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Re:Haunted by the Ghosts of Materialism on Saturday October 03, 2026 @06:53PM (#49948554)
My degree required taking an Ethics in Computer Science course and I thought it was very interesting.
Re:Emacs Bedrock 2.0 Released on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @08:55AM (#49609712)
Doesn't lazy.nvim have some support for that?

I use the LazyVim distribution but I remember something in the docs about per-repo plugin settings

Agreed. AI has been "just trust me bro" for so long. People need to show receipts instead of spreading vague hype
Re:My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite on Thursday July 09, 2026 @09:53AM (#48845864)
There's a direct quote in the article from Jaredd talking about poor work/life balance
Re:My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite on Thursday July 09, 2026 @09:16AM (#48845339)
Bahahaha no, your little of time of delusion is coming to an end. Real engineers are coming back.
Re:My Thoughts on the Bun Rust Rewrite on Thursday July 09, 2026 @09:13AM (#48845305)
They are saying that someone who will summarize an article with AI is already implicitly biased. It's not about the AI, it's about the user.
Yeah I thought it was very obvious that the author was more careless and complicit than she was admitting.
Re:Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines on Thursday May 21, 2026 @06:34PM (#48229644)
I've really been enjoying modern Python both at work and on personal projects.
Yeah it doesn't even remotely qualify as a warning about it using your tokens to improve itself.
Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @08:48AM (#47674501)
Americans are so used to school shootings they complain about the Onion's reaction to it rather than the failure of politics that led them here.
I have a touchscreen laptop and I love it.

Mainly for stuff like quickly moving windows or highlighting.

But also I'm shocked Slay the Spire 2 on KDE is just working perfectly with the touch screen. Card games feel pretty natural with touch screens.

I've made that decision before without the help of LLMs so I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. It feels vaguely insulting to our intelligence.
> not specific characters.

That's funny because they have been releasing a ton of named hero characters lately.

A (I'm unsure how large) portion of the community hates this style of game design and call it "Herohammer"

I play the space bugs because I like huge swarms of things, so thematically I agree with them.

Re:The Evolution of Lisp (1993) [pdf] on Sunday May 26, 2024 @09:08PM (#40486731)
Can you share an example of Fennel with AwesomeWM?
Re:Godot 4.1 Is Released on Thursday July 06, 2023 @09:19AM (#36615300)
Anyone have any tutorials on Godot that they recommend?

I've got a small RPG prototype that runs in the console but would love to give it an actual GUI/sprite graphics.

Re:Google Cloud Storage FUSE on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:30PM (#35790114)
Yep that happened to me when I moved to be closer to family
Re:America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @01:42PM (#19098228)
Malcolm Gladwell has a great set of Revisionist History podcasts on this subject.

Here's the first one:

http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/04-carlos-doesnt-reme...

Have you lived in Silicon Valley? The amount that people from other companies talk to each other is incredible. You're using a technology? Oh just hop in the car and talk to the developers about your use case and help guide the development.

You _can_ do that remotely, but having it happen in person is way more reliable

Re:DigitalOcean launches its container service on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @06:04PM (#18659830)
Just want to add on to this. Whenever I'm looking up a piece of software and I find a Digital Ocean tutorial on it, I know I'm in good hands.

Have yet to find a tutorial that wasn't great!

My coworker who likes Murakami recommended Kawabata and Ishiguro, but I haven't had a chance to read either yet.
I just tested it in Python3:

    def foo():
        exec("a=1")
        return a

    print(foo())
Fails with a NameError:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "test.py", line 5, in <module>
        print(foo())
      File "test.py", line 3, in foo
        return a
    NameError: name 'a' is not defined
At a place I worked, our CEO said that most businesses only paid about 60% of list price. The list price was inflated so that the people who were buying would get rewarded by their companies for knocking the price down so much