jakebasile

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by jakebasile 3mo ago
Neat, so the scene in the movie was pretty close to reality then!
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by jakebasile 3mo ago
I don't know if that's a real quote from Gates, but I do know it was in Pirates of Silicon Valley.
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by jakebasile 4mo ago
I saw the film without seeing the YouTube stuff and didn't feel like I missed out on anything. The film is self contained (and excellent).
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by jakebasile 4mo ago
As a user of the internet I can only imagine this worsening my experience by allowing even more slop to permeate the network's every orifice. Also, when an agent sets up a domain, who is the domain owner? Who responds to takedown reque
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by jakebasile 7mo ago
HN is not one mind.
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by jakebasile 7mo ago
Matthew 6:34 is probably my favorite verse and one I come back to often in my anxiety.
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by jakebasile 8mo ago
> [...] [I]n the long run, choosing to evade the effort of thinking for ourselves and settling for artificial statistical compilations threatens to diminish our cognitive, emotional and communication skills. Probably the pull quote of th
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by jakebasile 9mo ago
I also game on Ubuntu and snaps have never been in my way. I actually like them and wish more non-game software was distributed this way, but Canonical has a brown thumb when it comes to growing their weird little side projects.
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by jakebasile 9mo ago
I'm sorry if you hear this a lot, but your house is so cool, and I must admit I am more than a little jealous. I've also said it here before but I will just give up on PC gaming wholesale before I go back to Windows. It's cra
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by jakebasile 9mo ago
I think the very first code I wrote was in QBasic, but the first _real_ code I wrote was in Visual Basic 6. I drew a row of dice and then a bunch of buttons and wrote a Yahtzee game (single player). It took me weeks and it was mostly a gian
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by jakebasile 9mo ago
Merry Christmas to you, too, and to all that read this. A relevant verse about a sometimes stressful day: Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil. - Matthew 6:34
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by jakebasile 9mo ago
What a lovely hit of nostalgia on this cold winter morning. Thanks for sharing this, and thanks to the people who made it. Cruising through Besaid Village and Ironforge brought back some strong memories. I could hear the music in my head ev
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by jakebasile 9mo ago
So, you say that AI has made you "ridiculously faster", but then admit you've always been terrible at estimating how long something would take?
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by jakebasile 10mo ago
Yeah. Thanks for trying to keep me positive. Hopefully this all calms down eventually. But it's hard not to feel like shit in this situation.
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by jakebasile 10mo ago
It’s frustrating that it’s been one thing after the other, seemingly aimed directly at the thing I enjoy most.
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by jakebasile 10mo ago
Hopefully this blows over in a few years and you’re right and I’m just catastrophizing.
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by jakebasile 10mo ago
I can afford it. Other people cannot, and the hobby is driven by a market existing for games. If newer people don’t enter the hobby as others die out, it fades away.
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by jakebasile 10mo ago
I hate this. PC gaming is my hobby, the only one that’s lasted my whole life. It’s always been there. It’s how I met my wife. It’s how I relax after a long day. It’s how I’ve participated in so many stories that stick with me and given me s
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by jakebasile 10mo ago
If only this were the case.
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by jakebasile 10mo ago
> This decision reflects Micron’s commitment to its ongoing portfolio transformation and the resulting alignment of its business to secular, profitable growth vectors in memory and storage. By concentrating on core enterprise and commerc
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by jakebasile 10mo ago
Can't wait to see this at the Game Awards in a week or so.
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by jakebasile 10mo ago
Isn't every distro a custom distro, by definition? Anyways, I get that this is a "risk" to consider, but installing a new distro isn't so bad that it should prevent one from trying and using a currently extant distro if
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by jakebasile 10mo ago
I mostly use Ubuntu for my gaming PCs but I put Bazzite on my living room PC and it works a treat. It’s much more of a console-like experience and kind of gets out of the way. It also works better with Steam Remote Play. Give it a shot, not
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by jakebasile 10mo ago
I just don't see the point in installing a version manager specifically for the JDK. It's fine to have multiple installed, and at least on Debian-likes you have the built in update-java-alternatives method to switch between them.
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by jakebasile 10mo ago
Tailscale is definitely not one of that crowd. Their CEO had some very reasonable takes on AI and developers on LinkedIn / their blog (linked in a sibling comment).
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by jakebasile 10mo ago
I keep meaning to go and play the Underworld games, since I love the subgenre they pioneered (Immersive Sim). I'll get around to it... one day. It's like you say, not exactly the same, but for CRPGs it's hard to go wrong with
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by jakebasile 10mo ago
There's a YouTuber that's been going through and making in-depth retrospectives of each Ultima game that some here may find interesting. I've found them a pleasant watch and I don't usually go for this type of content. I
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by jakebasile 10mo ago
How many forks of VS Code am I supposed to have installed at this point?
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by jakebasile 10mo ago
If the author sees this, I'm sorry for your loss. Losing family is hard, but losing them suddenly makes it harder. Losing them suddenly because of poor advice or (in)action of people who are supposed to help is yet more difficult. I kn
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by jakebasile 11mo ago
I find it hard to take anything that spends this much text talking about how LLMs "feel" seriously. They do not feel, nor do they think. They're not alive nor human and have no rights. It has to be marketing speak, right? &qu

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