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by xnorswap 1y ago
I don't want to use it. I only view because others exclusively host content there. If people hosted video elsewhere, I would gladly never visit youtube again. Creators are not going to start paying for uploads when they can push their
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by xnorswap 1y ago
Maybe we'll work out how to stimulate the optic nerve directly and skip to bionic eyes for both corrective vision and AR. We'll need to overhaul the concept of limited liability before we do that though, the thought of someone bei
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by xnorswap 1y ago
I like this approach. Is your expected.json the actual response body, or is it an object containing body, status, header values, and time-taken, etc?
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by xnorswap 1y ago
> This idea [buying all combinations] struck Nettles as immensely unfair. I don't understand why it's seen as unfair, seems like fair game to me? Edit: Reading further on, it seems this story is more about a person unhealthily
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by xnorswap 1y ago
The cost of this "convenience" is orders of magnitude more processing time, and with it the energy costs and ecological destruction that comes with that.
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by xnorswap 1y ago
In the very early days there wasn't. The ISP provided web hosting and free FTP space. It was literally just a case of going to (from memory, the details might be wrong) ftp://user@password:web.pipex.co.uk/ , and then put
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by xnorswap 1y ago
I'm in two minds whether the OP is satire. This quote in particular sells me on the idea of satire: > Almost anything that relies on structured input would be more convenient with an AI solution You could take what you know about th
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by xnorswap 1y ago
And you'll randomly kill people on your way there. ( Of course dear reader, YOU won't randomly kill people because you're a "good driver". )
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by xnorswap 1y ago
Paid mods are problematic because what happens if a game update breaks the API the mod uses? This frequently occurs in many games. Suddenly you've got an unhappy customer, and with money comes liability. I doubt any game developer woul
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by xnorswap 1y ago
The only game that I know that uses steam workshop for mods is Rimworld. It works okay, but it's a little clunky. Discoverability is weird. It's concept of "recently trending" etc produces some dubious recommendations. A
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by xnorswap 1y ago
Hopefully this inspires more developers to either build-in their own mod browsers ( e.g. Factorio ), or for communities to build their own open source mod platforms ( e.g. KSP's CKAN ). Both of those are preferable to the relative hell
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by xnorswap 1y ago
I'm surprised by the lack of mention in this article of the on-hold "Crossrail 2" project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossrail_2
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by xnorswap 1y ago
That "something" is just people searching for this news story, rather than interest in signal for the sake of using it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_group... NL clearly has some back
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by xnorswap 1y ago
There's a huge ageism problem, always has been. I tried to avoid getting into software development because I knew it would be an issue one day. There's isn't a quick fix or easy solution.
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by xnorswap 1y ago
Oh, I see, sorry the "Specification" section is definitely misleading then by not also linking to the earliest specification it was included in.
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by xnorswap 1y ago
There used to be the general wisdom of, "Don't re-invent the wheel. Let the hive-mind craft utility functions and use those because they'll be battle-hardened, well tested, and you can focus on your core business". I thi
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by xnorswap 1y ago
The UK has (had) a tax credit for "Research and Development", intended to be a tax break for genuine R&D, but of course everyone lumped all software development into. The UK eventually put out guidance that business as usual d
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by xnorswap 1y ago
Because muscle-memory is a powerful force, and it's a convenient universal input language. It's why after years of powershell I still reflexively reach for "ls" not "Get-ChildItem" ( "ls" is aliased b
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by xnorswap 1y ago
I tried this out and a hilarious "context-slip" happened: https://imgur.com/a/gT6iuV1 It generated (via a prompt) an image of a space ship landing on a remote planet. I asked an edit, "The ship itself sh
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by xnorswap 1y ago
The bots could check if they've hit the jackpot themselves and keep the valid hashes for themselves and only return when they're worthless. Then it's the bots who are making money from work they need to do for the captchas.
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by xnorswap 1y ago
The conclusion I draw from this is that some debuggers are so bad it's not delivering value over "print debugging". But perhaps it's a lack of knowing what a debugger can deliver. A debugger gives you the ability to imme
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by xnorswap 1y ago
> public spaces on the internet But discord servers aren't considered "public spaces", hence the concept of an "invite". This is akin to someone revealing they've been going to private parties and secretly r
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by xnorswap 1y ago
At least IPv6 addresses aren't "middle-endian" like UUIDs can be.
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by xnorswap 1y ago
> Allegedly it's pretty terrible at C# In my experience, LLMs in general are really, really bad at C# / .NET , and it worries me as a .NET developer. With increased LLM usage, I think development in general is going to undergo
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by xnorswap 1y ago
The reality is more nuanced, there are situations where you'd want to glance over it anyway, such as looking for an opportunity to coach a junior dev. I'd rather hop in and get them on the right path rather than letting them strug
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by xnorswap 1y ago
> How are people reviewing that? 90% of the page height is taken up by "Check failure", Typically, you wouldn't bother manually reviewing something until the automated checks have passed.
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by xnorswap 1y ago
Well there's C# / .NET, which ticks off all of those boxes, even the functional syntax is well supported since it added pattern matching and people write a lot of fluent functional style anyway with LINQ. It also interops nicely w
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by xnorswap 1y ago
Do LLMs "evaluate the veracity" of anything? That's not really how they work.
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by xnorswap 1y ago
Oh for sure, asking "Are you sure?" isn't a trick to improve accuracy, it's a trick to show people the danger of asking it in the first place. It just leaves you with two contradictory statements, much like the man with
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by xnorswap 1y ago
People treat certain humans, or humans in certain roles, as oracles too.

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