dissident_coder

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by dissident_coder 3y ago
I started using Baking Soda on iOS/Safari and it's a game changer and it doesn't seem like YT can do anything about it.
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
I love Kagi, used my free searches and customized the crap out of it. It would absolutely be worth the cost if I wasn't penny pinching because of cost of living increases and inflation. Oh well, back to bing with GPT4 chat/search
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
> The only Rails projects that I worked on that never had performance problems are the ones that never reached any scale. All Rails projects that gained traction that I worked on, needed serious refactorings, partial rewrites, tuning and
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
Meta/Google/etc... at the end of the day are businesses, and the currency they deal with when transacting with us is our personal information and they convert that to dollars with their partners. As I also value freedom of associa
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
Without any evidence to suggest otherwise, it's just baseless conspiracy theory to think some "shadow figure" was secretly pulling the strings to make their preferred evil-capitalist-ideal version of BG3 (lol). BG3 is indie b
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
It's a bot prevention measure (allegedly). It also conveniently blocks out people that are more likely to not want to share all of their personal information with them. No skin off my back, the less toxic social media garbage I'
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
AA and AAA are a statement of budget, size and scope of a project. BG3 is a rare example of a AAA indie game.
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
The CEO has openly stated they were given full creative control of what's in the game.
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
> I fail to see what separates Alma from CentOS Stream at this point Alma is getting their source packages from CentoOS Stream, but they are using the specific versions that are in the Redhat releases they are targetting. They aren&#x27
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
Alma Linux is getting their source packages from Stream but they are using the exact same versions that are in the current Redhat release.
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
As far as I know the only censorship that was done to the game was the sexual content for release in the Japanese market.
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
Baldurs Gate 3 is also technically an indie game by the classical definition.
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
"The science" has become religious dogma to many people, the complete anthesis of science. When people say they (follow) "the science" I don't even bother listening to what they have to say anymore.
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
If NYT wins this, then there is going to be a massive push for payouts from basically everyone ever…I don’t see that wallet being fat for long.
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
I don’t really see it as good guys or bad guys - just that China (and Russia) don’t really care too much about American copyright. And there seems to be an an obvious advantage from my perspective to having an information vacuum that is not
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
Even if they win against openAI, how would this prevent something like a Chinese or Russian LLM from “stealing” their content and making their own superior LLM that isnt weakened by regulation like the ones in the United States. And I say t
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
Someone probably did a join on a has-many association without narrowing down the right side of the join is my guess - creating a Cartesian product of the result. Can be easy to miss in code review if you aren’t super diligent about it.
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
Recently started trialing Walmart Delivery Pass to get next day delivery from local stores. Actually pretty convenient to get my fresh produce, meat, dairy, etc… delivered along with whatever stuff I’d normally order from Amazon with Prime
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
I used to use HG for my personal projects but these days I use fossil and keep the database in dropbox, works shockingly well.
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
What do you use for assets then, if you don't mind my asking..?
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
Does it support working with a custom default system connection yet? I use podman in parallels because I get way better performance than with the qemu podman machine but podman desktop hasn’t worked with it so I stick to the cli which work
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
Unpopular opinion, but I still really like SVN and prefer Mercurial and Fossil to Git as distributed systems. You can install TortoiseSVN for a non-technical user and give them a quick rundown on how to checkout asset files from SVN, how t
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
As a Ruby/Rails developer, time mocking is awesome. It's built right into rails or you can use Timecop and it's just as simple as adding: around { |example| Timecop.freeze("2023-12-20T12:00:00Z".to_datetime)
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
I suppose this is a decent workaround for certain things (i've used it in sqlite before), the main kind of index i'm using with postgres jsonb looks something like this create index on my_table(document ->> 'some_
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
First, MySQL is the "devil you know". If you've spent a decade working exclusively with MySQL quirks, you're just gonna be more comfortable with it regardless of quality. MySQL also tends to be faster for read-heavy wor
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
Being an idiot driver seems to correlate pretty strongly with how much one uses autopilot. I’ve known people that drive drunk and think it’s ok because auto pilot is on. Absolutely horrifying.
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
> You eventually get to a scale where vetting is near impossible. This isn't my problem.
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
The Patriot AI in Metal Gear Solid 2 was probably the most prescient prediction that Hideo Kojima has ever made, and it's even worse than even he imagined. The irony of it all considering Kojima was also falsely accused of assassinatin
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
This is why I refuse to turn off my adblocker on YouTube, and never will. I'm not rewarding YouTube with my money (for YT Premium) for being absolutely useless at vetting their advertisers. I'd rather just not use YouTube at all
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by dissident_coder 3y ago
If you’re trying to solve a problem and think “I’ll use mongodb”, well now you’ve got two problems. Just pick postgres. If you have unstructured data as input, either put in the effort to create some kind of schema for it if you can or jus

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