TazeTSchnitzel

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by TazeTSchnitzel 6d ago
FrontPage didn't generate your content for you! So there was no reason to assume a FrontPage page might be meaningless just from how it looked. For AI-generated sites, though, if the page looks like slop, is it worth bothering to fig
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by TazeTSchnitzel 6d ago
You could be presenting the most carefully-researched information in the world, but with such an obviously vibecoded site I'm not going to attempt to read it.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 6d ago
The account named "Administrator" that Windows created for you always had the chess piece.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 6d ago
The "Windows Classic" look on XP is exceptionally ugly, because those 3D-rendered icons just do not belong on a Windows 2000-style grey background for menus or buttons. (I have recently had to test both these OSes in VMs…)
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by TazeTSchnitzel 9d ago
There's such an avalanche of blogposts on HN constantly saying relatively similar things about AI, that it would be really nice if they were all just filtered down into lists like this occasionally.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 11d ago
I'm not sure if this quite answers your question, but the difference in philosophy here is that C++ objects with pointers always have identity, whereas a Rust object only has identity if it has a non-zero size. It's an application
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by TazeTSchnitzel 12d ago
…but make sure you keep on top of your domain renewals, make sure they can renew automatically, and make sure there is a backup email address that isn't on your domain that can be used to get into your domain registrar account. (You pr
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by TazeTSchnitzel 14d ago
https://edits.nationalmap.gov/apps/gaz-domestic/public/searc... GNIS, Geographic Names Information System (Which still shows Lake Ontario for me as I write this. The body of water along the US's southern
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by TazeTSchnitzel 16d ago
This is fun to read, but there are some odd quirks to the text that I would hope wouldn't slip past an editor, and the way some of the Christian aspects are talked about feels bizarrely partisan for an academic text (it gives the impre
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by TazeTSchnitzel 17d ago
The EU is responsible for a lot more than that once you factor in emissions in other countries producing goods bought by people and businesses in EU countries.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 17d ago
The person I'm replying to doesn't seem to think so. I'm imagining this concept of addiction requires some level of craving, which I don't believe you get with SSRIs.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 19d ago
Because the quoted price for their laptops always includes Windows, the option to configure and remove the Windows license is effectively a discount for alternative OS users. :)
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by TazeTSchnitzel 19d ago
> It's not right to call it withdrawal. These drugs are not addictive like benzos or alcohol are. What does “not addictive” matter? Clearly, SSRIs are something that induce a dependency, because the withdrawal symptoms are horrific.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 20d ago
That's not a renewal. It's fairly standard for EU countries to require being outside the country to apply for a visa or residence permit when it is your first one, or (in some cases) when changing the type of visa or permit. But
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by TazeTSchnitzel 20d ago
I know those from growing up with QBASIC and EDIT.COM, but I think the only software I've used that actually supports them is the Windows conhost (the default UI for command-line apps).
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by TazeTSchnitzel 22d ago
The way Windows 95 could use DOS device drivers despite being 32-bit was fairly incredible. I think that fooled a lot of people into thinking it really was running on top of DOS, when in reality, once it has booted, the reverse is the case.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 27d ago
Speculative comment about the subject from user who has not clicked the link
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by TazeTSchnitzel 27d ago
GP surgeries in the UK are privately owned, their relationship with the NHS is contractual. It would not be surprising if they can buy whatever B2B SaaS they feel like.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 1mo ago
Twitter is a shadow of what it once was. The design of the site has shifted very very hard in favour of being an algorithmic content soup rather than a social network in the traditional sense. This has juiced the engagement numbers but ther
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by TazeTSchnitzel 1mo ago
So have many other people. What makes yours special? The vibecoding? The sloppy marketing site is really off-putting. I'd honestly be curious what those “83+ vintage & modern synths” are but you don't even provide a list… Also
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by TazeTSchnitzel 1mo ago
They can try to bring back something resembling the MySpace experience, but they can't bring back the millions of songs they deleted in 2018 with no backup. That was a great crime against modern music history.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 2mo ago
NO$GBA is written in assembly language?! I can't believe it.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 2mo ago
…only if you actually force the LLM not to use `unsafe` somehow! And one must remember that `unsafe` can have all sorts of non-local effects. One way to be maliciously compliant (or in the LLM's case, I guess it's more incompetenc
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by TazeTSchnitzel 2mo ago
An LLM definitely can do that work, but LLMs have a tendency to follow the path of least resistance unless you force them to do things properly and carefully supervise them.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 2mo ago
Rust contains the ability to do everything that C can, if you use `unsafe`. And a file-by-file rewrite in Rust from another language usually involves keeping the ABI and API between files very C-like (and unsafe). In practice this means tha
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by TazeTSchnitzel 2mo ago
I wish there were a shorthand for x git commit --amend --reset-author --no-edit I use that one very frequently (after a fixup, of course) because I want the author date on amended commits to reflect the last time I edited them, not t
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by TazeTSchnitzel 2mo ago
Techrights are hard to take seriously, the site's author has such a bad case of that polemic tendency that he lost a libel case because he wouldn't stop harassing someone ( https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ew
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by TazeTSchnitzel 2mo ago
If my eyes don't deceive me, the upscaling is happening post-dithering, which I think is a shame.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 2mo ago
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife on the other hand is the full Half-Life (GoldSrc) engine, but it's not quite an open license.
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by TazeTSchnitzel 2mo ago
OpenAI would probably still have some kind of claim against a company that did that.

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