Falkon1313

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by Falkon1313 7mo ago
If you get the urge to try Capitalism again, you should take a look at Capitalism Lab [1]. It picks up from the original Capitalism series and adds a lot of UI enhancements / quality of life stuff as well as some new features and m
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by Falkon1313 7mo ago
I still don't understand this one. Yes, clicking a link can trigger what it's linking to. That's the entire concept of links. You can also put a shortcut to a program on your desktop and - horror of horrors! - clicking the sh
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by Falkon1313 1y ago
Yeah, we also have many highways with a speed limit of 80 and one with speed limit up to 85mph (~137kmh), so you wouldn't necessarily even be speeding.
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by Falkon1313 1y ago
Unlikely. You wouldn't have a payment method address for any free/non-paid/gifted account.
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by Falkon1313 1y ago
I wonder what is a "commercially reasonable effort" for a non-commercial website to collect, accurately verify, and securely store everyone's identity, location, and age? Personally I'd say none at all, unless the govern
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by Falkon1313 1y ago
It's more than that even. AI may have plenty of utility. But does the massive capex on GPUs that will all be obsolete in a couple years? You can still run a train on those old tracks. And it'll be competitive. Sure you could build
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by Falkon1313 1y ago
Over the course of my learning and my career, I've kind of gone back and forth on this a bit. On the one hand, software is like a living thing. Once you bring it into this world, you need to nurture it and care for it, because its need
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by Falkon1313 1y ago
It depends largely on what you're doing with it. True, I would never want to have to talk a customer through setting up and running a python system. I know there are ways to package them (like 37 different ways), but even that is confu
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by Falkon1313 1y ago
This is kinda amusing. robots.txt main purpose back in the day was curtailing penalties in the search engines when you got stuck maintaining a badly-built dynamic site that had tons of dynamic links and effectively got penalized for dupli
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by Falkon1313 1y ago
Agreed. And it was partly how they ignored or snubbed two+ generations of rising developers, hobbyists, etc. No kid or hobbyist or person just learning was spending $1400+ on a compiler. Especially as the number of open-source languages and
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by Falkon1313 1y ago
Yeah, I don't even do that. I just copy the files over if/when I want to. (Do people really not know how to use a basic filesystem to copy files these days?) But mostly I don't. My work notes are on my work laptop and my pers
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by Falkon1313 1y ago
Yeah, makes me wonder where the author was during those decades. Guess he never heard of the Rust Belt (or maybe thinks it's something holding up Iron Man's pants after a rainstorm?) Coincidentally, that's also the period rig
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by Falkon1313 2y ago
I just asked ChatGPT where I could find info about a specific tabletop game that was heavily discussed online some years back and had multiple fan sites with house rules, forum, mailing list, etc. It couldn't help me except to referenc
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by Falkon1313 2y ago
Title it "(current star name) Leaked Nudes.zip" and seed a torrent? Every few years, change the title to keep it current.
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by Falkon1313 2y ago
I was just thinking yesterday, wanting some Christmas music to get into the spirit while wrapping presents, remembering being a kid, when my mom would put on Jim Nabors' Christmas album. Luckily there are (currently) multiple playlists
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by Falkon1313 2y ago
People will say it's easier now since there are so many (sooo many!) free languages and tools and frameworks out there. But while that's great for someone who already knows what they're doing, it's not simpler to start.
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by Falkon1313 2y ago
It's been in use since at least the late 1980s to early 1990s. I believe it was in the Turbo Pascal for DOS documentation I used back then, as well as Turbo Vision and some other things. I also worked on a TUI library for Euphoria in D
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by Falkon1313 2y ago
Up until the 2000s, ephedrine and pseudoephedrine were sold over the counter at pretty much every truck stop, gas station, and convenience store. Usually at a big display rack at the checkout counter, where nowadays they might have things l
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by Falkon1313 2y ago
What baffles me is just how many IT personnel in so many organizations around the world apparently just blindly hit the "Deploy this zero-day update to all production systems without any testing" button instead of the "Test t
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by Falkon1313 2y ago
Yeah, I checked one near me and it said EMS arrived 1 minute after being notified and victim was transported via EMS air. Time to arrive at hospital seems reasonable for an air transport from that spot though. So I guess the helicopter just
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by Falkon1313 2y ago
Germany is way farther north though. Houston is further south than Israel, about the same latitude as Kuwait City and the Sahara Desert. The temperature averages 20-30°F warmer than Berlin (33-40°C), or put another way, Berlin's reco
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by Falkon1313 2y ago
I might consider it when advertisers stop using malware and spyware in their ads. There's absolutely no reason that an ad would need to run a script, contact a third-party system, or track anything about the viewer. So far though, they
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by Falkon1313 2y ago
Rarely used because it's invisible and quite awkward to use as a user, basically unusable to most, with no GUI. Also because it will just silently be demolished if you copy to/from an FAT filesystem like a typical flash drive, so
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by Falkon1313 2y ago
Even on one monitor, I just use the built-in stuff (Win key + arrow keys to position windows, Win key + tab to get to virtual desktops, right click taskbar to cascade or tile). I think some people like to have specific configurations like &
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by Falkon1313 2y ago
I was not entirely convinced by the article, being used to box plots myself for several decades. I've used them in school, college, and at work. But after having read these comments, it really drives home his point that you can get a r
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by Falkon1313 2y ago
That's not how they're drawn. Outliers (More than 1.5 times the interquartile range outside the 1st/3rd quartile) are plotted as dots beyond the whiskers. The whiskers go at Q1-1.5×IQR and Q3+1.5×IQR.
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by Falkon1313 2y ago
Eh, the ones made by one or two people working part time and selling them as shareware weren't necessarily better than what we have available now. They may have been good enough for their time, but probably wouldn't cut it today.
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by Falkon1313 2y ago
I would agree with you, except that I would say the reasoning problem itself not only utilizes language, but in fact hinges entirely on the language. There's a bit of spatial knowledge involved to understand that you're walking in
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
>LLMs right now are worse than useless due to hallucinations meaning you cannot trust a single thing they say I think this supports the article quite well too. This idea that LLMs 'hallucinate' or that you can't 'trus
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by Falkon1313 3y ago
I think that insight is an important feature that GPT doesn't seem to have, at least not yet. For instance, I've seen people saying they can ask it for help with how to code something and it will help them. Although the results ar

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