lee_ars

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by lee_ars 4mo ago
"This Is Exactly What Unmeshed Is Built For" This feels spammy.
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by lee_ars 4mo ago
"Why use lot word, when few word do trick?" —Optimus Prime
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by lee_ars 4mo ago
Stumbling across Ian's site almost two decades ago was kinda-sorta life-changing, because I'd been tying the "granny knot" my whole life and had to resort to double-knotting to keep my damn shoes tied. Ditched the granny
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by lee_ars 4mo ago
> You go to a university because you are deeply interested in understanding the subject that you study. Echoing the other comments here, at least in the US, this is generally untrue. I went because my parents made me, because the choice
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by lee_ars 4mo ago
The best part about playing trombone in high school band was not having to learn concert pitches. Concert F? I play an F. Concert Bb? I play Bb. Suck it, trumpets!
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by lee_ars 5mo ago
The status page lies. ppa.launchpadcontent.net is still timing out.
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by lee_ars 5mo ago
> This flag is sent by my browser when I connect to SOMEONE ELSE’s SERVER. ...and promptly, thoroughly ignored.
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by lee_ars 5mo ago
> It wasn't very long ago that scientists were certain that animals did not posses thoughts or feelings. Any behaviour which appeared to resemble thinking or feeling was simply unconscious autonomic responses, with no more thought b
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by lee_ars 5mo ago
You could do that if you wanted to ignore reality and be reductive to score points in an argument by purposefully conflating mimicry with intention, yes.
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by lee_ars 5mo ago
> So in your head, the analogy is not a big part of the argument? The analogy is decoupled from the thing it analogizes, and refuting the analogy refutes the thing itself about as much as burning a picture of the thing burns the thing it
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by lee_ars 5mo ago
Because it has no mind, no cognition, and nothing to "feel" with. Don't mistake programmatic mimicry for intention. That's just your own linguistic-forward primate cognition being fooled by the linguistic signals the tra
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by lee_ars 5mo ago
> A selector is not not a variable or a function. CSS has functions (e.g translate) and it has variables, which are both distinct concepts in the language from selectors. Congratulations, you have attacked the analogy rather than the arg
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Happy belated birthday: Twenty-five years of The Chronicles of George(bigdinosaur.org)
2 points by lee_ars 5mo ago|1 comments
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by lee_ars 5mo ago
A blatant self-link from the guy behind the Chronicles of George, a tech support humor site of some old renown (read: it's ancient as balls) consisting of some of the worst help desk tickets ever, at https://chroniclesofgeor
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by lee_ars 6mo ago
> I dismiss ISPs that don't support IPv6. Hey, how awesome you live in an area where you have a choice of ISPs and can dismiss one that doesn't meet your spec, rather than having to simply shut up and eat what you're serve
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by lee_ars 6mo ago
> If you are struggling with IPv6 I recommend reading up on where it is at today and figuring out how whatever makes your network special can be done using IPv6 with no fuss. > ... > Historically the only practical hold up to IPv6
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by lee_ars 6mo ago
I still maintain the Chronicles of George, which went live in Feb 2001 and whose design has more or less stayed exactly the same ever since: https://chroniclesofgeorge.com I eventually added proper css, bolted on https, and upda
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by lee_ars 7mo ago
No, but we were way down in Clear Lake, by NASA. DJ Screw would have visited one of the other Babbage's inside the loop!
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by lee_ars 7mo ago
Good times, they were. Good times indeed. (And we're still married, too!)
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by lee_ars 8mo ago
> Have you had to go back and fix any of your vibe coded projects yet? Not yet, but you're absolutely right. Once a tool like this stops being front of mind, it'll fall right out of my head. It's a bit like driving somewhe
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So yeah, I vibe-coded a log colorizer–and I feel good about it(arstechnica.com)
5 points by lee_ars 8mo ago|1 comments
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by lee_ars 8mo ago
Looking at the comparison image between CSS grid lanes and CSS grid 1, the grid lanes example looks....horrifying. It looks like pinterest cancer. It makes the page look like a ragged assortment of random shit. Scannability is grossly impai
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by lee_ars 8mo ago
It's like a linkedin article that has escaped from its cage.
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by lee_ars 9mo ago
> The problem is that this is completely false. LLMs are actually deterministic. There are a lot more input parameters than just the prompt. If you're using a piece of shit corpo cloud model, you're locked out of managing your
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by lee_ars 9mo ago
> There are indeed drawbacks in a lack of freedom, but assuming that a government should not be able to filter the content diffused to the population is wrong in principle. Why?
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by lee_ars 9mo ago
People are "awful at that" because when two people communicate, we're using a lot more than words. Each person participating in a conversation is doing a lot of active bridge-building. We're supplying and looking for ext
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by lee_ars 9mo ago
> It's the same programming with LLMs. Through experience, you build up intuition and rules of thumb that allow you to get good results, even if you don't get exactly the same result every time. Friend, you have literally des
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by lee_ars 9mo ago
> Conversely, what do you gain by using a standard port? One less setup step in the runbook, one less thing to remember. But I agree, it doesn't hurt! It just doesn't really help, either.
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by lee_ars 9mo ago
>I don't mind using an LLM to shortcut areas that are just pure pain with no reward... Enlightenment here comes when you realize others are doing the exact same thing with the exact same justification, and everyone's pain/
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by lee_ars 9mo ago
> PS: The rush was so great I was excitedly talking to my wife how I could port our emails away from google, considering all of the automatic opt in for AI processing and what not. The foolhardy me thought of even sabbatical breaks to wo

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