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by latexr 3mo ago
> they claim to speak for all software engineers. I have reread the post and see no such claim. They are using “we” to refer to the significant subset of humanity which fits the description, not “all software engineers”. If someone says
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The second story made be think of XKCD 1172. https://xkcd.com/1172/
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> What harm could a box that only broadcasts plain, ephemeral text do to me? You're thinking the same thing I was, I'm not crazy, right? Not right. As soon as I saw the box (when the other article was posted), my immediate thou
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> It's kinda weird that you can shoot yourself in the foot so much when picking your kart in this game. Nintendo optimises for fun, not competitive play. Infamously, to curb the competitiveness of Super Smash Bros (SSB) Melee, they
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It might still be the best option, depending on your play group. For example, if you’re in a play group with a bunch of novices and you’re destroying them, like finishing a full lap before the second place, choosing Bowser gives you a handi
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The tilt is fun, but makes it uncomfortable to read. Adding some whimsy to your website is a positive thing, but please add a simple way to disable the slant. After the novelty wears off (about two seconds in) it becomes actively annoying.
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No doubt many (I don’t think you can conclusively say “more likely”) did. There’s a crapton of blogposts out there and no one has verified them all. That doesn’t matter one iota for the argument in the submission, though. And it doesn’t rea
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> In fact it is kind of stupid to insist someone slavishly draw something by hand that could have been done an easier way. That is not at all what the author wrote. They said they would rather see a shitty hand drawing than an AI ima
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What made you give up on it? Lack of time, or did you just not find it fun? “Season 2” of games came out last year. I’d really like the chance to play with one and maybe even try to develop for it. Unfortunately, the price is a bit steep, e
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> If you wanted to ship a feature you had to get explicit approval from leadership and the bar was high. What was defined as a feature? The first new thing I noticed in Snow Leopard was that Quick Look could now preview Adobe Illustrator
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> Taking arguments seriously doesn't necessitate agreement. I agree. That’s what I’m saying, so I don’t think I understand what you mean. Mind clarifying the point you’re making? To try to clarify, what I do mean that is that dis a
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The word “cope” shows up nine times in this short post. It was frankly annoying to the point it’s hard to take the arguments seriously, because it’s starting from an obvious base of “people who disagree are all wrong and their arguments are
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It’s an exceptionally bad idea (I agree) because the ones with a vested interest are controlling the narrative. We can make this clear by simply inverting the roles. Imagine that criminals were making true crime podcasts about their own cri
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Something I’ve also noticed is the number badge for open issues and pull requests not disappearing for a long while. This is particularly annoying to me as I address everything in my repos quickly, but then the badge remains there making me
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Apparently it does. https://stackoverflow.com/a/49011455 That’s not something I care about, though. I don’t mean to imply that JSON feeds are objectively superior to RSS and Atom, I just mean to share what my personal
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> This is the common fallacy of “AI is terrible in my own field of which I have deep knowledge, but AI is totally fine in this other field of which I only have cursory knowledge.” Gell-Mann amnesia effect. https://en.wikipedia
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Personally, I don’t care at all since we’ve gotten JSON feeds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_Feed Not every programming language I use can output RSS/Atom/XML by default, but pretty much all of them can
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by latexr 3mo ago
It’s funny how, upon opening the website, you’re immediately greeted with a “Was Top 1 on Hacker News” link leading back here, but (at time of writing) it has under 50 points and almost every comment disagrees with the post. While I don’t
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The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago(mastodon.online)
54 points by latexr 3mo ago|28 comments
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Come on, if you respond to a comment then expand on it to explain why you made it, hiding behind it being “borderline off-topic” and an “offhand observation” feels disingenuous. Can you understand that? Here’s a silly example: Imagine you
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by latexr 3mo ago
So, in other words, you read what one person (you’re not talking to some vague notion of “people” in the past) wrote, associated it with other arguments you’ve seen (and quite possibly misinterpreted) before and decided to lump everything
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What are you even talking about? No, of course music recommendation systems had nothing to do with LLMs two decades ago (which is obviously the crux of the discussion), that is insane. And no one has said anything about a “full-stack dev&
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The Obligatory AI Post(lapcatsoftware.com)
5 points by latexr 3mo ago|1 comments
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> Things like this are easy with a simple agent loop. To be fair, they’re also easy (trivial, even) without one. It’s not like “play more music like this” is something we ever needed AI for.
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Also important: archive.org (i.e. The Internet Archive) is a non-profit, while we don’t really know who runs archive.today and it has some shady history, including tampering with archived pages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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https://web.archive.org/web/20260731121903/https://hughhowey...
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Deleted because I realised I am not in the mood to argue with people who don’t read; don’t make an effort to understand an argument; or make shallow dismissals thinking they consist in any way of a valid point. There are more important thin
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Seems to me they’re doing the third option: being sarcastic.
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Why is 'Chat Control' one of the EU's biggest digital rights fights?(euronews.com)
2 points by latexr 3mo ago|0 comments
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Most deadlines are artificial and self-inflicted. The author is not advocating that if you have a literal fire consuming half your home that you should sit down on the floor, ponder your possibilities, schedule a few calls for discussion, t

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