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by ori_b 10mo ago
Yes, cutting wet wood on the sawstop sucks, but I put up with it. If clicking 'close' on the wrong tab amputated a finger, I'd also put up with it. However, I've closed plenty of tabs accidentally, and all my fingers are
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by ori_b 10mo ago
Because the computer behaving differently in different circumstances is annoying, especially when there's no clear cue to the user what the hidden knobs that control the circumstances are.
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by ori_b 10mo ago
I remember seeing one of those "kids use old technology" videos, where kids are confused by rotary phones and the like. One of the episodes had them using Windows 98. As I recall, the reaction was more or less "this is pretty
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by ori_b 10mo ago
> Ideally the alert would only happen if the comment seemed important but it would readily discard short or nonsensical input No, ideally I would be able to predict and understand how my UI behaves, and train muscle memory. If closing
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by ori_b 10mo ago
Yes, if you go out and walk. The same way I would agree it was programming if you designed the algorithms yourself.
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by ori_b 10mo ago
That's why I used the word "you" and not "I".
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by ori_b 10mo ago
It's interesting that nobody has actually answered what part of the process they enjoy.
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by ori_b 10mo ago
Not if you sit at home wearing boots and looking at photos of mountains. If you want to have boots, that's cool. But is replacing walking with ordering boots and photos making hiking fun again? Or were you only interested in the photos
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by ori_b 10mo ago
Why make pizza when you can order it? As far as I can tell, there's not much enjoyment of making being had. Enjoying having is fine too, but let's at least be honest about it. I enjoy looking at photos people took on hikes, but I
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by ori_b 10mo ago
I don't get it. What part of the process do you enjoy? Do you also enjoy hiring a taskrabbit to go hiking for you, taking photos along the way?
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by ori_b 10mo ago
The oddity is that Windows is slower everywhere but on this one specific kind of laptop, as far as I understand. If it's not a quirk of the laptop, windows would be better everywhere.
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by ori_b 10mo ago
On only one laptop?
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by ori_b 10mo ago
My prediction: If we can successfully get rid of most software engineers, we can get rid of most knowledge work. Given the state of robotics, manual labor is likely to outlive intellectual labor.
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by ori_b 10mo ago
Not cheap, unless that one specific model is going to be used across tens of millions of devices, with no updates, for the physical lifetime of the device.
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by ori_b 10mo ago
To quote a friend; "Glibc is a waste of a perfectly good stable kernel ABI"
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by ori_b 10mo ago
I never spent much of my coding time on typing. My most productive coding is done in my head, usually a mile or so into a walk.
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by ori_b 10mo ago
What a stupid take.
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by ori_b 10mo ago
Yes, email needs to be used differently in order to cause damage.
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by ori_b 10mo ago
How many slices of toast are you making a day? If you fly a plane a millimeter, you're using less energy than making a slice of toast; would you also say that it's accurate that all global plane travel is more efficient than makin
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by ori_b 10mo ago
> perhaps it's worth recognizing your own fucking part in the thing you now hate, even if indirect. Would that be the part of the post where he apologizes for his part in creating this?
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by ori_b 10mo ago
This is based on assuming 5 questions a day. YouTube would be very power efficient as well if people only watched 5 seconds of video a day. How many tokens do you use a day?
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by ori_b 10mo ago
Alternatively: Downloading the entire state of all packages when you care about just one, it never works out. O(1) beats O(n) as n gets large.
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by ori_b 10mo ago
If, as an application developer, you target X11, you have a program that will work on Linux and BSD with all desktop environments. It'd even work on Wayland via Xwayland. If you want to use it on other OSes, it's less smooth, but
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by ori_b 10mo ago
Seems interesting that they're not using the XML protocol specs for code gen, the way the Xorg server does.
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by ori_b 10mo ago
Which one? The Gnome Wayland, the KDE Wayland, the xroots wayland, Weston, or one of the others? Each one is an independent implementation of a Wayland compositor, with a differing, incompatible set of extensions. X11 was a single, pretty j
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by ori_b 10mo ago
> May be someone should fork it and bring it up to date with recent Lua versions. Why is this split needed? Good news, you're someone. If you care, you're welcome to go for it.
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by ori_b 10mo ago
If you see grid[y][z][x], is it a bug or a deliberate transposition?
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by ori_b 10mo ago
Until people lobby for these privacy rights to be enshrined in law, this will continue to be a problem. Defeating one bad law isn't enough.
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by ori_b 10mo ago
Well, yes -- this is why I still sit down and read the damn books. The machine is useful to refresh my memory.
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by ori_b 10mo ago
Yeah. I also hope the AI remembers to flick the bundle of feathers on a stick to entertain me, and fill the food bowl when I'm hungry.

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