bowsamic

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by bowsamic 13d ago
All I can think of when I see the name is the crappy German beer of the same name…
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by bowsamic 28d ago
> Wouldn’t mind doing this but no idea where to begin. Literally just ask Claude where to begin
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by bowsamic 1mo ago
Very cool, reminds me of some of Aphex Twin’s percussive elements
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by bowsamic 1mo ago
The main thing you’ll learn is that actually the static and inflexible abstractions of an operating system do a lot to protect the system integrity and prevent everything from blowing up. Many smalltalk VMs rely on recovery features for a r
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by bowsamic 2mo ago
Roguelikes use text as symbols, rather than being primarily literary. This comparison doesn’t make sense
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by bowsamic 2mo ago
Classic Steve Jobs move. On the absolute limit of ethics for the sake of Apple
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by bowsamic 2mo ago
> coding was never the main goal, it was always the means to create the finished end product I think that's the main difference. For many of us, the process and how we grow through that process really is as important as, if not more
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by bowsamic 2mo ago
It’s easier in most companies to get a cloud bill approved than to ask for a big chunk of cash for hardware and also to pay someone to set it up
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by bowsamic 2mo ago
I don’t need to give reasons for my son to follow my orders
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by bowsamic 2mo ago
Why would I tell my son not to drink beer? He can do so as soon as it’s relatively safe to
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by bowsamic 3mo ago
Significantly worse than the Deutschland ticket
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by bowsamic 3mo ago
Same on macOS. Could be that we are missing some native compilation option though
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by bowsamic 3mo ago
ePub compatibility issues are one of the worst parts of having a Kobo reader. I genuinely miss my Kindle and its simple but reliable MOBI format. At least there everything worked
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by bowsamic 4mo ago
No, I don’t want to name and shame. It was a few years ago
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by bowsamic 4mo ago
Inkscape is the only software that I see people get so defensive about when criticised. I even had the lead dev appear in my mentions and try and start fighting me on twitter when I complained on my own timeline about the performance on mac
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by bowsamic 5mo ago
Solipsism is wrong.
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by bowsamic 5mo ago
This is why I don’t use this site. Low IQ discussions and insults from morons
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by bowsamic 5mo ago
You don’t need any observations at all to build up a complete knowledge of the entire universe. Hegel showed this
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by bowsamic 5mo ago
It can resolve them though
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by bowsamic 5mo ago
> Nobody can ever know an ultimate why, for obvious and well established philosophical reasons Yes we can, you are just presupposing that philosophy is ultimately ineffective. For example Hegel gave a presuppositionless development of al
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by bowsamic 5mo ago
I’m just curious if you are so dependent on LLMs that the idea of not using them at all seems extreme to you
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by bowsamic 5mo ago
> But I wonder does this mean no AI was used at all? Even for say, code review? Would that be surprising to you?
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by bowsamic 5mo ago
Any logic with LEM
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by bowsamic 5mo ago
This makes it good for formal maths, but bad for philosophy, since it means it can’t encode the speculative movement
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by bowsamic 5mo ago
For me the widespread fear over this is evidence that it’s different from syntax highlighting and stuff
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by bowsamic 5mo ago
> Just because you use AI doesn't mean your brain grows a black hole from which information can never return. How do you know this? I’m not taking that risk
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by bowsamic 5mo ago
Small stdlib, “implement it yourself” philosophy to even things like classes, diverging language versions and fragmentation (a lot of people don’t like any of the post 5.1 changes), bad tooling and editor support, dynamic duck typed languag
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by bowsamic 6mo ago
It's usually 6 months probation in Germany, not 3 months
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by bowsamic 6mo ago
I’m sure you can learn how to use it
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by bowsamic 6mo ago
If only the demoscene wasn’t so horrible culturally. It’s absolutely full of old sceners who have “earned” being dicks to people, and unfortunately many newbies who think that the way to be a real scener is to copy that behaviour. The const

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