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by legostormtroopr 1y ago
I've see so many HN posts and cmments about CSVs sucking and Unicode control characters as delimiters, that I set about creating a spec and some tools for use with it. Nothing good enough to share as its own post, but its something I&#
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by legostormtroopr 1y ago
This is so dumb - I love it. So much of modern computing is monetised and sanitised. It’s so cool to see an interesting toy-like tech demo that does something new and different.
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by legostormtroopr 1y ago
I’m going to defend your dad here. AI slop at work is an absolute waste of time and effort. But your dad is trying to write his story, probably because he wants to leave something behind so he’s not forgotten. It might be cliche-riddled b
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by legostormtroopr 1y ago
I would say the most important thing for linting natural language specifications would be a strictly enforced, well defined grammar that precisely defines what words could be used in what order, do that the linter could identify tokens that
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by legostormtroopr 1y ago
The Xbox, Switch and PS5 play games, but they all allow you to install apps, stream movies, buy movies, stream audio and join fitness classes. They also have chat apps and you can stream your own games to places like twitch for others to wa
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by legostormtroopr 1y ago
So the solution to using AI so you don't have to code, is to try to write some kind of pseudocode in AGENT.md and hope the AI does a bit better? Why does it seem that the solution to no-code (which AI-coding agents are) always comes ba
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by legostormtroopr 1y ago
I think from context a more likely interpretation of the parent comment is that it is saying "60% to 80% utilisation [of working hours]".
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by legostormtroopr 1y ago
There is something about that code that just screams "vibe coded". I don't know what - but its like looking at the main.py file is like looking into the uncanny valley of code.
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The role of office-based work in a healthy work/life balance(substack.com)
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by legostormtroopr 1y ago
It sounds like a cocktail party.
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by legostormtroopr 2y ago
Why don’t you like subscriptions? Previously, you’d buy a software licence for $X00 or $X,000 and after a year or two you’d either stop receiving security/feature updates or you’d have to spend another $X00 or $X,000 all over again. Yo
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by legostormtroopr 2y ago
Wow - for something that is supposed to be friendly, that site suuucks. A random animation of single letters, and 4 non-representative icons in the four corners.
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by legostormtroopr 2y ago
> This will be a problem with everything until games are FLOSS. I mean there is nothing stopping that right now. You can give up your time and learn game programming and asset design and make a game and give it away for free.
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by legostormtroopr 2y ago
"It makes me happy to see my partner happy" is Relationships 101. Just because people gave it a word, doesn't mean it didn't exist - and I'd claim the opposite, poly people had to make a word because its not seen as
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by legostormtroopr 2y ago
From the first line of the abstract: "The underrepresentation of women in open-source software is frequently attributed to women’s lack of innate aptitude compared to men". Perhaps I am obtuse, but I've been in FOSS for 15+ y
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by legostormtroopr 2y ago
I don't think its just moderation - but also that fact that most people don't have opinions worth listening too. When you think about the town square, anyone could set up a soap box, say anything and be heard by anyone... anyone w
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by legostormtroopr 2y ago
Doesn't this defeat the purpose of decentralisation and the fediverse? Now, you've just moved everyone to hosted Mastodon, and why not make it even easier - instead of hosting multiple mastodons, just make one single mastodon ever
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by legostormtroopr 2y ago
> Can anyone build a bathroom without buying from Koala? Can you? I ask, because I legitimately don't know - The article mentions the Baby Act that mandates a change table in public restrooms, so you MUST have a change table - and t
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by legostormtroopr 2y ago
That seems like a really backwards approach - if you give it to users, they will probably have one or two use cases they infrequently use that will make them reluctant to give it up. If there isn't a clear need, why sign up at all?
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by legostormtroopr 2y ago
"pollutes the browser history" or "provides infinite undo and redo"?
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by legostormtroopr 2y ago
I would be worried about such an environment where emojis were a serious communication mechanism. Both from a risk of misinterpretation and the fact that language could be changed by font designers. At present date there is no way to say &q
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by legostormtroopr 2y ago
The difference here is India demanded the tweets be blocked in India. I don't agree with that, but they are enforcing Indian laws for Indian citizens within India. The Australian government is demanding tweets be blocked for Australian
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by legostormtroopr 2y ago
> You do need to develop a very thick skin in OSS to be able to thrive. Yet, users or submitters of open-source must be coddled? One of the chief complaints about Linus Torvolds is his blunt communication style in response to poor qualit
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by legostormtroopr 3y ago
Yes. Web developers never tackle with caching, database query optimisation, protocol development, or data modelling. Just HTML and CSS and nothing else.
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by legostormtroopr 3y ago
That is some purity test thinking right there. I'll play - posting on HN is diverting your time and attention from helping feed the hungry, ergo posting is ultimately the same as contributing to world hunger.
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by legostormtroopr 3y ago
I've never seen a [stub for offtopicness] - so I'm just here for the experience.
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by legostormtroopr 3y ago
Out of the box Django offers: authentication, database management and migration, a web server, a template engine, URL routing, and probably more - pretty much everything an app needs in a single framework.
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by legostormtroopr 3y ago
Tangled (Repunzel), Moana (uses and remixes actual Polynesian myths), Frozen (based on the snow queen), Peter Pan, Little Mermaid - a stack of recent Disney movies have been based on existing IP. You just don't notice because they cult
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by legostormtroopr 3y ago
What happened to the idea of "meeting in a location and walking together to find a place". Why does it need to be so precice and transactional? It feels like we are optimising ourselves to transactional unhappiness.
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by legostormtroopr 3y ago
Probably not the best language there, but what it means is that bookmarks and tasks are shown using chronological or alphabetical orders. They aren't designed to hide or show content using attention-seeking algorithms. Probably the bes

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