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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> But I’m unsure where the ceiling is. The ceiling is effectively "wherever it first breaks beyond the maintainer's capability of fixing it." Once development can't get past a given problem, it's hit, at least te
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> Microsoft are certainly doing their best to push people away right now According to a speculative blog post by Eric S. Raymond in September 2020, Microsoft is literally moving towards replacing Windows' internals with Linux. Unfo
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> We don't care about stars for vanity, more because star velocity is the primary signal GitHub uses for trending, which would drive discovery for us. Spoken like a marketer, as opposed to a developer ;). > I mean do you have an
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
This is pretty darn cool. i've not yet seen any mention of one particular quirk so will point it out: on Firefox it flashes between "normal" and "upgraded" mode pretty starkly (A) when switching pages and (B) when t
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> What features would you welcome? 1. Dark mode 2. (Now that i'm seeing it in action for the first time) inline responding. That said: this increases the weight of the page considerably (in JS code), so delegating it to the various
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> What are we missing? To re-frame the question: why do you care how many stars (presumably you're talking about github stars?) you have? Does the number of stars change what you develop or how you develop it? Losing sleep over gith
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
>> Linux is the only hope at this point for the future of computing. Linux is the most obvious, but there are numerous flavors of BSD as well. > and yet... still unusable by the mass majority of people. That info is 20+ years out o
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> Does cp actually work on live sqlite files? I wouldn’t expect it to, since cp does not create a crash-consistent snapshot. cp "works" but it has a very strong possibility of creating a corrupt copy (the more active the db, th
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
If the author is here: the link to King's article ( https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blogs/2019-11-05-parse-don-t-v... ) is incorrect (wrong date format). Try: < https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog&#x2
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> There is actual research suggesting concise prompting can reduce response length substantially without always wrecking quality, Anecdote: i discussed that with an LLM once and it explained to me that LLMs tend to respond to terse quest
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
It crashes on the first video i tried: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO9FKQAxWZc Relevant part: > ERROR: [youtube] XO9FKQAxWZc: Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. Use --cookies-from-browser or --cookies for the authe
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> --moreversion Suggestion: more conventional and intuitive would be: --version --verbose
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
Does this not also create a single point of data for thieves wanting to know where the best bikes can be found? One tiny data breach, or one disgruntled employee, and all those address/bike combinations are on the dark web?
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> - if you have trouble with nose breathing like me, use Nose strips (that helps for me) Just to clarify your intent there: do mean you _must_ breathe through your nose or that you _must_not_ breathe through your nose? (And what on earth
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
Note to other viewers: getting the Escher-esque effect requires tapping a checkbox at the top of the page (easy to miss on a large monitor).
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
- Programming and/or documenting personal projects - Tabletop games, though probably 90% of this means either tinkering with games (as opposed to playing them, e.g. creating inserts or new pieces for them) and/or hanging out on Bo
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> So likely not helping with tinnitus. Not directly, no, but here's hoping that it leads to something in the adjacent field of Tinnitus.
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
FWIW: as someone who's been doing this since before the term "Open Source" was coined, i find this article to be both enlightening and insightful, cataloguing a wide range of diverse definitions/connotations of the term.
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
Holy moley. Let's hope this leads to treatments for Tinnitus.
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> I have to imagine that one quality post worth reading ... As the Berliners say: "Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt" or: "Hope is the last thing to die" (or "hope dies last" if one prefers a literal translation)
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> Give coding agents access to intellisense and syntax highlighting. i once asked an LLM if it could ingest code from an interactive session more easily if it were in appropriately-typed markdown fences and it said absolutely yes, and th
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> json_extract returns native types. json_extract(data, '$.id') returns an integer if the value was stored as a number. Comparing it to a string silently fails. Always CAST(json_extract(...) AS TEXT) when you need string compar
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> One has to manually ... delete Your Likes and Dislikes on YouTube and Is that really surprising? Does it even make sense to time-limit likes/dislikes? Similarly for comments: in what use cases (disregarding malicious ones) does it
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> Recommend you run "npm install" on your host then instead. npm doesn't get run on any of my systems :-P.
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
According to: $ history | awk '{print $2}' | sort -u Slightly edited: bash, bc, convert, cp, df, du, fossil, grep, less, tail, make, man, mc, mkdir, mv, ps, rm, ssh, scp, sudo, tar, gzip, unzip
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> I read that as they’re ejecting all but 30 people. i had to re-read the original sentence several times to figure out how you came to that conclusion but can see it now: "all people over/above/beyond [a limit of] 30...&q
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
Please help me understand where the missing comma is supposed to be in: > their Membership Committee has decided to eject from membership all Collabora staff and partners over thirty people who ... Is it: 1) "eject from membership a
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> STRICT should be the default. Somewhat ironically[^1], if STRICT were suddenly made the default, countless applications which work today would fail to work right after that update. SQLite is on billions upon billions of devices, freque
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> Guessing you meant "python" rather than "docker", as docker is not subject to the same type of attack. No, i meant docker. _All_ systems which pull dependencies from remote sources are subject to attack via maliciou
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by sgbeal 6mo ago
> This looks like an LLM... The word "masterclass" in the title is another clue in that direction. In the past 20 years i have only ever heard it used (frequently/habitually) by LLMs and many recent (LLM-era) articles. Edi

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