rand17

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by rand17 9mo ago
I do not think that all LLMs are evil; they are valid tools, but it's not a hammer with meta glasses attached to render everything into a nail. I also find it very useful in certain situations - but not in all situations. Two more thin
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by rand17 9mo ago
So you don't like writing "the boring code". What do you expect from writing a CRUD? What would you like to write? What "interesting problems" would you like to focus on? Great sadness will fall upon the industry wh
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by rand17 10mo ago
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. The amount of time I've spent debugging other PRs (and mine) around hooks is just unruly, then React turned its attention to the server, something that I (mo
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by rand17 10mo ago
This is a description that turns on every red light in my head: "netflix for", "binge watching", "turning into", "keep you hooked", "but smarter" etc. - probably I'm not the target age
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by rand17 10mo ago
I respect China (in fact, in this stupid timeline more than the U.S.) but China is already huge. The whole world would be a much better place if China just chilled the fuck out and would just stop harassing border countries (I know, I know,
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by rand17 10mo ago
Probably. Apart from the pun about a certain good looking employee of MI6 and his gadgetry, at this point I'm relatively sure not even Redmond knows how many different products they have called Copilot Something, let alone how to kill
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by rand17 10mo ago
A secret agent running in the background, with my data stolen from the foreground? How queer! I see the battlegrounds shift from large networks to the personal computer, where malware, hand in hand with AI will steal the virtual crown jewel
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by rand17 10mo ago
The general consensus around here is that web and sleek/native will not mix, Swift probably is the way to go if we are talking about modern, appealing MacOS applications, but that may be outside your comfort zone with or without the he
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by rand17 10mo ago
Copilot has neither eyes, nor feelings.
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by rand17 10mo ago
I wouldn't dare to call an app with a webview approach (be that tauri or electron), react, typescript and the whole frontend Pandora's box "sleek", but each to his own. I find using the adb bridge for such operation a bi
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by rand17 11mo ago
I call this the AI theater. If a company can (still) look good AND decrease dealing with pesky flesh and bone humans, that's not collateral, that's a win. On the surface you act caring, concerned, rendering investors and HR both h
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by rand17 11mo ago
English is not my mother tongue, so all I can say is no, that's not how communication works (of course you can think whatever you want or your neurons conjure up, I can't argue with what you think). Discourse analysis revolves aro
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by rand17 11mo ago
Yet most computer games employ firearms and the targets are other humans, rarely (but of course not never) you hunt and gather food for survival. Don't get me wrong, I played my fair share of games from the earliest 8bit machines in th
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by rand17 11mo ago
Wasted is a rather strong word and yes, the whole argument is a slippery slope _but_ I can imagine sports that are less about glorifying deadly violence in a very realistic manner - the loot box and real money part is just the bitter cherry
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by rand17 11mo ago
We may have banned some nazis in the past, but now we're sorry, please come back. The political climate has changed and you are sorely needed. At least until the next election.
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by rand17 11mo ago
Last time (couple of months ago) I could still claw the book back from my physical kindle device and then deDRM it but the whole process changes from year to year and it's always a great frustration for me (it's backup time! oh no
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by rand17 1y ago
It's not an easy decision, putting down a book, a movie or a game halfway through, but my lifetime on this planet is very limited.
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by rand17 1y ago
I wonder how many author will see real money out of this (if any). The techbros prayed to the new king of America with the best currency they had: money - so the king may intervene, like he did many times.
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by rand17 1y ago
Good. I have removed the USA from my mental map, with its petty little money hungry king. In the meantime China delivers on promises, in time, high quality gadgets, toys and metalworks, with excellent customer service and care.
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by rand17 1y ago
XML and XSLT: an elegant tool for a more civilized age. Anything that came later was worse: YAML and JSON; while dark forces bastardized XML and silently killed XHTML. See if you parse an HTML page these days - heck, if you're lucky An
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by rand17 1y ago
I don't need a reward from a beggar.
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by rand17 1y ago
Survival indicates struggle. "Just fine" is the opposite of a struggle. Literary tropes are not black or white. Give some freedom to the readers of your comments.
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by rand17 1y ago
I live in the Eastern Bloc. I fear Russia. We still see the bulletholes in the old houses in the inner city that were done by the "liberators".
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by rand17 1y ago
You are not wrong in my opinion - at least all my doctors share the same idea.
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by rand17 1y ago
Chronic pain is complicated. There is no universal solution. Sometimes there's no solution at all.
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by rand17 1y ago
Expected a multiplayer plugin for Eclipse.
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by rand17 1y ago
I simply bought a new laptop.
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by rand17 1y ago
Are words shouted into the void a "book"? If you rip the literary system apart and keep a single malicious reader, a machine, that extracts your knowledge and runs with it, can you still call your work an essay, a novel or a book?
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by rand17 1y ago
I'm afraid software development will soon be about fixing code hallucinated up by AIs - and standups, retrospectives, reviews, demos, plannings etc.
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by rand17 2y ago
I keep a file with details for myself that change every year, thanks to Amazon being a dick and I a moron for giving them money. I still use an older calibre version and a dedrm plugin fork, not the original.

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