LaGrange

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by LaGrange 7d ago
You know what actually saves lives? Fewer cars.
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by LaGrange 7d ago
> You now can have multiple iPhones. Thanks, I'd rather pull my fingernails.
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by LaGrange 11d ago
That's cute, too bad it's a config file mandated by your boss and it has to be called "terribletool.yaml."
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by LaGrange 12d ago
Recovery from forgetting to add something is _much_ easier than recovery from adding some weird configuration file with plaintext private keys in it.
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by LaGrange 23d ago
I mean NL is like, there are only really present at train stations, cost money to use, and they look pretty bad. I will say though that “used syringes compartment” is good, actually. Warsaw and Posen were quite similar to NL by the time I l
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by LaGrange 25d ago
You're joking, right? That's an incredibly outmoded view of capitalist "competition."
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by LaGrange 27d ago
> I was surprised to read that Anthropic (and probably other data / model companies) are doing this and it's extremely disappointing, as working towards the benefit of humanity Look, others talked about how this fetishising of
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by LaGrange 1mo ago
And now I find myself staring at Zig and Java as my preferred languages. Zig is very C-like, so I feel like I'm back to the 90s - except a bit less miserable in some ways, more miserable in others. Even the fashion seems similar - at l
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by LaGrange 2mo ago
It’s more than one thing but the surfactants are pretty bad.
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by LaGrange 2mo ago
Actually the aesthetic preferences of people I regularly work with are important to me.
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by LaGrange 2mo ago
In my own experience it works pretty well. In fact better than the autoformatters. It was essentially not an issue. Sometimes I’d grumble about someone, but it would never get in my way the way black or ruff would regularly.
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by LaGrange 2mo ago
Gods forbid I talk to people I work with, learn their preferences, and figure out the way we can accommodate each other. Sounds like such a waste of energy. It’s so much better if we all acquiesce to the preferences of some people neither o
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by LaGrange 2mo ago
Don’t forget to light some candles and invoke the name of the Omnissiah while you’re at it.
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by LaGrange 2mo ago
Yeah, that too. Like, being old enough to get my start largely in internet cafes means I actually _had_ in-person interactions with the type of person we're talking about - and they were _not_ nicer. Being kinda big I might even stand
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by LaGrange 2mo ago
> As a parent now (but oldest is only 5), it's stories like this which make me determined remain aware of the kind of stuff my kids get up to and continually explain that actions have consequences, even if those consequences are see
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by LaGrange 3mo ago
Yep, that. Sorry, growing up in Poland I know the amount of horrors the EU _prevented_. Europe without EU isn’t democracy, it’s a bunch of fiefdoms.
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by LaGrange 3mo ago
I will keep using POST and not some weird thing that isn’t supported by a proxy living in the basement of a shoe store in Wageningen or whatever.
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by LaGrange 3mo ago
Frontends and relays are far closer to “quacking like an instance.” That’s where your sysop’s power lives. The PDS itself isn’t very powerful - can’t meaningfully limit who you can talk to, for example.
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by LaGrange 3mo ago
By 2031 the best employer in Europe will be the water gangs.
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by LaGrange 3mo ago
Other paper books. Or the same books but electronic or reprinted when the demand is higher. Just not the exact same pieces of highly fetishized dead wood.
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by LaGrange 3mo ago
Some people truly love paper books more than having people read books. It’s one of the more seemingly paradoxical ways anti-intellectualism manifests.
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by LaGrange 3mo ago
No we don’t. And the greatest hazard is the soul crushing disappointment that is a Dutch tomato.
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by LaGrange 4mo ago
It's so funny reading about how the problem with Wayland is that you have many, often incomplete, implementations while being old enough to remember the time when X11 was actually popular (and thus had many, often incomplete, implement
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by LaGrange 4mo ago
If you’re a software engineer then yes, I can and do expect you to understand all that.
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by LaGrange 4mo ago
I mean normal people shun LLM users so it’s no wonder it’s true for you.
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by LaGrange 4mo ago
I don't think we're Ukraine's "teachers," and our treatment of Ukraine was historically just as rough at times.
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by LaGrange 4mo ago
We were. And “hard workers” is code for “easily exploited.” Anyway the trick to explosive growth as a country is who you trade with and how you count things. We now sell things to Germany instead of USSR, of course there’s “growth.” There’s
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by LaGrange 5mo ago
Swimming. Lakes generally don't come with a securely closed box, and even if I come with company, they usually want to swim at the same time. Of course I don't have to actually _use_ the phone while swimming, so it goes into a wat
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by LaGrange 5mo ago
I'm an AI skeptic, but I do think that _he_ will be out-coded by AI, no problem.
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by LaGrange 5mo ago
Thing is, it's not how incompetent they are, but the opportunism itself. The property I mentioned pulls in opportunists regardless of their competence. So eventually if you work in a field like this, you end up surrounded by them. Ther

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