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by sph 1mo ago
Tangent inspired by the first half of the article: wasting time on the Internet, in front of screens being akin to Plato's Cave is a useful framing device I wish I could internalize. Two or three decades ago getting acquainted with the
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by sph 1mo ago
Ethical Bank? Isn't that an oxymoron?
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by sph 1mo ago
What protection do LLM search engines have against training off content generated by other LLMs? Will we get to a point where AI-generated sites make up a majority of the internet, and LLMs are training upon their own regurgitations, with e
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by sph 1mo ago
I just saw David Mitchell fall to his knees at a Waitrose
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by sph 1mo ago
So you’re saying OP’s choice is between dying for their job, or potentially dying without one? In that case the focus should be on the immediate emergency (of being ill because of work) than the potential risk (of getting ill while jobless)
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by sph 1mo ago
Yeah go ask a homeless person why don’t they become a hedge fund manager or neurosurgeon. Are they stupid?
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by sph 1mo ago
If you can/want to do a lot of things, you have a lot of projects going on at any time. Those that can’t do any, won’t have any either. Isn’t the hard drive of the average software engineer full of half finished projects?
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by sph 1mo ago
You don't survive a thing that's making you sick. You quit. No job is worth your health.
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by sph 1mo ago
/r/shitamericanssay
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by sph 1mo ago
Seeing stuff like this reminds me why I got into computers in the late 90s. Human ingenuity paired with love for the art and the craft. Good to have a reminder that it’s software engineering that has changed, not me.
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by sph 1mo ago
No boring themes either. There was more than the corporate bland aesthetic.
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by sph 1mo ago
“This is good for LLM.” In reality since the new CEO, they have been much more strict with antibotting and they have virtually disappeared from the game. It’s been an incredible 6 months without major botfarms in the game. Botting subreddit
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by sph 1mo ago
Wait, are you saying the pets.com era was worse than the current era where websites even more dubious (gambling, prediction markets) are still openly advertised? You’re saying that the era that sets us down the path of social media is worse
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by sph 1mo ago
I love how when Runescape gets posted on here, there’s always a few proud stories of how people cheated. Today one is even admitting to RWT (real world trading) for tens of thousands of $, when elsewhere one shuts up about it because cheate
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by sph 1mo ago
Funny, I just learned of this website from elsewhere, and I bookmarked this arguably much more interesting project: https://beyondloom.com/decker/index.html
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by sph 1mo ago
What is truly unfortunate is that even if there was an objective way of looking at history, people would just dismiss it as "oh, shut up, it's just nostalgia." Being unable to be objective doesn't invalidate the argument
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by sph 1mo ago
Agreed 100% on highlighting the comments, that's what I also prefer and many themes still get wrong.
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by sph 1mo ago
I have a crappy Emacs theme I built myself, inspired by Jon Blow's Emacs theme he uses on his stream which I find very peaceful to look at, but with a more bluish/indigo hue. It's full of bugs, so not comfortable sharing hone
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by sph 1mo ago
Yeah, I forgot to mention them, they're pretty good (though I use the muted colour preset, the default one is too vibrant)
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by sph 1mo ago
> many stray dogs I look after instinctively take care of my property Their ancient wolf-dog ancestors howl with approval. That's why we domesticated them after all.
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by sph 1mo ago
I am convinced everybody gets syntax highlighting wrong and this article backs me up. My pet peeves: - I have no idea how people are supposed to be productive with non-semantic rainbow vomit themes that are so popular in modern editors. I&#
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by sph 1mo ago
Come on, where they will find a way to express their American exceptionalism these days? Let them have that one.
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by sph 1mo ago
Social media in its entirety is. It’s the same reason people come to HN. You might get an interesting post/discussion, you might get a lot of stuff you don’t care about. But here you are pulling the lever once again.
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by sph 1mo ago
Good. I’d rather have free computing than the modern web.
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by sph 1mo ago
[redacted for anti-state sentiment]
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by sph 1mo ago
Too expensive, there’s a tax on single-use plastic utensils now.
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by sph 1mo ago
The Gates-posting will continue until his public perception improves
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by sph 1mo ago
If you want to do encryption the proper way on modern browser, look into https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Crypto_...
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by sph 1mo ago
I gave it a deeper look and it bundles 500+ kB minified OpenPGP library in JavaScript, presumably to do all the encryption and key management logic. Not saying it's necessarily malicious, but if I wanted to do malice this is exactly ho
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by sph 1mo ago
This place already was lousy with empathy-challenged people, but these days, man, they’ll gladly kick a person down on their luck.

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