. It’s on a different level than, say, consensual nudity from a s
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by latexr 5mo ago
A major problem with a culture of distrust is that bad actors doing bad things get impunity by telling everyone that what they did was fake. It’s already been tried, when deepfakes weren’t even that good. https://www.theguardian.
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by latexr 5mo ago
All citations are verifiable, even the wrong ones, and they always were. And no, modern ones don’t “do it just fine”, they are still frequently wrong. Either you’ve been incredibly lucky, or have just stopped verifying thoroughly. But if yo

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