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Ditto. It's not a reference to anything that I can find, and the concept of gravity is sort of mentioned once but never expanded upon enough for me to really understand what they m…

How can people not trust in anecdotes and vibes while avoiding studies, do you mean? Isn't that the point here? That everyone thinks massive disruption is happening and everyone is…

In most industries that need software made for them it's hard enough to get people to care about spending enough time on informal methods let alone formal ones. I simply don't thin…

The cheapest internet where I live (just outside London) is gigabit, which is why I have it, but really I haven't needed anything faster than ADSL at any point, unless I guess I re…

It appears to be a real term? https://docs.vulkan.org/tutorial/latest/Synchronization/Asyn... Very odd, but perhaps more familiar to graphics programmers? I will say I'd probably c…

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Valve makes it very very easy to be a PC gamer, and, importantly, slightly harder to be a PC gamer who buys games in places other than Steam. Yes you can buy games on GoG or Epic a…

Not OP, but I had to change the mail cache from all mail to recent, I think because it couldn't handle how much mail I had? It would often get stuck not syncing, and offline would …

It's more profitable because it allows you to select political perspectives that allow you, the scammer and or gambler, to scam or gamble harder.

Meal deals are in every supermarket in the UK. Petrol stations even do them. Also, as a foreigner who lives over there, I think they are... sad? I'm surprised they got a positive r…

> LLMs aren’t lazy. They don’t cut corners because a simpler solution feels good enough. If they know how to solve something thoroughly, they will. I don't know why they think this…

So 100%, I agree that it's highly dangerous that the distro's the next tranche of people unfamiliar with linux (gamers dissatisfied with Windows) move over with, are based on hecki…

Not all tools are made for inexperienced people. Not everything is idiot proof. This is OK! In my experience using the AUR: 1. when you first install the package you can read the b…

sorry that's what I meant: I remember watching their depositions or whatever they were called, and their only concern was whether or not they had spied on US citizens. Whether or n…

We must live in different realities, because I have the direct opposite experience. Perhaps we are defining "job" differently? AI can, with much coaching, _perhaps_[1], do some _as…

Back when Snowden leaked all of the spying information, the only thing the States cared about was whether they spied on their own citizens. The fact that they spied on the citizens…

I had seen, up until LLMs, posts in this theme: https://dannorth.net/blog/the-worst-programmer/ pretty regularly. This one was only a few years ago! Maybe we run in different circl…

IDK, I do think a lot of it is LLMs enable people who were not in our community to come into it (in an eternal september kind of way) and they are going through all this from first…

It is endlessly... amusing (?) to me, that we as a community spent decades trying to make it clear that our productivity is not easily measured because what we're doing is complica…

Jesus fucking Christ. On a bicycle. LLMs should be treated as untrusted. At all times. The mind boggles at the attitudes that seem to have have led to LLMs being an excuse to throw…

This is perhaps a very American-centric article? I realise that ZIRP was near-global, but "When banks hiked interest rates, almost every tech company immediately laid off 5-20% of …

So currently there are people who are buying grey market peptides[1], marked "not for human consumption" and injecting themselves with them based on dubious anecdotes and vibes, to…

Interesting project! I would say some of the indicators are a little odd. Some of them are questionable in terms of capturing the spirit of the idea ("violent crime" being the same…

It wouldn't be atomic, and so would break transaction semantics. If you committed a row update but didn't update the index, a subsequent query using the not yet updated index would…

Yes, many times. Roughly once a week this year my team or an associated team can't ship changes because PRs, GitHub Actions, or some other associated mechanism is down.