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by sshine 1y ago
GP wrote Dan Prichett.
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That’s one example, but I mean less personal. Wikipedia isn’t a person. For example: I’m a big fan of Wikipedia. I spent countless hours writing articles in my early twenties. I stopped because the environment got more hostile as the site g
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by sshine 1y ago
It’s possible to both criticise Wikipedia and celebrate it.
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I've seen it run commands that are naively assumed to be reading files or searching directories. I.e. not its own tools, but command-line executables. Its assumptions about these commands, and specifically the way it ran them, were cor
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by sshine 1y ago
DigitalOcean has one-click WordPress. But if you’re clicking around in the DO control panel, you’ve already conquered a significant amount of technophobia. You still need a domain, though. Which makes me recall that many domain registrars h
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by sshine 1y ago
Good to know. Normally I'd use Spring Boot and get the batteries-included experience if I ever were to make web with Java. But I could totally imagine needing a pure, well-made, zero-deps template engine for custom jobs. I certainly ha
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> on average people are unable to match a dishwasher I completely agree. Just letting the water run for any amount of time, and the dishwasher wins. > The only thing I don’t run in the dishwasher are wooden items and the couple of
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by sshine 1y ago
I also do that; open the site and look for content. I have enough subscriptions to always be able to find something. Yet somehow not falling into the Shorts attention trap is what saves my time.
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by sshine 1y ago
I measured my water usage washing by hand many years ago and can easily match the machine's usage. The trick is to reuse the water for scrubbing/soaping and "flash rinse" by quickly turning off the water when rinsing. Al
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> Why can’t stores just build the damn bag into the price In the EU, they're legally required to charge you for it to incentivize lowering plastic waste.
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People are. Just like crypto. Just look at the bitcoin hashrate; it’s a steep curve.
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Great tutorial. I never accepted the idea of committing encrypted secrets to a public git repository. So when you publish your Nix infrastructure repositories (which there are many good reasons to do), having actual secrets in them this way
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by sshine 1y ago
> Imagine bridges or houses were built like that. Bridge building is a lot more conservative when it comes to taking risk in the construction, but that is how we build bridges and lots of bridges collapse because of similar causes:
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> "Vibe coding" will be a more colorful and better remembered mile marker of this lousy decade in computers than Rust, which will be an obscurity in an appendix in 100 years. I doubt it. I'm teaching a course on C this f
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Unstable APIs are a good example of something that's extremely valuable early on. They unarguably cause confusion for everyone as they change. But it lets you choose the right abstractions that are going to stick for decades. If you&#x
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Linked lists to arbitrary memory, yes. Linked list from a consecutive chunk of memory managed by a bump allocator: just as easy as any language, no need for unsafe. Admittedly not the easiest language to make a linked list in.
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by sshine 1y ago
Meanwhile, some guy in the UK with face tattoos is being asked by face recognition software to remove his mask before he can wank.
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I feel the same way about code written with Emacs. People tell me I’m paranoid. But soon enough that code is going to morph into Common Lisp, and before you know it, we’re living in a commune drinking caffeine-free matcha. (Also, I don’t m
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> I think it’s clear that these tools are going to get more expensive. There are several meaningful interpretations of this: - The current models get cheaper to run at a fast pace - The next models outcompete the current models a
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With open-weights models reaching a level where they can sufficiently be used for agentic coding, the price can be directly compared to the price of GPU rentals: https://vast.ai/ has an H100 at $1.65/hr. which can supp
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by sshine 1y ago
You’ve gotta complain about the state of the modern web once in a while!
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I’m reminded of a checkbox titled “Don’t ask me next time” when logging into Microsoft Online that I am given the option to check every single time I log in. My lack of trust in Microsoft (or Google) to keep my interest in mind is rooted in
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I have to say, I liked SecureCRT a lot, too. PuTTY was just easier to get ahold of on a new install. I think that's why it won out for me. That and its simplicity.
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> Is such paranoia warranted? Millions of corporate laptops run Windows 11 just fine. Yes. With Windows Recall data mining surveillance screenshots taken every 5-7 seconds, completely disregarding if this may compromise your security,
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I've witnessed similar residential disputes brought to small claims court where the effort was in vain. I'm happy it worked out for you, and that you had fun doing it. I could imagine going your route. But for most people, sifting
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Indeed. We met her ex once randomly on the street, and the first thing he asked was if she was still in her lawsuit. Since the other part in the lawsuit lived in another part of the same house, you became paranoid about whether they would h
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Walk away. Life is too short for lawsuits. This comes from someone who dated someone for three years who was in a lawsuit when I got to know them, and was still in a lawsuit when we split. It affected them daily, hundreds and hundreds of ho
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> terser languages don't work all that well with LLMs I’d believe that, but I haven’t tried enough yet. It seems to be doing quite well with jq. I wonder how its APL fares. When Claude generates Haskell code, I constantly want to
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> My thought is that if FP languages like OCaml / Haskell / etc. let us compress a lot of information into a small amount of text, then that's better for the context window. Claude Code’s Haskell style is very verbose; i

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