brooke2k

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by brooke2k 17d ago
this is only tangentially related to the article, but I've always found text justification strange. For me paragraphs with ragged edges are easier to read than justified paragraphs, because the irregular ending point helps me keep trac
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by brooke2k 1mo ago
calling elon musk "a Republican" is such a wild understatement
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by brooke2k 1mo ago
what makes TCO so difficult to implement? it feels like it should be a very simple "if the final instruction before RET is CALL, then eliminate the call" but clearly I'm missing something
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by brooke2k 1mo ago
I would tend to agree in the case that someone is using LLMs as their primary source for learning. But I've found a lot of use in having a claude project containing the PDF of a textbook I'm working through so that I can ask it to
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by brooke2k 1mo ago
I think saying "nobody has the patience" is assuming that everyone is using agents for hours on end to do enormous tasks. I tend to prompt claude to do smaller, more contained tasks that I understand the entirety of, in which case
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by brooke2k 3mo ago
The great thing about Wikipedia is that anyone can participate. Anyone can advocate for change, such as changing the rules around notability. But if you want to have enough influence to effectively advocate for changing a rule as impactful
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by brooke2k 3mo ago
> Not to mention how I want to know how curl works, even if I don’t keep 100% intimate knowledge of every single angle and corner, I know most of it. I think it helps me make better decisions, debug better, help users better and keep the
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by brooke2k 4mo ago
in my mind unfortunately this basically destroys KDE's viability as a gaming platform. SO many older games just do not work properly unless run under X11 (hell, some newer ones too). XWayland is good for everyday applications but for g
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by brooke2k 5mo ago
nothing at all, because it's PR security theatre done out of desperation as their platform has been gradually revealed to be a machine that destroys children's lives
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by brooke2k 5mo ago
I work with C#/NuGet on windows every day and my experience is entirely the opposite. The build and dependency systems are an abysmal esoteric, poorly documented mix between csproj files, sln files, random scattered json files, etc. Th
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by brooke2k 5mo ago
hahaha, I did the exact same thing after the game came out to see if wheel of fortune was really a 1/4 chance
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by brooke2k 6mo ago
for the longest time I never did this, but then I got a gigantic 4K screen, and I realized that it was almost giving me vertigo having apps like my IDE fullscreened, because I literally have to move my head in order to look everywhere. so i
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by brooke2k 6mo ago
If your interests lie entirely or mostly in the realm of AAA or AA games that are playable with a controller, then I completely agree. However if your interests lie in indie games or games that require a keyboard and mouse interface (precis
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by brooke2k 6mo ago
nooooooooooooooo god why. I loved uv. just why
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by brooke2k 7mo ago
clearly there's something I don't understand (or is the law just really this stupid?) - but what would this even look like for linux? every user account requires an associated age? but users don't have a 1:1 mapping to the pe
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by brooke2k 7mo ago
The constant reference to "democracy" as the thing that makes us good and them bad is so frustrating to me because we are _barely_ a democracy. We are ruled by a two-party state. Nobody else has any power or any chance at power. H
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by brooke2k 7mo ago
wow this website is nigh unreadable on mobile
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by brooke2k 7mo ago
I think for a lot of people (me included) Discord isn't just a chat service like WhatsApp but more of a "home base" where you can hang out with all your friends, make new friends, share media, chat, play games together, strea
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by brooke2k 7mo ago
this is very much a nitpick, but I wouldn't call throwing an exception in the constructor a good use of static typing. sure, it's using a separate type, but the guarantees are enforced at runtime
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by brooke2k 8mo ago
FWIW, Rider has very good support for keybindings - I can't vouch for vim bindings directly but their emacs keybinding scheme is brilliant, IMO it's the next closest thing to working from Emacs itself. So I'm guessing the vim
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by brooke2k 8mo ago
I find personally that this is the biggest advantage of Rust for the kind of code I write. Memory safety is great and all, but an aggressive GC would do just fine for what I tend to work on. But the culture around Rust is such that librarie
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by brooke2k 8mo ago
that's not been my experience at all. I've found that Godot works exceptionally well with C#, and I've felt zero pressure to use GDScript. It integrates really well with Rider too, which is the C# IDE I use. Even when there&#
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by brooke2k 8mo ago
wow, this release looks really cool! this part especially: > With the new LibGodot, you can now embed the engine directly into your own applications. Instead of running Godot as a separate executable, you can control startup, manage the
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by brooke2k 8mo ago
maybe I'm just dumb but a lot of these elements don't seem to work? the "..." buttons don't open any flyout, the dropdown doesn't open up... otherwise looks cool though
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by brooke2k 8mo ago
I think there's a consequence difference between the IDE being sure enough that a std::move is warranted to issue a lint, versus the compiler being 100% provably certain that inserting a move won't cause any issues.
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by brooke2k 9mo ago
I don't have many issues with wayland itself, the problem is that I frequently use software that doesn't support wayland or has buggy wayland support. In some instances, I can file bugs with the maintainers of that software, but s
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by brooke2k 9mo ago
> 11 one. 2025 is when it got real: we announced a formal end to Plasma’s X11 session in early 2027. Really hoping they delay this. I love KDE but this would force me to abandon it :(
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by brooke2k 9mo ago
Having a job that requires Windows is not what I would call self-inflicted.
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by brooke2k 9mo ago
I used to be much more descriptive along these lines with my PRs, but what I realized is that nobody reads the descriptions, and then drops questions that are directly answered in the description anyways. I've found that this gets wors
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by brooke2k 9mo ago
"AI" as it's used nowadays is unfortunately usually a shorthand for LLM. When firefox talks about "AI features", I think most people interpret that as "LLM integration", not the page-translation feature th

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