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by smrq 4d ago
I don't know how you can simultaneously believe that open source is prevalent enough to kill paid software but also non-existent enough that it doesn't itself fill the void it supposedly created.
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by smrq 6d ago
Modular PSU cables never go in the big box. They go back in the PSU box if I'm being smart. Then I know which PSU they came from and can throw them out in ten years along with the PSU itself. (I'm rarely smart and have a second bi
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by smrq 18d ago
Your loss. The token dump is more interesting than the endless majority of "correct" LLM slop I've had the misfortune to read.
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by smrq 2mo ago
That would be pretty anachronistic; jQuery didn't come around until six years later.
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by smrq 2mo ago
I'm sure everyone in the hospital and with collapsed houses would agree with your assessment that it's not a big deal.
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by smrq 2mo ago
It's kind of funny and also kind of insulting. I'd laugh if a friend said it but said seriously by some rando on the Internet, nah, find a better way to put it.
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by smrq 2mo ago
Admittedly, HN is suffering the same fate to some extent.
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by smrq 2mo ago
Imagine gatekeeping learning . I suppose the blind are incapable of it, then? Or is taking in information via the fingers somehow more valid than via the ears?
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by smrq 2mo ago
It's quite literally a second order effect. The first order effect is light generation, and a consequence of that effect is heat generation via light absorption.
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by smrq 3mo ago
Explain the attack that gets mitigated by reading the diff of a lockfile? Every major npm attack I can think of essentially follows the pattern of "version X.Y.Z is secretly evil". How does seeing package@X.Y.Z in your lockfile al
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by smrq 3mo ago
This really seems like the exception that proves the rule, given how few Facebooks came out of that era. We had a social contract, but it turned out that being sociopathic is a winning strategy when everyone else is playing by the implici
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by smrq 3mo ago
Everything about that readme quote screams LLM. All it's missing is the user responding, "that doesn't make any sense, this won't work at all", and Claude responding back, "you're absolutely right".
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by smrq 3mo ago
More like they will climb even higher on the lighting-dollars-on-fire leaderboard.
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by smrq 4mo ago
Everyone loves to say this... because it's everyone's experience. I stopped using SO as a resource years ago (well before the advent of LLMs) because it got to the point where almost invariably, when I found a post that managed to
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by smrq 4mo ago
The 4 packing takes up 100% of its square; it's trivially optimal. The 6 packing only takes up 2/3 of it, so it's not necessarily obvious that you can't do better.
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by smrq 4mo ago
"Just" Spoken like someone who's never had to work on a date picker.
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by smrq 4mo ago
This may come as a shock to capitalists, but some artists don't want to charge their fans more. Fugazi famously capped their ticket prices at $5 because they wanted their shows to be affordable.
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by smrq 4mo ago
People didn't leap from jQuery to React. It's a lot easier to imagine an AI looking at jQuery and [insert any server side MVC framework] and inventing Backbone.
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by smrq 5mo ago
Posing OpenSCAD as an alternative to the likes of Fusion is like posing MS Paint as an alternative to Photoshop. It's not even the same class of tool.
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by smrq 5mo ago
"We made merging to main silently drop some commits from main" was another good one recently. If GH had only one job, not doing that would be it.
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by smrq 5mo ago
This is more or less my take, but at least for me it's not about the level of difficulty exactly. It just feels very transparently like exploring a state space, where the "a-ha" moments just boil down to breaking into a diffe
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by smrq 5mo ago
Swipe through the "Major Events Timeline". It would be funny if it wasn't so sad how petty it is.
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by smrq 5mo ago
I believe the intended turn order is: 1: P1 selects 2: P2 selects 3: P1 reveals 4: P1 selects 5: P2 reveals 6: GOTO 2 I.e. each player always selects immediately before their opponent reveals.
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by smrq 6mo ago
I doubt he would have much to say on the subject these days.
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by smrq 6mo ago
The most NixOS comment I've seen yet was when I was trying to find out about `mkOutOfStoreSymlink`, which lead me to this thread: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-manage-dotfiles-with-ho... > Hi, I just wan
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by smrq 7mo ago
You might wish to do some cursory research before arguing further. For example, as a starting point, the Wikipedia page on civil disobedience has an entire section labeled "Action" listing counterexamples.
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by smrq 7mo ago
Why is this approach better than the author's?
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by smrq 7mo ago
Alright, I'll bite. What about imperative programming fixes the scaling issues you're describing? Typically programming scale is regarded as a benefit of FP over imperative programming, as the lack of mutable state results in less
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by smrq 7mo ago
How often do you suppose they will be re-checking your ID? Once every... never?
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by smrq 8mo ago
"My Toyota Corolla struggles to drive up icy hills." "It doesn't struggle, you struggle." ??? It's fine to critique your own tools and their strengths and weaknesses. Claiming that any and all failures of AI ar

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