Starlevel004

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by Starlevel004 4d ago
> On top of my on-going battle with Windows + Firefox + DNS/TLS resolution sometimes stalling for seconds at a time, Have you tried disabling HTTP/2?
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by Starlevel004 5d ago
I think ultimately 90% of the time, Luna XHigh is basically as good as you need, as long as you're willing to step in occasionally before it creates an architectural disaster.
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by Starlevel004 8d ago
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by Starlevel004 12d ago
> I don't get why everyone reaches for an extraordinary explanation when the ordinary will do: both of these companies have quite a bit of downtime. And not only that, when one goes down a bunch of API traffic switches over to the o
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by Starlevel004 1mo ago
Unplug the ethernet cable leading to the outside world, then?
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by Starlevel004 2mo ago
How did it get banned? Presumably it has a modchip inside which means that getting updates from alternative sources is still viable.
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by Starlevel004 2mo ago
Why does it have like 0.1s animations?
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by Starlevel004 2mo ago
When the entire post is staccato sentences it's very easy to tell.
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by Starlevel004 3mo ago
It's the staccato sentences
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by Starlevel004 3mo ago
Megafauna did not have steel skin and could bleed
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by Starlevel004 3mo ago
Luckily they don't come with a built-in fist filter.
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by Starlevel004 4mo ago
If they made a shower you could walk in, every single problem facing humanity would be solved in three weeks.
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by Starlevel004 5mo ago
They were actually eaten (in the early modern era) or ground up for paint.
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by Starlevel004 5mo ago
The standard library has a whole bunch of tools to let them test and evolve APIs with a required-opt in, but every single ecosystem package has to get it right first try because Cargo will silently forcibly update packages and those evoluti
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by Starlevel004 5mo ago
Security through obscurity is an excellent first-line defense, as long as you have other real defenses at the next layer.
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by Starlevel004 6mo ago
I think more people should take AI advice for personal problems, and especially for medical issues. This would solve a lot of problems in society fairly quickly.
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by Starlevel004 6mo ago
The old system was nonfunctional and any base that used lots of fluids (like modded ones, or new space age ones) were constantly running up against nonsensical mechanics.
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by Starlevel004 6mo ago
Rust is also design-by-committee.
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by Starlevel004 7mo ago
"Not just X -- it's Y" is one of the more irritatingly common signs, especially for sentences like that one which absolutely do not need it. The Wikipedia article on detecting AI writing is a big help if you need to calibrate
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by Starlevel004 7mo ago
> Designing a product with billions of eyeballs on it isn't just challenging — it requires a fundamentally different approach. I'm not reading this.
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by Starlevel004 7mo ago
Person who pays for AI: We should make everything revolve around the thing I pay for
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by Starlevel004 7mo ago
Real humans don't speak in LinkedIn Standard English
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by Starlevel004 7mo ago
I laugh every time somebody qualifies their anti-AI comments with "Actually I really like AI, I use it for everything else". The problem is bad, but the cause of the problem (and especially paying for the cause of the problem)?
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by Starlevel004 7mo ago
> I've heard, but haven't confirmed, they also detect you opening developer tools using various methods and remove your auth keys from localstorage while you have it open to make account takeovers harder. (but not impossible) Y
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by Starlevel004 7mo ago
When is that going to be?
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by Starlevel004 8mo ago
The Fourth Amendment only applies to places flying a flag with gold fringes
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by Starlevel004 8mo ago
Every single post here is written in the most infuriating possible prose. I don't know how anyone can look at this for more than about ten seconds before becoming the Unabomber.
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by Starlevel004 8mo ago
I've found that libadwaita apps tend to look at least decent outside of their native environment, whereas QT apps near-universally look terrible outside of KDE.
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by Starlevel004 8mo ago
Hey Claude, summarise this letter for me and write a response.
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by Starlevel004 9mo ago
> So what did they do? Move everything from /usr to / and drop the whole /usr legacy? Noooo, that would be too simple. It's a lot simpler to merge them in a directory that can be mounted across multiple machines than

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