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by parasti 2y ago
Ever wonder why TF2 stopped stopped receiving regular updates? My theory was always that the game had turned into a massive ball of code that nobody dares touch anymore.
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by parasti 2y ago
As a European, I feel this rings closer to truth than fiction.
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by parasti 2y ago
Security updates are probably the only type of updates that I wouldn't ever call a waste of time. It sucks when they are conflated with feature updates or arbitrary changes, but by itself I don't understand calling them a waste of
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by parasti 2y ago
This is actually brilliant. This is a step above every list of instructions that I've ever made without committing to full-blown all-at-once automation.
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by parasti 2y ago
> I had one other thing for this list but I don't remember it right now. Write it down. That's what I would put on my list. The ability to write things down is like an extension of the brain, a way to offload and document the m
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by parasti 2y ago
You will miss out on the category of strongly worded but helpful content.
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by parasti 2y ago
Why is it extraordinary? moment.js has been excellent for me, same for PHP's builtin DateTimeImmutable. What does this do that makes it extraordinary?
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by parasti 2y ago
That's my general impression as well. RAG is absolutely here to stay because it's an incredibly useful, practical tool. Going off on a tangent here, but ChatGPT Search is miles ahead of the, with all due respect, garbage that Goog
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by parasti 2y ago
I wish I had billions of sheer force of will.
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by parasti 2y ago
Thanks for this.
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by parasti 2y ago
What if your client comes back? On a more practical note, what structure, formats and tools do you use that enable you to feed it to an LLM?
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by parasti 2y ago
I have made conscious effort in the past to never copy/paste the initial fleshing-out of a Makefile or a PHP class, or HTML boilerplate, or whatever. Like, for years I stuck to that. Then I stopped making that effort because there is n
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by parasti 2y ago
Off-topic, but I was far more intrigued by the fact that their server runs on solar power and may go offline. https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/power/
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by parasti 2y ago
I switched from Emacs to VS Code some years ago after being a hardcore Emacs user for many years. For me it was customization fatigue. Just an endless accumulation of Emacs Lisp one liners and functions that I have no use for outside of Ema
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by parasti 2y ago
Was he there to make predictions?
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by parasti 2y ago
I used to read books with ease but have had to limit my reading to online texts, both short and long form, mostly technical. I know for sure that I am not a reader anymore, because whenever I pick up a book I can't sit through it. It&#
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by parasti 2y ago
Isn't it for tracking baby teeth development? Nothing about physically collecting the teeth.
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by parasti 2y ago
I didn't read the paper, just the linked article, so maybe I don't get what the big revelation here is. Intuition is great as long as it is documented. If you're making a series of implicit decisions based on your prior exper
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by parasti 2y ago
I maintain Neverball, a 3D rolling ball game. It's a spare time project for me. Written in C, ported to the web via WASM and handwritten HTML/CSS/JS ( https://play.neverball.org ). Been polishing the web app for a w
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by parasti 2y ago
This is golden advice, honestly. "If you don't use it, you lose it" applied to software development.
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by parasti 2y ago
This is in the article.
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by parasti 2y ago
Buy a subscription when something good comes from Netflix, watch that thing, then cancel your subscription. I gave up Netflix years ago because I realized I'm just scrolling the same 15-20 Netflix Originals in every category.
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by parasti 2y ago
Ive seen several coreutils reimplementations just using the name "coreutils" for themselves. I doubt anyone in the original project cares, but seems in bad taste to me.
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by parasti 2y ago
Odd use of "protected" when clearly they aren't.
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by parasti 2y ago
That's so much more useful, thanks.
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by parasti 2y ago
Last week I added screen transitions to Neverball ( https://play.neverball.org ) which grew out of wanting to animate a small detail in the UI for another thing I was working on. Only took 20 years and literally does not affect th
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by parasti 2y ago
First option is clearly best just because it lets developers decide. Every select library should have a method like this and I breathe a sigh of relief every time I find one.
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by parasti 2y ago
Where is that number from?
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by parasti 2y ago
Am I wrong? I did click the link. I'm just assuming that the author of this post is not explicitly referring to two particular greedy clowns, but more generally to the WordPress ecosystem. Because it's actually very easy for norma
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by parasti 2y ago
Maybe I misunderstand, but this feels misdirected. As someone who's employed by "greedy clowns" (web development agencies I guess?), I continuously observe that people pay for what saves them time. Our entire profession is bu

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