btschaegg

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by btschaegg 4d ago
You Browser Working Zurich Cloudflare Working pi.deepakness.com Host Error
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by btschaegg 12d ago
The official firmware, yes, but also Fairphones for years, not Xiaomi or the like (FP2 -> FP3 -> FP5 now). So the "bloat" in question is the Google stuff.
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by btschaegg 12d ago
I had the same experience. Repeatedly. IMO it's the software, not the hardware. The issues always start/get worse with a big update to Android or the main Google apps.
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by btschaegg 23d ago
<insert "always has been" meme here>
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by btschaegg 26d ago
> Knowledge cutoff > None. Wouter is aware of everything and disappointed by most of it. Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? ’Cos I don’t.
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by btschaegg 1mo ago
If it's something small, usually yes. But very often, that's still on the same routes (often, not all rails are blocked, so only some connections through the station suffer). But I've also seen my fair share of "trains i
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by btschaegg 1mo ago
I tested the use case I could've really used this for, but it doesn't seem to be able to do this: "Biel to Zürich, but not through Grenchen". The SBB timetable app and website can become really unhelpful if there has bee
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by btschaegg 1mo ago
The "geek" in the title is definitely a lie. I can think of an entire series of fitting expletives to replace it, though.
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by btschaegg 1mo ago
I'd agree with you based on the language itself; Lua has some annoying idiosyncrasies like e.g. (my main pet peeve) 1-based indexing. But I suspect the positive opinion on Lua stem more from the standardized environment the language is
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by btschaegg 2mo ago
https://youtu.be/nplkSmHC780 Edit: Also, if you're looking for earworms and like loopy melodies, check out David Fenn's Soundtrack for Moonlighter: https://davidfennmusic.bandcamp.com/album/m
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by btschaegg 2mo ago
…minutes before a bunch of Vogons show up to finally get started with their intergalactic highway and the result never makes it to the prompter ;)
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by btschaegg 2mo ago
Imagine someone sneaking in The King in Yellow into the training sets used by all projects training models somehow, breaking all future models irreparably -- and then the engineers trying to find this poison pill in the dataset and going ma
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by btschaegg 2mo ago
Note: AFAIU "Data Oriented Programming" (as championed e.g. in the Clojure community) and "Data Oriented Design" (as championed in the video game community) are very different philosophies for different use-cases and dia
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by btschaegg 2mo ago
…inefficiently. I can also do nothing at scale just with a hammock :)
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by btschaegg 2mo ago
I think that's meant as an abbreviation for "microtransactions".
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by btschaegg 2mo ago
> The world’s organisations have been captured by people in the throes of frothing excitement, and saner people who now live in a state of constant commingled fear and frustration. This reminds me of "Youth without God" by Ödön
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by btschaegg 2mo ago
There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery. SCNR :)
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by btschaegg 2mo ago
> every time Space Marine 2 crashes my entire Linux desktop. Sounds like a good situation for the litany of percussive maintenance.
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by btschaegg 2mo ago
Your right, as are your examples, but I want to point out an interesting thing about your examples :) > - CT and MRI data processing > - scheduling systems for universities and other schools (makes education more scalable) Those two r
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by btschaegg 3mo ago
Because that comma is a crime against legibility.
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by btschaegg 3mo ago
> Bonus points for using a very confusing separator... Maybe {? I vote for "end of unit" (ASCII 0x1F).
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by btschaegg 5mo ago
> I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's i
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by btschaegg 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Richner
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by btschaegg 6mo ago
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that classes not being final or sealed (C#) by default is another failure to set sensible defaults, akin to "everything is mutable unless explicitly marked const". Properly designing classes f
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by btschaegg 6mo ago
With that model, you're basically toast if you're "the human". It only cares about "my humans" ;)
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by btschaegg 6mo ago
For various people, some of that flipped back, and they now record voice messages to send them through e.g. WhatsApp. My percieved explanation for this is that most of them can't be bothered to type a message but are still very happy t
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by btschaegg 7mo ago
Got another one: Hugo Weaving laughs manically. It assigns this to the original The Matrix and doesn't mention the sequels. I guess it can't distinguish between them? Edit: And another one :) A western hero wants to retire but is
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by btschaegg 7mo ago
This is fun :) And frighteningly good at guessing what I'm throwing at it. Makes a good reverse guessing game: Find something it doesn't get right. My only success so far: A cleaner is hopelessly out of his element when his victim
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by btschaegg 7mo ago
I'll just… leave this here. https://youtu.be/RmIgJ64z6Y4?si=PYtN2xCrDZ79WlY7
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by btschaegg 7mo ago
You write "wherever possible", but: Have you ever seen the beancounting itself having been under scrutiny? I'd wager a big part of it is also the same politics based asymmetry that's visible everywhere; like nobody ever

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