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My subjective impression as a web user since the late 90s is that now things break relatively rarely (I think it's the first time I have any such issue with DDG for instance) but w…

Well I suspect that eventually you just run into hard limitations with C's introspection facilities, or lack thereof. I like C a lot but one of the reasons I like Rust more these d…

Sort of off-topic but I see a lot of round screens in sci-fi and especially retrofuturistic settings and that always wonder if there could be an alternate reality where they took o…

While I don't use TikTok I often see videos from there and it's really spooky to me how aggressive and omnipresent filtering seems to have become in that community. Even mundane no…

I guess every generation experiences this type of nostalgia for the novelties of youth, but I still feel heavily privileged for having been able to live through the nineties and ea…

I dislike JavaScript and shell scripts equally, but sometimes I have to add a feature to a web page and I have to use JS, so I do, and sometimes I need to automate some un*x system…

That's a bit of a strawman though, no? I'm definitely not worried about AI being used to write erotica or researching drugs, more about the societal effects. Knowledge is more avai…

>the AI safety ninnies I am one of these ninnies I guess, but isn't it rational to be a bit worried about this? When we see the deep effects that social networks have had on societ…

Most people developing GameBoy emulators these days do it as a toy project, not a serious effort to create an ultra-accurate general purpose emulator. It's like writing a raytracer…

It really is, but I still favour "unsexy" manual poll/select code with a lot of if/elseing if it means not having to deal with async. I fully acknowledge that I'm an "old school" s…

I don't like it either but if it's like the moonlander it's fully customizable and uses QMK under the hood, so the sky is the limit. I don't really like having a lightshow on my ke…

Perhaps, but I wouldn't mind if the models just answered "I'm sorry but I don't have an answer to your question at the time". In fact I think that would be a great answer that woul…

I'm not sure but given that I haven't paid anything I believe it's 3.5.

>For one, we can test the software by running it As long as the tests are not also written by ChatGPT... Many critical security issues require a deep understanding or the code or s…

I haven't tried ChatGPT for coding yet but I have used it to study human languages (I've been studying Japanese for a little while) and it's so easy to get it to spew complete nons…

All of these reasons boil down to "if it ain't broke" and "that's what we're used to". Switching VCS for a project of this size is always complicated and OpenBSD devs are famously …

How else would I upload my public key?

How else? If you notice that some of your confidential info made it into next generations of the model, you'll be able to sue them for big $$$ for breach of contract. That's a pret…

I started with tcsh because it was the standard on BSD at the time, then I moved to zsh and never looked back. Using shells with non-POSIX syntax is nice in theory but the pros don…

I found this article in the citations of the Wikipedia article for Final Fantasy VII and found it extremely interesting, containing many interesting bits of translation lore from b…

> There's something more constricting about there being one function to bootstrap everything than there is about one file. As someone who basically started coding with C I feel the…

It's perhaps not as life-changing as some of the sibling replies but one thing that has really amazed me over the past few decades is how much lighting has progressed. When I was a…

Conservation is not just about preserving info, it's also about not adding information that's not here. If you upscale without those gradients (effectively sharpening to the max wi…