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rebolek

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About rebolek

Fuck this karma nonsense.

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #49195826

    As I understand it, free enterprise is regulated environment to prevent monopolies, capitalism is unregulated which results in monopolies and kills free enterprise.

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    Comment #49195775

    Communism is when it does whole lot of shitty stuff.

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    Comment #49188147

    Next you'll want the term "Artificial Intelligence" reserved for actual artificial intelligence.

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    Comment #49091086

    By human? I don't doubt that.

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    Comment #49089837

    While I agree that "good" art "sits just outside of what we expect", I must play devil's advocate here and say that the uncanny valley of CGI/AI/... also "sits just outside of what…

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    Comment #49060597

    Oh, Absent Friends by Divine Comedy. What a beautiful record!

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    Comment #48937446

    What if I don't `evict`? How different is it from forgetting to `free`?

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    Comment #48868534

    If your trip to desert is worth polluting whole low orbit and high atmosphere is debatable. Same goes for hypothetical business there. Maybe building towers would be a better idea …

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    Comment #48865350

    cool visuals but the result is totally random

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    Comment #48865047

    *every = some of them

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    Comment #48798342

    Is there some study to explain why? Do they feel more safer pretending to be human sized...furry animal?

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    Comment #48778900

    thank you, captain obvious

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    Comment #48753010

    I always love to see Rebol and Red mentioned anywhere, as I spent more than half of my life with these languages, working with them and working on them. Recently I started working …

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    Comment #48752834

    No, even Rebol2 can build 64 bit but the whole compiler needs to be rewritten to produce 64 bit binaries. It’s not limitation but deliberate choice made when 32 bit was still major…

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    Comment #48702777

    No. I'm really not fan of Python but you're not going to parse JSON at assembler level. You need to choose right level of indirection for each task. And LLMs are good at more than …

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    Comment #48555700

    SpaceX is successfully building reusable rockets. BTC can process few transactions every ten or so minutes at enormous price. I think SpaceX is definitely overpriced but saying tha…

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    Comment #48404991

    By looking at my face you agree with EULA take explicitly says "don't look at my face"

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    Comment #48373344

    They would end up extremely bored very soon.

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    Comment #48336052

    Then vote for politicians who do.

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    Comment #48310023

    20% of auto-reported crashes. So it's not like Linux users were writing more tickets but the game crashing on Linux more (because of gfx drivers).

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    Comment #48283222

    I want better Topaz. My favourite font.

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    Comment #48279278

    I moved to Codeberg and self hosted Forgejo. I'm happy.

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    Comment #48248671

    How much creativity do you need to fix bugs in corporate code? Almost zero. It’s maintenance, not creative work. Nothing against it, it’s needed, but let’s be real, would anybody b…

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    Comment #48178749

    It's not like you can't write "update this for next round of forced obsolescence " to Claude. Yes, it's unnecessary burden but solvable.

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    Comment #48127667

    > "For the last 15 months or so my hobby has been shouting at Claude" How can you shout at Claude when it’s 1) foobaring, bamblabooing and fghrtawing all the time without telling y…