JimDabell

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by JimDabell 11d ago
Either you are paying attention or you are doing what the GP described in their comment. The two are mutually exclusive.
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by JimDabell 11d ago
Pay attention to what you are staging. Generally this means `git add -p` or similar. Pay attention to what you are committing. Generally this means looking at what you have staged before writing your commit log message. Pay attention to wha
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by JimDabell 11d ago
> You clearly haven't seen the people who are lazy and so just do `git add . && git commit -m ... && git push -f origin` every time. I’ve worked with and managed plenty of people like that and those are the people I
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by JimDabell 17d ago
> If you want to work on the problem, you can do that when you're ready, at your own initiative, not in the middle of what you're actually trying to do. As I explained earlier, what we were actually trying to do was debug the p
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by JimDabell 18d ago
I have experienced this in person with a developer who was failing to debug something. An error message was popping up on screen and he was reflexively clicking it away faster than anybody could read it. Even after being told “an error mess
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by JimDabell 18d ago
You can usually safely dismiss sentences that start with “It’s widely accepted that…” because if it were actually true, they wouldn’t need to hedge like that. The usual reason to start a sentence like that is when it isn’t as widely acc
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by JimDabell 18d ago
Requests has been dead for over a decade. It doesn’t support HTTP/2, it doesn’t support HTTP/3, it doesn’t support async, and they ignore security vulnerabilities for months. Nobody should use requests. If you are still using it,
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by JimDabell 21d ago
Claude Code’s been doing this for at least a year already and I assume Claude Cowork does it too as a result. That’s already millions of users, so it’s not “just a neat idea with no adoption”.
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by JimDabell 23d ago
I haven’t kept up to date on Gastown, but I’m familiar with the mindset. A lot of people who want to go all-in on AI start with how they currently produce software and they try to add AI everywhere they can until things start going wrong. A
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by JimDabell 24d ago
em is a generic "font-size" without regard to the axis. ch is specifically related to the font width, and ex is specifically related to the font height. So if you want things like padding and margins to be proportionate to the fon
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by JimDabell 24d ago
> Her objections run from the immediate to the apocalyptic: the water and power consumed by data centres, what the technology is doing to people’s capacity to think, and research suggesting advanced AI could pose a risk of human extincti
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
It’s even worse than that! There is no delete all feature ! So if you have 100k photos and make the mistake of saying yes to Google Photos just once , it will fill up all your storage space, block your email until you pay for extra storag
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
You don’t want to do that for anything you want to be able to vary, but they do something similar with a “soul document” for things they always want to apply. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46125184
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
I’ve seen this used before to add a credit that only appears when you save the image. You append the credit to the bottom of the image, then crop the image with CSS using a technique like this to hide the credit. Then when somebody saves th
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
Mozilla have indicated they are positive on the feature: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#declarative-w... Chromium has a bug filed: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/382298314 So h
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
> native apps are only made to the benefit of the companies, not the users. We literally built the apps because people wanted them. The whole reason the App Store exists is because when Steve Jobs told everybody that to build iPhone apps
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
This is not true. I’ve worked in this space. Whenever users had the choice, they chose native iOS about two thirds of the time, native Android about a quarter of the time, and web about 10% of the time. This is across all platforms, includi
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
> basically unusable for browsers unless you do wasm Relying on WASM means that nobody on Apple platforms who has Lockdown Mode enabled for better security will be able to use it.
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
In the same month the Llama weights were leaked, Eliezer Yudkowsky – possibly the most prominent AI doomer, had an article published in TIME magazine saying that we should conduct airstrikes on foreign datacentres to stop their AI develop
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland are constituent countries in a larger country called the United Kingdom. When dealing with international affairs, you typically want to be talking about the UK (unless the subject is sport), as
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by JimDabell 1mo ago
> when has Meta ever not broken their contractual obligations (I am being serious here)? If you are being serious, then you have a wildly distorted view of the world. No organisation can routinely break all of their contractual oblig
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by JimDabell 2mo ago
Apple created <canvas>, but it wasn’t for the iPhone, it was for Mac OS X dashboard widgets. This was a few years before the iPhone existed.
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by JimDabell 3mo ago
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by JimDabell 3mo ago
> OK, accents are a whole can of worms. Regional English is varied. I'm not sure if there are any BCP-style tags for intra-country accents. This comment is written in en-GB-Brummie.
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by JimDabell 3mo ago
During the time of Internet Explorer 9, it was surprisingly common for people to still be using Internet Explorer 6. This was often out of their control, for instance if they had intranet sites that required Internet Explorer 6, or if they
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by JimDabell 3mo ago
It sounds like an overly earnest TEDx talker leaning over you talking about something inconsequential as if it’s the most mic-droppingly insightful thing in the world.
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by JimDabell 3mo ago
> In 2008 you saved a file called index.html, dragged it onto an FTP client, and watched a little progress bar crawl to the right. When I was first learning web development in the 90s, after a couple of sites, I switched to a hosting pro
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by JimDabell 3mo ago
And the average American is a poor representation of everyone. The title reads “Why does everyone hate AI?” but repeatedly references surveys of Americans, not “everyone”. Americans are outliers; the rest of the world has a much more favo
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by JimDabell 3mo ago
That infrasound video is nonsense: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/contra-benn-jordan-data-center...
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by JimDabell 3mo ago
That infrasound video is nonsense: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/contra-benn-jordan-data-center...

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