MainlyMortal

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by MainlyMortal 6mo ago
You know, I was initially dismissive of your comment but you have a point and I don't really. We're mostly here for the tech news and I actually agree with you.
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by MainlyMortal 6mo ago
You're literally on a VC forum.
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by MainlyMortal 6mo ago
It's obvious now that you say it but I never thought about the AI companies themselves doing this for their own benefits like training purposes. It's a perfect testing ground to see what works for engagement and to see what real p
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by MainlyMortal 6mo ago
This is exactly the type of thing I'm talking about and why I'm convinced it's about the metrics/engagement boosting. I don't believe for a second that real people are using chatgpt/others for rewording real th
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by MainlyMortal 6mo ago
Have you seen Reddit recently? Every single subreddit is full of AI posts with AI replies. I'm actually convinced a large majority of that is Reddit themselves artificially boosting their engagement metrics. The saddest part is that th
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by MainlyMortal 6mo ago
I upvoted you because you were unfairly downvoted. I don't even use a Mac any more after 20 years of exclusively using them but it's actually hilarious how bad magit is compared to this. It's all well and good making the most
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by MainlyMortal 2y ago
Your comment about the docs is the real reason .NET/C#/F# isn't gaining any new users. The dotnet team should actually be embarrassed about this but it's clear they don't care so neither will anyone else. It's
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by MainlyMortal 2y ago
It's honestly the best of the lot but slept on in these parts because of being Windows only. KDE started to clone this as a native feature but it seems to be abandoned. Story of linux I guess. I really, really can't recommend Powe
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by MainlyMortal 2y ago
I think what most people, including tiling people, would actually want without realising it is Divvy (macOS)/gTile (gnome)/PowerToys (Windows). A regular floating window manager but you can move any floating window into a tiled wi
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by MainlyMortal 2y ago
U.K. view here... and I'd guess this applies the the majority of the world too. I was born in, grew up in and currently live in a location that the HN community never even thinks about. Most people in here have no idea of how the regul
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by MainlyMortal 3y ago
It's quite ironic, or rather unfortunate, that recently we're seeing the opposite problem in the Elixir community. A lot of the big famous companies used in case studies about how Elixir and Phoenix are amazing, save money, save r
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Patterns for Reactivity with Modern Vanilla JavaScript(frontendmasters.com)
2 points by MainlyMortal 3y ago|0 comments
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Escaping Complexity in Clean Code and OOP [video](youtube.com)
2 points by MainlyMortal 3y ago|0 comments
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by MainlyMortal 3y ago
I'm not going to pretend to know a lot about networking but I use Netgear's Orbi routers and receivers. I've tried MANY different router and powerline adapter brands and nothing even comes close. I know it has something to do