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by uncircle 1y ago
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill [disputed]
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by uncircle 1y ago
I always wondered if in the US people take pills by the handful as they are commonly portrayed in movies and TV. I am pretty sure I have seen represented a person with an heachache fill their palm with 10 pills of clearly marked Tylenol bot
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by uncircle 1y ago
I am still waiting to hear about a proven exploit in the wild for all that stuff we’re mitigating against.
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by uncircle 1y ago
GP probably wanted to say that LibreOffice’s UI is 90s era Linux quality, rather than the beauty of Office 97 and such. Mismatched, not native, terrible stock icons, clunky and frankly ugly.
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by uncircle 1y ago
How do you autodetect the timezone, when the RTC clock doesn’t have one? On Linux with one command you can switch between UTC or local RTC time to match Windows. On Windows you need to change a bit in the registry if you want it to adapt to
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by uncircle 1y ago
The Adobe Suite and those multiplayer games with kernel-level anticheat are probably the two things holding up the Windows’ crumbling empire. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Microsoft pays those companies a boatload of money to remain
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by uncircle 1y ago
Funny, I had issues with my adapter where I had to turn BT fast connect off. In computing there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Windows has its own share of idiosyncrasies. You're just used to them. Bluetooth hardware is terrible, of
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by uncircle 1y ago
Why write 27 lines of Go (not one line) when you can do python -m http.server And still it is a silly argument because using npx is still less effort than having to write those 27 lines when zero will do. Sure, you dislike Javascript
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by uncircle 1y ago
> Coding is a hard part of game dev. Coming up with interesting novel mechanics or plays on known genres is rather easy but bringing them to life is hard esp the code. Multiplayer vampire survivors but with giant battletech mech customiz
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by uncircle 1y ago
> Game companies already collect heaps of data about players, which mechanics they interact with, which mechanics they don't, retention, play time, etc. Yes, that's how games like Concord get made. Very successful approach to c
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by uncircle 1y ago
Good place as any to ask: can you give a rough percentage of how much material can be recycled from high-end electronics like GPUs? 5%? 20%? Is it mostly rarer and more expensive materials like gold/lithium, or is it mainly bulk plast
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by uncircle 1y ago
This is an interesting point. As LLMs are not intelligent and trained on what already exists, their output is necessarily mediocre if not bad. We simply have found a way to increase the amount of crap in the digital world, to the point that
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by uncircle 1y ago
Then there’s me, spending my August learning Blender the manual way like we did before 2022 to escape the dreadscape of AI-infected software engineering, and discovering that, wow, I really enjoy 3D modeling to the point I might at least ma
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by uncircle 1y ago
It was indeed sarcasm
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by uncircle 1y ago
Fair, though in this day and age I find being offline is quite a rare event, and when it happens (I’m driving in the middle of nowhere), I don’t need my emails. I’ll give TB another try. Web apps always feel terrible.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Yeah, but what about your productivity? You could commit and have to maintain 40% more code for the same pay if you had used an LLM.
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by uncircle 1y ago
Good, that’s the only way these unpopular laws might get repealed or reworked, given that the UK citizens can’t or won’t do much about it except collectively shrug. What terrifies me is that the EU is looking at UK’s OSA as a model, and wil
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by uncircle 1y ago
Do you like Thunderbird better than Fastmail’s UI? I’ve always felt TB to be clunky, outdated with an ecosystem of abandoned extensions that haven’t been updated since GMail got popular, but I haven’t tried it in the last 3 years to see if
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by uncircle 1y ago
> I think the article could be more accurately titled "A Guide to Gen AI / LLM Vibecoding for Programmers who hate their job" Given how “vibe coding” is all about explaining clearly the requirements and defining context, i
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by uncircle 1y ago
> This shouldn’t really matter, software can also be written by very bad coders. The issue is that there is a non-zero likelihood that a vibe coder pushes code he doesn’t even understand how it actually works. At least a bad coder had to
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by uncircle 1y ago
Not anymore.
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by uncircle 1y ago
That’s not what “consuming” means, unless you mean spending hours watching TikToks about your favourite sport.
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by uncircle 1y ago
The question you need to ask yourself are: - what exactly is “technology”? - what is the difference between a screwdriver and Twitter? In other words, what are tools, and are they all equal? - what is the end goal of a technological society
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by uncircle 1y ago
Someone once posted a video by Jonathan Bi, a lecture on Rousseau and his views that intellectuals with large egos eventually play contrarian positions just to have a chance to argue and prove how smart they are; Rousseau’s opinion was that
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by uncircle 1y ago
What is this BlackSky you're talking about?
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by uncircle 1y ago
I take offence at comparing my consulting services writing real software by hand like we did in 2021 with generative AI spambots. (I'm not really offended honestly. Startups will come crying to un-vibe the codebases soon enough.)
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by uncircle 1y ago
Do you sell overpriced generative AI solutions, or do you consult them on how to pivot away from idiotic generative AI?
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by uncircle 1y ago
Without entering in the details of whether a soup and sandwich are worth 17.50 EUR, one thing I've noticed when people discuss prices is that they always refer to "what it used to cost" and forget about the real economic forc
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A Call to Minimize Distraction (2013)(minimizedistraction.com)
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by uncircle 1y ago
> there should be a function where the keyboard reports both the labels on its keys as well as the physical layout You can move the keycaps around, though you'll find they don't all have the same height. Or wait until someone r

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