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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