Derbasti

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by Derbasti 9d ago
Office in the browser works really well, in my experience.
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by Derbasti 29d ago
> The passionate hunger to do something significant and meaningful with my life was a major reason I took care never to have any children. Raising kids is probably the most meaningful and significant thing I have done with my life.
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by Derbasti 1mo ago
I liked the Zed AI agent, too. Then it casually burned through a surprising amount of money for very little progress. Back to Claude.
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by Derbasti 1mo ago
I've done VSCode pair programming as well. But since roughly half a year ago, it has been permanently broken. It'll work for a few minutes, then loses sync, and then it's unusable. This seems to happen between many computers
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by Derbasti 2mo ago
The problem is, management requires stronger language skills than engineering. While an engineer can usually get by with good English, a manager in a German company with German clients and German bosses also requires excellent command of Ge
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by Derbasti 4mo ago
More pointedly, instead of prompting the AI to write something, just send the prompt. It will be concise and pointed, exactly what a message should be.
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by Derbasti 4mo ago
I wonder, could we use these catch phrases to track down what data was used dor training? They must have occurred in abundance in some training corpus. Perhaps some specific company's email culture?
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by Derbasti 4mo ago
Current LLMs have been trained on extensive libraries of past code. Therefore, LLMs will for the foreseeable future work better for established languages than new ones. Especially languages with a lot of open source code available, like Pyt
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by Derbasti 5mo ago
> One compelling bit of information is there while there are neurons feeding processed visual information forward into the brain, there are more feeding back from that area to the visual system. That is, the the visual system is providin
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by Derbasti 5mo ago
Or Bastille, which folds without having to remove the front wheel: https://bastillecycles.com/en
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by Derbasti 7mo ago
You're right, I just remapped it with Karabiner, thanks.
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by Derbasti 7mo ago
Off the top of my head: Yesterday, my wife wanted to use Discord. It was right there in the applications folder. But MacOS couldn't find it. Launching it manually took minutes, for some reason. We wanted to download a clip using yt_dlp
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by Derbasti 7mo ago
How is AI code generation a "innovation bazooka"? Last time I checked, innovation required creativity, context, and insight. Not really fast boilerplate generators.
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by Derbasti 7mo ago
Amazing! It couldn't answer my question at all, but it couldn't answer it incredibly quickly! Snarky, but true. It is truly astounding, and feels categorically different. But it's also perfectly useless at the moment. A digit
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by Derbasti 7mo ago
If you tell an LLM to maximize paperclips, it's going to maximize paperclips. Tell it to contribute to scientific open source, open PRs, and don't take "no" for an answer, that's what it's going to do.
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by Derbasti 8mo ago
Exactly my experience. I've used TimeMachine with external USB drives, Apple's own TimeCapsule router (am I remembering that name correctly?), and various NASes. None of them could maintain a stable backup for a year. And you know
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by Derbasti 8mo ago
Camera apps. Everything else I agree with, but the Android camera APIs do not allow developers to build good device independent camera apps the way they are available on iOS.
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by Derbasti 8mo ago
These #+begin_export blocks were exactly the reason I prefer Markdown. Same with #+attr_html, #+caption, basically every complicated bit: in org, at best it just replicates HTML's complexity in a different syntax. At worst, like #+begi
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by Derbasti 8mo ago
Expressing complex HTML or LaTeX constructs in org-mode is more complicated than writing the raw HTML or LaTeX. So for complex things, I'll always fall back to writing HTML or LaTeX directly. Markdown, instead, just falls back to HTML.
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Darktable 5.4 Released(darktable.org)
6 points by Derbasti 9mo ago|0 comments
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by Derbasti 9mo ago
The difference is, Europeans used to trust their US partners, and built a lot of infrastructure on US services. This trust has been betrayed, so things now need to change. It never existed to begin with with China, so no change is necessary
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by Derbasti 10mo ago
- Visual Studio project files are XML files that are interpreted line by line, and can contain variables, branches, and loops. Hell on earth.
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by Derbasti 11mo ago
On a related note, I used to have a gaming PC. I don't game much any more, so every time I booted up the darn thing, I had to wade through a thick bramble of notifications, updates, ads. It got so bad that lost my will to game altogeth
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by Derbasti 11mo ago
Here's your reminder that you can uninstall OneDrive in Europe.
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by Derbasti 1y ago
Same here. I've not had any issues with my Surface Pro 11.
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by Derbasti 1y ago
Last vacation, one of our phones broke. We bought a new one, popped in the old SIM, and went on vacationing. How does that work with an eSIM?
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by Derbasti 1y ago
The only tangible difference between then and now is that many more problems have already been solved. This certainly leaves fewer holes where an enthusiastic developer can flex their muscle. Then again, I did spend some time in e.g. lisp a
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by Derbasti 1y ago
I like mapy.com as a Google Maps replacement. It's essentially a very good OSM renderer, with a great website and app, including offline access, routing, and real-time traffic. Also very good bike/hike routing, if that's your
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by Derbasti 1y ago
This rings true to me, but I'm not a frontend dev. So I'm not a good judge if what makes good frontend code. Where I do know my stuff, I'm not at all impressed by LLM code. So perhaps LLMs are just entry level devs in general
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by Derbasti 1y ago
Because Matplotlib and Pandas etc. save programmer time, even where they waste processor time.

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