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GGByron

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    Comment #46219570

    None of these articles explain what "vibecoding" is, and on general principles I refuse to look it up.

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    Comment #44781153

    > "C is a particularly good language for it" A particularly good language for writing bad code? Quite the euphemism.

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    Comment #44781097

    "Censorship is quietly deciding which games you can buy" What an asinine sentence.

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    Comment #44780857

    I can't imagine a better argument against using c. Isn't that the obvious, serious takeaway?

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    Comment #44561282

    > "Are you sure that anyone but the big boys want to make a browser in the EU?" Surely that's the point - a collusive oligopoly making end runs around the "free market". Just look …

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    Comment #44506703

    "My brain seems to naturally work in cause->effect order" You must be Jesus. Most brains observe events first and use that information to reason about their causes.

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    Comment #44506499

    "I think many speakers would still start with "He was hit by a ball", not "A ball hit him." We're not interested in assigning agency to the ball here, we're interested in the effec…

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    Comment #44506310

    "The main technique is keeping things simple." Orwell also knew to avoid clichés, and lo, he made a much stronger argument for simplicity in his essays. "Keep it simple" means noth…

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    Comment #42959068

    I'm sure that's also an option but I'm looking at their website right now and it says I can own this warmed-over text editor outright for 179$. What a bargain.

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    Comment #42958503

    I've not followed the literature very closely for some time - what problem are they trying to solve in the first place? They write "for documents to be effectively used in RAG pipe…

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    Comment #42957911

    Large hard drives and fast internet do not render obsolete the principle of frequency domain compression. MP3 and JPG will probably remain in service for a very long time. But of c…

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    Comment #42957684

    "Pay less attention, otherwise you might become apathetic." Granted, mass media is generally slop (this article being no exception), but that's all the more reason one should obser…

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    Comment #42957548

    Doesn't that seem a bit too complacent? Personally I've always thought the opposite - malcontents have more to gain and less to lose by criticizing or opposing the status quo.

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    Comment #42957383

    Excuse my ignorance, but what exactly are these stupid checkboxes supposed to accomplish? Surely they do not represent a serious obstacle.