Sophistifunk

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by Sophistifunk 2mo ago
You might enjoy How to Make Evertything on YT.
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by Sophistifunk 3mo ago
Everybody is missing the point. Companies that dump all their white collar employees for AI will all disappear overnight. If there's nobody being employed by the company to do a thing, what value does the company provide? Customers wil
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by Sophistifunk 3mo ago
Back then the whole system was designed to do stuff for us. Now, so much of it is designed to work against us. Monstrous towers of complexity for the sole purpose of stopping you getting a high definition output without copy protection, o
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by Sophistifunk 6mo ago
This isn't reporting, it's propaganda.
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by Sophistifunk 11mo ago
Thing is that's a question for the market to decide. Which is why we have anti-trust / anti-monopoly laws in the first place. We don't want the state setting "fair" prices for anything, it always backfires. We want
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by Sophistifunk 11mo ago
Claude is (in my limited experience so far) more useful after a bit of back and forth where you can explain to it what's going on in your codebase. Although I suspect if you have a lot of accurate comments in your code then it will be
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by Sophistifunk 1y ago
The idea that what's needed is for these alternative platforms to switch to "free with ads" is amazingly short sighted and disheartening. Everything bad YouTube does is driven by this business model. Switching to it might mak
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by Sophistifunk 1y ago
Race cars have heaps of safety systems not present in road cars. They don't have ABS and traction control because they don't actually increase safety on track with a professional driver. SRS airbags also offer no additional safety
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by Sophistifunk 1y ago
True, but I think the "low-level" complaint against Go in the article was just referring to all the stupid repetitive ceremony required for error handling, which Zig mostly skips over.
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by Sophistifunk 1y ago
The wasted time and money in construction comes entirely from two places: a small percentage of crooked builders (and their local council mates), and the bureaucracy that is trying to protect the citizens from same. Big brother puts in a lo
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by Sophistifunk 1y ago
I very much enjoy reading and writing TS code. What I don't enjoy is the npm ecosystem (and accompanying mindset), and what I can't stand is trying to configure the damn thing. I've been doing this since TSC was first release
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by Sophistifunk 1y ago
Sounds like a Zig-shaped hole to me ;-)
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by Sophistifunk 1y ago
When are we done adding everything into the browser API?
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by Sophistifunk 2y ago
I'm much more interested in going the other direction, in order to get a TV without all the crapware.
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by Sophistifunk 2y ago
It's very interesting to me that we have to keep telling people this, but it hasn't become part of the "hive folk knowledge" we all seem to develop. I think DB vendors have been sleeping on an opportunity to encourage be
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by Sophistifunk 2y ago
Boeing haven't exactly been covering themselves with glory with their non-NASA work over the last decade or two, either. But I'd still go with "both" :)
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by Sophistifunk 2y ago
An ARM computer running a BSD and x stack. What's interesting about it, that makes it a "flying car" as opposed to everybody else's 140 characters?
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by Sophistifunk 2y ago
There's plenty of people who want to build that thing, and most of us have a good idea how it probably should be, at least at first. The problem isn't building it, it's funding it without selling out the user.
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by Sophistifunk 2y ago
That's pretty damned impressive.
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by Sophistifunk 2y ago
Most image sharing is ephemeral. Nobody cares if the image is gone 3 weeks from now, or if some private equity firm destroys the host company entirely in a year. Nobody's going to go through the hoop jumps required to pay for such a se
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by Sophistifunk 3y ago
I didn't mean you need the house to work on it, FWIW, but there are a lot of hobbies that will scratch that itch, and are impossible or make you a real dick if you live in an apartment complex. Sorry for not making that clear.
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by Sophistifunk 3y ago
I am not an American.
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by Sophistifunk 3y ago
This idea that the problem with western society is that we allow people to live in detached houses with yards instead of inner-city apartment buildings is bollocks. People need privacy, something to work on, freedom to move about, and agenc
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by Sophistifunk 3y ago
The audio gating on this makes it incredibly difficult to watch
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by Sophistifunk 3y ago
Super Hot like they were named in Japan in the early 90s
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by Sophistifunk 3y ago
A software guild wouldn't make software better, only much, much more expensive. Existing terrible practices would become enshrined in what is effectively law, and simply wrapped in additional bureaucracy that serves only to muddle and
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by Sophistifunk 3y ago
If you like this, get the Switch version. It's wonderful, and will still exist 24 hours from now.
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by Sophistifunk 3y ago
I'm still waiting for my anti-mosquito star wars system. Maybe the "AI" will help.
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by Sophistifunk 3y ago
yawn I guess you're in the wrong place, innit?
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by Sophistifunk 3y ago
Nothing I'd love to work on that sort of thing. The point wasn't that the kind of job is bad, but that even if you're working on stuff that shouldn't be secret, you still have to jump through all those hoops. And imagi

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