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I think we're talking past each other here :) I wasn't speaking of whether it was a good or a bad thing, I was just pointing out that "woe" meaning "a misfortune or calamity" is th…

the hamster averaged over 10km/night!! given the size of the animal I would not have imagined anywhere near that.

sure, but what I was pointing out here is that "woe betide you" is a specific idiomatic phrase. it's usually used as a threat, i.e. "woe betide you if you do that".

I've been using firefox happily for years; I'm still emotionally invested in chrome having proper ad blocking, because that's good for users.

something I've really been wondering about is is mv2 really a serious security loophole? if I think about it, browser extensions really do have a scary amount of access to sensitiv…

> But please withhold you woe as a side note, "woe betide you" roughly means "you're in for a very bad time", not "I feel sorry for you".

nope, I've definitely worked on a lot of projects where knowing how to satisfy the requirements was not the challenge, writing the code was genuinely hard. complex data structures …

there are two distinct usesn of team/committee/council/etc in the software world, though they often get conflated. one is a formal structure to help with things like coordination a…

qxw [ https://www.quinapalus.com/qxw.html ] is a wonderful open source app that lets you make crosswords with interesting topologies, complete with grid filler support, if anyone w…

for me it's the opposite of alienating - it's like the ads have been banished to some niche sphere and I can live my regular life in the city unbothered by advertising.

> Jamverse (named for Fred Pohl’s dictum that the science-fiction writer’s job is to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam) clarke once said he was proud of one of his boo…

not true for jeff and sanjay - they kept moving from project to project and delivering transformative results in each.

ah, more of an HP person I take it?

you would love bruce sterling's short story "maneki neko", and karl schroeder's "degrees of freedom".

that sounds uncomfortably like the public sphere version of spam - using an automated process to amplify some self-serving message and thereby increasingly clutter up the space and…

tennyson had another immortal line that I reach for in times like this: "But oh for the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still" https://www.poetryfoundati…

ocaml has excellent compilation speed, and in my experience the code is very maintainable due to the module and type systems.

not the parent, but one thing i find charming is that a lot of them have a really good feel for line weight and inking style, and vary it interestingly in various parts of the plot…

ah neat, I wasn't aware that cfltk was already used by rust.

fltk is c++ based which makes language bindings significantly harder in general. gtk is c based which worked out really well in that aspect.

I have had that exact same thing said to me. didn't so much mess with my head as make me think someone with such a poor grasp of appearance vs reality had no business being a CEO.

I mean, it is very obviously being hoarded by the capital class! there has been tons of writing on the subject, no one can credibly deny that that's what's happening right now.

you missed the parent comment's point that the $500 training run was merely the last step, generating the training data is likely to be significantly more expensive and time-consum…