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by livrem 3y ago
Clean Code says "Functions should not be 100 lines long. Functions should hardly ever be 20 lines long". I think both 100 and 20 are a bit low, but much better than 5. As I mentioned in a comment a few days ago when I also correct
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by livrem 3y ago
The image shows a 0 without a line as well. Maybe the other one is a Ø? Or maybe there are conventions to use slashed zeroes in some places an non-slashed in other places?
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by livrem 3y ago
Swedish parent here. I have not seen any effect from this yet. Hopefully there will be some improvements in time for my youngest kid. A new year in school began last month, and for my oldest kids what "acquiring knowledge primarily fro
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by livrem 3y ago
Lower population works if we can build better machines. In the best case it can work even for a retirement home country. It requires some political improvements to make sure the machines are employed in a way to make that possible of course
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by livrem 3y ago
Barely any of the older Linux binary-only games I have (e.g. the early Humble Indie Bundles ca 2010) run without a lot of effort compared to old Windows games (in WINE). And even then there are several that I gave up on and some that only r
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by livrem 3y ago
In my experience it comes down a lot to what people in a project use. If almost everyone has a properly configured IDE then the code will become almost impossible to navigate without one. If almost everyone uses emacs or vim then there is l
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by livrem 3y ago
Many of his followers perhaps, but at least in the Clean Code book there is a long chapter on comments, where about half is dedicated to "Good Comments" that include many reasons for when and how to comment code. Yes, it has a sec
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by livrem 3y ago
BIf a copy of the downloaded file is redistributed or used in possibly other ways that infringe on copyrights, THAT I could understand, but suddenly making the act of just downloading the file (assuming it is made legally available to the p
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by livrem 3y ago
Every kind of web crawler has to copy data. If that part of the AI training is illegal for that reason then every web crawler ever is suddenly declared automatically illegal.
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by livrem 3y ago
Training purely on Disney's images would probably be difficult, considering the huge amount of images you need to train a model from scratch. But here is a "fine-tuned Stable Diffusion model trained on screenshots from a popular a
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by livrem 3y ago
And push a new minor update at least once a week that moves something in the UI around for no obvious reason.
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by livrem 3y ago
Or pay $2 for a legal copy (and get Ultima Underworld 2 included as well): https://www.gog.com/en/game/ultima_underworld_1_2
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by livrem 3y ago
Bit of an aside, but this means we are now only 20 years from now the copyright on all his books published in his lifetime expiring, right? I wonder what effects, if any, that will have on the use of his works. Right owners of Sherlock Holm
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by livrem 3y ago
It's more like if I look at thousands of articles and produced a big spreadsheet containing interesting facts about those articles, like word frequencies or what words tend to come after what other words. I never before heard anyone su
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by livrem 3y ago
It worries me that so much focus is on two sides that may not have the end-users' best interest much in mind. The companies building the models may have an incentive to regulate models to keep smaller players or open source projects aw
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by livrem 3y ago
In the spirit of the linked article, remember to also save local copies of interesting stuff from archive.org, because of things like this: https://archive.org/details/utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive
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by livrem 4y ago
The people at the top of society never had any problem enjoying life while everyone else worked for them. We're just need machines at the bottom of society so that all humans are in the owning class and can enjoy not working. Bertrand
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by livrem 4y ago
FreePascal does win64 and pretty much every other platform from the last 30-40 years as well. I think you can still use it for win32 and win16 if you want to. I used it to cross-compile to 16-bit DOS and 32-bit DOS, and also various 32-bit
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by livrem 4y ago
I used Turbo Pascal 2.0 from 1984 as late as 1991. It was what my dad's work-from-home PC happened to have installed and there was no internet to just go download newer software when you wanted it. Only had some old 1970's Pascal
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by livrem 4y ago
I played around a bit with fpc earlier this year (yes, 2023). Ported a little game I made using Turbo Pascal 2.0 (had to implement some old graphics procedures that did not seem to be available in fpc; looks like it only has backwards-compa
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by livrem 4y ago
I would not mind more permanent (subsets of) standards on all platforms. The only stable environments that seem to exist are accidental, being emulators for dead platforms like Dosbox or UAE. Software for a modern, non-dead, platform is alm
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by livrem 4y ago
I may have been lucky, but I still have had good results reading old 360 kB floppies. It was maybe 5 years ago since I tried, and maybe 10 since I made a major attempt to copy all/most of them, so perhaps they have degraded more recent
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by livrem 4y ago
I still visit some web forums that has been online since the 90's. At least two still use the same ancient software that they have used since ~1995. One of those is shut down a few hours every night (US time) for "database mainten
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by livrem 4y ago
The groups I downloaded from archive.org are all in standard mbox-format and can be searched using mboxgrep. That has been good enough for me when I have wanted to search for something. In the past I often went to google groups, but I never
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by livrem 4y ago
I can see how that can be useful at times, but they are not going to trick me to switch from old.reddit.com (on desktop) or i.reddit.com (on mobile).
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by livrem 4y ago
Gemini is a bit like that (on a small scale). Basically everyone have their own tiny server somewhere to post on, and there is a widely adopted standard for how to publish "gemlogs" using just standard gemtext with links that begi
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by livrem 4y ago
Offpunk is great. Thanks for making it! I use it at least weekly (there is not all that much traffic on gemini that I follow so I can catch up in one or two evenings per week). One fun side-effect of Offpunk is that it fulfills a dream I ha
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by livrem 4y ago
No, that kind of thing only happens with Games Workshop games, from what I hear.
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by livrem 4y ago
> Millions of people buy cards that can only be used to specifically only play, say; 'Magic: the Gathering' (MtG). I love that example, since I have thousands of Magic The Gathering cards, but I have never played the game ever.
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by livrem 4y ago
Also most clients do not render images at all or only render images if you click on them. Very few clients support any kind of animations or sounds. Of course someone could still do marketing and post some text-only ads if they want to. If

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