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by wryoak 3y ago
People are looking in the wrong direction when they talk about PC games being made Mac compatible at performant levels instead of mobile games being Mac compatible with higher performance. PC gaming is dying because of phones and tablets. A
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Using a quickly googled value of 12.3 million calories per acre of corn, and an “average” daily caloric intake of 2000, and an assumed price of $10 per meal, 3x per day, instead of selling the corn for 160k, he could have eaten for 3 millio
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by wryoak 3y ago
I have used a couple like kitten and iterm2 over the years but for the past year or so I’ve been using the stock terminal app. Just hadn’t seemed like the fancy third party ones were worth the trouble. Like tabs and other features are meani
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(2016)
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I’m glad I scrolled all the way to the bottom because I thought I was going to have to point this out! It seems like one of those things many of us are used to the higher ups at work dumping on us in moments of excitement: some great soundi
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by wryoak 3y ago
Has it failed us? Is it really worse than letting people attempt English spelling of their own comprehension?
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by wryoak 3y ago
Bitcoin is infrequently used for illegal activities considering payments are, you know, publicly traceable, as several high profile cases demonstrated. It’s more often used for your intentions: speculation.
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by wryoak 3y ago
While I don’t really think what these LLMs do constitutes “conversation,” it’s worth noting that many real people will also refuse to discuss (even hypothetically) killing people. Perhaps more like thought police would be if the model engag
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by wryoak 3y ago
Recently I got an interview for a job after refusing to do the pre-interview PR test. They had received an avalanche of pull requests on that repo that looked suspiciously similar so my impudence made me the most human-sounding candidate.
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But how will I pay off my student loans
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by wryoak 3y ago
Both of those describe deceivers (though the latter may not originally have), not aggressors or dominators. Given humanity’s long history of antagonism towards wolves, it is a very strange animal after which to choose to model one’s own beh
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by wryoak 3y ago
I think, generationally, we’ve reached a point where more people know this scene was staged than have actually seen it.
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Lazy middle agers
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> gendering of web design YMMV but personally, while I've met both male and female developers of all stripes and strats, I’ve only met male web designers, so this thesis doesn’t resonate strongly with me.
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by wryoak 3y ago
It would be nice if the title weren’t framed in the reflexive, something like: “Dunkin Donuts settles with coffee burn victim for $3 million”
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by wryoak 3y ago
I was on a flight just yesterday, placed in a middle seat, where the two gentlemen flanking me rolled over the arm rests into my seat space. As an unhealthily slender man I am 100% comfortable subsidizing not having my seat space invaded by
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by wryoak 3y ago
I don’t recall the project’s name anymore but they organized it in some way I don’t recall either, often a single function per file, and then compiled all the JS files with a bash script by just appending. I thought it was neat — has its ob
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by wryoak 3y ago
I think I generally pick up smoking/vaping again due to acute stress, and after a quick ramp up back to dependence I start suffering the chronic stress of needing a smoke, if I may add a little nuance to this addendum But I do like the
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by wryoak 3y ago
Like what? What are they touching they shouldn’t? Also curious how to perform such an investigation myself, if you could describe your method
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by wryoak 3y ago
Online safety bills are proof that everybody hates the nanny state only until it comes to having to take care of their own dang children
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by wryoak 3y ago
They can fork it if it bothers them so much
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by wryoak 3y ago
Preparing for society to fail is pretty shameful. It means you’re diverting energy from preventing its failure.
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by wryoak 3y ago
It’s not about features or the api. It’s about treating everything like a nail. It’s about a bloated build ecosystem. It’s about overwrought webapps that punish users without fiber connections who just want to check their damn bank balance.
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by wryoak 3y ago
> Some programming languages have search functions, but they’re difficult to implement and not commonly used Can anybody explain what they’re describing here? In the context of OS file search
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Because that’s the jurisdiction of the police police. Did you not read the post to which you responded?
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It’s interesting to me how articles pushing back against transgender ideas tend to adopt the same acerbic tone as climate alarmism pieces. Maybe it’s just all articles these days and I only encounter think pieces from anti-carbon and gender
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Gosh I wish I could do this but my former coworkers going back ten years are all lifers- I was the only one to leave
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by wryoak 3y ago
I recently started using nix but something I haven’t found yet is an ability to dump the current nix shell environment to a shell.nix file Eg, I invoke `nix-shell -p somepkg anotherapp andathird`, per the manual, decide it’s a satisfactory
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Which mostly bothers me because of the text justification
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Afraid? No. 90% of software dev jobs are reimplementing the spreadsheet. Let the AI do it: I’m sure tired of it.

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