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by riffraff 11mo ago
..VB6 was to windows dev? People with very little competence could and did get things done, but it was a mess underneath.
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by riffraff 11mo ago
I was never a perl programmer, but this was my impression of basically every perl programmer I have interacted with. Also, I think Larry Wall's "Diligence, Patience, Humility"[0] is among my favourite articles about programmi
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by riffraff 11mo ago
I think deepwiki has been popping up in my search results (e.g. for rust.vim) and I did not initially understand what it is. I am not sure I am happy it appeared there at all.
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by riffraff 11mo ago
> But ChatGPT is an insane brand I mean, so was netscape.
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by riffraff 11mo ago
the time frame matches too, 14 to 20 gives you one day of rest after the last AoC, and then three more days to buy presents before Christmas that you forgot to co :)
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by riffraff 11mo ago
I usually do it with ruby with is well suite just like python, but last year I did it with Elixir. I think it lends itself very well to the problem set, the language is very expressive, the standard library is extensive, you can solve most
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by riffraff 11mo ago
the keyword is _will_. New android phones have it preloaded, but the large majority of phones is not a new android.
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by riffraff 11mo ago
Gemini-cli existed long before Antigravity. It took Google very little. And the gemini app will come preloaded on any android phone, who else can say the same?
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by riffraff 11mo ago
what I don't understand is how paying for YT ads can be profitable. I've never clicked on a YT ad _intentionally_ nor I know anyone who did, having asked a few people. I admit the brand awareness works tho.
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by riffraff 11mo ago
maybe the solution is what linux & co used for many years: have a team of people who vet and package dependencies.
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by riffraff 11mo ago
since WW2: Annexation of Tibet, Taiwan Strait Crisis, Sino-Indian War, Sino-Vietnamese War.
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by riffraff 11mo ago
> By 2040 or so it might be more advantageous for Asian producers to just avoid our bureaucratized space altogether. in favour of what? Every other large market (China, India, USA) has extreme protectionism in place.
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by riffraff 11mo ago
More fun trivia about Garibaldi: he was elected to the french parliament, and he caused a stir when he showed up wearing his signature poncho rather than formal clothes. He was also the only french commander in the Franco Russian war to ca
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Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500M over manga piracy(japantimes.co.jp)
4 points by riffraff 11mo ago|2 comments
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by riffraff 11mo ago
Fwiw, Myanmar has been transitioning to metric since 2013 but, well, they had other worries. Likewise, Liberia set up a transition program in 2018. AFAIU both still use a bunch of traditional non US units too, like the UK.
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The third AI Math Olympiad Progress Prize has now launched(mathstodon.xyz)
1 points by riffraff 11mo ago|0 comments
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by riffraff 1y ago
Aren't those the Asian/Japanese racoons (tanuki) rather than the American ones? I recall watching a video about that many years ago when they had started appearing in eastern Europe. Edit: looking at the video they do look like Am
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by riffraff 1y ago
There's a Japanese anime from the '70s called something like "rascal the racoon", based on an American book, which tells the story of a kid with a pet raccoon. I've wanted a pet raccoon since I saw this on TV in the
619.
by riffraff 1y ago
That works fine for files, but what if the integration is with a third party service for example? You can create an actual mock networked service but it's much more work. I think this is an example explaining what seems like a good pra
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by riffraff 1y ago
I think if you make the par visible in the "result screen" and add a "try again" option to "next" this could make it more interesting without the need to ramp up difficulty. I think I solved a few cases with a
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by riffraff 1y ago
How's this competition if it's still using apple's payment infrastructure in apps that are shipped via apple's app store?
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by riffraff 1y ago
That is very understandable, and the chant of "they're all the same" is common in other countries too. But, noone was as bad a president as Trump in recent decades, as shown by his approval during the first term, so the re-el
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by riffraff 1y ago
Not to be deterred, the latest package has an objective of ten million robo taxis in ten years.
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by riffraff 1y ago
EU is far more collaborative now than it's ever been, e.g. joint debt was always controversial, but the EU emitted 800M of joint debt during the COVID crisis, which had never happened before. If you look at the short term, countries
625.
by riffraff 1y ago
a few years ago our company used Screenhero which allowed editing with multiple cursors while screensharing. The experience was actually quite nice for two-three people but we always had the "ok let me type now" flow. Multiple cha
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by riffraff 1y ago
I disagree, I think there's a huge bubble but I know at least 4 people using LLMs daily who are not techies, and I know what they use it for and it's valuable. But none of them is paying for it.
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by riffraff 1y ago
Let me add one thing: high blood pressure is both very bad and sometimes has no clear tell signs, and cake people doing sedentary work like IT folks it's very common. Get tested regularly.
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The Rockchip calendar used by the RK808 counts November with 31 days (2015)(github.com)
1 points by riffraff 1y ago|0 comments
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by riffraff 1y ago
the 28th regime is a proposal from the former head[0] of the largest Italian left wing party. It may be insane, but it's not something dreamed up by billionaires. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Letta
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by riffraff 1y ago
Does openai make billions? Sam Altman said they have revenue, but didn't say how much, did he? We've heard people saying google is making profit on their Ai offering, but I don't think anyone else has their infrastructure wit

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