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by liotier 2y ago
I hoped "-ng" would be standing for Nigeria - which would have been most fitting, considering Nigeria's linguistic diversity !
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by liotier 2y ago
I agree that fascists are dumb.
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by liotier 2y ago
A feature, not a bug: the 101 years old lady and the 1 year old baby need the same blended food !
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by liotier 2y ago
Styling predates the Internet - Microsoft Word 1.0 for MS-DOS had style sheets. WordPerfect 5.0 introduced styles on that side. Hierarchically structured text documents with headers, paragraphs etc. are even older: IBM Generalized Markup L
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by liotier 3y ago
Primitive as they were, Palm OS devices were amazingly fast. Some programs pushed the envelope too far, so their slowness relegated them to proof of concept - but the bread and butter applications offered instant interaction: my lowly Pilot
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by liotier 3y ago
> LAN-parties were not people who just played games True: we also swapped warez and burped too many soft drinks.
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by liotier 3y ago
The costs and carbon emissions of digging deep tunnels vast enough to contain our plastic waste might make it negative value.
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by liotier 3y ago
To me, Kavrayskiy VII still feels like the most balanced compromise among general-purpose pseudocylindrical projection - more so than Winkel Tripel, and of course miles ahead of Mercator but that isn't even a contest.
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by liotier 3y ago
Plastics erode and degrade into microplastics, that get into the food chain... A carbon sink of sorts, but I would do without it.
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by liotier 3y ago
Enjoy that style ? Go play Beyond All Reason, its free and open-source spiritual heir - https://www.beyondallreason.info
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by liotier 3y ago
Because the main purpose of cash payments in small businesses is tax evasion - not just VAT but also paying family members in cash and thus dodging even more.
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by liotier 3y ago
If one Pi is sufficient for the task, then nothing will be more energy-efficient. With workloads requiring multiple Pi, the used NUC wins. Your electricity costs may vary...
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by liotier 3y ago
> The simple answer is "don't skimp" Yes, but then the budget then quickly rises to a point where a compact desktop such as a used Intel NUC is cheaper, on top of being far more powerful.
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by liotier 3y ago
> Action-packed and gratifying? Sure. Fun? No. I looked up the etymology of "fun" and you are right - Middle English fonne, fon (“foolish, simple, silly”). That said, I'll take action-packed and gratifying over fun any day
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by liotier 3y ago
For me, it is the API restriction that did it - Reddit is Fun was a stellar Android application, killing it ended my mobile usage. Everyone seemed aware it was going to be one of the effects of API restrictions - Reddit seems to have though
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by liotier 3y ago
I'll miss AskHistorians. But thanks to Reddit having already weaned me from mobile usage, I'm psychologically ready to detach from yet another community.
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by liotier 3y ago
> A Fire Upon the Deep (predicted fake news via "the net of a thousand lies") Predicted ? A Fire Upon the Deep published in 1993, at which date Usenet was already mature and suffering such patterns - although not at FaceTwitTok
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by liotier 3y ago
Same. Logo taught me the only important part of computer science: the computer does what the program tells it to - no more, no less... Everything else in computer science is implementation details and incident factors !
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by liotier 3y ago
Gitlab's kanban board is very nice, integrated with its ticketing and, if you are on Gitlab, it is there already !
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by liotier 3y ago
I hope for the day such tool will convert Oracle PL/SQL to Postgres
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by liotier 3y ago
In distributed indexing, spam management seems a much bigger problem than the indexing itself.
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by liotier 3y ago
> I'm way more excited about the super stable jitter Indeed - significant quality of life improvement for drone operators !
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by liotier 3y ago
Starlink at 20-50 ms ? I would never have imagined a roundtrip to orbit that fast... My last experience with satellites were before generalized intercontinental fiber and those jumps were above one second !
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by liotier 3y ago
We had exactly the same list of objections to moving from Business Objects. Then, in its infinite wisdom, our holding company signed with Salesforce and we moved to Tableau. Significant work but relational is so mature that swapping the rep
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by liotier 3y ago
> Writing a toy program that fills the screen with "HELLO, I AM COMPUTER" does not feel like you just learned a magical incantation that makes this machine do your bidding Find out what his favourite hobby or favourite game is,
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by liotier 3y ago
When querying, can the system answer with link to the minutes and the recording ? Lack of source citation for facts is a problem with what I've seen of LLMs.
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by liotier 3y ago
An open source MPC ? Take a look at Zynthian ! Not much cheaper than an MPC One, but totally open source and leverages a ton of existing Linux music software... You might be interested if you feel frustrated by Akai's control of the MP
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by liotier 3y ago
> There are plenty of far cheaper 'grooveboxes' for DAW-less fun On the price/features criteria, I believe the Akai MPC One remains supreme. Others are superior in some areas, but as a versatile "do-it-all box"
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by liotier 3y ago
Or goofy jokes, which I haven't seen LLM do well yet.
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by liotier 3y ago
Totally understandable - distribution & sales rule the world, especially pre-Internet. At the time, I believe 1993 or maybe 1994, I was a first-year student so of course I had a pirated copy. I didn't even own a car, but I had neve

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