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by caboteria 3mo ago
I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned the "magic unlimited magazine" yet, especially with fully-automatic weapons. It's distracting to watch the hero shoot and shoot and shoot and never reload. Big props to the John Wi
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by caboteria 3mo ago
They would make an excellent Beowulf cluster.
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by caboteria 4mo ago
I would get one of these in a hot minute except that my HP-16C that I got sometime in the '80's is still going strong! I rarely use it anymore but a couple of years back I was working on an app that involved bit-twiddling and the
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by caboteria 8mo ago
It's difficult to take an announcement like this seriously when it's posted on Twitter.
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by caboteria 1y ago
Everything he quoted is a fact, which can be proven or falsified. Taken together (and if true) they're pretty damning. You responded with an ad-hominem attack. If you can offer a rebuttal of the facts then please do, otherwise try to r
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by caboteria 1y ago
Also "couch lock", i.e., reduced physical activity.
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by caboteria 1y ago
The real serverless horror isn't the occasional mistake that leads to a single huge bill, it's the monthly creep. It's so easy to spin up a resource and leave it running. It's just a few bucks, right? I worked for a smal
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by caboteria 1y ago
> I made an honest mistake; I expect companies to reject candidates who make honest mistakes during interviews. Follow-up: do you expect companies to fire employees who make mistakes?
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by caboteria 1y ago
I recently received an AI-slop bug report for a small open source project (PureLB) that I maintain, and the slop was generated by DeepWiki. It was very incorrect, but I didn't know what "DeepWiki" was so I wasted about an hou
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by caboteria 1y ago
> At what point do these things stop being Amigas? Ah, the classic "Ship of Tramiel" gedankenexperiment.
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by caboteria 1y ago
I use Firefox but donate to Ladybird and Servo. Mozilla Corp is too far gone but hopefully the next generation of browsers will have less corporate baggage.
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by caboteria 1y ago
The main link returns a 404 - maybe a griefer deleted example1?
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by caboteria 1y ago
I'll defer to Stringer Bell: > Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy? "Normal CEO things" don't include committing crimes, and they are only a "huge self-own" when they document those crimes.
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by caboteria 1y ago
I'm curious about the pros and cons of Cloudflare pages versus GitHub pages. Given that you're using GH as a repo, would it be simpler to also use it to serve pages?
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by caboteria 1y ago
You control the trackball with the fingers of your right hand, and there's a scroll wheel and right and left buttons under your right thumb.
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by caboteria 1y ago
Windshield washer fluid is just liberal tears, after all.
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by caboteria 2y ago
They did, and this is what they got.
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by caboteria 2y ago
No discussion of LibreOffice would be complete without a reminder that the Apache Foundation continues to harm the open source community by pretending that Apache OpenOffice isn't dead as a doornail. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by caboteria 2y ago
(2021)
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by caboteria 2y ago
It's worse than that. VistA is a world-class open source EMR that the VA has been trying to kill for decades.
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by caboteria 2y ago
What ads? https://ublockorigin.com/
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by caboteria 2y ago
I worked for a company that was acquired by LU/Bell Labs in the '90's and their IP notebooks were excellent: hardbound with a sturdy cloth binding and thick, high-quality graph paper. We were supposed to have each page counte
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by caboteria 2y ago
Yup! And before that they were in the basement of the Dedham Community Theater.
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by caboteria 2y ago
I'm not sure that you meant to say "Shit of Theseus" but if you did: bravo!
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by caboteria 2y ago
I would imagine that the Archive Team would be interested in these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_Team
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by caboteria 2y ago
> One thing I really want to try out is the FUTO keyboard I've been using it for a few weeks and it works well. It seems to require some learning period because it started out making unhelpful suggestions for the predictive typing b
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by caboteria 2y ago
As long as LLMs are trained on code that has bugs, they'll suggest code that has bugs.
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by caboteria 2y ago
> So that’s Perplexity’s real innovation here: shattering the foundations of trust that built the internet. The question is if any of its users or investors care. Ron Howard voiceover: They do not.
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by caboteria 2y ago
I think that this qualifies: https://matt3o.com/
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by caboteria 2y ago
An open source fork is already up and running: https://andrewkelley.me/post/redis-renamed-to-redict.html

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