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by robby_w_g 15d ago
> I feel like a diagnosis in my 20's would've been useful. Now it's like I got me my coping strategies and they work pretty well. If I do or don't have ADHD doesn't really change anything. This is what I told mys
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by robby_w_g 23d ago
The actual code output has improved a lot over the past year. I’ve found it matches existing patterns better, and the code is succinct so I can easily tweak it if I don’t like the way the agent wrote it. The problem with comments is that LL
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by robby_w_g 24d ago
How do you stop LLMs from making comments? In my experience, LLMs treat requirements for code output as suggestions
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by robby_w_g 25d ago
Bookmarklets were definitely more powerful than I anticipated, but they’re tricky to version and upgrade. I’ve deployed a bookmarklet for non-technical users to some success, but I’d generally lean towards browser extensions for anything th
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by robby_w_g 1mo ago
Contrast with the Dolphin emulator release blogs. I swear I’ve spent more timing reading those releases than actually using the software
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by robby_w_g 3mo ago
New games run really well on Linux. At this point, I don't even check. If it's an online competitive game, I can't play it. Otherwise, it almost certainly will work on Arch Linux
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by robby_w_g 3mo ago
I may be out of pocket here, but I think the Hacker News crowd of tech bros who spy on people for a living have a biased opinion on whether spying on people is normal
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by robby_w_g 3mo ago
I’ve made a point of not installing any AUR packages. It’s really tempting when there’s a package that’s not available via pacman, but at the end of the day I’d rather build from source myself or use a docker image.
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by robby_w_g 3mo ago
Torment doomers claim that the commodification of humanity’s suffering will usher in a dark age, but quarterly earnings have never been higher. I trust that Death Star Inc has humanity’s best interests at heart.
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by robby_w_g 6mo ago
It’s both “exactly what the EO says” and “I can’t remember what the EO said”. He’s blatantly lying
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by robby_w_g 7mo ago
> In the future, maybe by Thursday, I can have agents do all of that and relax. Wall-E seems like it’s getting closer to reality every day
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by robby_w_g 7mo ago
Does your MBP have 32 GB of ram? I’m waiting on a local model that can run decently on 16 GB
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by robby_w_g 7mo ago
> So their proposal is a superior primitive. This lines up with my thinking. The proposal should give us a building block in the form of the primitive. I would expect the grandparent comment’s API to be provided in a library built on top
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by robby_w_g 7mo ago
That's even more convincing. I wouldn't want to be in the RoboTaxi that's getting hit by a bus
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by robby_w_g 7mo ago
It’s more that many adult citizens (and increasing every year) have grown up with the patriot act and liberties being stripped away in the name of security. I talked with cousins about it 8 years ago and I got laughed at as a conspiracy nut
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by robby_w_g 7mo ago
I loved learning Computer Engineering in college because it de-mystified the black box that was the PC I used growing up. I learned how it worked holistically, from physics to logic gates to processing units to kernels/operating system
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by robby_w_g 7mo ago
No more updates in the middle of a multi-player game with friends. How will I ever live without Windows?
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by robby_w_g 7mo ago
Reminds me of when I was younger and thought of companies like Google and Tesla as a force for good that will create and use technology to make people's lives better. Surely OpenAI and these LLM companies will change the world for the
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by robby_w_g 7mo ago
Maybe the AI hype is a misdirect so we will blame LLMs for future tech failures instead of the engineers who built up these services
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by robby_w_g 8mo ago
I was able to hack together a toy game with godot-rust several years ago, and it had some rough edges but I was able to integrate Bevy’s ECS with godot’s editor and rendering. I’ve loosely followed its development since then, and the roughe
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by robby_w_g 8mo ago
If Microsoft vibe codes a Linux distro and calls it Windows 360 Copilot, I’m on board with the conspiracy theory that the Hadron Collider broke reality
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by robby_w_g 8mo ago
> Most people aren’t here for political topics. Or rather, most people aren’t here to have their preconceived notions challenged by reality. Politics is a nebulous term for topics that affect a large number of the population. Tech inters
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by robby_w_g 9mo ago
Funny enough, this is the game compatibility that convinced me that Linux was worthwhile switching over to. With Arch Linux + the nvidia-open package, the Linux desktop experience is miles better than when I last tried in 2017 with Ubuntu
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by robby_w_g 9mo ago
I put up with so much Windows crap over the years, and Windows 11 was the final straw. It’s not even the gaming OS anymore as Linux feels snappier and more stable for running games.
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by robby_w_g 9mo ago
If the tech industry leaders demonstrated any amount of responsibility, accountability, or care for the general well-being of people, then I think this would instead be an exciting time for tech innovation. The enthusiasm I felt decades ago
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by robby_w_g 9mo ago
Depending on your hardware and gaming needs, the current state of Linux gaming may already be enough. I run Arch with an Nvidia GPU (which historically had poor Linux support compared to AMD), and I’ve been able to play 100% of the games th
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by robby_w_g 10mo ago
If there wasn't global-scale theft of art and content or if LLMs could produce something better than an inferior facsimile, I bet there would be less backlash. But instead we had a 'non-profit' called 'Open'AI that
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by robby_w_g 11mo ago
The obvious conclusion to me is that corruption is involved
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by robby_w_g 1y ago
It's pathetic how many people just shrug their shoulders at it and let it happen. The president is a corrupt clown, and people delude themselves into accepting it so they can line their pockets as well.
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by robby_w_g 2y ago
The overhead and maintenance involved in setting up these home automations have always seemed to spend more time than it saves. I'm not convinced that automatic lighting is better than just flipping a light switch.

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