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rjblackman

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    Comment #48549632

    it might be worth trying oh-my-pi in your case as it claims to improve the edit calls by using a unique patching format.

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    Comment #39752041

    look how many submissions this person has posted? some kind of bot that posts any article with keywords?

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    Comment #39699961

    There is garn a typescript frontend to the nix language. https://github.com/garnix-io/garn/

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    Comment #39246238

    demand for bitcoin will keep climbing.

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    Comment #38555870

    there are already generative models for that anyway.

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    Comment #38390208

    yes, this is the best use case I have found for chat gpt. I've been automating away all of my little annoyances with powershell.

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    Comment #38313106

    they transitioned to for-profit in 2019

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    Comment #38056469

    this is interesting. in my experience it is always the third situation. they try to migrate the data slowly from "old system" to "nexgen". it never works. it sounds like maybe the …

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    Comment #38056444

    couple of points. building software is so far from building a house that's not really worth comparing. (just bringing this up because the analogy is used quite a lot). second, the …

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    Comment #38056356

    they're right over and over, until they're not and then the company tanks because they need a rewrite.

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    Comment #37842165

    test driven development has been around since the late 90s and was popularised in eXtreme Programming circles, are you sure it's a fad? I find it the most efficient way to write co…

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    Comment #37799900

    well we're already being trained by algorithms so I guess this is just an extension of what is already going on. perhaps the quality of human (internal) models will go down too? pe…

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    Comment #37799820

    I tend to agree, however it took learning about git internals to get to this point. Most developers don't read stuff like that. Also git creators made the mistake of using terms li…

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    Comment #31973264

    is this still relevant? the article is 2 years old, was the flaw addressed?

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    Comment #22352267

    I'd use mastodon more, but the people I want to follow are all on twitter, is there an easy way of forwarding tweets from twitter to mastodon, or setting up an account that follows…

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    Comment #21799797

    over the years, i've learnt that learning to work with vanilla vim commands is the best way to go. any editing plugin feature is just an extra command character or two away if you …

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    Comment #21255579

    thanks I've been looking for something like this. once you understand the cmd-tab, cmd-` behaviour from macos, you realize microsoft made the wrong ui decision with their alt-tab.

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    Comment #21234346

    popper believed that we can convince people through reason. not sure how he would deal with trolls.

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    Comment #21234292

    we are talking about karl popper's open society. not sure he knew about social media :)

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    Comment #21230825

    then the axioms themselves can be argued until a conclusion is reached, otherwise debate can be suspended. the underlying axiom here is that debate can be had, and that people can …

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    Comment #21230043

    the decision will be made through rational argument. if you are not willing to debate or argue then your position is forfeit (I.E. you are the one with the intolerant philosophy).

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    Comment #21230013

    > Who is going to define that line? It will be defined through rational argument.

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    Comment #21220847

    the fact that GP is complaining about it may be an indication. by hiring good people who see the structural problems and work around them works. you can brute force work around poo…

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    Comment #19754419

    I've noticed quite a few very unproductive workers, send emails and pretend they are working at 11pm kind of hours. Worker output is the only thing that matters. The problem is in …

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    Comment #18821800

    Not a course but I believe Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning by A.D. Aleksandrov, A.N. Kolmogorov , M.A. Lavrent'ev may cover this in book form. (FWIW I have not read t…