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by lloeki 1y ago
> You try drawing a picture, and it sucks. You try playing the guitar, and you can't even get simple notes right. > up until now, you had no choice and to keep making crappy pictures and playing crappy songs until you actually st
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by lloeki 1y ago
It's not just the C-suite. I keep seeing and talking to people that are completely high guzzling Kool-Aid straight from a pressure tap. The level of confirmation bias is absolutely unhinged "I told $AGENTICFOOLLM to do that and WO
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by lloeki 1y ago
> and you can certainly rewrite history. But you can't coerce everyone in the world to remove all traces of the alternate history that was a thing before being rewritten. So while you can make git forget something in your local repo
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by lloeki 1y ago
You seem to have missed this part of TFA: > That means we no longer examine the code. Our time as engineers will be spent handling context, testing features, and iterating on them IOW there would be no human to "work on, collaborate
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by lloeki 1y ago
> at least let me disable it for specific languages. At the very least make use of https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/... ... instead of relying on whatever stupid magic
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by lloeki 1y ago
> I want privacy codified in human law Article 12 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protect
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by lloeki 1y ago
Oh my these devices were everywhere. I started with a 32 MB Diamond Rio PMP300, so cramped as I transcoded music to 64kbps just to cram an hour in there, but the ability to listen to music without it _ever_ skipping (I was MTBing in the sum
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by lloeki 1y ago
> what did the D2 look like > though maybe that's a Möbius strip in reality. You're close, it looks like a failed attempt at doing a möbius ring. https://www.awesomedice.com/products/the-d1
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by lloeki 1y ago
Nitpick: one of the properties of dice is that they stop on one side (i.e they converge towards stable rest on even ground) and the typical rule is that when they come at rest because of something other than even ground then the throw is in
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by lloeki 1y ago
There's a link to a D2, where prior to clicking I was thinking "well that's a coin, right?" until I realised a coin is technically a (very biased) D3.
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by lloeki 1y ago
Sure, whatever floats your boat! I'm just sad that Nix is often dismissed as intractable, and I feel that's mostly because tutorials get too hung up on concept rabbit holing.
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by lloeki 1y ago
That's 2~3ms per frame. In gaming situations what they perceive may not be the actual "flicker" of frames but the input->to->display latency, which is a very different thing to notice.
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by lloeki 1y ago
> We have a private repo with pre-compiled binaries, and a simple Homebrew formula that downloads the utilities and installs them. Perfectly doable with Nix. Ignore the purists and do the hackiest way that works. It's too bad that t
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by lloeki 1y ago
I was wondering if that was time spent toying with the thing, not necessarily time to a complete or even functional result.
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by lloeki 1y ago
That was tongue-in-cheek, I thought Darth Vader's voice was enough of a cue. License switches do happen though, and are the source of outrage. Cue redis. The cause of transferring copyright is often practical (hard to track down + reac
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by lloeki 1y ago
> The Gens D'Armes are akin to 'heavy' police and are a show of force I've only seen that when they show up as support for or operating in a similar role as CRS† (crowd control, security for major events) which indeed
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by lloeki 1y ago
> What prevents apple from working with gpl-style licenses is strict hatred towards code that they can't use without opensourcing it. Specifically regarding the C blocks feature introduced in Snow Leopard, as I recall, Apple wrote i
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by lloeki 1y ago
They are compatible but that's not the point. If it were included it would instantly become a LGPL hard-fork because of any subsequently added line of code, if not by "virality" of the glibc license, at least because any glib
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by lloeki 1y ago
> MusicBrainz Picard is wonderful, but has one of the most unintuitive "first contact" experiences I can remember. Seconded, it's the best specialised UI I've seen in a while. By "specialised" I mean it&#x27
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by lloeki 1y ago
> I could easily imagine it being left out of glibc because [...] ... its license is BSD-2-Clause ;) hence "political"
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by lloeki 1y ago
This has been one of my pet theories for a while. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39271752
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by lloeki 1y ago
> On non-Linux, you obviously need an additional kernel running (the Linux kernel) Only "obvious" for running Linux processes using Linux container facilities (cgroups) Windows has its own native facilities allowing Windows pro
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by lloeki 1y ago
That's basically what I remember: the leading reason is that a steel furnace needs a lot of heat to build up a lot of pressure and push carbon in, and higher chimneys help provide that. Others like Japan found another way to achieve th
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by lloeki 1y ago
The comparison I made was in response to: > Does it really take you a million Euros to set up a DNS server? The subtext of the above being that it "obviously" shouldn't cost 1M to slap BIND on a spare beige box in a closet
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by lloeki 1y ago
> 1. Does it really take you a million Euros to set up a DNS server? Maybe ask Cloudflare how much 1.1.1.1 costs them? > 2. you get the impression that the designers took great care to obfuscate the actual product as much as possible
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by lloeki 1y ago
> The common buzzard in Europe/Asia is a different bird entirely Funnily enough in France: - buzzard is "buse" (mostly - although not limited to - Buteo[1]) - there's an unrelated yet identically pronounced "busa
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by lloeki 1y ago
Interesting, around here raptors hunt high, and if prey falls to the ground they abandon it; too dangerous to go down in the streets.
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by lloeki 1y ago
Sadly we don't have Cooper's around here so I have no experience with them, hence why I looked them up (see nearby comment) and according to that source found out they were on the smaller size and much smaller weight. Around here
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by lloeki 1y ago
> according to every source I've looked at in the last few minutes I may be mistaken but that's what I found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peregrine_falcon > The peregrine falcon has a body length of 3
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by lloeki 1y ago
> Cooper’s hawk is on a rather short list of bird of prey species that have successfully adapted to life in cities. A city is a difficult and very dangerous habitat for any bird, but particularly for a large raptor specializing in live p

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