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631.
by specproc 3y ago
I really like the Ron Hogan translation. It's lighter on the woo and, y'know, connects. https://terebess.hu/english/tao/ron.html
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by specproc 3y ago
Let's see how it runs with a decade's worth of water under the bridge. A lot of norms have changed since then. Still gives me the creeps.
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by specproc 3y ago
It must be stressful being told you belong in prison, I hope you're doing OK. FWIW, I think you -- and anyone else who collects, organises and makes this sort of stuff available -- are doing God's work. Archivists are heroes. It&#
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by specproc 3y ago
As others have mentioned in the thread, Prophet has been abandoned, and in my experience anyway, wasn't all that great.
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by specproc 3y ago
And their library is second to none.
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by specproc 3y ago
I used to break into music festivals as a kid. The best time was just as camera phones were being adopted. I had a paying friend already on site, and got him to send me a picture of the wristband. Sky blue, yellow toggle. I head to a haberd
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by specproc 3y ago
I mean, I'm also a poor lost soul here, but HG Wells was right: The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations
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by specproc 3y ago
I'm getting down-voted, so I feel I should fight my corner a little bit. Yes, their products are ubiquitous, but as someone further down noted, some of the most important aren't monetised. Their ubiquity also came from their first
639.
by specproc 3y ago
Whilst I generally agree with the consensus in this thread that they're trying to starve competitors of cash, I'm not particularly bullish about Meta's future. They've sunk an obscene amount of cash into a failed product
640.
by specproc 3y ago
I'm also on the Copilot Chat trial and I agree it's pretty weak at the moment. Good for asking random programming (or even general computer) questions, but lousy at understanding and working with my code -- which is basically what
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by specproc 3y ago
IIRC there was some issue with non-Latin characters in filenames in zips on older Windows. The details escape me, but I live somewhere with a non-Latin script and it rars were very popular here ten-fifteen years ago for this reason.
642.
by specproc 3y ago
Reading this sort of stuff makes me reevaluate my life choices.
643.
by specproc 3y ago
As someone who just this week tried to put Linux on a Surface (laptop 4), I can categorically say I'm not going to try that again. Totally broken, not even booting properly.
644.
by specproc 3y ago
Heh, this is exactly why posting on HN is worthwhile. Probably just wait for FF now though.
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by specproc 3y ago
Yeah, I was doing Iceraven for a bit, but it was a pain to keep updated. Super stoked with this news this morning.
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by specproc 3y ago
I did not like the look of Kiwi Browser one bit, lots of weird permissions and dodgy ad-tech smells. Plus it's not Firefox, I'd rather use the same browser on both desktop and Android. This is great news. Can't wait to have a
647.
by specproc 3y ago
I'm in the desktop calculator crowd. There's a shortcut in the exact top right of my keyboard, just over the numpad. It'd be rude not to.
648.
by specproc 3y ago
I was kinda hoping the article was about how terrible a user interface chat is. All the implementations I've seen so far fall into one of two categories: deterministic or non-deterministic. The deterministic ones (e.g. that comically b
649.
by specproc 3y ago
Are you on the Copilot Chat[0] preview? It's ChatGPT in VSCode, and it's nice. Not quite ChatGPT-level quality, but good enough. [0] https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/github-copilot-chat/using...
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by specproc 3y ago
Or don't ever install it on your phone. It's bad enough in a browser tab, I'd go mad with it on my phone.
651.
by specproc 3y ago
I've been using Copilot and Copilot chat for a while now, and I really struggle to see why I should use any of these ChatGPT wrappers over it. I know some support local inference with open models, but they're just not that good in
652.
by specproc 3y ago
> On Reddit and other fora, we have heavy bias towards people that have the time to goof around on forums instead of, you know, doing things. Burn. I should log and get some work done.
653.
by specproc 3y ago
I'm still interested in this line of enquiry. These models are clearly not good enough for decision-making, but still might tell an interesting story. Here's an easily testable exercise: get a load of news from somewhere like news
654.
by specproc 3y ago
I honestly feel that Google and increasingly LLMs are the challenge here. Behaviour of users on SO has always been, well, as all the complaints here suggest. It's never really bothered me that the top answer's someone going off on
655.
by specproc 3y ago
If you're interested in trying python without it interfering with existing installs, Anaconda and Miniconda are great places to start.
656.
by specproc 3y ago
Heh, sorry if I misread or sounded narky! That category one is clearly there and influential, but I don't think you suggested they were everywhere. I'm impressed by those who find the time and energy to be consistent with a craft,
657.
by specproc 3y ago
I guess this is intended as an alternative to networkx? I've not used nx for a while, it would be interesting to see a comparison. A quick eyeball suggests a not dissimilar API and a smaller feature-set. What's the use case? Perfo
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by specproc 3y ago
I like this idea, might give that a go.
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by specproc 3y ago
I get the sentiment, but more kindly.. I only really got going in the last few years after a long non-tech career. I wouldn't count myself as an older dev and I'm ~40. I play with all sorts of cool stuff all the time, was into hug
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by specproc 3y ago
Good spot, but no. Further north.

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