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by niek_pas 11mo ago
> Wish we could also do the same for "Beam me up scotty" You might die every time you do, though, so maybe not.
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by niek_pas 11mo ago
As defensible as it may be, your behavior is very far from the norm. You may not consider this a aggressive privacy practice but demographically speaking, it absolutely is.
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by niek_pas 11mo ago
> the little mini screenshots look gorgeous because it replicates MacOS. I have the opposite reaction. To me the screenshots look like someone tried to replicate macOS but failed. The text antialiasing is off, the font is different (and
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by niek_pas 11mo ago
Can you share an example of what you're talking about in PHP 8.5? On the linked web page, the only code pattern that looks remotely complicated to me is the following: #[SkipDiscovery(static function (Container $container): bool
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by niek_pas 11mo ago
I've never taken an undergraduate CS course so I'm happy to have read this!
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by niek_pas 11mo ago
Politically colored ≠ biased
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by niek_pas 11mo ago
I'm guessing you have a very positive experience with gaming PCs; I wish I could say the same. My Windows PC: - Randomly BSODs because of (I think) a buggy Focusrite audio interface driver (that I can't fix and Focusrite refus
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by niek_pas 11mo ago
I wonder if it supports the $19 Polishing Cloth ( https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mw693am/a/polishing-cloth ).
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by niek_pas 1y ago
Why is it that any discussion on the horrors of meat-eating and factory farming inevitably invites this kind of morally nihilistic hedonism. Just because you like doing a thing does not make that thing justifiable. It’s that simple.
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by niek_pas 1y ago
I was just about to comment the same. I’m sure people have a good reason for it (or at leafy _a_ reason), but single-letter variable names always struck me as optimizing for the wrong thing. As someone who likes to program in Haskell, I fee
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by niek_pas 1y ago
The article pretty clearly states that it’s likely this is at least partly attributable to VPN use.
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by niek_pas 1y ago
> CC-BY-NC-ND or Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivs, is the most restrictive license offered by Creative Commons. With this license, the user (while attributing the original creator) can only share the work but not chang
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by niek_pas 1y ago
Thankfully, there are actually laws about this sort of stuff! So companies don't (necessarily/always) just get away with "you shouldn't have listened to us, this is your own fault."
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by niek_pas 1y ago
No, I meant to reply to you. I was curious about your practical use case for disabling code signing (which I think is what you refer to by telemetry) and messing with the boot volume.
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by niek_pas 1y ago
Just out of curiosity, are these philosophical objections or do you have a practical use for disabling code signing and messing with your boot volume?
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by niek_pas 1y ago
I'll admit I have not read this article incredibly thoroughly, but I don't see what you're claiming. The article is contrasting the growth of the AI industry with the slump in manufacturing. I don't think it's posit
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by niek_pas 1y ago
In the article: > And because it has been part of the spec since 2008, support is excellent across browsers and screen readers. It also plays nicely with any JavaScript framework you might be using, like React or Vue. So what makes you t
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by niek_pas 1y ago
I'm on iPhone too; I'm referring to the way scrolling down with your finger animates the content sideways, which I really don't think works well — it would have been better to just be able to scroll sideways.
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by niek_pas 1y ago
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by niek_pas 1y ago
The flow of smart and talented people to the United States has historically been incredibly beneficial for the latter. EDIT: further reading here: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/05/28/deman
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by niek_pas 1y ago
> It seems like there's a reason evolution chose for ADHD to exist. Well, evolution is not an actor. It didn't 'choose' anything. It's just that people (organisms?) with ADHD have not failed to reproduce in the p
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by niek_pas 1y ago
The ruling here is about choice of recommendation system ('algorithm'), which ties into social media addiction as well as electoral influence. So there's actually quite a bit at stake.
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by niek_pas 1y ago
Some useful context here is that the Netherlands is holding a general election on 29 October, which is why the deadline of two weeks was imposed. If Meta does not comply with the two weeks deadline and instead pays the (tiny) $5 million fin
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by niek_pas 1y ago
For people who enjoyed this post, I highly recommend J. Kenji Lopez-Alt’s “The Food Lab”, which is a kind of science approach to home cooking. He also has a very good YouTube channel.
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by niek_pas 1y ago
Thanks for phrasing it like this!
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by niek_pas 1y ago
Homo economicus is a fallacy
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by niek_pas 1y ago
Curious what your life is like that you can 'just' switch to Linux. For me changing desktop OSes at this point would be like moving to a different country.
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by niek_pas 1y ago
In fact, the YouTube video the GitHub repo links to is from 2019.
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by niek_pas 1y ago
And unfortunately, it is exactly the Gorilla chest-pounding politicians “we are #1” that attract particular large swaths of the voting population who tend to see everything as a “me first” zero-sum competition.
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by niek_pas 1y ago
This is neat. It's a little hard to compare the best-performing models ("~ 0.00006232g" vs. "~0.00013746g" is not easy at a glance) --- perhaps better to use scientific notation, milligrams, or CO2e per 10M tokens?

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