edoloughlin

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by edoloughlin 14d ago
I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve told it to stop using terms like “evidence boundary” when writing specs. I still have no idea what that means.
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by edoloughlin 1mo ago
Me too. Linkedin helpfully keeps finding new people for me to follow and automatically follows them.
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by edoloughlin 2mo ago
> What happens to the pages after? No one needs them anymore, so they get mulched and recycled. Strictly speaking, no one needs the Sistine Chapel or the Pietà etc. It would be a shame if they were mulched and recycled, though.
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by edoloughlin 3mo ago
One thing that drives me nuts every time I save a new file or 'save as'. File chooser appears and I automatically start typing to enter/change the filename. But the filter input always gets focus and now I'm filtering th
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by edoloughlin 4mo ago
“a 30% slowing of cognitive decline in early Alzheimer’s patients in controlled trials. None of this is in the marketing on the tub sitting in most gym bags” Why would it be? I’m so sick of reading AI slop.
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by edoloughlin 4mo ago
"This is the killer issue" I have to ask - did you use AI to generate this response?
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by edoloughlin 4mo ago
I’ve started using HTML for reports recently. But I always use a markdown file as an intermediate and tell the LLM to generate a fancier version of it with SVG for graphs/pictures based on tables in the markdown.
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by edoloughlin 5mo ago
Or your provider randomly decides you need to be on an enterprise plan: https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-web...
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by edoloughlin 6mo ago
I switched to Niri ( https://github.com/niri-wm/niri ) about six months ago and I find it does wonders for focus. Set the default window width to 1/4 or 1/3 of the screen width (depending on the screen size) an
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by edoloughlin 6mo ago
And that’s fine because that photo (probably) has some utility to you. The 39.99MB of ads accompanying the 2KB of text you want to read possibly has less utility to you.
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by edoloughlin 6mo ago
An absolute mess for you. A tidy profit for them.
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by edoloughlin 7mo ago
I set up Elementary OS for my 79 yr old mother. No issues.
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by edoloughlin 8mo ago
It’s reductio ad absurdum to make a point. But you could argue that income from Patreon forms part/all of a creator’s salary. I don’t agree that this is an Apple hating thread. Its commentary on a pretty despicable action that Apple is
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by edoloughlin 9mo ago
https://nixos.wiki/wiki/CUDA It’s not too bad. As others have said, AI makes it easy to get right.
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by edoloughlin 1y ago
and the whole swiping from the button [bottom?] kept making the screen go down to the bottom half This happens to me way more than I would like. For the life of me, I can't figure out the utility in being able to move my lock screen
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by edoloughlin 1y ago
> not sure why some people are reacting negatively to some poetry... As another commenter pointed out, the poem is a parody of a Yeats poem. An an extract from another of his poems might offer some insight into the reactions... What nee
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by edoloughlin 1y ago
I'm amazed that I had to scroll this far to find a comment on this. Then again, I don't live in the US.
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by edoloughlin 1y ago
> I also don't have any concrete examples jumping to mind I do (and I may get publicly shamed and shunned for admitting I do such a thing): figuring out how to fix parenthesis matching errors in Clojure code that it's generat
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by edoloughlin 1y ago
Given that Gemini seems to have frequent availability issues, I wonder if this is a strategy to offload low-hanging fruit (from a human-effort pov) to the user. If it is, I think that's still kinda impressive.
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by edoloughlin 1y ago
If they agree to mine crypto for you then you send valid data. Is this a win-win? (I feel I need to preemptively state that I am being sarcastic.)
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by edoloughlin 1y ago
I'm being trite, but if you can detect an AI bot, why not just serve them random data? At least they'll be sharing some of the pain they inflict.
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by edoloughlin 2y ago
Isn't CUDA a pretty good moat for Nvidia?
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by edoloughlin 2y ago
I think finding a meaningful way recognise a significant contributor in a way that doesn’t really impact anyone is something to be encouraged. I imagine that most people would use the hex code anyway and only devs/designers would see t
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A plain-text way to get your point across quickly and artfully in the browser(quickpoint.me)
27 points by edoloughlin 2y ago|35 comments
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by edoloughlin 2y ago
Looks really nice on an initial view. Will explore in a bit more depth and check back later
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by edoloughlin 2y ago
> But I don't see how it's not authoritarian. If this thread continues for a few more levels, I think you’ll end up justifying hiring your own private police force. Ownership requires that a state exists to enforce your rights.
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by edoloughlin 3y ago
The universe could also spontaneously stop existing[1] but I still put my seatbelt on when I get into my car. It’s about probability. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum_decay
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by edoloughlin 3y ago
the EU's vision of tech is more restrictive That's an interesting perspective, given that the legislation is aimed at opening up the big players' platforms/products to more competition by forcing them to eliminate res
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by edoloughlin 3y ago
The post doesn't mention RMS, GPL or the entire internet. Is everything ok?
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by edoloughlin 3y ago
> Code unambiguously defines 'what' it's doing, so I'm not sure what value technical consistency provides Unless it’s really convoluted, most of the time I’m reading code, I’m concerned with why it’s doing somethi

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