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by rollcat 1y ago
Many popular games are physically and mentally demanding. You do need "vigorous, professional mousing" for any kind of shooter or RTS, on top of actual thinking and reacting. Playing in teams requires you to type to coordinate wit
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by rollcat 1y ago
> This drove my high school typing teacher nuts [...] I think that's typical for over-achievers.
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by rollcat 1y ago
Context: I've been daily driving an Ergodox since 2019. > And I hated having to learn layers and layouts. Besides I have a real job and I use a proper IDE so I need my F keys, I like to use the Home/End/Page Up+Down keys,
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by rollcat 1y ago
I don't know. I live in a country with excellent healthcare, excellent public transport, overall excellent quality of life - yeah, and so much of it is funded from our taxes. Granted, the country was rich to begin with, but it seems to
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by rollcat 1y ago
Telling people they're doing something annoying / dangerous / etc is surprisingly effective. Ask the person smoking next to you to move downwind. Ask the neighbor next door to turn down the TV. Ask the tourist in public trans
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by rollcat 1y ago
I'm not a landowner, but (subject to the local laws of course) I imagine a safer course of action would be decent home insurance. Realistically, there's a thousand other ways things can go disastrously wrong, including nothing tha
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by rollcat 1y ago
> For example, with home robot vacuums, we can only hope that brands will use top quality cells, but the information what cells are used is not even available to the customer. Hardware used to come with diagrams & schematics, for sel
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by rollcat 1y ago
This is what I have in my custom instructions: Stay brief. Do not use emoji. Check primary sources, avoid speculation. Do not suggest next steps. Do I have to repeat this every time I suspect the answer will be incorrect?
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by rollcat 1y ago
The problem is, I ask it a basic question, it confidently feeds me bullshit, I correct it twice, and only then it does an actual search.
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by rollcat 1y ago
So, in short, do a lot of unrelated, complex, expert-level work, to get basic answers - all while I could just read the docs? Where's that productivity increase everyone's been talking about?
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by rollcat 1y ago
Thank you for the article. My own conclusions from your data: - Under light workloads, you can get away with Postgres. 7k RPS is fine for a lot of stuff. - Introducing Redis into the mix has to be carefully weighted against increased archit
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by rollcat 1y ago
It's crazy how wildly inaccurate "top-of-the-list" LLMs are for straightforward yet slightly nuanced inquiries. I've asked ChatGPT to summarize Go build constraints, especially in the context of CPU microarchitectures (e
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by rollcat 1y ago
> The writing was on the wall once Linux was a thing. Linux didn't "win" nearly as much as x86 did by becoming "good enough" - Linux just happened to be around to capitalize on that victory. The writing on the wa
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by rollcat 1y ago
As a bystander watching the world burn, I find it hilarious that you're both opposing and arguing against the other's chosen planet-incinerator.
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by rollcat 1y ago
I'd argue the crown was already well-established from day 0 of Apple Watch, but you're right.
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by rollcat 1y ago
Followed by "Enterprise".
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by rollcat 1y ago
If you want a simpler and less invasive "improved cd", you can do this in ZSH: chpwd() { ls } It does what it says: after changing the cwd, list its contents. You can try other things, e.g. "[ -d .git ] &
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by rollcat 1y ago
They have straps, not hinges.
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by rollcat 1y ago
>> introduced > MacBooks Laptops have been a thing since the 80s.
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by rollcat 1y ago
Apple is kinda famous for scaling processes that are not supposed to be viable at scale. They may be just buying out all of the worldwide (China-wide) available capacity. Perks of sitting on an impossibly large pile of cash I guess. Still
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by rollcat 1y ago
The last time Apple introduced a product with a moving part was the Airpods line. I think we'll see a foldable iPhone about the same time we see a touchscreen Mac.
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by rollcat 1y ago
> "zero-cost abstractions" I believe that in modern times, this term refers to stuff like: transparent conversion to a low-level representation (e.g. a bit-packed integer) from a high-level, statically checked datatype - e.g. a
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by rollcat 1y ago
"Legal" vs "ethical" summarizes everything that is wrong about the current state of copyright.
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by rollcat 1y ago
> You're answering rhetorical questions which, incidentally, are not about terminology, but about legal and social mechanics. Yes, that's what I've tried to imply. You name things, so you can discuss them in more abstract
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by rollcat 1y ago
Thanks for debunking, I'll stop spreading lies now ^^;
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by rollcat 1y ago
None of this is the point of this discussion. The point is: commodity hardware is powerful, and it's interesting to explore its capabilities outside of its original purpose. Apple or not.
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by rollcat 1y ago
> In a community with such liberal sexual practices, STDs spread more easily, especially in earlier centuries. You can use a condom. TIL, rubber condoms are a mid-19th century invention; a significant upgrade over sheep gut. The alternat
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by rollcat 1y ago
> Which is common in industry. It was *not* common in mid-90s. x86 was commodity hardware - home PCs, early NT workstations. PHP was still written in Perl. Linux was a few years old - industry veterans (e.g. Greenspun) were throwing rock
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by rollcat 1y ago
Doesn't help that all of the major decentralized protocols have been very effectively undermined and pushed aside. GTalk first de-federated (weakening XMPP as a whole), then killed XMPP support completely. Reader effectively killed RSS
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by rollcat 1y ago
You're absolutely right! Social media like Reddit are overrun with bots, sycophants, and trolls trying to provoke reactions by engaging in controversial topics. This forms echo chambers, which is a sub-par source for training data, and

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