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I do not think that all LLMs are evil; they are valid tools, but it's not a hammer with meta glasses attached to render everything into a nail. I also find it very useful in certai…

So you don't like writing "the boring code". What do you expect from writing a CRUD? What would you like to write? What "interesting problems" would you like to focus on? Great sad…

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. The amount of time I've spent debugging other PRs (and mine) around hooks is just unruly, then React t…

This is a description that turns on every red light in my head: "netflix for", "binge watching", "turning into", "keep you hooked", "but smarter" etc. - probably I'm not the target…

I respect China (in fact, in this stupid timeline more than the U.S.) but China is already huge. The whole world would be a much better place if China just chilled the fuck out and…

Probably. Apart from the pun about a certain good looking employee of MI6 and his gadgetry, at this point I'm relatively sure not even Redmond knows how many different products the…

A secret agent running in the background, with my data stolen from the foreground? How queer! I see the battlegrounds shift from large networks to the personal computer, where malw…

The general consensus around here is that web and sleek/native will not mix, Swift probably is the way to go if we are talking about modern, appealing MacOS applications, but that …

Copilot has neither eyes, nor feelings.

I wouldn't dare to call an app with a webview approach (be that tauri or electron), react, typescript and the whole frontend Pandora's box "sleek", but each to his own. I find usin…

I call this the AI theater. If a company can (still) look good AND decrease dealing with pesky flesh and bone humans, that's not collateral, that's a win. On the surface you act ca…

English is not my mother tongue, so all I can say is no, that's not how communication works (of course you can think whatever you want or your neurons conjure up, I can't argue wit…

Yet most computer games employ firearms and the targets are other humans, rarely (but of course not never) you hunt and gather food for survival. Don't get me wrong, I played my fa…

Wasted is a rather strong word and yes, the whole argument is a slippery slope _but_ I can imagine sports that are less about glorifying deadly violence in a very realistic manner …

We may have banned some nazis in the past, but now we're sorry, please come back. The political climate has changed and you are sorely needed. At least until the next election.

Last time (couple of months ago) I could still claw the book back from my physical kindle device and then deDRM it but the whole process changes from year to year and it's always a…

It's not an easy decision, putting down a book, a movie or a game halfway through, but my lifetime on this planet is very limited.

I wonder how many author will see real money out of this (if any). The techbros prayed to the new king of America with the best currency they had: money - so the king may intervene…

Good. I have removed the USA from my mental map, with its petty little money hungry king. In the meantime China delivers on promises, in time, high quality gadgets, toys and metalw…

XML and XSLT: an elegant tool for a more civilized age. Anything that came later was worse: YAML and JSON; while dark forces bastardized XML and silently killed XHTML. See if you p…

I don't need a reward from a beggar.

Survival indicates struggle. "Just fine" is the opposite of a struggle. Literary tropes are not black or white. Give some freedom to the readers of your comments.

I live in the Eastern Bloc. I fear Russia. We still see the bulletholes in the old houses in the inner city that were done by the "liberators".

You are not wrong in my opinion - at least all my doctors share the same idea.

Chronic pain is complicated. There is no universal solution. Sometimes there's no solution at all.