timcobb

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by timcobb 10mo ago
whaaaat and this is the guy who coined "vibe-coding"? I am honestly pretty shocked reading this. I must be a fool or an idiot or both because I, for one, feel like suddenly I went from being a 1x developer to a 10x developer. Mayb
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by timcobb 10mo ago
So what is the idea with something then? Build software and...?
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by timcobb 10mo ago
> Premier Inn's budget 'Hub' brand chain have sealed windows and just wall-mounted A/C (not fed fresh air from a central duct). Should be illegal Places like this is just brutal...
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by timcobb 10mo ago
Why wouldn't a project like this be OSS? How do they expect to monetize? People buying dialtone subscriptions as a social network?
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by timcobb 10mo ago
I would guess there is passive ventilation too, they're not hermetic. You'd get stuffy/uncomfortable, but it's not like you'd... suffocate and die?
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by timcobb 10mo ago
I looked at this in NY recently and it was like $150/night with a shared bathroom. Not worth it for me, at that point I'd rather not go to NY :/
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by timcobb 10mo ago
What do you like about betting? > Most of the bets we encounter in the real world are negative EV. Yeah that's why I don't like betting. It feels not smart, for me especially. But people who make the right bets can make very la
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by timcobb 10mo ago
I used to think this but then developed the impression that quite the opposite is true, that a great many clever people live their lives betting on this or that (equities, derivities, sports, polymarket, often they call it "risk manage
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by timcobb 10mo ago
Yeah, we got it!
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by timcobb 10mo ago
Yeah but why is marketing regarding the power adapter in the headline?
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by timcobb 10mo ago
This is a good call. I wonder what this means: > featuring up to 80W of performance
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by timcobb 10mo ago
You gotta give us more than that
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by timcobb 10mo ago
Usually the opposite of what happens to a power in decline
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by timcobb 10mo ago
> and a way to download that without my ISP doing something about it. what would your ISP do?
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by timcobb 10mo ago
What simple solution are you referring to? Depopulating Tehran?
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by timcobb 10mo ago
Unaccountable fools in power destroy entire civilizations... Amusing/telling/sad how these self proclaimed anti-imperialist Islamists cargo culted western technohubris just the same
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by timcobb 10mo ago
> The main problem GraphQL tries to solve is overfetching. this gets repeated over and over again, but if this your take on GraphQL you def shouldn't be using GraphQL, because overfetching is never such a big problem that would warr
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by timcobb 10mo ago
Pretty sure they'll keep collective paychecks and watching Netflix
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by timcobb 10mo ago
It wasn't before, when I asked. Yes now there is more here about emulation :).
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by timcobb 10mo ago
I didn't know that, but I would have assumed that. And that being the case, the difference seems to be whether you want to run your old program in a Windows 11 chrome or a Windows 3.11 chrome :shrug:
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by timcobb 11mo ago
I don't know, you could do something totally wild like re-imagining the filesystem... I, for one, would love a flat blob store organized in some other way than folders or filenames. I think there's tons of interesting things that
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by timcobb 11mo ago
> forcing updates cuts of a lot of apps that can't invest enough in updating. What about emulation?
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by timcobb 11mo ago
> it "culls" a whole load of otherwise working software It doesn't cull it, you can still run Windows 3.11 or 98SE as well under emulation as on contemporary original hardware. If anything, breaking backwards compatibilit
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by timcobb 11mo ago
I don't get it, I am sincerely sorry :(. Why do we need Windows 11 to support old software when we can use an older version of Windows, in an emulator at that. Playing Quake doesn't require a secure, patched box, and if a secure e
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by timcobb 11mo ago
> Last but not least, id Software really wanted Quake to work on Windows NT. Why?
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by timcobb 11mo ago
I'm 40 years old and I've never heard or experienced such things :)
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by timcobb 11mo ago
> Stuff that used to be snappy is now sluggish and often entirely broken. and as of when was GitHub known for its snappiness?
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by timcobb 11mo ago
You can say it's immoral or violates terms of service but as others have pointed out this isn't piracy, which has a very specific definition
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by timcobb 11mo ago
You're responding to a comment that says they pay and don't see ads
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by timcobb 11mo ago
Ew gross

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