benrutter

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by benrutter 7d ago
A lot of stuff showing its folding allowing you to "use it as a bedtime clock" - have apple done any kind if battery use trickery to make this a non-battery-draining thing to do? Or maybe I'm overestimating how much battery a
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by benrutter 9d ago
> I'm not sure how to translate this to the smartphone market though. Fairphone and LaJolla seem to do well in this regard though so back to brand reputation for a lot of this. I'm not here with a silver bullet or anything, but
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by benrutter 14d ago
> There's no way SQL is more unreadable than polars. IMO it's the other way around. I think on basic queries, SQL is really nice, but when stuff gets more complex, with a bunch of CTEs, let alone functions requiring loops, it b
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by benrutter 14d ago
> We don’t aim to make a big feature release of Polars 2.0. In fact we hope it to be a boring experience for you. The reason we bump this major version is that we can get rid of design decisions made in the past that currently block us a
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by benrutter 16d ago
I don't stream and buy all my music (aside from radio etc), I get music from: - Bandcamp (for new music) - Second hand CDs for charity shops and discogs (for older music) - Quoboz / Amazon (for new music not on bandcamp or somethi
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by benrutter 16d ago
> Borrowing Disesdi's logic in their arithmetic (which is hard to argue against), after four years of open source LLMs, we should have three AirBnBs,1 two Stripes,2 and three Dropboxes3 thanks to the power of AI. > > So. Where
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by benrutter 20d ago
> There's evidence of global warming. There's no evidence of a climate catastrophe. This is a ridiculous requirement to suggest. CO2 lasts around 100 years, waiting until your satisfied of "evidence of catastrophe" is
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by benrutter 25d ago
> Yet at least in my social circle, I don't really hear anyone pining for an 'artisan internet'. It definitely is a thing at least, to pine for the "small web" [0]. I think as well, dissatisfaction with major soc
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by benrutter 28d ago
I don't really seem to be sent very much unfiltered AI output - do other people? I'd love to hear horror stories.
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by benrutter 28d ago
Да, тоа изгледа како среќна средина.
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by benrutter 28d ago
Wearing a Casio as I type this. The "24hr" button switches 12/24 modes on the "watch" mode, when using stopwatch it starts the watch, and when using alarms it turns the alarm on/off. It has pretty critical func
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by benrutter 29d ago
It's worth stating plainly: It's not just a common occurrence, it's a load bearing feature of modern tech writing. Full stop.
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by benrutter 29d ago
> The one kind of physical shop I really miss is the kind of place where you can buy one screw, nail or picture hook etc. So much agreement! I have a bunch of obscure parts like 99 wooden dowels from when I needed one and had to buy 100.
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by benrutter 29d ago
> I'd rather read some well written LLM text over some poorly written human effort I think it depends a bit what's meant by "poorly" but I don't think I share that preference at all. I would 100% rather read a de
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by benrutter 1mo ago
I'm really curious how other codeforges are faring. I only use codeberg and github - codeberg seems to have less outages, especially for a much smaller organisation, but they've recently removed support for LLM projects which coul
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by benrutter 1mo ago
> The article rests on the claim that water usage of data centers on continent X threaten water availability for humans on continent Y. I don't want to start too much of an off-topic thread within an already off-topic thread, but th
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by benrutter 1mo ago
It gets a little weird when you start thinking of AI like that, because AI is very corporately based in the US and China, but not as heavily that when from a talent position. Demis Hassabis and Google's Deep Mind are all British in ter
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by benrutter 1mo ago
This is a great article, I feel like I think of this a lot when I build something new. The tricky bit I think though, is deciding what actually is boring, since really we should factor complexity in too. I work a lot with data in python,
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by benrutter 1mo ago
I'm really interested by what notifications people have toggled. I only ever have text messages and whatsapp (urgh, I know!) enabled and don't get a huge amount of notifications during the day to distract me. Do other people have
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by benrutter 1mo ago
That sounds like a cool project! Did you write it up anywhere at all? (or have any plans to?)
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by benrutter 1mo ago
Yeah, I agree - I think smart watches haven't yet evolved out of just being a fun tech gadget. If you just want a timer, I'd recommend just getting a cheap digital watch - you can get a casio for like 20 euros/dollars/po
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by benrutter 1mo ago
To give him credit, it's amazing that Mark Zuckerberg managed to take an easily defensible position like "we shouldn't allow AI to be owned by a couple of tech monopolies" and still manage to find so many individual po
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by benrutter 1mo ago
I like that theory, if I was going to counter it though, I'd say that I'm not sure those features match what language users talk about. For instance: - C: Users often praise the simplicity of the language - C++: Users often praise
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by benrutter 1mo ago
> In general, I don't think you can argue definitively on the uselessness of a piece of knowledge from a standpoint of ignorance of that knowledge. I agree, I think those things are definitely worthwhile learning. But I don't
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by benrutter 1mo ago
Not OP but yes if you consume more jam (not if you consume the same over a period of time, because you're then just paying less for jam over a wider time scale). The example I've heard given is accounting and spreadsheets. It ma
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by benrutter 1mo ago
Anyone have info on if other platforms are seeing the same scaling? And if so, are they seeing problems too? I definitely only hear about GitHub outages, but it is a lot bigger than the others.
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by benrutter 1mo ago
Those kind of abstract CS interview questions never feel that helpful to me, but in all honesty, your story sounds like a job of the interview working. You were able to demonstrate that you were enthusiastic and knowledge about programming
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by benrutter 2mo ago
Tangent, but I have a theory that refactoring is one of the best symptoms of a healthy dev team. It's partly that refactors themselves have benefits, but I think more that the benefits to refactoring aren't visible to something
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by benrutter 2mo ago
> Opposing fascism supported on dehumanizing policies such as racial supremacy is not a mere difference in opinion, as is pushes to invade and annex other countries. I'm not sure, I'd say two things: - I think "mere differ
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by benrutter 2mo ago
> You have both US governments and US oligarchs openly pushing and directly promoting fascist and extremist political parties, while at the same time threatening with annexation and military interventions. I think the first part of this

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