fluxusars

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by fluxusars 23d ago
"Claude, was this sarcasm?" - You're absolutely right!
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by fluxusars 1mo ago
Very nice. I thought it wasn't going to save a "You Go Girl" style story about "My Dick", but it turned it into a conference anecdote with a powerpoint slide about Richard III. Hilarious.
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by fluxusars 1mo ago
If you really believe the UK is a privacy-friendly and anonimity-friendly country then you have definitely been brainwashed. I can't think of a first-world country that's worse than the UK in this.
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by fluxusars 2mo ago
I too love USB-C, though sadly my laptop only has two of those ports, and only one of them can do power delivery and display, so my only choices are between having a powered laptop with only the built-in display, or on battery with external
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by fluxusars 2mo ago
The moiré effect of vertically striped wood walls gives me a headache.
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by fluxusars 4mo ago
I think the ai-as-an-exoskeleton analogy is quite apt: 1. It still requires your intent to move in the right direction rather than being fully autonomous, and 2. It's too big and bulky to use for delicate tasks.
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by fluxusars 4mo ago
I can recommend Vernal desks. I just bought a corner desk that's height adjustable and it feels like quality.
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by fluxusars 5mo ago
I dropped them when they silently dropped support for veracrypt/truecrypt drives: https://old.reddit.com/r/backblaze/comments/1ol0pgf/backblaz... They're really proving lately that they are a c
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by fluxusars 5mo ago
Stop minmaxing. Not everything has to be perfect.
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by fluxusars 5mo ago
The thing that supposedly sets Bitcoin apart from other cryptocurrencies is that it's deflationary and 'immutable', in that Satoshi is gone forever and any deviation of Bitcoin from his golden idea will result in undermining
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by fluxusars 6mo ago
Return them and get what instead? Every other popular phone platform is even more restrictive.
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by fluxusars 6mo ago
> I have a great psychiatrist who has me on antidepressants, anti-anxiety meds, and mood stabilizers Disclaimer: this is not medical advice, but have you considered being on less medication? I have seen a close family member become absol
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by fluxusars 9mo ago
I never stopped using foobar2000 on the desktop. I can recommend Evermusic on iOS for it's excellent playlist management, carplay integration and last.fm/scrobbling if you're ancient like me and still using that.
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by fluxusars 9mo ago
You will literally get a fine for going three miles per hour over the speed limit in many countries.
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My Year on Tirzepatide(medium.com)
1 points by fluxusars 9mo ago|0 comments
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by fluxusars 9mo ago
As someone whose stance is to be extremely skeptical of AI, I threw Claude at a complex feature request in a codebase I wasn't very familiar with, and it managed to come up with a solution that was 99% acceptable. I was very impressed,
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by fluxusars 9mo ago
This to me is the strongest proof that we are in a bubble so far.
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Qantas Boeing 737 Took Off with Incorrect Weight Calculations(simpleflying.com)
4 points by fluxusars 9mo ago|0 comments
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Linux on the Desktop(medium.com)
7 points by fluxusars 10mo ago|3 comments
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by fluxusars 10mo ago
The example probably wasn't the best pick to demonstrate this, but I could see this making sense for e.g. linter rules (with fewer panels per rule).
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by fluxusars 10mo ago
Trying on every single thing you do is exhausting. I certainly don't have the energy any more to try hard at some personal life things when my work is stressful. I think it's good to do some introspection from time to time to find
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Backblaze is silently breaking backups from Veracrypt drives without warning(old.reddit.com)
21 points by fluxusars 10mo ago|5 comments
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by fluxusars 11mo ago
This is no different from reviewing code from actual humans: someone could have written great looking code with excellent test coverage and still have missed a crucial edge case or obvious requirement. In the case of humans, there's ob
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You can't find meaning in the past(medium.com)
1 points by fluxusars 11mo ago|0 comments
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by fluxusars 1y ago
Framing matters a lot. If you can afford to, take 6 or 12 months to widen your points of view. That might mean taking up a job in a sector you're not familiar with, or maybe changing locations (a new country perhaps?). I think by frami
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ChatGPT told me I should quit my job(medium.com)
5 points by fluxusars 1y ago|2 comments
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by fluxusars 1y ago
Can't believe no one's mentioned this classic yet: https://www.tumblr.com/kingjamesprogramming Back in the early days of Slack I wrote a chat bot that logged all the messages people wrote and used that data to mak
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About Professional Software Development(medium.com)
13 points by fluxusars 1y ago|5 comments
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by fluxusars 1y ago
Taste is a very subjective thing, but I think in a lot of the things described in the article there is a clear better or worse. I would describe that as craftsmanship or attention to detail, more of a craft than an art.
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by fluxusars 1y ago
It might be easily avoided now, but it's easy for them to tighten the reins in the future.

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