ACS_Solver

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by ACS_Solver 9d ago
However, protective equipment is taken seriously and then shoes stay on. Here in Sweden, of course ordinarily all shoes are taken off (for 8-9 months of every year they're wet and dirty) but if workers come in to do some work, they kee
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by ACS_Solver 1mo ago
> Even worse, recently, after getting another opus in a tiny bugfix session, I prompted directly, "drop the comments from the current code changes" — Claude instead just slightly trimmed them. I couldn't believe my eyes. F
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by ACS_Solver 1mo ago
I also suspect comments are very much tied to how Claude reasons because not only are they bad comments, I can't get rid of them. Commenting is the one area in which I've been unable to get Claude to respect any rules. It can foll
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by ACS_Solver 1mo ago
I wouldn't generalize Europe like that, our differences in the normal schedule are massive from north to south. Here in Sweden, it's a morning culture. Blue collar workers often start work at 7, daycare is open from 6 in the morni
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by ACS_Solver 1mo ago
> Even if you deeply into tinkering, 1 can be an insanely exciting and rewarding step: for example "how could an abstraction look like in which 2-4 become trivial special cases for many classes of programming problems?". Yes, b
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by ACS_Solver 1mo ago
Yes, it's a very well written, touching tribute and I think it's all the more touching when you're familiar enough with Wolfram's writings to notice the contrast here.
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by ACS_Solver 2mo ago
There's practical considerations with AI like it being a probabilistic layer and not deterministic in the way that compilers and deterministic, yes. But the "letting go" point is I think about what people enjoy. Personally, I
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by ACS_Solver 2mo ago
I don't buy into the huge LLM hype but I certainly think late 2025 was the inflection point. Up until then, I thought LLMs universally sucked at code. GPT-3.5, GPT-4, o1, o3, Claude 3.5, Sonnet 4, the whole bunch. Each iteration got ma
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by ACS_Solver 3mo ago
Wolfram is definitely not a crank. Cranks do not understand scientific methods and also have a minimal understanding of whatever field they're trying to be active in. Like trying to push physics theories while demonstrably failing to u
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by ACS_Solver 4mo ago
I'm a big Linux advocate with limited experience on modern versions of Windows, but PowerShell objects are great. So is the Unix way of doing text. I think the strengths of each approach are in different use cases. Unix style is better
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by ACS_Solver 4mo ago
Konsole is so good I forget about it, it's just my usual terminal. Once they added the split feature, it became pretty damn near perfect.
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by ACS_Solver 4mo ago
I have zero artistic inclination so 90% of image manipulation I do is simple resize/scale/draw line operations, with the remaining 10% being some sort of select+move operation to show mockups, adding transparency or something on t
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by ACS_Solver 4mo ago
One of the most impressive and useful free software projects. My first experience was being totally confused by KDE 1 during my first attempts to use Linux, and I'm writing this from my KDE desktop. Other than the really bad KDE 4 rele
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by ACS_Solver 4mo ago
I moved to Vivaldi before its 1.0 release and am still happy with, also surprised to see it mentioned so rarely. My previous browser was Firefox but I struggled with a few updates changing things I liked, mostly manageable with about:config
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by ACS_Solver 5mo ago
I think it's possible that the current shift will be similar to the "assembly to compiled language" shift. Once upon a time we wrote code in assembly language. Then we moved to C or other compiled languages. Assembly programm
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by ACS_Solver 5mo ago
I've been using Thunderbird for my email for a very long time. Probably since some early 1.0 release. In these years, I've also had it on Windows and Linux, I've migrated it easily across many OS installs and hardware changes
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by ACS_Solver 6mo ago
We have no wealth tax, no inheritance tax. If most of your income is a salary, the tax burden is high, but if you're living off investments, properties or generational funds, it's quite advantageous.
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by ACS_Solver 6mo ago
In addition (I'm European), I object to the use of per-hour wages instead of monthly salaries. It's less informative in Europe. Most jobs are full-time, salaries are typically advertised and talked about in monthly terms, and the
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by ACS_Solver 6mo ago
The acceleration is in the decrease of the cost to produce misinformation. Misinformation in pure text form has always been cheapest, but is even cheaper now that text generation is basically a solved problem. Photos have been more expensiv
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by ACS_Solver 6mo ago
Valve's Proton (so Wine + DXVK + some other additions) revolutionized gaming on Linux. I play games both for fun and work, and for a solid 3+ years now, gaming on Linux has been an "it just works" experience for me, and shoul
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by ACS_Solver 6mo ago
On the upside, a country that undergoes the transition from highly corrupt to well functioning inevitably goes through the stage you describe. My native country was going through that as I was growing up, starting with the Soviet "corr
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by ACS_Solver 6mo ago
Then you get worse good and services. Lower quality or longer wait, or don't get it at all depending on the good. The effect isn't that different from being poor in a capitalist economy. In a capitalist economy, it's mostly m
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by ACS_Solver 6mo ago
> My guess as to why it was not specified, is that the corruption is so obvious to anyone who has lived it, that it is easy to forget that others might not get the context. It's like someone trying to describe how fish live, but not
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by ACS_Solver 6mo ago
Yes, an Apple employee doing that would be stealing from Apple. But in the capitalist context, we also have entirely legal business models that I would argue are equivalent to corruption ethically. A business that chooses to sell its produc
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by ACS_Solver 6mo ago
I didn't mention Russia, and I've never had the misfortune of living there - though I speak the language and am well familiar with the capture. The Swedish term for how you describe work is "frihet under ansvar" - transl
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by ACS_Solver 6mo ago
Well in the Soviet case, plumbing and cheese are most certainly not privately held resources. Doing such work as a plumber means you're essentially acting as self-employed or a business, which is illegal. The cheese is probably produce
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by ACS_Solver 6mo ago
I can confirm those words do not in fact sound very close. They're not etymologically related either, and to a fluent Russian speaker they don't sound particularly similar.
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by ACS_Solver 6mo ago
Right. And oh my do I hate blat. It's a difficult concept to translate to English because it's not synonymous with corruption or bribes. A one-time bribe transaction isn't blat. You want a school to accept your kid so you &qu
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by ACS_Solver 6mo ago
Very well said. I live in Sweden, one of the world's highest-trust societies, but I have experience from a more corrupt environment and my whole family lived most of their lives in a corrupt autocracy. This means that in a corrupt soci
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by ACS_Solver 6mo ago
Wayland experiences seem to vary wildly. It was most certainly not working fine for me six years ago. Well, six years ago I don't think I got as far as trying screenshots, I'd run into basic window placement or rendering issues th

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