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by xorcist 3mo ago
Fretless bass is quite popular though, and they play chords all the time. What would 80s music have been without them? And all uprights are fretless, too. And cellos of course. They can also play chords.
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by xorcist 3mo ago
Due to the widespread idea that climate prediction has been predicting doom and gloom all the time, and has always been wrong about it, I have been entertaining myself by revisiting old climate predictions from 20 years ago. I can highly re
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by xorcist 3mo ago
In this specific case, echo can't fail to there's no need for any of that: [ -z "$1" ] && echo "fail" >&2 && exit 1
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by xorcist 3mo ago
People are different, and I think we have to respect that. In my role I tend to have to fix problems in other people's code probably on a weekly basis. Commits that do too much, or too little, or are generally hard to understand are th
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by xorcist 3mo ago
You only have to learn three things to use a computer: Your shell, your editor, and your version control system. That's it. That basic knowledge will carry you far, and will be useful a decade from now. Those are the three best afterno
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by xorcist 3mo ago
This is a perfect use for tags. They allocate no extra storage space, and act as "savepoints" which you can refer to at any time. (Branches move, tags stay put.) They also guarantee that those loose ends are not garbage collected.
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by xorcist 3mo ago
Thank you for proving my point by fixating on the raw sewage part. Contrary to what you think, no plumber would abstain from fixing plumbing permanently, even if it meant no more wading through said sewage.
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by xorcist 3mo ago
That thought experiment says more about your thoughts on plumbers than anything else.
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by xorcist 3mo ago
As soon as installation of software outside Play Store is made impossible, any such discussion is moot already anyway.
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by xorcist 3mo ago
While probably true, I'm not sure how much Fedora can be owned really. We should give credit where credit is due though: IBM has, together with Intel, Red Hat, and a few others, been very supportive of the Linux ecosystem since early o
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by xorcist 3mo ago
How does that work? Does one agent write the tests from spec, and then another agent is told "make tests pass", or do you write the tests manually? It does sound like a possible way to parallelize agentic work, but I'd be sur
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by xorcist 3mo ago
How could it possibly be interpreted literally? Instating a monarchy with cash as regent? How would that work in daily life?
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by xorcist 3mo ago
I call this software "products", and not in a good sense. A product isn't necessarily designed by someone who cares about, or even understands, the problem at hand.
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by xorcist 3mo ago
Or ever. If we want to some colleague to tell us what is good code and what isn't, can we please pick someone who at least once demonstratably delivered good software? Bonus points if it was a group effort, and if it was on time. Commo
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by xorcist 3mo ago
You could do it any way you like, but it you have your own mail server, just configure it to route specific recepient domains (or all domains, this is called a "relayserver" in the postfix documentation) to a specific mail server.
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by xorcist 3mo ago
Typographically speaking, it's really a separate kind of dash, a tad bit longer than an en dash. Nowadays it's more often set as an en dash, the em dash is a bit old fashioned for dialogue. But probably this differs between countr
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by xorcist 3mo ago
I believe you are on to something. I like to run, which is common enough, but I never do it with a watch or phone. I always leave them at home. That is my hour of zen. Afterwards I may be exhausted but I am always full of ideas. After the f
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by xorcist 3mo ago
But if you need to split the commit in hunks, and add a commentary per hunk, isn't that just a sign that you really should just split your commits? That's the most killer feature of git, that it's so easy to slice your commit
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by xorcist 3mo ago
> group file changes together based on theme, add some commentary Isn't that what commits are? Or ... should be?
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by xorcist 3mo ago
The private sector often complies in advance. Large logistics companies collected obviously illegal taxes long before they were challenged in court. It's not easy and the cost of doing business is already high, and not only in the US.
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by xorcist 3mo ago
It's a bit of a mystery, especially since the one of the lowest surprise character they could have chosen was a colon, and indeed colon is already used to separate branch and path -- but only where they are one option and not two. Fo
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by xorcist 3mo ago
The problem with find is that you can't specify the maximum tolerated command line lengths, and find hasn't historically been very smart about it (it just had a compiled-in value). Apparently this is fixed in GNU find, but for old
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by xorcist 3mo ago
Bash while loops are pretty readable and the above would be a nice to iterate over lines if it wasn't for that gnarly pipe, which is a common source of errors in this construct. Remember that a pipe starts a new shell. So: grep stu
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by xorcist 3mo ago
Not really though. There's a whole product segment like LabView, which has existed for over three decades now, for people like biologists and chemists who do not like to code. Those tools are built for quick iteration. Compared to th
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by xorcist 3mo ago
> Violins are basically ancient and evolved gradually over huge time spans, Hey! I understand your point and you are completely right about violins and saxophones being completely different, but it is simply not right to use the word &qu
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by xorcist 3mo ago
If anything, it should be safe to assume by now that capabilities don't scale linearly with model size.
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by xorcist 3mo ago
> Are there any reasonable analyses of the practicality of data centers in space? The purpose of "datacenters -- in space!" isn't to actually lift server racks into orbit, one piece at a time. It serves the same purpose as
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by xorcist 3mo ago
> the only good non-Chinese printer that doesn’t cost 10-100x as much is Prusa They hardly have time to compete, busy as they are with foot-shooting practice.
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by xorcist 3mo ago
The thought that anything could improve without bounds would be absurd. We are living in the physical world after all. The (open, interesting) question is how close we are to the limit.
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by xorcist 3mo ago
They would have done that long ago if it was that easy. The fact that they aren't tells us something about the actual business utility of leading models.

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