drowntoge

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by drowntoge 7d ago
I chickened out at last minute and went with the non-mini iPhone 12 because it had marginally better battery life. I regret that choice to this day.
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by drowntoge 14d ago
Well if that's the case, it's been in the oven for quite a while now.
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by drowntoge 29d ago
There’s no architectural limitation in Git preventing you from replicating that exact setup for another decade, though.
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by drowntoge 1mo ago
I don't know about anyone else, but anybody who goes into a "1970s library" (I don't know what that is, but I guess it means a good old-fashioned library with like, books) and complains about the lack of 3D printers or t
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by drowntoge 1mo ago
> The average citizen seems to be fairly poorly informed that taxes on the rich have fallen really dramatically in the past 40 years. There's an observation.
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by drowntoge 1mo ago
> but you can actually wield a vibe coding tool with skill. There's nothing stopping you from looking at the code It’s hard to give something like “vibe coding” a rigid definition, but I think we can all agree that it’s inversely co
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by drowntoge 1mo ago
Do not try this at homes that belong to other people.
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by drowntoge 1mo ago
https://youtu.be/nepKKz-MzFM
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by drowntoge 2mo ago
I like the idea that Mr. Amodei holds these beliefs because he wants to safeguard democracy as much as the next guy. I just don’t find it believable.
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by drowntoge 2mo ago
> But that's not how the law sees it, and I grudgingly accept that I think that is sort of their point. There was one thing that you, I, and millions of others would call infringement, (scraping the whole Internet to train proprieta
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by drowntoge 4mo ago
Being a for-profit company does not automatically give you a free pass to do anything in the name of profit and claim immunity if your actions harm certain people. Individuals can (and will) expose and condemn for-profits for policies they
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by drowntoge 4mo ago
He's just awesome.
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by drowntoge 4mo ago
The in-house web design team (if there is one) must've had the time of their lives.
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by drowntoge 4mo ago
"Output-competence decoupling" is my new favorite keyword.
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by drowntoge 4mo ago
It feels like I will forever mourn the totally self-inflicted loss of the Internet. I feel like I will never get over it, so much so that I wish I had never experienced its (brief) moment of brilliance. I feel sorry for my younger self for
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by drowntoge 5mo ago
To me, Tim Cook has turned Apple into a company that is both “doing amazingly well” and “in urgent need of a radical change in direction” at the same time. We’ll see how the new CEO sees it.
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by drowntoge 5mo ago
Yes.
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by drowntoge 5mo ago
I find myself resenting him and his ilk on a daily basis for what they did to the computing space which was once sacred to me with their profiteering. But nothing justifies violence, not even close. Simple as that.
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by drowntoge 5mo ago
I'm not sure what these people who have strong opinions like this think Openclaw is, but to me, it's a product with 1) a somewhat easy to setup prompt passing wrapper that can span many channels like Telegram, Whatsapp etc. 2) A (
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by drowntoge 5mo ago
As much as I dislike what AI slop is doing to visual design, I wouldn’t mind seeing Adobe get hurt for being the comically terrible company it is.
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by drowntoge 6mo ago
Well, whatever Oracle is doing, which brings us back to a question very similar to your original one.
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by drowntoge 6mo ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/do-you-even-lift
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by drowntoge 6mo ago
Totally agree. Speech is powerful and it will always have its place. It will continue to evolve and become far more useful than it is today. But at its core, it remains a highly lossy medium compared with text, especially when it comes to e
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by drowntoge 8mo ago
I always scaffold for AI. I write the stub classes and interfaces and mock the relations between them by hand, and then ask the agent to fill in the logic. I know that in many cases, AI might come up with a demonstrably “better” architectur
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by drowntoge 8mo ago
As much as I want to buy into the premise, the article’s tone is so aggressively optimistic it feels like it was written on cocaine.
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by drowntoge 9mo ago
Although Flash really sucked as a technology, it did inspire a lot of visual artistry on the web. Half of the cool stuff you saw on StumbleUpon was made with Flash by people who weren't proficient with JS/CSS, which weren’t capabl
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by drowntoge 10mo ago
> This website has been temporarily rate limited Although being stuck at loading something was reminiscent of my early internet experience in a way, the site’s backend seems to be rate-limited and unable to serve. Will check back later!
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by drowntoge 1y ago
Do not use Slack.
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by drowntoge 1y ago
He even got hansmayer's original comment flagged. Truly a champion of the open web we should all be backing!
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by drowntoge 2y ago
Tchap looks neat as a Slack alternative, but it seems like it's still only for government workers.

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