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CandleTiger

@ CandleTiger @programming.dev

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  • Am I a dick if I don't want to meet an old friend for coffee if she brings her babies along?

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  • One of the things that absolutely sucks donkey balls about being a new parent is that half your friends just totally ghost you and done want to deal with the complications of your kids, which it sounds like your friend is dealing with.

    Definitely hanging out in a coffee shop with a bored toddler is not a recipe for a good time, which I guess your friend has not discovered hard enough yet. The other person suggesting hanging out at a park instead is on to something. Or just anywhere else where the kid has something to do besides sit down and shut up, which generally they won’t.

  • Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message

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  • Babbel is working ok for me for learning French.

    Just lessons without all the hearts and ads and crap

  • When talking to yourself, do you use the pronoun 'I' or 'you'?

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  • *Thou hast

  • The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million

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  • The tail boom is massive compared to a sports car but I think the folded-up package looks not bigger than a giant American SUV.

    Speaking as one who routinely has trouble parking a motor home and driving over curbs with it — this big awkward-looking vehicle doesn’t look like a great city-car but it does not compete with motor homes for the awkwardness prize.

  • Love this

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  • +1

    Where are his legs??

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    Driving a manual: is it difficult?

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  • Learning to drive a stick is really easy if you have somebody to teach you well, but waaay too many people are like, "here, keep fucking up until the car doesn't go anymore or you figure it out, whichever comes first".

    Hardest part is getting the car to start moving from stopped. Changing gears once moving, you can fuck it up a bunch and nothing much happens except funny engine noises and the owner starts making constipated-looking facial expressions. But if you fuck up starting from stopped, then you lurch around a bunch, stall the engine, and don't go anywhere.

    To get started from stopped, without horrible lurches or stalls, do like this FROM A FLAT PLACE -- don't try anything with hills until you can make the car go on the flat first:

    1. IMPORTANT: adjust your seat so you can easily push the clutch (left pedal) in -- all the way to the floor -- without uncomfortable stretching
    2. In your driveway when there's nobody going to honk at you, start the car, put it in neutral, and practice pushing the gas pedal just enough to hold the engine at 3000 RPM or so. Not making crazy racing noises, just a nice steady "the engine is running normal-fast-ish" and hold it that way. Practice a couple times until your foot and your ear know what it feels like
    3. Put it in gear without moving -- gas off, clutch in and put the car in first gear.
    4. Gas on, steady at 3000 RPM, slooooooowly let the clutch out until you can just barely feel the clutch is engaged. Engine revs down a little bit, car starts crawling forward. Practice that a couple times, just let the clutch out until it barely starts doing anything, then put it back in, until your foot knows what it feels like.
    5. Now do it again, engine held at steady revs, clutch out until just barely engaged, then let the clutch out just a little bit more, so the car wants to crawl, and hold the clutch there. Car starts crawling. Keep the engine steady like you've been, let the car start crawling, don't even change anything, just let the car crawl. It will slowly accelerate until you're moving at some steady 1st-gear speed. Once it's come up to (slow) speed you can let the clutch out the rest of the way.
    6. Congratulations you moved a car

  • Rule is strange

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  • A German Experiment Proved That Simple Concrete Spheres Make Fantastic Batteries. Now, California Plans To Submerge A 9-Meter Diameter Sphere In The Ocean And Is Already Planning Versions Of 30 Meters

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  • If you fill and empty with raw seawater on the regular then you will have plenty of opportunity for growth on the inside and a constant supply of new water with fresh nutrients meaning everything is going to want to grow into the water inlet and clog it.

    Maybe they will sink a giant bladder of sterile water together with the hollow sphere, and then figure out a way to make the bladder not fail for 20 years?

  • Open source project curl is sick of users submitting “AI slop” vulnerabilities

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  • Maybe the people doing this are much more optimistic about how useful LLMs are for this than I am

    Yes. That is the problem being reported in this article. There are many many people who have complete and unblemished optimism about how useful LLMs are, to the point where they don’t understand it’s optimism and don’t understand why other people won’t take them seriously.

    Some of them are professionals in related fields

  • Not difficult to understand

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  • <chef’s kiss>

  • Not difficult to understand

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  • Maybe they wanted to be ver very sure you weren’t covering a not-working period /s

  • Carney's Liberal party wins Canadian election and completes a stunning turnaround fueled by Trump

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  • I was sincere about the congratulations but only offered them because I thought you were complaining that the news shouldn’t use fancy words. lol.

    I’m glad we were all able to talk this out.

  • Carney's Liberal party wins Canadian election and completes a stunning turnaround fueled by Trump

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  • One anecdote: Trans people do exist in rural Canada. The woman who sold me tires outside Saskatoon was I’m-pretty-sure-maybe-definitely trans and gave every appearance of getting along fine with her coworkers.

    I can’t speak to her quality of life generally but anyway nobody has chased her off to Vancouver yet. I would imagine tire shops are probably on the worse end for harassment so if Saskatoon was hell on earth for trans people she probably wouldn’t pick a tire shop to work at.

  • Carney's Liberal party wins Canadian election and completes a stunning turnaround fueled by Trump

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  • Why 😐?

    Congratulations on learning a new word.

  • Carney's Liberal party wins Canadian election and completes a stunning turnaround fueled by Trump

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  • Why 😐?

    Congratulations on learning a new word.

  • Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta

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  • How does the construction app know what needs to be constructed and how?

    How does the waiter app know which table ordered what, needs attention, etc?

    How does the IT app know on which port every device is connected?

    These things are all real hard to know. Having glasses that display the knowledge could be really nice but for all these magic future apps, having a display is only part of the need.

  • REVENGE

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  • Are people with $20K lenses excited about kildeer?

    I spent a couple weeks at a Southwest Pennsylvania RV park that had kildeer running around all through the greensward in the middle of it. Was I seeing something more remarkable than the usual run of things?

  • 3D Print Anything Without Supports - Non-Planar Slicing & Core R-Theta Printer

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  • This is cooool

  • China calls bluff on 245% US tariff: 'Meaningless'

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  • All five of them?