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Comment · 8 hours ago
Oh, pick and choose your own crime and punishment interpretation of the Bible. How convenient.
Comment · 19 hours ago
Citing Leviticus for moral guidance is rich. Should we also kill people having affairs? (Leviticus 20:10).
Comment · 1 day ago
> I signed up and started migrating my email. I use a free, very simple and capable service called Imapsync.

> Just enter the credentials for your old and new providers, and wait.

When will people learn?

Comment · 3 days ago
The best thing that my PhD advisor did was to require me to learn emacs and latex, 32 years ago.
Comment · 3 days ago
So your cat is about to get fired?
Comment · 4 days ago
This must be the new "Just Google it". I am pretty sure the poster is perfectly aware that they could ask an LLM.
Comment · 13 days ago
Then whose role is it now to understand the code?
Comment · 21 days ago
Bjarne Stroustrup did, at some point at least. I have a $32 real check from him for finding an error in "The C++ Programming Language (Special Edition)".
Comment · 23 days ago
Stealing my data bandwidth by sending me unsolicited ads is also unethical. Profiling my online behavior and monetizing it is also unethical. YouTube doesn't seem to be bothered with compensating me for that. Why should I care about them?
Comment · 1 month ago
> The second thing is that using LLMs in a useful way is a skill in itself.

Not really. I don't even bother writing complete sentences as my prompts anymore. Once the LLM has enough context on my current issue, even incomplete sentences or phrases result in the same outcome quality in LLM's responses.

Comment · 1 month ago
I routinely steal my wife's hairbands to tie various cables in my cable stash. You can never have enough USB cables of various types. But as Murphy dictates, the USB cable that I need now is one that I don't have in my stash.
Comment · 2 months ago
As much as I like to watch Casey, Prime, etc. on YouTube, they are not going to teach anybody anything. They are just entertainment for software people with a certain viewpoint.
Comment · 2 months ago
Mine does. I am able to login to the browser extension with my password and see all my passwords. I think there was a setting to enable local caching somewhere.
Comment · 2 months ago
If Göbekli Tepe doesn't count as an indication of a civilization, I don't know what does.

Requirement for a writing system is an arbitrary condition. A lot of civilizations, especially in that region, have strong oral traditions.

Comment · 2 months ago
At least in small scale, having your own git server is trivially easy. Why are organizations so eager to put a third-party layer on top of that?

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