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Yeah, but receiving ideas non-stop isn't really "listening" to them. A more accurate description of that passive activity would be "hearing". I get that surrounding yourself by int…

Unless this is sarcasm, I completely disagree. Listening to thousands of ideas inevitably lowers the value you attach to each one, and lowers the barrier of entry for what ideas yo…

> Desktop computing is the cursive handwriting of gen z+. Just because a generation hasn't had the time to upskill and branch out into alternative technologies yet doesn't make the…

China do have new laws requiring people on the web to indicate with a watermark (or similar) if their stuff was created with the help of AI. See: https://cacm.acm.org/news/267778-c…

It is vaguely dystopian, true, but one thing I remember in order to sleep at night is that ChatGPT and the like are trained on human-written text. So we might currently be looking …

Mastodon has way more moderation than Twitter, actually. And way better moderation, too. Rather than one universal moderation rulebook there is one set of rules for each instance. …

Why can't he simply be judged on his "social competency" within working hours? Organising team builders and socials outside of contract hours is weird and vaguely feudal.

This is cool, but I actually place ignored paths into the gitignore manually. This way I will always see reminders when a new file needs to be tracked or ignored. Otherwise I would…

I have a similar system: I manage my dot files and a bunch of other configs by placing a git repository in my operating system's root directory, i.e. file:///.git. I use a .gitigno…

I actually do use suckless tools, so I don't think I missed these points. I've read them many times over the years in fact. I've used i3 (which is quite suckless) and dmenu for a g…

Suckless can work well if you do things alone and uniquely within text, but when it is time to collaborate in three-dimensional space, you'll find yourself hiding your cringe "Suck…

The fact that the blog post doesn't once mention bicycles gives a taste for the validity of its main argument.

Lichess being a project that is 85% written by one guy, and all other changes approved and read by him, he may have felt confident (until now) that he could maintain all the comple…

Other than legacy stuff, I think the main reason programmers still use it is the fact that '1' is easier for them to call to mind than '256', or whatever else. So when you're throw…

A spyware platform company denounces spyware on its platforms. Pretty good PR.

...cameras might do the same thing, but only with considerably more effort, and due to the storage requirements of video footage, it's less likely that landlords would process the …

Worded differently: Minimum $15 (average: $35) each time your helmet is stolen/lost/forgotten (from my experience as a cyclist: this is a much more frequent occurrence than losing …