empthought

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by empthought 21d ago
I read your book when I was ten years old! I was later stoked to find our computer system at school was a Unix machine, so I could try some of the commands you explained in the story, like ps and sendmail.
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by empthought 2mo ago
“That’s real, and it’s interesting.” Stop with the slop.
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by empthought 2mo ago
Yeah, NeXTSTEP is notoriously a locked-down, untweakable OS. It's not like anyone was able to use it to program anything of consequence.
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by empthought 2mo ago
We don’t need aggregators like HN pitching AI-authored content, no matter how pedagogically sound. We can direct our own AIs to generate our own AI-authored content.
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by empthought 3mo ago
Almost nobody has DNSSEC enabled. Against DNSSEC: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/
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by empthought 4mo ago
Stop posting slop.
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by empthought 4mo ago
How about for wmv in Path(sys.argv[1]).rglob("\*.wmv"): print(wmv, end=" ") r = subprocess.run( ["ffmpeg", "-i", wmv, wmv.with_suffix(".mpg")], st
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by empthought 4mo ago
We're not talking about Nazis though, are we? We're talking about well over two billion people (possibly more than six billion if it extends beyond Christianity). Your prejudice against them is almost prima facie unreasonable.
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by empthought 4mo ago
I am an atheist. There's no desperation and no casting here. I am just pointing out objective facts. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bigotry > stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinio
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by empthought 4mo ago
1. There is no religious affiliation for this project, official or otherwise. It is not “religious software.” The project founder is a Christian, that’s all. 2. You clearly are bigoted against Christians and likely all religious people. Eve
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by empthought 4mo ago
I don’t know, wouldn’t you be pissed if you tried to search your browser history for “gay” and nothing was found? After all, that’s the threat model you’re proposing that you’re worried about — the thinnest of excuses for your clear and dee
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by empthought 4mo ago
Good luck! It’s the most widely-deployed database software by far. I’m sure you have hundreds or thousands of SQLite files among devices you own. https://sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html
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by empthought 4mo ago
The source code is in the public domain. You can inspect it, fork it, and redistribute it as you like. Nothing is being shoved down anyone’s throat.
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by empthought 4mo ago
“No one is required to follow The Rule, to know The Rule, or even to think that The Rule is a good idea. The Founder of SQLite believes that anyone who follows The Rule will live a happier and more productive life, but individuals are free
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by empthought 4mo ago
As the first section notes, the only reason they posted this is to fulfill a checklist requirement for certain commercial users. The external requirement for a code of conduct, which requesters never read and don’t actually care about, is t
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by empthought 4mo ago
Hetzner astroturf?
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by empthought 4mo ago
Engineers that didn't move past src.v35.final.zip version control don't really have jobs today, either.
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by empthought 4mo ago
He absolutely is.
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by empthought 4mo ago
You're trying to turn flexibility and the ability to adapt to new circumstances into a vice. You're wrong. It's a virtue.
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by empthought 4mo ago
I don’t think you’ve actually used any of these tools. 10 different examples in the same session would almost certainly make them perform worse.
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by empthought 5mo ago
You don't need a special feature for this. Just tell the coding assistant what to do.
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by empthought 5mo ago
You should try using the existing agents for your semi-manual editing. You don't need editor support. The coding agent can find "things like this" faster than you can. Just tell it what to look for and how to change it. What
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by empthought 5mo ago
> But ultimately, the only situation in which LLMs could meaningfully democratize access to software development is one where they achieve a true silver bullet, by significantly reducing or removing essential difficulty from the softwar
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by empthought 5mo ago
Podcasts (and video) are very low-throughput, low-density information channels. Essays and articles are superior. To demonstrate this, you can just compare the transcript of a typical podcast — even a high-quality, well-researched one — wit
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by empthought 5mo ago
You can make up different ones that no one cares about if you like. This thread is about a particular thought experiment that is nothing like the one you posted.
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by empthought 5mo ago
The only way to find out would be for this thought experiment to actually occur, in which case I would do nothing, because I would be dead.
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by empthought 5mo ago
Of course not.
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by empthought 5mo ago
Pretty sure there’s some stolen valor here — forward deployed engineers are disarming IEDs, breaching fortifications, and so on. Not snowing customers with slop.
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by empthought 5mo ago
You didn’t even bother reading what I wrote. For me, blue is the purely selfish choice. Because I have no interest in living in a world where red wins a majority on this one. It’s not even a tough call.
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by empthought 5mo ago
You read a bunch of things into what I wrote that simply are not there. I like plenty of people who would press the red button without hesitation. Their decision is their decision and my decision is mine. Might they “have a bad time?” Mayb

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