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by zem 2mo ago
I think we're talking past each other here :) I wasn't speaking of whether it was a good or a bad thing, I was just pointing out that "woe" meaning "a misfortune or calamity" is the only meaning of the word t
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by zem 2mo ago
the hamster averaged over 10km/night!! given the size of the animal I would not have imagined anywhere near that.
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by zem 2mo ago
sure, but what I was pointing out here is that "woe betide you" is a specific idiomatic phrase. it's usually used as a threat, i.e. "woe betide you if you do that".
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by zem 2mo ago
I've been using firefox happily for years; I'm still emotionally invested in chrome having proper ad blocking, because that's good for users.
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by zem 2mo ago
something I've really been wondering about is is mv2 really a serious security loophole? if I think about it, browser extensions really do have a scary amount of access to sensitive webpages, so google's rationale for restricting
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by zem 2mo ago
> But please withhold you woe as a side note, "woe betide you" roughly means "you're in for a very bad time", not "I feel sorry for you".
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by zem 2mo ago
nope, I've definitely worked on a lot of projects where knowing how to satisfy the requirements was not the challenge, writing the code was genuinely hard. complex data structures that had to have invariants maintained, distributed acc
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by zem 2mo ago
there are two distinct usesn of team/committee/council/etc in the software world, though they often get conflated. one is a formal structure to help with things like coordination and governance when many people are working on
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by zem 2mo ago
qxw [ https://www.quinapalus.com/qxw.html ] is a wonderful open source app that lets you make crosswords with interesting topologies, complete with grid filler support, if anyone wants to experiment with them.
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by zem 2mo ago
for me it's the opposite of alienating - it's like the ads have been banished to some niche sphere and I can live my regular life in the city unbothered by advertising.
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by zem 2mo ago
> Jamverse (named for Fred Pohl’s dictum that the science-fiction writer’s job is to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam) clarke once said he was proud of one of his books not only having predicted the portable personal music
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by zem 2mo ago
not true for jeff and sanjay - they kept moving from project to project and delivering transformative results in each.
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by zem 2mo ago
ah, more of an HP person I take it?
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by zem 2mo ago
you would love bruce sterling's short story "maneki neko", and karl schroeder's "degrees of freedom".
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by zem 2mo ago
that sounds uncomfortably like the public sphere version of spam - using an automated process to amplify some self-serving message and thereby increasingly clutter up the space and tax everyone's scarce and valuable attention.
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by zem 2mo ago
tennyson had another immortal line that I reach for in times like this: "But oh for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45318/break
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by zem 2mo ago
ocaml has excellent compilation speed, and in my experience the code is very maintainable due to the module and type systems.
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by zem 2mo ago
not the parent, but one thing i find charming is that a lot of them have a really good feel for line weight and inking style, and vary it interestingly in various parts of the plot. computer generated charts tend to have a much more uniform
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by zem 2mo ago
ah neat, I wasn't aware that cfltk was already used by rust.
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by zem 2mo ago
fltk is c++ based which makes language bindings significantly harder in general. gtk is c based which worked out really well in that aspect.
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by zem 2mo ago
I have had that exact same thing said to me. didn't so much mess with my head as make me think someone with such a poor grasp of appearance vs reality had no business being a CEO.
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by zem 2mo ago
I mean, it is very obviously being hoarded by the capital class! there has been tons of writing on the subject, no one can credibly deny that that's what's happening right now.
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by zem 2mo ago
you missed the parent comment's point that the $500 training run was merely the last step, generating the training data is likely to be significantly more expensive and time-consuming. might still pay for itself, but it's not a tr
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by zem 2mo ago
it's "austerity" i.e. the rich and powerful saying "the poor and powerless need to make do with less for the good of all of us"
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by zem 2mo ago
every now and then I think the death penalty might not be all that bad.
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by zem 2mo ago
I would say that if you get the syntax and docs right functional programming paradigms and matching can be very intuitive for non programmers. you don't have to build up a mental model of variables versus objects and passing by value o
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by zem 2mo ago
it's an evolutionary (as opposed to revolutionary) language; it is in many ways a reimagining of c++ based on decades of observing the latter's flaws and weaknesses in the real world. if you're in the c or c++ ecosystem alrea
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by zem 3mo ago
wonder if this would count as sousveillance [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance ]
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by zem 3mo ago
I write greenfield projects this way and have continued to do so with LLMs. it works very well if you have a decent idea of the architecture you are heading towards, and if you are willing to refector aggressively if you have a better idea.
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by zem 3mo ago
an update last year broke some laptop microphone settings that in 30 years of using linux I had had no reason to even know existed. took me literally a couple of weeks to figure out what was going on and fix it. it was admittedly the first

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