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by specproc 1y ago
The other way of looking at it is that some love for the craft is pretty much a prerequisite for the self-taught, whilst many graduates are there for the career. N=1. I remember showing an incredibly competent CS colleague something I'
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by specproc 1y ago
That article stinks of PR. It's certainly an interesting, newsworthy development, but the piece is missing just a teeny bit of context: the crypto donations and Trump interests, the money lost in the last cycle, the risks involved in o
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by specproc 1y ago
I wouldn't underestimate the anxiety it's causing. Most of my social circle are non-technicial. A lot of people have had a difficult time with work recently, for various reasons. The global economic climate feels very precarious,
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by specproc 1y ago
Yeah, the areas AI has provided real value to me are the simple things: logging, docstrings and cli stuff being the best examples. I can throw up a basic sketch, focusing on the code, and get it to add the quality stuff after.
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by specproc 1y ago
Totally agree, this behaviour is maddening. I set a hotkey to toggle completions, made it useful again.
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by specproc 1y ago
I don't see what's "woke" or even "unwoke" about absurdly aggressive copyright enforcement or your bitcoin account being frozen.
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by specproc 1y ago
The site suggests that VPNs may be effected. What's the mechanism here? Is this likely to cause trouble for all VPNs?
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by specproc 1y ago
That's just silly, everyone knows the future is lichess.
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by specproc 1y ago
Had my phone left uncharged for the best part of a week recently. Barely needed it. It's my laptop that eats my brain.
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by specproc 1y ago
Cheers, I'll check it out
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by specproc 1y ago
Totally. Took a while to make the switch, but could never imagine going back. It's not like it'll get better. No idea what the value proposition for the average home user these days.
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by specproc 1y ago
Whilst my recent experience possibly agrees with the findings, I came here to moan about the methods. Whether it's 16 or 246, that's still a miserably small sample size.
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by specproc 1y ago
I'd have to do some reading around, but from first glance it doesn't look like it'd compare well to Affinity.
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by specproc 1y ago
Yeah, I didn't enjoy Scribus. Horrible UX, which probably has its roots in "professional" DTP from the nineties. Like, one does not simply just paste an image into Scribus. I'm sure it's possible to do plenty with i
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by specproc 1y ago
I picked a book of his diaries up recently, it's been great to pick at. The copy I have has _a lot_ about his garden and the countryside around him, which has been fun to read whilst working on mine. Lots of very terse household entrie
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by specproc 1y ago
I've got a bunch of artistic side projects and regularly need DTP. I switched to Linux a few years back, and pretty much the last remaining pain point is DTP software. Is there anything out there in the FOSS world at a similar level to
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by specproc 1y ago
My last employer was truly global, I was interacting with people from Japan to the west coast of Canada, with the bulk of people in EU timezones. Worked great for me, I'm a little bit to the east of CET. My mornings, my most productive
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by specproc 1y ago
I listen to music on Youtube, decidedly non-Kpop music. This goddamn thing keeps jumping on the queue after a while. I hate it.
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by specproc 1y ago
I can think of nothing more likely to damage one's attention span than a variable intermittent reward loop on short form video.
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by specproc 1y ago
I'm really not sure old school taxis are actually that bad. I had two incidents in the UK recently where my app of choice failed me and I was quickly bailed out cheaper by googling "taxi $TOWN" and having a one minute convers
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by specproc 1y ago
Yeah, Linux gaming is amazing in 2025, and it's all down to Steam choosing to run the Deck on Linux. You don't need the deck for it either, I'm not sure you even need Steam. Such an incredibly pro-consumer move by a company w
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by specproc 1y ago
Tech workers America Capitalists
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by specproc 1y ago
Yes, we take extreme behaviour, that is harmful to others, and prohibit it as a society. Where we run into trouble is where we say, well here is an example of a case where this extreme behaviour may be countenanced. There may well be such c
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by specproc 1y ago
Sorry, for clarity. Nor does it use violence _only_ as a last resort. It is an aggressive, violent state and this is a huge problem I have with my government.
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by specproc 1y ago
My society neither shares my belief system, nor uses violence as a last resort.
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by specproc 1y ago
The last two times I've been in a fight went exactly the same way. Dumb drunk guy swung at my face, I took it, a bunch of bystanders jumped on him and hauled him off. Pretty much end of story. I've plenty of fighting experience, t
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by specproc 1y ago
The American comment was admittedly flippant, but the point remains that you cannot construct morality on edge cases. Violence is abhorrent. Frequency is relevant because one can base one's life and actions on principles of nonviolence
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by specproc 1y ago
I have to say I'm fortunate enough never to have found myself in that situation. Is this something that happens regularly in America? I would comfortably say I completely share this conviction. I would not like to find myself in a posi
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by specproc 1y ago
Hosted loads for a while, a brilliant time. We were living somewhere unusual at the time, everyone that came through was interesting, intelligent and fun. Zero bad experiences. Made some friends for life. My flatmate at the time ended up ma
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by specproc 1y ago
I spent today rewriting a cloud function I'd done with the "help" of an LLM. Looked like dog shit, but worked fine till it hit some edge cases. Had to break the whole thing down again and pretty much start from scratch. Ultim

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