trwired

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by trwired 3mo ago
Is that a bad thing? I mean from the perspective of Anthropic's marketing department sure, but if agents are just another type of tool in developer's tool belt - as I see people recently like to claim - attribution feels kinda wei
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by trwired 4mo ago
Perhaps I wouldn't use such harsh words, but it is a noticeable phenomenon when interacting with _some_ Western Europeans that if Poland's success comes up in a conversation, they immediately "offer insight" that it was
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by trwired 4mo ago
There seems to be pervasive opinion among FOSS enthusiasts that the software being free and volunteer made is kind of get out of jail card for not only criticism, but often simply just feedback. I deeply appreciate that FOSS exists. But - s
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by trwired 7mo ago
I agree with the person you're replying to. Python was definitely already a thing before ML. The way I remember it is it started taking off as a nice scripting language that was more user friendly than Perl, the king of scripting langu
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by trwired 8mo ago
This is one thing that's been puzzling for me ever since I switched to Linux full time a few years ago and so also started gaming on it. In my experience GOG bought games handled by Lutris/Heroic/Mini Galaxy trump Steam in co
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by trwired 8mo ago
That's a very livable wage in Poland. The wages are significantly lower, but so are the costs of living.
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by trwired 1y ago
Worth mentioning @view-transition is still not supported in Firefox.
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by trwired 1y ago
> As far as I know Stanisław Lem was not allowed to like anything from US. These days the soviet propaganda in Poland disallowed people to like anything that came from "the rotten west" Such statement would hold somewhat true f
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by trwired 2y ago
Another booming segment is energy drinks. I wonder if these two have a common root, that is a yet-to-be-(re)discovered market for soft drinks marketed towards adults. In the region's early history that niche was occupied by kvass. It i
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by trwired 2y ago
I don't have anything to add on the subject of the article, but just want to mention I really like the site it's published on. Alongside przekroj.org (which recently started dipping its toes into publishing also in English) it is
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by trwired 3y ago
I noticed about myself that in recent years I am becoming increasingly paranoid when it comes to addons and avoid installing any but the most popular/trusted, not just for Firefox, but all applications I use. If there is an addon that
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by trwired 3y ago
Kopia also means a copy in Polish and the author is Polish. The first paragraph in the software's Github page also confirms the Polish origin of the name: https://github.com/kopia/kopia/ Tangentially, as far
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by trwired 3y ago
Fun fact, you can see Romania from Poland on a good weather! [1] Also before the WWII, the Second Polish Republic shared a border with the Kingdom of Romania. Before the partitions in late 18th century, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth overla
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by trwired 3y ago
Which is fine by me. I need a fridge to cool things down, oven to heat them up and TV to show moving pictures, all without access to wifi and other bells and whistles modern appliances come with. Just the basic stuff that those appliances c
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by trwired 3y ago
> not a single comic (at least the ones written before the Marvel movies began dominating the culture) is about superheroes I would argue that Rork - one of my favorite Franco-Belgian comic characters - counts as one. He would not feel
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by trwired 4y ago
Since Bun is a runtime for JavaScript, wouldn't Vite benefit from being run on top of it? My experience with Vite is that as the number of files in a project grow, it can slow down quite noticeably. And following up on that, has anyone
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by trwired 4y ago
> This was the straw finally pushing me to very seriously consider migrating to Chromium. What is the situation surrounding Manifest V3 in Chromium? Won't that throw a wrench into power user's workflows with its own arbitrary l
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by trwired 4y ago
Yes, this happened to me when I was forced to reinstall Windows due to a stubborn booting issue. I've been growing uncomfortable with the idea of having an adversarial relationship with such an essential piece of software as an OS for
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by trwired 4y ago
I used to be a heavy smoker, at the height of my habit I could smoke 2+ packs a day. It was bad. When I finally decided to quit, I went cold turkey. For a week or two I had strong but manageable cravings, however they started to fade away a
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by trwired 4y ago
"One can say anything about Lublin airport, but they sure do consider IATA codes are serious business. The tone was set right from the parking lot entrance." The reason Lublin's IATA code is so prominently exposed is because
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by trwired 5y ago
This is not related directly to the announcement, but touches on a thing that infuriates me to no end - for some reason the site assumed that because I live in the EU and relatively close to German border, I speak German and presented the s
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by trwired 5y ago
You can replace Instagram with any other social media platform and photography with any other activity, and the post would ring true all the same. What the author describes is exactly what happened to me after I picked music discovery as a
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by trwired 5y ago
> The response is universal that everyone's tried Duolingo, and it didn't work for them in actually learning, despite monster streaks. I think this is an issue of mismatched expectations. For actually getting to know a language
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by trwired 5y ago
Speaking of "new Pythons", I recently started playing with D and got that impression. It's like the compiled, fast executing Python I have always wanted hidden in plain sight.
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by trwired 5y ago
I'd love to use a terminal editor with Sublime-like keyboard scheme. In fact if Sublime HQ started selling a terminal version of Sublime Text, I'd buy it.
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Poland Rules on LSP Using Google Translate; Defines ‘Professional Translator’(slator.com)
2 points by trwired 6y ago|0 comments
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by trwired 6y ago
It actually feels faster than Chrome to me. I've been primarily on Firefox for the past few months and was really surprised to find Chrome not feeling as responsive when I tried to use it recently.
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by trwired 6y ago
I am really happy to see a reimplementation of Robbo as one of the examples! What a nice throwback. I used to love that game as a child on my Atari 800 XE. I should be asleep, but instead I am collecting screws. :)
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by trwired 6y ago
Time to change that, then. She insisted on using both surnames and strongly emphasized her Polish roots throughout her life. Erasing her Polish maiden name clashes with her wishes and is only possible, because due to historical circumstance
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by trwired 6y ago
> the country failed her, by not giving the possibility of attending university The country didn't exist at the time, being partitioned between Prussia, Russia and Austria-Hungary. Poles didn't have much to say about the univer

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