orthoxerox

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Dev lead (C#, Oracle, banking) trying to relocate to somewhere on the Unfriendly Countries List

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Comment · 7 days ago
Wasn't that Einstein with special relativity?
Comment · 21 days ago
Well, the license Deno is distributed under explicitly warns you (sorry for all caps):

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.

Comment · 25 days ago
I guess GPL needs a line that says you aren't allowed to discriminate against customers that exercise the rights given to them by the license.
Comment · 1 month ago
Clickable web GUIs that don't lose your interactions are even worse. The email client I have to use at work buffers your "mark as read" click when it's loading new letters and applies it to the one that's under your cursor when it finishes loading them.
Comment · 1 month ago
I think you're spot on about it being type 1/type 2: people have stopped doing a lot of type 2 fun activities, because they have many more type 1 fun activities and because it's no longer socially obligatory to have type 2 fun.

If you do type 2 fun often enough, the level of anxiety drops. Imagine hosting a game night once: you have to ensure all your friends can attend, you agonize over the snacks, over picking the right games to play.

But if you power through and establish a tradition or join an existing one, it becomes simple, e.g.: every Thursday at 7pm you meet for a game of whatever you've been playing last week and a new game the host picked, the host brews tea, the guests bring whatever snacks they want. At the end of the session, you choose which game to play next week: the old one or the new one.

Comment · 1 month ago
This happened earlier, with various power-user programs that had hundreds of settings leading the charge. I think TOAD for Oracle had this feature back in the 00s. Or does `grep .vimrc` count, perhaps?
Comment · 1 month ago
No, but it would gradually lower it. However, the rate of violent felonies to misdemeanors would rise rapidly (cf. Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprising).
Comment · 1 month ago
> the world has decided that it's completely fine to train LLMs on e.g. GPL code without the output being considered derived

I think it's more of a "the constitution is not a suicide pact" approach to GPL: while the GPL is obviously violated by its inclusion in the training corpus, we have two options:

- demand the destruction of LLMs that are trained on copyrighted or copylefted works and the training of new ones

- accept that LLMs that are trained on copyrighted or copylefted works are more important to humanity than the rights of the authors

Comment · 1 month ago
According to Wikipedia, these shrubs are there for a reason. Denmark has found that blocking the line of sight significantly reduces the accident rate by forcing the drivers to slow down and consider only their immediate surroundings. Danish drivers hate them, anyway.
Comment · 1 month ago
Not quite. It has to be a 4-way yield and you have to make your left turn after the painted dot/concrete hemiball, not across it.
Comment · 1 month ago
It's nice, I am just afraid of the pace Chris Lu can maintain with LLM assistance. Too many features are added in each new release, no stabilization time at all.
Comment · 1 month ago
I used Lotus Notes in the 00s and 10s and greatly preferred it to Outlook. The full featured one, not the OWA version.

Yes, the UI was clunky, but it was quick. It was McMaster-Carr quick. The mail client was never a barrier between you and your emails. These days I miss Outlook, as the new web-based solution we replaced it with is even worse.

Comment · 2 months ago
What will they do if they learn you installed your minisplit yourself?
Comment · 2 months ago
As a European, I expect the waiter to show their face within 5 minutes, at least to ask if we want anything to drink while still determining what to eat.
Comment · 2 months ago
You'd still need to reverse engineer it to build a better firmware without this anti-feature.

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