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by whimblepop 5mo ago
> You can end up with a lot of people talking about it a lot, lots of meetings and initiatives rather than doing actual work. And usually those don't go anywhere because the people doing it don't have any power to actually chan
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by whimblepop 5mo ago
GitLab's old values are for now still listed in their handbook: > GitLab’s six core values are Collaboration, Results for Customers, Efficiency, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, Iteration, and Transparency, and together t
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by whimblepop 6mo ago
> One morning in 1976, the Princeton mathematician Edward Nelson (opens a new tab) woke up and experienced a crisis of faith. “I felt the momentary overwhelming presence of one who convicted me of arrogance for my belief in the real exis
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by whimblepop 6mo ago
> In practice, it was seldom done, and here we have LLMs actually doing it, and we're realising the drawbacks. I spent some time dealing with this today. The real issue for me, though, was that the refactors the agent did were bad
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by whimblepop 6mo ago
> There are many reasons why others might not find what you wrote sufficient to understand it. You boss ran it through AI for a reason and that reason was most likely because it the document was not understandable or perhaps confusing. I
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by whimblepop 6mo ago
My own approach to simplicity generally means "hide complexity behind a simple interface" rather than pushing for simple implementations because I feel that too much emphasis on simplicity of implementations often means sacrificin
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by whimblepop 6mo ago
The whole "just sync everything, and if you can't seek everything, pretend to sync everything with fake files and then download the real ones ad-hoc" model of storage feels a bit ill-conceived to me. It tries to present a sim
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by whimblepop 6mo ago
Link, please? I 100% believe this but I'm curious about the reporting by which you discovered this
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by whimblepop 6mo ago
Also generally anything critical of capitalism, imperialism, or the military-industrial complex. It doesn't really matter whether it's a measured analysis or shrill shrieking; literally just using any of those words amounts to sol
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by whimblepop 6mo ago
> I both use AI and have very strong anti-AI sentiment. Me, too. The AI hype machine involves some really bad ideas, the amount of money being poured into "AI" right now distorts everything, public understanding of how these to
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by whimblepop 6mo ago
> It's looking like AI will generate a modern version of the early 1800s Luddite Rebellion where British textile workers destroyed machines that displaced jobs, prioritizing factory owners' profits over workers. They targeted t
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by whimblepop 6mo ago
Neither statement is an incitement to violence. Charles Koch's support for an open borders policy is on the public record; there's no conspiracy nor assertion of conspiracy: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/a
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by whimblepop 6mo ago
Because healthcare in the US is tied to employment. For most people here, losing a job means losing access to healthcare (partially or totally).
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by whimblepop 6mo ago
That's pretty few, at least for the way I'm currently using LLMs. I have them do some Nix work (both debugging and coding) where accuracy and quality matters to me, so they're instructed to behave as I would when it comes to
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by whimblepop 6mo ago
Unfortunately for me, notch overflow happens to me in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, VSCode, Outlook, Excel (and Word and probably all of the other Microsoft Office apps), LibreOffice, IINA (mpv frontend), CotEditor, IDEA, and QtCreator, just among
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by whimblepop 6mo ago
More naive than blithely blowing off threats of war?
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by whimblepop 6mo ago
Why not blame Apple for having a busted-ass menu bar design? The behavior of "if the menu is busy, icons just disappear" and advice like "apps shouldn't rely on menu bar icons" are just bad ideas. They don't wo
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by whimblepop 6mo ago
Whenever I ask it questions about videogames (even very old ones), the odds that it will lie to me are very high. I only see LLMs get those right when they go look them up online. The other thing that kills me about Gemini is that the voice
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by whimblepop 6mo ago
I recently canceled my Google One subscription because getting accurate answers out of Gemini for chat is basically impossible afaict. Whether I enable thinking makes no difference: Gemini always answers me super quickly, rarely actually lo
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by whimblepop 7mo ago
> They seem to think it's bunk tech support mumbo jumbo It indeed is. It's a way of coping with systems that are fundamentally illegible and unpredictable. If you have full rights over your machine and you're not running e
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by whimblepop 7mo ago
Perhaps the feeling is (at least sometimes, if not here) mutual. Some free software developers make apps for themselves and don't particularly want users (and least of all non-technical users that they'll be expected to support).
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by whimblepop 7mo ago
I'm not sure if this is enough for demanding cats, but I used to type with a small dog bed directly in front of me and my keyboard behind it, so that I'd work typing with my arms around my elderly chihuahua every day. She seemed t
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by whimblepop 8mo ago
Yep. Mic works fine. My mic even works on the test page! What doesn't work is any of the transcription functionality. :(
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by whimblepop 8mo ago
No long with Firefox or Edge or Chrome on either macOS or Android for me, either. Same issue on all.
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by whimblepop 8mo ago
I can see the waveform but it still doesn't work for me. Switched to Edge, disabled all adblocking and privacy extensions, built-in tracking prevention, and "enhanced site security" (whatever that is), and still no dice. I&#x
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by whimblepop 10mo ago
> Streaming logs and other supporting functionality GitHub's log streaming also sucks. It's very laggy and chunked, whereas GitLab's is pretty much real-time.
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by whimblepop 10mo ago
What the symbol "2" refers to is a matter of convention, just like with any ordinary word.
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by whimblepop 10mo ago
There's no authority that will punish you for misusing legal terms of art, or engineering terms of art— in everyday speech like this discussion— either. The vibe this gives is frankly "I just learned trademark exists and I think I
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by whimblepop 10mo ago
"Open-source" isn't a term that emerged organically from conversations between people. It is a term that was very deliberately coined for a specific purpose, defined into existence by an authority. It's a term of art,
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by whimblepop 10mo ago
MIT and Apache are free software licenses in Stallman's sense, and the FSF has always been clear about it.

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