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by squigz 11mo ago
> fibre seeking backhoe I don't know why but this amused me. Is this a feature one can get when buying a backhoe?
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by squigz 11mo ago
There is a shocking variety of users on HN. Don't make the mistake of thinking we're all software developers sitting in front of a computer all day. People like GP - and other hardware monkeys* - are the reason your computer works
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by squigz 11mo ago
Simply ignore users like that. If someone actually important brings up that instance as you 'being an asshole', then explain your reasoning then. If that doesn't calm them down, they're probably not someone worth working
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by squigz 11mo ago
Do you think GP is like, lying to you? Or maybe managers are just silly and are indeed willing to draw $500 for a pizza party but are unwilling to drop the same for a year of support for software they depend on. This is absolutely believabl
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by squigz 11mo ago
I don't think 'hostility' is called for, but certainly a little bit more... bluntness. But indeed, huge props to the maintainers for staying so cool.
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by squigz 11mo ago
> The point is that one-off LLM-generated projects don’t get support. Just sounds like more headaches for maintainers and those of us who provide support for FOSS. 5 hours into trying to pin down an issue and the user suddenly remembers
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by squigz 11mo ago
It's also a fairly simple matter to respect the time of the maintainers of software you want to contribute to - by, for example, talking to them before dumping 16,000 LoC in a PR and expecting them to review it. Unless, of course, it h
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by squigz 11mo ago
> cause unforeseen problems This is literally the point of having software developers, PR reviews, and other such things. To help prevent such problems. What you're describing sounds like security hell, to say nothing of the support
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by squigz 11mo ago
I think everyone would appreciate if these people using LLMs to spit out these PRs would fork things and "contribute" to those forks instead.
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by squigz 11mo ago
I think GP just used RF as an example and was only referring to GT as a comparison in difficulty. GT's system of only pulling power on-demand is very nice though; no wasting fuel
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by squigz 11mo ago
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by squigz 11mo ago
They just need to run around outside more, obviously!
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by squigz 11mo ago
You are helping her by getting her professional help :) Do some research, talk to a psychiatrist, talk to your daughter; there are lots of ways you can help her cope with things. > life won't be easy I guess. Probably not, but at le
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by squigz 11mo ago
Out of curiosity, which mods are this cruel? I've been playing GT (modern) lately and even it doesn't void your machine's items unless you break the machine itself.
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by squigz 11mo ago
> Also, ADHD has a genetic component. Having a diagnose for myself would have been useful to have before I had my son, who turned to have hyperactive ADHD. I love him to bits and I would not change him, but he's a handful. When he&#
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by squigz 11mo ago
> It's somewhat self-contradictory though. When you look closer at these patients with "attention deficit", you find that a high number of them are capable of hyperfocus. There's almost always something that deeply en
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by squigz 11mo ago
Pretty sure GP meant "no doing drugs on the train" not "no possessing drugs on the train"
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by squigz 11mo ago
I don't mean to be rude or anything - and I don't disagree with what you're suggesting - but don't you think at some point you have a responsibility to stop them accessing these platforms yourself?
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by squigz 11mo ago
What, normalizing being able to access the entire world of knowledge and cultural information, and talk to family and loved one's easily and at any distance? I know right. Absolute travesty. Come on grandpa, why aren't you program
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by squigz 11mo ago
Users who are installing a new OS should be able to handle it being called KDE Connect. There's some far too charitable takes in this thread, IMO. It's a really scummy move by the Zorin people to take FOSS, rename it, and sell acc
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by squigz 11mo ago
Isn't operating costs what's being discussed here?
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by squigz 11mo ago
> Yet generations grew up handling them and society didn’t collapse. Society did not collapse. That does not mean those things did not have negative effects on society.
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by squigz 11mo ago
Install Darkreader, enable Light mode https://darkreader.org/ I think most users are capable of that :)
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by squigz 11mo ago
Correlating smartphone ownership with mental health issues - without diving into how they actually use them - would be like correlating kids simply sitting in a car with them not being able to drive it safely. Or, to use another of my examp
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by squigz 11mo ago
Who suggested "turning oil off overnight"? What does that even mean? GP (and I) have given you several examples of stuff society learned was harmful and then phased out with regulations/legislation. No, it didn't and doe
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by squigz 11mo ago
> The parent comment called for banning all advertising, not for banning ads promoting social media platforms. This wasn't my reading of it, but it does appear that's what GP meant. I don't agree with that. Even so, if you
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by squigz 11mo ago
Banning advertisement seemed to work for smoking. https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/early/2025/01/22/tc-2... Why do you think it would be ineffective here? I'm also curious on how you th
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by squigz 11mo ago
Neat! I decided to play around with it (mostly, to be honest, because I was curious what it sounded like) - and it's really interesting to see it stream in a few bytes at a time
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by squigz 11mo ago
> However, even a catastrophic Kessler scenario at LEO would pose minimal risk for launches continuing past LEO, or satellites travelling at medium Earth orbit (MEO) or geosynchronous orbit (GEO). The catastrophic scenarios predict an in
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by squigz 11mo ago
As long as news was published on this day 40 years ago, why would supply matter?

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