Singletoned

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by Singletoned 6mo ago
You are assuming that there's something bad about everything you believe being false. There's a fair amount of evidence that it's a good thing. EG religious people being happier and living longer
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by Singletoned 6mo ago
The idea of "sentience" here could be replaced with "a soul" or "magic thinking powers" or almost anything else. It's an undefinable concept.
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by Singletoned 8mo ago
For the same reason that there are already lots of markdown editors out there. Why didn't the they all use the first one that came out?
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by Singletoned 1y ago
I think this is different in different countries. I use them a lot in the UK and the customer support has been excellent.
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by Singletoned 1y ago
I think it's really interesting that Void (and Zed) are both much more tastefully designed than Cursor, Windsurf or VSCode (though I wouldn't have expected VSCode to be well designed)
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Exploring Generative AI(martinfowler.com)
1 points by Singletoned 1y ago|0 comments
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by Singletoned 1y ago
"The Rule of Three" I have been expressing as "it takes 3 points to make a straight line". Any two points will look as if they are on a straight line, but you need a third point to confirm the pattern as being a straight
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by Singletoned 2y ago
There's a double space on this page: https://www.otherbranch.com/for-engineers in "arbitrary black box" and it's really annoying me, but I can't see anyway to tell anyone about it
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by Singletoned 2y ago
Ratners is the famous example that springs to mind here in the UK.
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by Singletoned 2y ago
Can it do multiline search and replace?
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by Singletoned 4y ago
> Hello. I am rational developer. I am very clever and very rational. Devoid of emotion. Oh what is this? [Something has changed that I don't like]. What is this bubbling feeling in me? An emotional response? No way. I am rational.
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by Singletoned 4y ago
Creating "a system in which you consistently increase the number of miles you run" is pointless if it doesn't get you to the point where you can run the marathon on the day that it happens. How long you have until the maratho
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by Singletoned 4y ago
Even his first metaphor falls down: > You can’t simply start training today and run a half marathon tomorrow, for example. You can, however, create a system in which you consistently increase the number of miles you run. The marathon wil
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by Singletoned 4y ago
> "climate change", "people working from home", "less cars", etc etc https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hs2-will-never-be-carbon-... It doesn't look as if HS2 will help towards cli
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Dyson announce air purifying headphones(dyson.co.uk)
2 points by Singletoned 4y ago|1 comments
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by Singletoned 5y ago
I hate to be pedantic[1], but: > HTML, Markdown, JSON, LaTeX, and many other standard formats, are just plain text. On this definition, Word and Excel are just (zipped) plain text files. > Every device, including ones long gone, and o
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We Quit Slack(medium.com)
6 points by Singletoned 5y ago|0 comments
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by Singletoned 6y ago
Or in other words, they are sensible
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by Singletoned 6y ago
No filter jug removes all the limescale in hard water areas. You still need a filter on the kettle
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by Singletoned 6y ago
But that wouldn’t answer the question. Why is it not profitable to make good kettles? Also, you’re wrong. The people designing these kettles aren’t doing so to make more money for their company. If anything you could say that capitalism opt
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by Singletoned 6y ago
If a job description involves something you object to then you probably shouldn’t apply for the job, whatever it is
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by Singletoned 6y ago
No, he said it couldn’t be made there, which seems about right
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by Singletoned 6y ago
That pizza would be illegal in the Uk. BHA and BHP are banned over here
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No One Fights QAnon Like the Global Army of K-Pop Superfans(bloomberg.com)
2 points by Singletoned 6y ago|1 comments
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by Singletoned 7y ago
What if bash scripting is your main language?
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by Singletoned 7y ago
Xbox Fitness was the best exercise app I've ever used in my life. The most thorough work outs and hardest sustained effort I've ever put into exercising. I was absolutely gutted when they "sunsetted" it. They killed it
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by Singletoned 7y ago
Didn't catch on? The Wii was Nintendo's best selling console ever (apart from the original Gameboy), and outsold the PS3 from the same generation (and ever Xbox ever). It's quite likely that the Wii is the reason why PS3 wa
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by Singletoned 7y ago
DUI is as victimless as shooting a gun into a crowd and happening not to hit anyone. Just because you got lucky doesn't mean it's victimless.
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by Singletoned 7y ago
And the compiler code that compiled the compiler.
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Python Alternative to Docker(mattlayman.com)
2 points by Singletoned 7y ago|0 comments

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