lossyalgo

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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
How about "friend-request-by-mail" where you pay Friendster a token amount to send a postcard with a unique QR code?
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
"Hey I'm coming to visit you so we can be friends on Friendster 2.0! The flight was 1k so I hope you don't mind if I crash on your couch!"
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
Feature request: friend-request-by-mail: Pay Friendster $1 to send a postcard with a unique QR code. I've seen something similar for user/address verification on a local community website (but it's free to send the postcard).
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
> I suspect you and I are being fleeced far more by government waste and fraud than by businesses. And do you think that firing half of the employees at various gov't agencies has and/or will decrease the waste and fraud?
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
My workplace does this for EVERYTHING. And they are always immediately obviously AI slop, both because we all know they wouldn't ever pay an actual artist to create graphics, but also because the people creating the graphics have no se
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
Someone remind me again why this is a good idea to be able to create perfect fake images?
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
The "excuse" is that there is no root repo :) It's not fun to copy/paste 3 git commands? What a truly gilded engineering life you must live! :)
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
Nice try :) Actually the hard part isn't creating a script to automate 3 git commands - it's that there is no root repo to put such a script, hence the need to manually do it.
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
> "That guy" that says "we've always done it this way I most definitely am not, and constantly push back for changing processes, and do make changes when I am allowed, even when it's not budgeted for or even offi
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
Nice list, somehow I missed that one. I love Joel's wisdom. The full build literally works in one step but the main prerequisite is to perform a few git clone commands which can be copy/pasted from the readme. Can't help it i
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
Our git master actually considered this, but it would have caused other issues that I can't recall right now, so we got stuck with lots of repos. The readme literally has all the git commands, all they had to do was copy/paste the
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
haha I would totally empathize with you. But see, you would realize immediately that it doesn't work and why, but you are smart enough to realize it and would just rename the folder (as mentioned in the readme as the very first thing t
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
Yes and no. My retort is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841520
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
I agree, and there are other fun gotchas that even more frustrating and convoluted. But everything is thoroughly documented and I even explicitly pointed out those potential issues before I gave them the assignment. When the errors first oc
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
That's definitely a valid argument, but I highly doubt it since they know their way around Windows and Linux just fine. I honestly think it might be related to attention span, miscommunication, language barriers and/or maybe a hea
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
4.5 sonnet/opus/haiku are still available via github copilot plugins.
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
RIP bank account!
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
Ugh... we have a new colleague who does this repeatedly. Most recently, I said in order to build, you need to do this: - git clone <repo1> <dest1> - git clone <repo2> <dest2> - git clone <repo3> <dest3> W
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
Thanks, this seems a lot more reasonable than the 168GB torrent available from IA, which I was halfway through downloading. It also contains every conceivable format possible, whereas your link is just PDFs equating just 12.5GB (easily down
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
Cities have existed for much longer than automobiles have and have somehow prospered since millenia. I don't think the recent invention of automobiles has anything to do with proper functioning of cities.
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
I don't think anyone is arguing about banning ALL vehicles, much less all personal vehicles, but rather to simply become less car-centric. Most cities which top the list of highest quality of life worldwide all have fairly good public
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
In fact, the cities which are repeatedly rated as having the highest quality of life are almost all not car-centric.
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
Moxie Marlinspike (founder of Signal) [0]implemented the same E2EE algorithm as Signal (Signal Protocol) into WhatsApp, but that was 10 years ago, so who knows if things have changed since then. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
Have your teammates also discovered how macOS handles copy/pasting a folder when the destination folder already exists? How macOS just deletes the entire contents of the destination folder, instead of merging? I remember discovering th
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
Because each job only runs once in the middle of the night when it detects any changes. Also a lot of our tests are very finicky and need to be restarted multiple times before they run successfully, so a failing test isn't necessarily
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
> but with trade-offs like being locked into VSCode and the Microsoft ecosystem overall You can use GH Copilot with most of Jetbrains IDEs.
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
MilkDrop has been dropping new versions since WinAmp stopped, and it runs without WinAmp (though WinAmp + all of the visualizers also still work on the newest Windows): https://www.milkdrop3.com/
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
According to latest Steam stats[0], Linux hit > 5% for the first time ever, so definitely successful (to some degree). [0] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/steam-hardware-softw...
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
btw all versions of WinAmp + skins still work great in 2026 even on Win11 :)
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by lossyalgo 6mo ago
Post a link so we can upvote for visibility :) Nevermind, wasn't hard to find: https://www.reddit.com/r/wii/comments/1sfzacl/porting_mac_os...

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