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bowsamic
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About bowsamic
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Comment #49034439
Roguelikes use text as symbols, rather than being primarily literary. This comparison doesn’t make sense
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Comment #49033323
Classic Steve Jobs move. On the absolute limit of ethics for the sake of Apple
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Comment #49018227
> coding was never the main goal, it was always the means to create the finished end product I think that's the main difference. For many of us, the process and how we grow through…
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Comment #48977736
It’s easier in most companies to get a cloud bill approved than to ask for a big chunk of cash for hardware and also to pay someone to set it up
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Comment #48858459
I don’t need to give reasons for my son to follow my orders
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Comment #48856179
Why would I tell my son not to drink beer? He can do so as soon as it’s relatively safe to
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Comment #48633694
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Comment #48591384
Significantly worse than the Deutschland ticket
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Comment #48590268
Same on macOS. Could be that we are missing some native compilation option though
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Comment #48537538
ePub compatibility issues are one of the worst parts of having a Kobo reader. I genuinely miss my Kindle and its simple but reliable MOBI format. At least there everything worked
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Comment #48048111
No, I don’t want to name and shame. It was a few years ago
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Comment #48045780
Inkscape is the only software that I see people get so defensive about when criticised. I even had the lead dev appear in my mentions and try and start fighting me on twitter when …
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Comment #47958423
Solipsism is wrong.
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Comment #47946600
This is why I don’t use this site. Low IQ discussions and insults from morons
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Comment #47946077
You don’t need any observations at all to build up a complete knowledge of the entire universe. Hegel showed this
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Comment #47946067
It can resolve them though
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Comment #47945321
> Nobody can ever know an ultimate why, for obvious and well established philosophical reasons Yes we can, you are just presupposing that philosophy is ultimately ineffective. For …
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Comment #47930621
I’m just curious if you are so dependent on LLMs that the idea of not using them at all seems extreme to you
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Comment #47926914
> But I wonder does this mean no AI was used at all? Even for say, code review? Would that be surprising to you?
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Comment #47924629
Any logic with LEM
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Comment #47922922
This makes it good for formal maths, but bad for philosophy, since it means it can’t encode the speculative movement
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Comment #47918275
For me the widespread fear over this is evidence that it’s different from syntax highlighting and stuff
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Comment #47913644
> Just because you use AI doesn't mean your brain grows a black hole from which information can never return. How do you know this? I’m not taking that risk
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Comment #47657354
Small stdlib, “implement it yourself” philosophy to even things like classes, diverging language versions and fragmentation (a lot of people don’t like any of the post 5.1 changes)…
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Comment #47639722
It's usually 6 months probation in Germany, not 3 months