mFixman

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by mFixman 3y ago
Be sude that would make it hell to write strings with literal {}. I like having different types of strings with different sets of magic characters. Even having identical `'` and `"` strings just to avoid backslashes in a few cases
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by mFixman 3y ago
Don't all of these have obvious right answers? What's the point of these if 99% of the people would choose the same?
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by mFixman 3y ago
I expect SEO to break Google's AI soon, like they broke PageRank. Imagine finding guides on HN about how to make your shop appear first when searching for any of the top 500 words.
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by mFixman 3y ago
I use https://esimdb.com/uk instead of a single app. It lists the cheapest e-SIMs for travelling to each country.
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by mFixman 3y ago
I found that podcasts help a lot with noisy brain at night, particularly long-form multi-episode podcasts that force you to pay attention. Podcasts flood my brain with non-anxious information and, unlike books, you don't stop "rea
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by mFixman 3y ago
I just cancel most monthly subscriptions as soon as I get them so I have to consciously re-subscribe every month if I want to use them.
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by mFixman 3y ago
Also under that thread, a seemingly white background image that produces an ad when lasted on ChatGPT: https://x.com/goodside/status/1713000581587976372 This is a fantastic attack vector. It sounds like something
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by mFixman 3y ago
What's the difference between those 11 tickers? Shouldn't all of them go up or down the price of bitcoin plus/minus a very small error rate?
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by mFixman 3y ago
Like a big chunk of the language, English capitalisation is nonsensical and descriptivist. Different organisations have different rules just like different audiences have different expectations, and there is no single way to capitalise word
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by mFixman 3y ago
Does that mean that I can publish a Mickey video in New York that's illegal to watch in California for the next couple of hours? Neat.
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by mFixman 3y ago
Can't you double click the left or right edges of the video to scroll 5 seconds to the past or future? This works in my modded old version of the YouTube app; Alphabet might have removed it in newer versions.
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by mFixman 3y ago
The evolution of this is fully automated checkout like in Amazon Fresh stores. It's fantastic: I can go to the store, shove some groceries in my pockets or backpack, and walk out in 45 seconds. Amazon pings you a notification telling y
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by mFixman 3y ago
Back during the pandemic I made a couple of bicycle laps in my local park as a commute between my bedroom and my study before I started working, and a couple of bicycle laps the other way around when I finished working. It was fantastic to
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by mFixman 3y ago
Many countries don't stamp your passport anymore, many that do don't put a date, and even if I relied on that information stamps are messy, out of order, and fading. The government probably has a list of international flights I&#x
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by mFixman 3y ago
It was priceless when filling my naturalisation application, which required me to write the exact dates of every international trip I did in the past 5 years. Also, it's great for trying to fit loose memories in dates and locations.
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by mFixman 3y ago
Ohh, I misunderstood what Ubuntu was doing. So the only change is that GCC and its toolkit will compile programs using a register as frame pointer by default? That seems like a very reasonable change. If having an extra general purpose regi
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by mFixman 3y ago
Could programs compiled in architectures with 16 general purpose registers fail in one with 15?
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by mFixman 3y ago
Agreed completely. LLMs are making the quick jot to Stack Overflow obsolete, which solves your immediate problems using the least amount of brainpower. They are also making reference-style documentation and long-form books more important th
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by mFixman 3y ago
The introduction of the potato and the invention of the steam engine changed Europe several orders of magnitude more than Napoleon or any other great man.
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by mFixman 3y ago
I'm lucky to never have had seizures but I had a constant muscular ticks when I was a teenager that mostly went away as I became an adult. My experience is consistent with your theory of neural pathways getting set, with the exception
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by mFixman 3y ago
If migration is the only reason rents increase, why have they been increasing everywhere?
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by mFixman 3y ago
To be honest, I used to use Go before generics became a thing. I'm glad that they implemented some basic library functions 10 years down the line.
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by mFixman 3y ago
I used Go for many years. My issue is that it's _almost_ a great language, but in its current version it's just a collection of foot guns that makes it difficult to get shit done. Go doesn't have some of the most library func
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by mFixman 3y ago
This is the case in the UK (with 60 days instead of 90), and I think it's also the same in the US.
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by mFixman 3y ago
You can still take information from the hexagons that are different from their surrounding ones. I know exactly the intersection where that dark part of Hammersmith Road is.
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by mFixman 3y ago
Bromley is actually a fantastic borough for cycling: mostly rural, great walking/cycling trails, good rail connections for the way back, and it even has weird Victorian era dinosaurs in Crystal Palace Park. Why cycling's not more
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by mFixman 3y ago
This is not about people, this is about journalists. Almost everybody who can use a LLM understands its results shouldn't be taken literally. Still, it takes only a couple of clickbaity "parents concerned about ChatGPT turning the
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by mFixman 3y ago
This is fantastic. There are very few authors that could accurately predict challenges with future technology, but Asimov nearly nailed it with the workarounds around the three laws of robotics.
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by mFixman 3y ago
I don't understand. How would a marketing agency plant a job posting in the Microsoft careers site?
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by mFixman 3y ago
The same argument I make against smartwatches: they are great for people who regularly wear the dumb version, but uncomfortable for people who don't. Smartphones became ubiquous quickly because by the year 2007 almost everyone was used

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