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by mewse 1y ago
> I remember usenet where every forum was exactly the same alt.confident.assertion.question.doubt.disagree ;)
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by mewse 1y ago
In this thread, we pretend that the difficult and time-consuming part of a code review is all the reading you have to do.
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by mewse 1y ago
Or, since we're apparently playing the game of maybes in this thread, maybe the LLM was only trained on the teams grandmothers' spaghetti recipes, so that new hires can learn to make the best bolognese sauce.
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by mewse 1y ago
That headline feels like a really clever metaphor for something but I can't figure out what.
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by mewse 2y ago
Green bubble is messages you sent via SMS (and so may have been charged by your carrier depending on your cellular plan) Blue bubble is messages you sent via iMessage. All incoming messages are grey, regardless of whether they were sent to
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by mewse 2y ago
I suspect a lot of people 'invented' the effect at approximately the same time. Honestly, the Dreamcast was the first piece of hardware really capable of doing the effect to a high level of quality in real-time. I developed the c
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by mewse 2y ago
As a practical matter, studies about links between major diseases will always always be talking about correlation. To reach 'causation' would require intentionally giving your experimental subjects Covid-19 (and in a way that didn
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by mewse 2y ago
I can't stop thinking about this throwaway parenthetical at the start of the blog post: > [...] for many writers, writing a book is about the last thing they should do (unless they feel a book bursting out of them, much like a faceh
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by mewse 2y ago
As a game developer, I'm absolutely not going to risk my players' engagement with the game by putting character personalities, dialog, and (therefore) plot into the hands of an AI that's going to play out differently for each
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by mewse 2y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but I agree that for me (as another heavy shift-G user), vim-racer having `:relativenumber` turned on is where my own troubles are coming from. I'd really love to be able to specify whether I wan
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by mewse 2y ago
Pedantry: "Craftsman" was never a company and didn't "go out of business". "Craftsman" was originally a store brand used by Sears, under which it sold tools that Sears contracted various third parties to
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by mewse 2y ago
That's so clever! I would have guessed that film reels would be too fragile for that sort of continuous usage, though I'll confess that I have no personal experience with them. I was really curious about how they would handle &#x
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by mewse 2y ago
Ah, cool, I wasn’t aware of arcade machines using recorded video before the brief laser disc era! If you have any references or links where I could read up about them, I’d be fascinated to learn more!
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by mewse 2y ago
From the description, I'm guessing that the game your father played was "Firefox", a 1983 laser disc game by Atari. The game synced dynamic computer graphics on top of pre-recorded laser disc background video. The "some
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by mewse 2y ago
It's kind of impressive how rapidly and how many rote processes built up around what began as "[We value] individuals and interactions over processes and tools"
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by mewse 2y ago
I have started my own company and made a job that I'm passionate about and I think my friends would laugh at anybody who claimed that I wasn't burnt out basically all the time. ;)
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by mewse 2y ago
Worth noting that while Hypercard was the glue which held everything together, most of Myst's functionality was implemented in native plugins. (or at least that's what Robyn and Rand told me when I chatted with them at a MacWor
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by mewse 2y ago
I agree that I've never had a problem with terminal speeds on Linux. If you're using urxvt, that's probably going to do just fine. Where I have had problems has been on the Mac, where the system default "Terminal.app&
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by mewse 3y ago
It's.. kinda complicated? "Craftsman" was never a company. It was a trademark under which Sears sold tools which they hired various tool manufacturers to produce for them. Black and Decker bought the trademark from Sears in
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by mewse 3y ago
Are you stating that this specific machine actually does this, or are you just theorycrafting that a hypothetical machine could do this?
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by mewse 3y ago
Good point, yes!
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by mewse 3y ago
Worth noting that there's an equivalent of epoll on most platforms. On Windows there's IOCP, on Mac and BSD-derivates there's kqueue, and Linux has epoll, but to a first approximation they all do basically the same thing; in
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by mewse 3y ago
Sometimes. It depends on the UI requirement for the game. I have seen some extremely-UI-heavy games which do exactly what you say; building a whole windowing environment entirely from scratch. (I'm working on a game that's doing
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by mewse 3y ago
If you go far enough back, everything is nothing.
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by mewse 3y ago
Hobbyists who are sponsored by NordVPN. ;)
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by mewse 3y ago
But there is no home button on Nintendo's first-party NES or SNES-style controllers, which I think are the ones more directly comparable to what we're talking about here. (Not sure about the N64-style controllers; I've never
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by mewse 3y ago
Since you're bringing up "capturing the data", it's worth pointing at Kagi's privacy policy, the very first point of which is this: > * Searches are anonymous and private to you. Kagi does not log and associate s
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by mewse 3y ago
Describing something as "super good enough" is an amazing turn of phrase and I'm totally going to use it in future.
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by mewse 3y ago
Zaphod : It’s a carbon copy of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal - or I’m a Vogon’s Grandmother! Arthur : The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal? Is it safe? Ford: Oh Yes! It’s perfectly safe - it’s just us who are in trouble. -
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by mewse 3y ago
I'd also like to highlight "non-hostile" as a reason why folks might prefer ChatGPT. Stack Overflow has a lot of stridently opinionated jerks contributing to it, and if I can just ask ChatGPT a question and get an answer that

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