mattbee

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by mattbee 9mo ago
And the advice is not (necessarily) "work extra, unpaid hours".
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by mattbee 9mo ago
Ah OK - personally that would move it from an "annoying app with adverts" charge (that I'd resist) to a "leasehold bullshit" charge (that I'd pay). I am stuck similarly with the ClassDojo app that my kids schoo
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by mattbee 9mo ago
I've been happy with the solution of switching off notifications from apps that interrupt me with promotions - one strike and they're out. The remaining notifications are _still_ frequent enough that no single app can expect to ge
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by mattbee 10mo ago
Go on then, what answer do you get? Was it right?
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by mattbee 10mo ago
And users would flee not just because they're seeing the ads but because Firefox is obviously the slowest browser again. Stripping the ads is a big performance boost, so right now Firefox feels snappier than Chrome on ad-laden pages.
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by mattbee 10mo ago
I'm not sure I've read any of Marcus' previous writing, but there's no way that essay could have been written by an AI. It's personal and has a structure that follows human thought rather than a prompt. For sure he
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by mattbee 10mo ago
My initiation into shaders was porting some graphics code from OpenGL on Windows to PS5 and Xbox, and (for your NDA and devkit fees) they give you some very nice debuggers on both platforms. But yes, when you're stumbling around a blac
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by mattbee 10mo ago
I agree with you! But the goal for people who want to turn money into power isn't to drive a single narrative, Big Brother style, to the whole world. Not even to a whole country! It's to drive a narrative to the subset of people w
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by mattbee 10mo ago
I think you're saying that mass broadcasting is going away? If so, I believe that's true in a technological sense - we don't watch TV or read newspapers as much as before. And that certainly means niches can flourish, the dre
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by mattbee 11mo ago
And a really dreary blog describing something simple at great length :/
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by mattbee 11mo ago
Yep if you ask Google what Matthew Garrett's reputation is, its AI description includes the (libellous!) accusation of "professional troll". Incredibly, the original articles are still up.
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by mattbee 11mo ago
The author's benchmarks suggest 10× would be a pathological case! But even so - what price correct & secure software? We all lost a tonne of performance overnight when we applied the first Meltdown and Spectre workarounds. This doe
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by mattbee 11mo ago
The Fil-C project ( https://fil-c.org/ ) seems like a more pragmatic way to deal with C security holes in old, well-loved userspace code. It effectively turns C into a managed language rather than a bare metal one, seems to
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by mattbee 1y ago
First I'd heard of this project; here's an introduction from the author: https://fwsgonzo.medium.com/tinykvm-the-fastest-sandbox-564a...
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by mattbee 1y ago
I reckon they gave away too much, and are clumsily rowing it back. Gitlab seemed to do a good job of navigating a community edition as an on-ramp for sales. But it's obviously a lot of work to maintain that edition, and VC must be fee
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by mattbee 1y ago
They abandoned documentation (edit: for the open source codebase) a couple of weeks ago - that seems more significant. From their Slack on Oct 10: "The documentation sites at docs.min.io/community have been pulled of this morning
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by mattbee 1y ago
If you have an external monitor and don't mind killing your hinge within an hour it's perfect for Trombone Champ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1059990/Trombone_Champ/
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by mattbee 1y ago
LLMs can't count letters, their writing is boring, and you can trick them into talking gibberish. That is a long way off the Turing test, even if we were fooled for a couple of weeks in 2022. IMO when people declare that LLMs "pa
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by mattbee 1y ago
I'd extrapolate that the OP's view would be: you've still put in less effort, so your PR is less worthy of his attention than someone who'd done the same without using LLMs. That's a pretty nice offer from one of th
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by mattbee 1y ago
The observation that inspired this policy is that if you used AI, it is likely you don't know if the code, the documentation or tests are good or appropriate.
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by mattbee 1y ago
Absolutely right! A week ago I downloaded a couple of movies and shows from Netflix for my 6yo daughter, to watch on a 3hr flight. Worked nicely! Today we made the return flight. She opens Netflix, and ⅔ of the films have now "expired
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by mattbee 1y ago
This speaks to me! I've worked on 3 different projects / workplaces in the last year where I've been the only talker on a Slack with 10s of people on it. Sometimes I'll write 5-6 detailed messages in a day, talking about
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by mattbee 1y ago
> No - and in fact in my view this is the core problem with these kinds of situations - there isn't a long established process validating a set of accusations, that if true, fall short of criminality but should result in your exclus
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by mattbee 1y ago
Yep in the same way it would allow `var u userID = 1` it allows `Work(1)` rather than insisting on `var u userID = userID(1)` and `Work(userID(1))`. I teach Go a few times a year, and this comes up a few times a year. I've not got a go
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by mattbee 1y ago
You can definitely test 999 for your own VoIP without getting into trouble. I did it a couple of times in the 2010s after moving offices. You just say you're testing, there's no emergency, thank you, and hang up.
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by mattbee 1y ago
10 years ago I'd have settled for this if it only worked on Game Of Thrones characters.
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Cursed Knowledge(immich.app)
6 points by mattbee 1y ago|1 comments
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by mattbee 1y ago
I paid for Memrise to polish up French. The scripted lessons alwere great but it dropped me into an AI conversation assistant that did exactly the same. It forgot the vocab and grammar level that the scripted lessons had taught, and often b
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by mattbee 1y ago
And you can get it on Windows with just "winget install zyedidia.micro". Reminds me of 8 & 16-bit editors of a similar era.
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by mattbee 1y ago
The GP was very precise in the experience they shared, and I thought it was interesting. They were obviously not trying to make a sweeping comment about the entire future of the field. Are you using ChatGPT to write your loquacious replies?

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