amoe_

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by amoe_ 1mo ago
But for a large proportion of people, "what they build" is meaningless (in social terms). Doing as you suggest would eliminate the majority of work.
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by amoe_ 1mo ago
As you say, many entered the field beacause of a natural interest in tech, rather than pay. But that doesn't imply that they uncritically accept every new technology just because it's new. It seems like you're arguing for &
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by amoe_ 1mo ago
I'd like to think that actually-existing-telepathy would be a more transformative technology than something that simply allows people to do their existing work more conveniently.
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by amoe_ 4mo ago
The difference is that these rhetorical techniques need to be used with taste. LLMs just sprinkle them everywhere to try to make their copy sound good, even when it's completely inappropriate tone-wise. They don't make higher le
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by amoe_ 5mo ago
> - Philosophy, really good and useful I have had the opposite experience, philosophy questions tending to show the various chatbots at their most irrational and confabulatory.
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by amoe_ 5mo ago
Completely agree. It's absolutely awful having software projects squatting on the names of great philosophers and artists. I appreciate that perhaps the author wanted to show their appreciation, but there are plenty of other equally
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by amoe_ 7mo ago
The problem for me is not services where the content is online, you can just avoid those, but cases where access to scarce real resources is controlled through online verification. E.g. renting recording studios, background checks for job
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by amoe_ 8mo ago
Which particular LLM was that?
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by amoe_ 11mo ago
If I'm already using Poetry and not facing any issues with it, is there any advantage to using uv?
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by amoe_ 1y ago
I actually like this and don't want them to be joined up.
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by amoe_ 1y ago
> Wall: Players group 16 elements into four categories (similar to the NYT Connections game) I have to be the designated pedant here and point out that Only Connect was first.
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by amoe_ 1y ago
The knife crime analogy is a bit off, as we already have age restrictions for buying knives in the UK.
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by amoe_ 1y ago
I was pro-systemd at the time of the controversial discussions. I still think it's a net positive relative to what was there before. But personally speaking, it's only the core of the software (service management) that improved
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by amoe_ 2y ago
This legislation was created by the Conservative party, but wasn't opposed by any major political party in the UK.
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by amoe_ 2y ago
> You're going to pay for that one later if you do the simple thing and add an "email" column You'll only pay if the project survives long enough for that new requirement to actually surface, which often it won't
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by amoe_ 3y ago
I'm going to echo what everyone else is saying in this thread -- the inverse problem (YX) is by far the bigger issue with tech questions on the internet in general (mainly SO and IRC). It's common enough that it puts me off askin
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by amoe_ 4y ago
Yep. Pre-generics, Java was considered a good teaching language because of its simplicity and the ability to hold the entire language in your head. I think it's much more difficult to make that argument now. The same for Python. Mo
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by amoe_ 4y ago
You have low expectations; I have Racket programs that have worked for over 10 years essentially untouched. More or less the same with Perl. We should be aspiring to Plato's cave (while accepting that we won't reach that).
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by amoe_ 4y ago
The OSB has become a big bucket which UK politicians can point to and say "see, we're doing something". When faced with a question about the internet, the stock response of Tory MPs is to say "wait for the Online Safety
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by amoe_ 4y ago
> If what you want is... automated, predictable deployments... then Docker Compose and Terraform is all you need. Can you elaborate on the deployment story here a bit?
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by amoe_ 4y ago
f-strings are quite perlish IMV.
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by amoe_ 4y ago
It's been a while since I last was experimenting with them. I did try Guice briefly, but I stopped for some reason that I don't recall now. Perhaps I should have given it more time. Dagger I tried in a bit more detail, and I fo
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by amoe_ 4y ago
I like Spring, Spring Boot is good, and the libraries do stuff that you'll need (while maybe you don't realize whether you'll need it yet). I'm a DI fan and I've found alternative DI frameworks to not work as well a
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by amoe_ 5y ago
I don't have any data on it, but I'd speculate that CGI is still fairly widely used. Though how widely it's used with Python is another issue. Regardless of how poorly designed the cgi module is, removing it without providi
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by amoe_ 5y ago
As someone wrote further down the thread, the official position of React is that it's not a framework, so it's not just this article making this point. I agree with you that there's something slightly wrong about that framing
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by amoe_ 5y ago
As a kid I used to love playing this game ("Bang Bang") in Windows 3.1, I'm glad that someone else remembers it.
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by amoe_ 5y ago
Years ago I worked at a small hosting company and avoiding this situation was definitely on our minds. There are a lot of approaches to it under eg. Apache: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/HTTPD/P
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by amoe_ 5y ago
I know it's a joke but IIRC these simple scripts don't work anymore, as Slack deprecated the token-only auth mechanism.
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by amoe_ 6y ago
Can anyone clarify the claim of 1.5-4x speedup over rsync? Does this also apply for data that's already compressed? If so, how is it achieved?
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by amoe_ 6y ago
Is it possible to satisfy these criteria with non-Kindle ebook options? * Good book selection, including more obscure and older books. * Highlighting and notes automatically get backed up somewhere off-device. * Paperwhite-sized backlit e-i

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