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TheAgeOfSuperboredom

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  • Fallout 4 upgrade launches to mixed response, with broken mods and bugged Xbox quality mode

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  • Because Bethesda isn't being cut out of anything. You still need to buy the original game to use mods. And most mods are made using the official modding tools that Bethesda released (Creation Kit).

  • how to enable vertical tabs in nightly?

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  • Hopefully something that gets cut for the final release 😂

  • how to enable vertical tabs in nightly?

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  • Wow! This is the first I heard of this so I looked it up.

    According to this article it looks like you need a particular build thats not in the nightly mainline, and its very experimental.

    Still, its exciting to see them work on this! I use Tree Style Tabs with custom userchrome.css, but it is a bit fragile. Native vertical tabs would be great!

  • KDE Connect updated

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  • I hear you. It does make the software easier to use, but I also wish there was more control over when it was actually running. I usually just shut down the background process entirely until I want it running again, but it's a manual process.

    I've been wondering if something like Tasker would help but I've never looked into it.

  • KDE Connect updated

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  • There's a "Trusted Networks" setting to limit autodiscovery to certain networks. I don't think it'll completely disable the software, but it should prevent your phone from being visible to others.

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  • Don't be biased except for these biases.

  • What are variables and semicolons for actually?

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  • Yup! Also languages in the ML family and others I'm sure.

  • What are variables and semicolons for actually?

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  • Nope. In Rust, a semicolon denotes a statement while a lack of semicolon is an expression so you can't just omit them at will. This does lead to cool things though like if/else blocks being able to produce values if they end in an expression. But the expression type is checked so you're less likely to make a mistake. You can see an example here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/flow_control/if_else.html

    In JavaScript I never skip semicolons because I've seen those subtle bugs.

  • What are variables and semicolons for actually?

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  • Yeah, semicolons are ugly anyway and they'd ruin the beautiful expression of your code.

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    Nvidia CEO predicts the death of coding — Jensen Huang says AI will do the work, so kids don't need to learn

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  • we already have LLMs performing at human college level for most tasks.

    This is such a dubious claim that there is also very little evidence of. There are examples of LLMs performing some tasks, but that's hardly displaying any consistent "college level" activity. Passing a bar exam does not mean that an LLM can be a lawyer. All it means is that it can pass a bar exam. Not to mention that just the phrase "college level" is extremely ambiguous and makes it impossible to debate. It also ignores all the times LLMs perform in completely wrong ways, or just produce incoherent garbage (though Pepperoni Hug Spot was pretty amazing!).

    I would absolutely hire one junior dev over a fleet of junior level LLMs of any size! I can talk to and train a junior. I can understand their motivation. I can watch them grow and learn the needs of the product, company, stakeholders, customers, etc. Even one LLM coder is a constant code review against an agent that does things seemingly at random and who you cannot talk to or understand. 128 of them would be a nightmare!

    LLMs for code are a neat tool and I do use them on occasion. They can sort of help summarize documentation or maybe help generate examples, but they also fuck up a lot. They can be a good teaching tool for a junior, so long as they don't just follow blindly. But to replace even a junior coder? Absolutely not, and there's no evidence they'll ever get there. Note that I'm not saying it's not possible, just that there is no evidence right now.

    You mention lack of evidence that "there will always be a need for coders", but there's just as much lack of evidence that AGI of any form (LLM or otherwise) is at all possible. Heck, we've been less than 10 years away from AGI since the 1970s...

    All these discussions around AI are getting ridiculous. They always point to some mythical future AI that may never exists. It also implies that we should be making decisions affecting real people's lives today based on this mythical future AI. Remember that past performance is no indication of future gains. Just because there has been tremendous acceleration in the last couple years does not mean it will continue at that pace into the future.

  • Midjourney Accuses Stability AI of Image Theft, Bans Its Employees

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  • Lol, after both steal every image on the internet.

    No wonder the images look similar.

  • Plasma 6 just landed in Arch

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  • Where did you place the donation?

  • Find anything you need with fzf, the Linux fuzzy finder tool

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  • I'm curious what you use it for. I use Ivy and it had good fuzzy matching.

  • Bcachefs Receives Funding By NLNet With NGI Zero Grant

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  • Taking your data to flavortown!

  • First time in a box. Now what?

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  • Now chew box.

  • Is there a downside to Flatpak?

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  • I don't use Flatpak much, but I rarely see issues. Sometimes I see minor things like themes not quite being right, but its never been bad enough for me to spend the time to fix it.

    I suppose another downside is the need to have the base runtime packages, so it could take more disk space if each app uses a different one. In practice apps will share runtimes though.

  • No one cares about open-source, until …

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  • I've never heard of Skiff, but it's sad to see more software gobbled up by VCs. Though it sounds like the back end was never OSS to begin with?

    I used to be so excited about a future where people were software literate where we would be building open systems and make a decent living. Instead, people have been force fed locked down systems in the name of "user experience", all so that a few people can make an absolute killing while the rest of us feed off the scraps (even if the scraps of the software industry are still pretty good). It just makes me sad.

    I am extremely appreciative of folks who do make honest open source software though! Many of them do make a decent living too. It's hard not to lose hope when reading stuff like this, but then I remember that I'm typing this comment using Firefox on KDE Plasma running on a Linux kernel, right next to an Emacs session. Sticking to good open source software is a wonderful thing!

  • btop++ v1.3.2 Released - GPU support for AMD ROCm v6

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  • I've started using btop to kill processes instead of the ps, grep, kill incantation.

  • Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are ‘as painful as possible’ for Firefox - The Verge

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  • Lol just a different rendering engine. So easy!