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by lazypenguin 2y ago
Surprisingly the Russian army is mostly volunteer since the average pay right now is quite high by Russian standards. There are also standard conscripted soldiers as part of the country’s required service. Allegedly the conscripts are kept
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by lazypenguin 2y ago
If they want to have 6-8 hour gym sessions to simulate the real thing then sure.
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by lazypenguin 2y ago
I like Slint, the technical work is extremely impressive. I even contributed to the project! I hope you can realize those goals, you would fill a massive vacuum in the wider ecosystem.
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by lazypenguin 2y ago
You are right, building a good UI for the desktop has become exceedingly difficult. In my experience new UI toolkits try to mimic the web experience (kivy, QML, Slint, Flutter, etc.) and end up being threadbare with the simplest widgets ava
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by lazypenguin 2y ago
Linus response here seems relevant to this context: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CAHk-=wgLbz1Bm8QhmJ4d...
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by lazypenguin 2y ago
I work in fintech and we replaced an OCR vendor with Gemini at work for ingesting some PDFs. After trial and error with different models Gemini won because it was so darn easy to use and it worked with minimal effort. I think one shouldn&#x
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by lazypenguin 2y ago
Online discourse has been declining in quality for many years in my opinion. I think as a consequence of more platforms where more specialized conversations are happening now in private: Facebook groups, discord channels, livestream chats,
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by lazypenguin 2y ago
To be honest, these don’t sound like hard problems. These sound like they have very specific answers that I might find in the more specialized stackoverflow sections. These are also the kind of questions (not in this domain) that I’ve found
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by lazypenguin 2y ago
There probably is depending on your definition of a civilization. I’d imagine it looks something like an https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_supercolony
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by lazypenguin 2y ago
Grafana cloud, install agents, pretty dashboard. Can add custom prom ingestor to load application logs. Sleep good. Feel confident, look at grafana alerts. Cry much. Finally learn promql, pro dashboards, sleep good again. Seriously though g
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by lazypenguin 2y ago
Do you recall which position?
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by lazypenguin 2y ago
Thanks for rclone, great tool!
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by lazypenguin 2y ago
The most successful projects I’ve been a part of were because one or a few people cared. Cared enough to build the right thing. Cared to make sure it was high quality. Cared about the stakeholders. When the leader is that person it is great
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
Cultural changes are unpredictable. Europe was a hotbed of fascism not that long ago and looks nothing like that today? I wouldn’t discount the effect the baby boomer death waves in the next 20 years will have on cultural shifts either. Cra
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
Today in discord I got an ad for loot boxes. Every time I hovered over the ad blocking the bottom right of my screen it crashed. Everytine I played a YouTube video in the client it crashed. Every time I watched some screen share it crashed.
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
> With enough discipline and tooling, it is possible to write safe C++ I think it's possible to write "safe enough" C++ for real-world use. Then after some time you get a weird crash because MSVC stdlib implementation does
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
YouTube doesn’t feel zippy as a website but the reliable and speed of videos have been very good for me. I remember the days when buffering videos was hell.
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
Amazons slide into lower and lower quality has been disappointing
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
Seems it does under the premium version
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
There’s nothing unique. Just the thousands of adjusted people don’t say a word so the negative comments echo louder even if they are the minority.
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
In 2014 until 20218 I would have started any new game dev project in Unity without a second thought. Somewhere along the way Epic really invested in making Unreal better while the Unity engine became a meme of half-finished new initiatives.
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
In 1924 the President of the United States’s son died. A man with access to the best medicine and doctors of the time during an insdustrialized age was not able to save his 16 year old son. He died from a bacterial infection…on his toe…that
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
Every time I read a recommendation for webview/tauri/electron/etc. I always ask myself “what about datagrids, docking tabs, context menus, etc.?”
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
I discovered starship when I started using kubernetes at work. Previously I relied on standard bash-isms for path, hostname, etc. but knowing what context and namespace I'm in before I execute a command is quite convenient. I'm no
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
Fair enough but the usefulness of a tool like this is not the colors it's the additional context at the prompt
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
Yes because my life was better when I stopped visiting all those sites for a time. More productive, more focused, more present. I found myself “addicted” to other things though: work slack, discord, etc. I made it about 1.5 months before re
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
Microsoft stopped investing in it for a time and generally less focus on desktop technologies over the years. It’s still fairly popular in .NET shops as far as I can tell with spiritual successors like Avalonia
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
Had strange behavior as well on iPhone, couldn’t finish the post because it kept jumping around
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
Olive Garden marinara sauce contains grape jelly. A strawberry milkshake from McDonald’s contains something like 75 grams of sugar. Kids are fed Mac and Cheese from a box…its like 3 ingredients to make fresh…A “healthy” salad is lathered in
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by lazypenguin 3y ago
This reply is akin to "just think about it and do it perfectly dummy" which might sound "obvious" and "smart" but is really just unhelpful commentary. The ideas provided in this blog are actually a good heurist

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