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by doodpants 7d ago
Is it paywalled? Not sure why I can access the article, then. (Firefox, Windows, uBlock Origin)
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by doodpants 21d ago
> Bluesky attracted socialist progressives, furries, and kink-positive folks early on. > I'm not making any value statements, and there's nothing wrong with the userbase, but this is what dominates the feed for new users. As
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by doodpants 2mo ago
The origin of a thing does not forever define what that thing is and always will be. C++ has evolved far beyond C with Classes.
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by doodpants 2mo ago
> Year.version I think you mean "(Year % 100).version". Or is it "(Year - 2000).version"? Pardon me for being overly pedantic, but ever since Y2K it really bugs me when someone refers to a 2-digit number as "the
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by doodpants 2mo ago
I think I saw Jesus, because a guy ran right across the surface of a swimming pool.
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by doodpants 3mo ago
> Pen and paper is just not a very good way to produce text. Pen and paper are literally designed to produce text.
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by doodpants 3mo ago
I visited this page in Firefox and was presented with a message that essentialy said (paraphrasing): "this site best viewed with browser X". Now, I'm not a professional web developer, and maybe there are legitimate reasons wh
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by doodpants 3mo ago
https://thehustle.co/sherlocking-explained
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by doodpants 3mo ago
Because there's already another 6 on the same main diagonal. This is an "X Sudoku" puzzle, which means that each main diagonal must have all 9 different numbers.
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The Rapture of the Programming Languages(fogknife.com)
3 points by doodpants 3mo ago|0 comments
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by doodpants 4mo ago
I frankly don't buy into this trope that a lack of monetary cost should shield something from criticism. Anything created by humans for other humans, especially tools meant for getting work done, should certainly be open to evaluation&
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by doodpants 4mo ago
I can't speak about Dart, but Carbon had just barely started development when it was first announced 4 years ago, and is currently presented as an experimental language that is not yet ready for use [0]. 0: https://github.co
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by doodpants 5mo ago
It would be fiscally irresponsible to the shareholders for tech companies not to voluntarily do so.
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by doodpants 5mo ago
> One of the ongoing problems in LLM research is how to get these machines to say “I don’t know”, rather than making something up. To be fair, I've known humans who are like this as well.
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by doodpants 6mo ago
I can sympathize; I shudder to think of how many total hours of my life I've spent tweaking fonts in my text editors. That said, these days I almost exclusively use Input Mono [0], specifically the "Narrow" variety. With an o
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by doodpants 6mo ago
Doesn't work for me either. I'm running Sequoia on an Intel Mac. When the saver runs, it says "No art sources configured. Open Screen Saver Options to add pack URLs or a local folder." I've added all 5 of the recomm
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by doodpants 7mo ago
Opinionated design was great back when Apple's Human Interface Guidelines were based on concrete user testing and accessibility principles. The farther we get from the Steve Jobs era, the more their UI design is based on whatever they
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by doodpants 7mo ago
The flaw in trying to detect AI by its use of particular idioms is that it would have learned these idioms from its training corpus, which consists of writings from actual human beings. In other words, some people actually write like this.
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by doodpants 8mo ago
“our AI has messed up completely.” No, it worked as designed. Generative AI simply creates content of the type that you specify, but has no concept of truth or facts.
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by doodpants 8mo ago
Similarly, is ordering Zhu Li to "Do the thing!" doing the thing?
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by doodpants 9mo ago
I do not miss the days of "This site best viewed with browser X".
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by doodpants 9mo ago
I've often thought, "If AI is so great, how come all these tech companies are shoving AI features down our throats for free, instead of charging real money for them?" I'm actually glad that MS is doing this, and I hope i
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by doodpants 10mo ago
So, I gather that you treated your solutions as throw-away code, rather than keeping them? Kind of surprising, considering that some problems build off of each other, or otherwise benefit from sharing code; you never know when the code for
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by doodpants 10mo ago
> who would think to focus the area first for scrolling??? Sadly, this problem is common enough that click-before-keyboard-scrolling has become second nature for me.
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by doodpants 10mo ago
But Word Mastermind (like regular Mastermind) only tells you how many letters are in the correct spot, and how many are present but not in the correct spot. Whereas Wordle tells you specifically which letters fall into those categories. S
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by doodpants 11mo ago
After installing bash via MacPorts, it works for me. All except #3 cutesaver, which gives an infinite loop of: cutesaver.sh: line 55: shuf: command not found
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by doodpants 11mo ago
> ST is a text editor while Zed is an IDE. Zed is the new emacs?
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by doodpants 11mo ago
I've been using Dvorak for 24 years. 99% of the time I'm using my own machines, so it's fine. For the other 1% I can hunt-and-peck QWERTY well enough.
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by doodpants 11mo ago
"By clicking on the image, an interactive demonstration of the Tcl/Tk application is launched using CloudTk." No it isn't; I just get an empty frame with a close button. This is consistent on multiple browsers/platf
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by doodpants 1y ago
Though it would be pronounced vehrt-while.

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