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by pkulak 10mo ago
Eh, it just fell into the trap of “too much magic”. By the end, every single plot element was created by something magic the audience has never seen before, then eventually solved by another magic thing no one had seen before. It happens a
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by pkulak 10mo ago
Eh, it's more like: a dog pooped on a lawn down my block, but it hasn't happened to me yet, so I'm not too worked up about it.
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by pkulak 10mo ago
Folks keep saying that, but I can still never get rid of this badge. Even upgraded this morning. Is there _anything_ I can do by say, hopping on the DB and deleting rows???
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by pkulak 10mo ago
The difference in carbon emissions for a search query vs an LLM generation are on the order of exhaling vs driving a hummer. So I can reduce this disingenuous argument to: > You spent your whole life breathing, and now you're compla
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by pkulak 10mo ago
Yup, this makes sense. I host a Matrix server, and it's equivalent in quality to Discord or anything else. Except that I've had a single unread badge on my account on iOS for at least a year now. It drives me nuts.
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by pkulak 10mo ago
I got so used to taking advantage of this feature in my side projects that my work Kotlin code is now full of “run {}” blocks. Even with a GCed language, it’s very nice to restrict variable lifetimes without needing to split the logic out t
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by pkulak 10mo ago
Making batteries for $80/kWh IS the next gen tech. I’m pretty sure China invented lipo (EDIT: I meant lfp) (at least they’re the only ones making it) and they’re currently pushing ahead on sodium ion. They are also the ones who have pu
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by pkulak 10mo ago
Arg, you’re right. Not sure what I was thinking there. I still think my point stands, because you get the benefits of immutability, but yeah, I didn’t explain it well.
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by pkulak 10mo ago
This is why I love how Rust approached this; almost by accident to make borrow checking work. Every reference is either mutable or not, and (with safe code), you can't use an immutable reference to get a mutable reference anywhere down
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by pkulak 11mo ago
My guess is that when you measure, an arena is not worth the trouble when you run a generational GC, which essentially uses an arena for the eden space already. And if you have an arena, it's probably very short lived and would otherwi
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by pkulak 11mo ago
Personally, I don’t like non-standard plurals and take the opportunity of a new word not to carry the mistake through. I prefer “mouses” as well, for the plural of a computer mouse.
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by pkulak 11mo ago
Unlike you?
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by pkulak 11mo ago
The problem is that the transit agency doesn't have a lot of agency over its city's homeless population.
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by pkulak 11mo ago
Facial recognition is a LOT harder. And there aren't laws saying you're not allowed to do anything that would disrupt it. AND the laws regarding taking photos of people are a lot different than the laws around taking photos of car
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by pkulak 11mo ago
Not being such a car-dependent society that every single person is forced into a dangerous, personal machine that requires licensing and tracking, to do absolutely any activity outside the house.
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by pkulak 11mo ago
Well, when US-EAST-1 went down, my family was still chatting. Same with Cloudflare. Even if I lose internet, we can all chat so long as we’re on the network. That said, the uptime is still probably worse than Signal. I didn’t mean trust the
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by pkulak 11mo ago
Yes. If you don’t verify, every conversation is empty.
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by pkulak 11mo ago
> barely useable even for reasonably technical users My entire family (including my elderly mother) would be very interested to learn how technical they are!
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by pkulak 11mo ago
I'd love to see a world were game devs program to a subset of Win32 that's known to run great on Linux and Windows. Then MSFT can be as hostile as they like, but no one will use it if it means abandoning the (in my fantasy) 10% of
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by pkulak 11mo ago
I trust my life to the server I host in my own closet. People can lecture me all day long about the superiority of Signal's encryption, and I'll just slowly rotate my chair to point my index finger at the Dell OptiPlex behind me.
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by pkulak 11mo ago
Despite all the gnashing of teeth in this thread, this seems reasonable. This seems to only prevent you from logging into your account, with only a password, NOT verifying it (by dismissing all the prompts asking you to do so), and then sen
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by pkulak 11mo ago
I use a Firefox preference to pin my location to a spot near, but not at, my house: user_pref("geo.provider.network.url", 'data:application/json,{"location": {"lat": 45.0, "lng": -122.0}, &q
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by pkulak 1y ago
Turn on the news. The party agrees with me. I’ve been saying it since this folly was started, but they finally realized that you can’t negotiate with someone when your threat is their ideal outcome. They want flights cancelled. They want pe
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by pkulak 1y ago
Repealing Obamacare has been a _very explicit_ policy position of the Republican party for over a decade. They spent the entire last election telling anyone who would listen exactly what they would do, and now they are doing it. Yes, electi
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by pkulak 1y ago
So because the democrats have no power except to make things worse, that’s what they should do? They have publicly said that the only thing they are negotiating for is one more year of health care subsidies. That’s a noble goal, but the cou
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by pkulak 1y ago
Didn’t they illegally take funds from the CIA to pay the military and ICE? It seems to me like this is ideal for them. They break the law to pay for the stuff they want, let everything else rot. Why the Democrats have allowed this is beyond
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by pkulak 1y ago
Midway comes to mind: https://maps.app.goo.gl/GRUXJVdUPQMWkZNU6
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by pkulak 1y ago
You can’t find another city that even approaches NYC without moving to another country. And moving to London or Paris to escape taxes doesn’t make a lot of sense.
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by pkulak 1y ago
Why look at North Korea when NYC has had rent control forever? It makes landlords neglect maintenance. That’s about it. I don’t know that I totally agree with it, but it’s fine.
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by pkulak 1y ago
Why? They didn’t defund their police.

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