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by taftster 1y ago
Right. This is insightful. It's not so much about replacing developers, per se. It's about replacing applications that developers were previously employed to create/maintain. We talk about AI replacing a workforce, but your o
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by taftster 1y ago
The total sum of all natural resources has yet to be discovered. We were supposed to hit peak oil in what, the 1990's? Trees are on a dramatic decline, but they still exist. No one can correctly or meaningfully count the amount of natu
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I Can't Drink the Water(bbc.com)
9 points by taftster 1y ago|4 comments
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by taftster 1y ago
'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre.
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by taftster 1y ago
> simulated temperature sensors that actually change in response to CPU load. Or maybe just increments to absurd numbers or negative values. Or locks up when probed. Either way could be fun.
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by taftster 1y ago
"to O(xxx)" is a good idea, in terms of keeping it mathematical and accurate. I like that best. "hugely" makes me giggle, because I really hear "bigly" when I see/hear it.
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by taftster 1y ago
Which term is appropriate here? What would you suggest? (honest question)
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by taftster 1y ago
Are mobile apps the equivalent of that experience today? Cross-platform SDKs for mobile devices have been around for awhile. This might be the closest equivalent to a Flash application?
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by taftster 1y ago
All the other plugins were dying on their own (for whatever reason). But Flash was a stubborn virus, to be sure. Yes, it definitely took the big slap from Apple to kill Flash once and for all.
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by taftster 1y ago
I wonder if it's only downhill once you have reached your own point of enlightenment. For me, that wasn't late 00's, but more like late 90's and early 00's. Maybe that was my coming of age. To me, it's been d
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by taftster 1y ago
You're speaking my language here. I think this is exactly what happens when a company has cornered the market. We have completely stagnated, as you say, for at least a decade, maybe more. Lots of innovation has happened, don't get
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by taftster 1y ago
I mean, I don't disagree with you. I think we needed Google and needed their investment to push forward past Applets, ActiveX, and Flash. But now, we're stagnating again. So maybe drying up those funds will be part of the cure.
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by taftster 1y ago
"Almost at parity" in feature set, maybe. But practically? How many sites actually offer an innovative and/or mobile-first version of their website anymore? There was definitely a time when we had websites delivering various
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by taftster 1y ago
Going back to gopher as a starting point maybe. Let's innovate from there.
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by taftster 1y ago
On the surface, it's easy to agree with your opinion. But then I think, what would it have been like without this investment. Maybe browsers would stay buggy and we'd have an internet with much more diversity in protocol. The inte
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by taftster 1y ago
The author mentioned this exact problem. Quoting: > There was a problem that I noticed right away, though: this text was from the GPL v3, not the GPL v2. In my original request I had never mentioned the GPL version I was asking about.
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by taftster 1y ago
Assuming that win.com is able to be stand alone and doesn't require win.bat, then yes, Bill can license both of these components separately, one under the GPL and another proprietary. The Free Software Foundation (FSF) describes this c
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by taftster 2y ago
We're stretching the metaphor here. I know, kind of obnoxious. If I have accidentally lifted too much weight, I want a spotter that can immediately give me relief. But yes, you're right. If I am always getting a spot, then I'
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by taftster 2y ago
Absolutely this. AI can help reveal solutions that weren't seen. An a-ha moment can be as instrumental to learning as the struggle that came before. Academia needs to embrace this concept and not try to fight it. AI is here, it's
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by taftster 2y ago
If I were to go and try to bench 300lbs, I would absolutely need a spotter to rescue me. Taking on more weight than I can possibly achieve is a setup for failure. Sure, I should probably practice benching 150lbs. That would be a good challe
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by taftster 2y ago
I don't think asking "what's wrong with my code" hurts the learning process. In fact, I would argue it helps it. I don't think you learn when you have reached your frustration point and you just want the dang assign
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by taftster 2y ago
Honestly yes. If text editors would have supported these codes from the start, we might not even have XML, JSON or similar today. If these codes weren't "binary" and all scary, we would live in much different world. I wonder
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by taftster 2y ago
But legitimately, ER's are possibly the worst place you ever want to go unless you are truly suffering a critical emergency. It takes hours to be seen and helped, if you are "waiting". The bigger the city, the worse this gets
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by taftster 2y ago
Still though. 70% is a lot to be dependent on Google for. And the way Google operates these days, I'm honestly surprised that their interest in Firefox remains.
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by taftster 2y ago
Hey, thanks for this. It saves me even more than 1 second!
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by taftster 2y ago
Microsoft is weird.
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by taftster 2y ago
Gosh. This is too perfect. I feel like you've just captured the exact moment we're living in.
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by taftster 2y ago
You'll have a significant upfront cost for the coop, fencing, feeders and other equipment. Around $1000-2000 or so. And presumably, you'll be buying baby chickens, which require their own special care. It takes about 6 months for
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by taftster 2y ago
Yeah, I used to do that. I'd put bad actors into a randomly generated never ending link farm. I'd put a special link in my robots.txt and any bot that visited it, I would assume was a bad actor. This link was not accessible from a
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by taftster 2y ago
Right?! robots.txt is basically a map to the inner secret parts of your website, the "real" content. Robots.txt is basically treated as "these rules are for thee, not for me" access control. If you don't want your c

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