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reidrac

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About reidrac

http://www.usebox.net/jjm/

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    Comment #49071304

    > [...] and give you a clearer target for a smoother experience. Actually, this means you're better running and older version. Is not that Minecraft makes huge improvements with ea…

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    Comment #48924606

    > on a decent speed But you said 7-9 tokens/second , that's not a decent speed. I'm not an expert by all means but in my local experiments, less than 12 to 16 tps is too slow.

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    Comment #48766114

    The biggest differences for me were related to non trivial network setups. Is just that you find docs and how tos for docker, but less so for podman. Other than that, I haven't fou…

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    Comment #48195938

    How many upgrades have you done so far? And how many kernel fixes? Long time ago I maintained a couple of obsd servers, and the cost in time of upgrades and the (occasional) securi…

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    Comment #47390467

    I hate this. Like the ticket is not expensive already, they also feel like feeding you ads. And then wonder why people don't go to the cinema and wonder if they can increase the am…

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    Comment #47022650

    Very useful because the information is almost distribution agnostic as Arch will stick to upstream as much as possible; or at least that's my impression as Debian user reading thei…

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    Comment #46935229

    > A manager shouldn’t get bogged down in the specifics—they should focus on the higher-level, abstract work. That’s what management really is. I don't know about this; or at least,…

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    Comment #46835624

    I continued reading, but you're right. Why did the author feel that it was necessary to include that?

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    Comment #46835615

    > Pre-training is, actually, our collective gift that allows many individuals to do things they could otherwise never do, like if we are now linked in a collective mind, in a certa…

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    Comment #46762787

    I assume is this one https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/ I used it back in Uni, in 98, and it really helped me to understand debuggers. After it, even using gdb made sense.

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    Comment #46636242

    Mine: https://www.usebox.net/jjm/ Established in 2002. Went full circle: static, PHP+mysql, python+tornado+redis (I had a nosql phase), python+Django+sqlite, and now static again (…

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    Comment #46430985

    > unburdened by how things were before. What burden are you talking about? Using LLMs isn't that hard, we have done harder things before. Sure, there will be people that refuses to…

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    Comment #46409787

    It has been years now that I only care about my subscriptions. I also installed an extension to remove anything else (especially shorts!), and that works great for me. The downside…

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    Comment #46400722

    Give Miles Cameron a go. Artifact Space is a good starting point.

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    Comment #46397773

    I find very difficult deciding about my all time favourites on anything , but the Hyperion books are pretty close to it. Not sure about the Endymion ones.

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    Comment #46397754

    I couldn't get past the awful sex scenes of "Altered Carbon". OK, after having watched the TV series I should have known, but reading it is completely different. Also, the main cha…

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    Comment #46397735

    I read 14 books this year and my favourite was Eversion by Alastair Reynolds, followed closely by Pushing Ice by the same author. I "discovered" Cory Doctorow this year, reading 4 …

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    Comment #46379708

    Dungeon-Specific Language (DSL) Cheff kiss!

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    Comment #46316930

    The chatbot can provide sponsored responses. Not sure how evident those will be, but I think it will happen. Surely is in Google's mind.

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    Comment #46316888

    Vivaldi is not open source. Not quite an option.

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    Comment #46316838

    so that the tiny but vocal anti-AI minority will be happy [citation needed]

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    Comment #46046372

    > As an end user, it doesn't concern me too much ... It doesn't concern me neither, but there's some attitude here that makes me uneasy. This could have been managed better. I see …

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    Comment #45858484

    There are some points on this post that confuse me. > In early 2023 during a routine skin check at my dermatologist [...] Are routine skin checks a thing? > [...] I’ve spoken with …

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    Comment #45824931

    I've never believed on that dichotomy: either you are happy with everything a project does, or you are a hater. Why? That was precisely what drove me away from the project after ma…