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by small_scombrus 11mo ago
> $THING isn't just $THIS, it's also $THAT! Is pure marketing speak, which is also what I find a lot of LLM generated text sounds like
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by small_scombrus 11mo ago
The difference I think, is that the libraries are open source, and you don't have to pay Facebook yearly to use React. Countries can and do ban closed source paid products when they don't trust the provider (e.g. Huawei)
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
The top of a lot of the ARIA docs pages say "No ARIA is better than bad ARIA"
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
I think its the difference between outcome-based and KPI-based management. One is a lot easier and requires a lot less thought and general understanding of one's own business
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
How have I never looked at the DVD cover close enough to notice that!?
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
I feel like I get ${local_country} politics* because I follow people from ${local_country} and most the other people I follow who do post about US politics tend to spoiler their posts with USPOL, so I can just scroll past if I'm not fe
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
The realistic right now worry is that you'll fall afoul of Cloudflare's bot checking and they just won't connect you through to your destination. The potential future worry would be if cloudflare decide they don't like
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
> the email wasn't that great It was obviously good enough. Snark aside, you only need to trick one person once and you've won.
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
> I can just imagine the roundtable That's the best part! The devs probably never thought of it, the support people who were complained to were probably either unable to reach the devs, or time crunched enough to not be able to, an
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
Doubly so if the person deciding what gets implemented doesn't really get what their staff actually do. LLMs ability to give convincing sounding answers is like catnip for service desk managers who have never actually been on the des
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
> funded by the union at $1200/day Haha WHAT That's an insane amount of money to come out of union dues
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
Wikipedia is on the list of sites that the government is trying to force age verification on[1]. This isn't about people being scared they're going to be outed for watching porn. Even if the government honestly have no intentions
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
Most JS/TS runtimes have filesystem modules, at it's simplest/least secure you could implement it with client-side fetch and: On get request - find matching .MD file and return On put request - write to given location
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
> but not that much that they'd be ready to exit Emacs. There's great news for the people who want to talk to other people and NOT exit emacs - you can get IRC built straight in. https://github.com/emacs-circe
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
I think you're right, but for a wonderful second I thought there was some weird fantasy reference going on
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
> Wouldn't it better to already use the target DB to cattch potential issues earlier? The target DB can change as a project goes from something mildly fun to tinker with to something you think might actually be useful. Also I person
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
> Actually a few people have asked me for something more enterprise friendly than Copilot One of Microsoft's main selling points for enterprise copilot is that they pinky promise nothing said or given to copilot from org accounts wi
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
The AI angle aside, I spend a lot of time wishing that people and companies could be happy with a good thing. You don't need to crush your competition and drink from their skulls while squeezing every ounce of money out of your custome
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
> A recipe has a great chance of success, there are few such recipes. My partner vibe-cooks and it's almost always great. I follow recipes I know will work because if I deviate the food will be BAD This sort of thing seriously is de
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
Not the person you asked, but in my experience one or multiple of the following happen: - I just don't notice I'm hungry (this one happens most to me) - I notice I'm hungry but get distracted and forget - I notice I'm hu
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
What's the saying? > All sciences are just highly abstracted physics
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
> How do you solve the risk of AI writting and executing unit tests with something like `rm -rf /` and wiping your files? The same way you stop any person or program or third party from doing something dumb or nefarious with your fi
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by small_scombrus 1y ago
Upfront: I think AI is borderline useless for many of the tasks we give it. But: 1. Do our neurons not just react the same way every time to the same input? A brain is larger than the sum of its parts. 2. They don't reason, but you
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by small_scombrus 2y ago
People are making new GameBoy games[0]! Even new carts[1]! Though I imagine the rise of systems like the Pico8 and tic80 are siphoning people away because they can be run anywhere. 0 - https://archive.org/details/grima
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by small_scombrus 2y ago
That sounds utopian
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by small_scombrus 2y ago
> their famously bad support I cannot count the number of times I've found a Microsoft support forum question that's exactly my problem too and the official tagged Microsoft support person fully misunderstands the question and
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by small_scombrus 2y ago
It's serviceable...? They have their own custom languages for deployment which is disgusting but seems to be the norm It works, but as with all Microsoft products it's in desperate need of some love and polish
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by small_scombrus 2y ago
They give them to people like they're going out of style. Why just last week I had fourteen of them myself!
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by small_scombrus 2y ago
> They should add an event to detect when someone changes timezones. That sounds like it would be used as yet another data point with which to fingerprint and locate people ._.
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by small_scombrus 2y ago
I imagine it depends on the type of meeting and how many pointless busywork meetings a company mandates

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