_benj

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by _benj 1mo ago
But that "worse way" makes AI labs and investors a lot of money... If the perception that "worse" is accompanied with needing less human intervention, i.e. less labor, worse is better from a business perspective...
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by _benj 1mo ago
Uff, doing all of that plus developing your software sounds really hard! I package software for void Linux... I don't think there's an expectation from devs to know all the intricacies and particulars of each distro and contributi
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by _benj 1mo ago
> Just doing something human in a dehumanizing world is enough. Yes! it's been years since I read the fun, cool, nerdy post I used to read here... so whatever, I'll write them myself! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by _benj 1mo ago
Thanks! writing the next post ATM :-) For the longest time I was completely at a lost for how I was able to complete stuff for my employers but when I decided to do something I could never finish it... Now I think that a big part of it is
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by _benj 1mo ago
Fair enough... I think it really depends about what dependencies we talking about. NPM decencies is a bit of dumpster fire, supply chain attacks galore! A well known python (think numpy) certainly is less discomforting, and a "industry
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by _benj 2mo ago
This resonates with me. The concept of cig it I've debt was something I've been experiencing but didn't have a name for it. I think it is worth noting that not all code is equal... One could argue that adding a library is in
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by _benj 2mo ago
OpenAI: "Oops, AI hacked somebody accidentally..." US Military: "Great, let's give it missiles!"
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by _benj 7mo ago
Idk for UX but I’ve found Claude helpful at creating ideas and mockups for gui apps I need. Don’t ask it to generate any images or vectors, it’s horrible at that, but you ask it to make a mock for an app so and so that does such and such an
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by _benj 8mo ago
Totally unrelated but “chat jippity” made my day!
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by _benj 8mo ago
Thanks for the explanation!
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by _benj 8mo ago
Would there be a difference in contributing to OpenJDK vs to, say, Temurin or Zulu Java? How separated are those Java JDKs really from OpenJDK?
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by _benj 11mo ago
Since employment is apparently the highest achievement a person can aspire to, this post and emacs users in general, must be of such lesser value I guess? /s
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by _benj 1y ago
A few years ago I switched to KDE and the experience has been so absolutedly seamless and good, and the upgrade to Plasma 6 took some time to propagate down to distros it was well worth the wait! It seems to be that a project like KDE might
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by _benj 1y ago
It seems that it was only about time… it just feels like the pace of enshittification with big tech being able to get away with anything is crazy! I’m hoping that projects like Precursor can take off because we’ve buried ourselves in such
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by _benj 1y ago
I particularly agree with you. Sublime is not open source and it has a very devout paying client base. To me the dirty thing is to make something “open source” because developers absolutely love that, to then take an arguably “not open sour
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by _benj 1y ago
I’m curious how this will turn out. Reminds me of the node.js fork IO.js and how that shifted the way node was being developed. If there’s a group of people painfully aware of telemetry and AI being pushed everywhere is devs…
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by _benj 1y ago
Maybe hot take… I can see the point of sameness in homeschooling, but compared to traditional education? I’m not sure how much flexibility one would have to teach oneself calculus by 11 or the equivalent of an undergrad in math by 14! That
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by _benj 1y ago
> …the company's AI coding agent deleted a code base and lied about its data. Well, lying about it certainly human-like behavior, human-like AGI must be just around the corner! /s But really, full access to a production databas
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by _benj 1y ago
> If your life has been as unfair to you as it has been to some of us, and forced you to work on SPAs as the result… Hehe
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by _benj 1y ago
I think there’s an element of fear in the self-taught engineer? I am self taught and even after over a decade of experience impostor syndrome is still going strong! At the same time I’ve been surprised by graduates when they come across som
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by _benj 1y ago
How is this different than other ip or dns ad blockers? I see that it all comes down to a blacklist of urls. Wouldn’t eBPF just make things more complicated?
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by _benj 1y ago
I’ve been finding this tool so useful to transfer files between devices in my local network. Linux to iOS, macOS to Windows, all with no friction. Love it!
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PairDrop – Cross-Platform open source AirDrop alternative(github.com)
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OpenIntro Statistics(openintro.org)
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by _benj 1y ago
This is such an interesting experiment! Somebody else already mentioned Borges, but yeah! Not exactly the same but reminds me of one time I did an experiment with rational number attempting to see which patterns emerged… 111? 112? 113? etc.
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by _benj 1y ago
Nice! Thanks for sharing :-) Another book added to my To-Read list
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I Accidentally Made a Botnet (Marcus Hutchins) [YouTube](youtube.com)
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PairDrop: Open-Source Transfer Files Cross-Platform(github.com)
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Local file sharing in your web browser(pairdrop.net)
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by _benj 1y ago
That is impressive, specially the drone surviving! I expect something along the lines of disposable drones, which would like still be cost effective at saving 100-200b yen a year! It’ll be fascinating seeing this deployed!

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