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by publicdebates 6mo ago
WSJ not tryna be found negligent in any social-media addiction trial.
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by publicdebates 6mo ago
"Rule 6: Don't waste time on syntax highlighting unless you're incompetent."
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Experiment: Collaborative Art(chicagosignguy.com)
3 points by publicdebates 6mo ago|0 comments
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by publicdebates 6mo ago
https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/3961
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by publicdebates 7mo ago
You don't think AWS is internally built on massive amounts of open source?
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by publicdebates 7mo ago
Isn't this the same debate as airports post 9/11, whether you can have both privacy and security? Seems conclusive, no.
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by publicdebates 7mo ago
And a difference in price that amortizes about the same.
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by publicdebates 7mo ago
And starting fires or making coats used to be forms of art, now we just buy a Zippo and a London Fog and call it an afternoon. Jobs evolve to specialize. I call that progress.
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Survey: Do you feel worthy of respect?(chicagosignguy.com)
1 points by publicdebates 7mo ago|0 comments
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by publicdebates 7mo ago
Also it looks like[1] Luau is the official Roblox Studio scripting language, and is baed on Lua 5.1 (possibly LuaJIT?) which means it's behind mainstream Lua. Not sure which Lua versions the others are based on. [1] https://
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by publicdebates 7mo ago
Many of us would love a TypeScript analogy for Lua. There have been some attempts: Luau (5.2k, last week, https://luau.org/ , https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang ) Nelua (2.3k, 8 months ago, https:&#x
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by publicdebates 7mo ago
It uses refcounting, and GC for cycles. Sounds good. Why don't more Lua-likes?
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by publicdebates 8mo ago
The article says it's repurposed.
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90s.dev, a new platform for 90s-dev-themed guest articles(90s.dev)
2 points by publicdebates 8mo ago|3 comments
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by publicdebates 8mo ago
Human history is full of cases where silly mistakes became precedent. HTTP "referal" is just another example. I wonder if there's a wikipedia article listing these...
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by publicdebates 8mo ago
They're definitely going to do it at some point in the near future, mark my words.
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by publicdebates 8mo ago
These are fine times. Just need a little extra cash for cigars, that's all. Had two yesterday, made the money by selling Premium Snowballs in Chicago for $2 each (made $50 that day). Life is fun.
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by publicdebates 8mo ago
Looking for remote side quests. . . . . Ideally 5-20 hour projects with fixed prices. . . . . . . . . Ideal range is ~ $50-500 USD . . . . I can do any web stuff fairly quickly. . . . . . . . . I won't do anything related to AI. . . .
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by publicdebates 8mo ago
That list (or any similar list) would be so helpful if it had a health column, something that takes into account number of contributors, time since last commit, number of forks, number of commits, etc. So many projects are effectively dea
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by publicdebates 8mo ago
The for loop is odd. Why is the word counter in there twice? counter :: int for counter in <1, 10-counter> ( print(counter) print(" ") ) Using backfor to count backwards is an odd choice. Why
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by publicdebates 8mo ago
A new one seems to pop up every year, and some every 13 or 17 years.
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by publicdebates 8mo ago
I don't know why they do that, but it's really the main (only?) drawback to KDP. My guess is that they do expand, but only when genuinely needed for long-term. They probably keep a certain amount of blank books in stock, and ratio
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by publicdebates 8mo ago
How likely is a future where Microsoft (a) gives us back 2000/XP/7/11 options for UI, (b) gives us a desktop-first experience when we have keyboard/mouse plugged in, (c) stops turning every OS feature into an ad, and mak
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by publicdebates 8mo ago
KDP usually cuts off high volume sales at a certain point, in order to give other books a fair amount of copies to print on demand. Usually it takes a few weeks of sales, but I sold so many copies that evening, from a single 10M view vide
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by publicdebates 8mo ago
The main one is a deep sense of defeat. The app would keep me there longer than I want. I would waste money ordering doordash, or lose sleep, or get drunk, or all of the above. Each time, I'd feel like I set myself back a little too fa
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by publicdebates 8mo ago
Scrolling videos, commenting, expanding my algorithm by searching for similar stuff to what I liked, sometimes watching lives, sometimes hosting lives or joining lives. Maybe about 70% scrolling videos and 28% lives and 2% creating. I shoul
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by publicdebates 8mo ago
TikTok's algorithm is significantly better and therefore more addictive. I'm speaking from personal experience, having spent about 12-14 hours a day on TikTok for probably 360 days during 2024. Getting banned from it was one of
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by publicdebates 8mo ago
Windows 2000 was peak. All improvements from XP onwards were negligible.
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by publicdebates 8mo ago
You misunderstand the nature of newspapers. Playing devil's advocate just a little here, I absolutely can see the financial benefit of an author taking a single epitome out of a group of near clones, even a random one among them at tha
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by publicdebates 8mo ago
For now. Twitter used to have a free API also.

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