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by sjamaan 28d ago
It also supports PostmarketOS. This post made it to HN yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338285
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by sjamaan 3mo ago
It's a shame grandparent's link gives a 404 now, I'd love to compare the two.
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by sjamaan 3mo ago
> Regardless of your political views a tool is a tool at the end of the day. Attempting to anthropomorphize a category of objects in order to shift blame all for the sake of furthering an agenda is plainly bad faith behavior. Guns are li
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by sjamaan 4mo ago
You'd still be walking around as a free advertiser for their stuff, simply by owning Google-branded hardware. And of course the hypocrisy of having a Google phone to avoid Google spying is palpable.
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by sjamaan 4mo ago
Best news of the year!
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by sjamaan 4mo ago
Java and C are older languages which have either solidified (C) or are very careful about breaking compat (Java). Most languages nowadays are indeed in the "move fast and break things" mode.
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by sjamaan 5mo ago
> Also you get to do cool SQL shit nobody understands and you become invaluable =) Goddamn right!
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by sjamaan 5mo ago
The people involved in commissioning and funding nuclear power plants don't understand nuclear physics either. The customer doesn't need to understand how the solution works, as long as they can understand that it would solve thei
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by sjamaan 5mo ago
So much is missing from this story. Did they report it to the relevant data authority? Did the fix they said they applied actually fix anything? Etc.
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by sjamaan 6mo ago
I think before, it was easier to spot. Before, the effort spent would often show in the volume or consistency of the writing. Now, one can create a big, wordy and convincing-sounding document (without any grammatical errors!) in mere second
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by sjamaan 7mo ago
I realize it's been "written" by an LLM, but the content could have been written by someone I know. It's eerie how this person thinks exactly the same way. It's never their fault, always the others', and they a
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On The Problem of LLM-Assisted Contributions to Open Source Projects(call-with-current-continuation.org)
1 points by sjamaan 7mo ago|1 comments
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by sjamaan 7mo ago
Exactly this. The question states it as a fact, so why would you go back and point out the inconsistency?
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by sjamaan 7mo ago
Also, car companies have a lot at stake and are a clear target. The scammer is hard to even identify, and has no reputation to worry about. Of course in case of a sold extension, the original author of the extension may have a reputation th
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by sjamaan 7mo ago
S7 is very cool indeed. It also comes as a single C file, which makes it easy to embed. As a CHICKEN maintainer, I'd love to hear what the author was missing in the FFI part of the manual.
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by sjamaan 8mo ago
Good point regarding registrar. Thinking a bit further, there's also the top-level domain: if that's under US control (eg .com), it could still be yanked away from you.
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by sjamaan 8mo ago
My blog is at https://www.more-magic.net , mostly about programming (with a focus on Scheme) or adjacent stuff.
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by sjamaan 8mo ago
> - Force better labeling, like the Nutri-Score in France and EU NutriScore is mostly useless, to the point of being misleading. The system was cooked up by the industry, which explains a lot. It is a label that tells you how nutritious
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by sjamaan 9mo ago
Then you should support the Free Software Europe's "Public Money, Public Code" campaign: https://publiccode.eu/en/
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Trustworthy software through non-profits?(more-magic.net)
2 points by sjamaan 10mo ago|0 comments
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by sjamaan 10mo ago
Yeah, investing it in bitcoin sure beats selling the power to India at bargain bin prices during summer time only to have to buy it back in winter time at premium rates. I think this really shows his majesty's wisdom and ability to thi
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by sjamaan 10mo ago
Tourism is not really a growth sector. There are too many hotels already, with hoteliers complaining they can't get bookings at a decent price because there's too much competition undercutting them, and tour operators demanding lo
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by sjamaan 10mo ago
Same with the big Crowdstrike fail of 2024. Especially when everyone kept repeating the laughable statement that these guys have their shit in order, so it couldn't possibly be a simple fuckup on their end. Guess what, they don't,
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by sjamaan 10mo ago
> When someone uses my name in conversation, it makes me think less of them, because it's so unnatural and clearly they might be doing it to manipulate me. Oh man, I always find it so slimy when people do that! I've also notice
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by sjamaan 11mo ago
Sounds like the best type of place to work for me. Instead of being a replaceable cog in a meat grinder that doesn't even pay well, working with boring tech, you get to work with talented people in an actually interesting language and
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by sjamaan 11mo ago
This is also how you can identify decent places to work at: look for job postings that emphasize you aren't expected to already know the language. For example, in the recent "who's hiring" thread, I saw at least two plac
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by sjamaan 11mo ago
Any chance you would add Dzongkha? PS: Cool product, if I were in a different life phase I would definitely consider joining you to build it!
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by sjamaan 11mo ago
The AI winter happened. And the AI they talk about is classical, symbolic AI where you try to explicitly represent knowledge inside the computer. The new LLM stuff is all neural networks, and those benefit more from fast low-level vector im
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by sjamaan 11mo ago
Nope. I mostly happily used Python in my previous job for many years, now I'm doing Clojure. There are benefits and drawbacks to each, but I don't know if I'd want to go back to Python. I'm a Lisper (Schemer, really) at
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by sjamaan 11mo ago
I don't know if this works well in general, but for example Kodi has "basic", "advanced" and several progressively more advanced steps in between for most of its menus. It hides lots of details that are irrelevant t

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