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by fao_ 19d ago
KDE has that?
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by fao_ 1mo ago
Time in the field would have been spent with family, too. Women used to weave and spin loom for clothing as they walked, and developed tools for it. Families used to include the children in the field work when possible, in rural areas. In a
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by fao_ 1mo ago
You realise the police response is the reason for the violence? Right? This is an almost guaranteed fact for any protest, going back past the 1970s.
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by fao_ 3mo ago
Ok, but brevity is the soul of wit. That's part of my point, this is a long form article with no content . If a human had written it, it would simply have been two to four paragraphs instead! "I made a thing, and it was cool the
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by fao_ 3mo ago
This article has the bones of something interesting, but the style is too barren and the content really needs to be fleshed out more. I feel like if a human had written it, they would have thought of more to write. Like a human wouldn'
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by fao_ 4mo ago
People who are interested in DOS software might take note of "Pits", a DOS assembler demo from 2024 which features, quote: - Multithreading (using all hyper-threads / CPU cores) - Video mode up to Full HD (1920x1080
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by fao_ 4mo ago
Meta and Google are entirely advertising-focused companies, with their main revenue coming from being able to put together accurate profiles of people to spam them with campaigning attempts to get them to buy things.
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by fao_ 4mo ago
I think people are very justifiably angry that a very stable, well trusted tool, has started to immediately go downhill. The Linux Mint Timeshift tool has an issue open documenting a number of regressions that are currently open on the rsyn
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by fao_ 4mo ago
Gluten-free cooking has come a long way since I was a five year old with celiac eating bread with the texture of cardboard! For pizza check out the America's Test Kitchen's recipe, which apparently gets pretty close (however it mi
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by fao_ 4mo ago
If software engineering wants to progress past being an "art" and be considered an engineering discipline, then it should adopt methods and practices from engineering. First and foremost, one of the universal methodologies is anal
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by fao_ 4mo ago
With the amount of AI-generated slop content on the front of HN these days, I'm honestly reconsidering visiting this site in the first place. What's the point? It seems better to curate RSS from existing known-good sources. The ar
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by fao_ 4mo ago
Scheme already has hygenic macros, I don't get why you'd vibecode a worse (less battle tested, llm-generated) replacement. I'm not sure why this hit the front-page, to be honest, because it doesn't seem noteworthy or int
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by fao_ 4mo ago
> but I posit that that’s the same with people, > The difference is in the kind of errors machines make compared to ones that humans make. There's another difference, and that is that other humans can learn and study that mental
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by fao_ 4mo ago
I don't think that this is very hypocritical on the part of the developer holding such views. Typing code has never been the bottleneck, building the mental model has. You need the mental model so you know how the domain and the ac
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by fao_ 5mo ago
Hmm. I don't see how . I'm poor so the quality of cables I can afford or buy is much worse than the average tech worker — I'm limited to either the cable that comes with e.g. my phone, or some 1.5m cables I bought from Amazo
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by fao_ 5mo ago
Damn, three years younger than one of my parents. A real shame. Call your loved ones :(
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by fao_ 5mo ago
> I'd like to believe there is a sort of education that allows people not to understand details, but at least to be able to get the rough shape of the topic at hand and shape their ideas in a way that benefits the other party. Perha
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by fao_ 5mo ago
I think the difficulty is we know vastly more, and have experimented with vastly more since the 19th century, that the majority of university learning these days, and the inherent challenge within that learning, is "how do we condense
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by fao_ 5mo ago
Why do you need to generate transistor-level breakthroughs multiple times a year? Those breakthroughs are hard to generate, but they're important and industry-spanning. The problem is we've mostly stopped generating them.
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Our Survey on Creativity, Writing, and Reading in the Age of AI(ellipsus.com)
9 points by fao_ 5mo ago|0 comments
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by fao_ 5mo ago
I'll be honest, I think that this line of "everyone creative is going to be out of work" is parroting exactly the same lies that VC are selling about genAI. At the end of the day, that's what VCs want people to think. Th
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by fao_ 5mo ago
My partner in the USA texted a state-wide hotline for mental health. What she got was a simple not-even-chatGPT chatbot that ignored everything she said and, quite frankly, made it worse. It makes me absolutely furious. I think that the peo
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by fao_ 5mo ago
> AI has been one gut-punch after another with someone selling cheap knockoffs of your work in the same marketplace using your munged up work taken without credit, compensation, or permission. I want to be clear. I am 100% on-board with
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by fao_ 5mo ago
> Poor quality code might have caused the error, but the failure to investigate the errors and sweep them under the rug was made by humans. That's not quite correct. The root set of errors were made by the accounting software. The b
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by fao_ 5mo ago
Yeah! It's not like code quality matters in terms of negative value or lives lost, right?! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon_IT_scandal Furthermore, > As for the artifact that Tan was building with such f
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by fao_ 5mo ago
"cooked mode" refers to physical teletypes, though. In the POSIX spec[1] it's called "canonical mode", same for the other specifications (if they're mentioned at all, I don't think the ANSI specification m
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by fao_ 5mo ago
> The catch: the shell normally puts the terminal in *cooked mode,* Yeah, that's not the name of the mode. In this sense, it's "canonical mode". Description reads like AI slop where technical content was reformatted i
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by fao_ 5mo ago
> but that means losing the semi-anarchist bazaar mentality. The places you mention are already receiving huge doses of industry funding funnelled through the Linux Foundation. Honestly, it looks like the standard is going to be KDE. Eve
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by fao_ 5mo ago
some people are very bad at reading, I see
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by fao_ 5mo ago
Ok but the license fees are, what, 50 quid? times say, 3k or 30k people? A 150k or 1.5m injection into the linux ecosystem to develop those would pay for a _lot_ of developers and a _lot_ of developer time.

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