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I am working on fedi software that is hoping to allow Kodi, Plex and Popcorn Time get rid of IMDb/TMDB dependency. Dm me if you're skilled in SvelteKit and/or Go, especially the Fiber framework, or machine learning with Rust and willing to contribute.

  • People that use Neovim really like Neovim | More than any other code editor, people using it want to keep using it | 2024 Stacked Overflow Developer Survey

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  • just note that actually very few of them have native apps so... and mind digital sovereignty and privacy. also discord doesn't work well outside of chromium, contributing to this dreadful web monopolization.

  • People that use Neovim really like Neovim | More than any other code editor, people using it want to keep using it | 2024 Stacked Overflow Developer Survey

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  • Discord as the 2nd most desired sync comm. tool with 71% admire score

    fucking zoomers

  • Update Faker - Fake a system update

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  • a webpage that simulates a systemd shutdown when that one stupid service won't stop?

  • Genie dislikes cloud

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  • someone else's computer*

  • everywhere I go

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  • I need to disagree with you on AI. We did not fail at it. Not because LLMs are good. But because any program processing arbitrary data, even a stupid simple calculator is AI – a machine performing work that human brain can do, ideally with the added benefit of maximized determinism and greater speed. If you reduce this generalistic term I believe is so overly broad we should cease to use it to LLMs, then these criteria seem to have been thrown out of the window since they are usually heuristic balls of python mud.So having established that it is all just software that processes arbitrary data, let's go back to the basics of software design. Huge amounts of money and working hours have been thrown into the erratic attempts to create a software that can do everything at once. GPT extensions are fucking dystopian and here is why – we had a tool for that for decades that does it much more better, without imposing digital handcuffs on the user and burning the planet – IT'S CALLED AN OPERATING SYSTEM AND PROGRAMS.

    General-purpose AI is a lie sold to you by monopolistic surveillance capitalists for whom it is a dream come true since making a decently reliable LLM requires prohibitively large resources but the endless stream of data much larger and contextualized than was the case for search engines thrown at it compensates that quite well, a pipe dream in terms of achieving what it is aimed to achieve with it's current design and a nightmare to build and test.

    So if we discard this term as a meaningless overly broad buzzword it is since computation on non hardcoded data is what we've designed computers that are not just state machines for, let's talk about what makes Lisp is so good at data-driven programming:

    1. Functional programming is generally more deterministic since you have immutable persistent data structures everywhere. This also makes it quite good at implementing safe, reliable concurrency.
    2. This determinism is furthered by the homoiconicity – the fact that the boundary between code and data is the outcome of using S-expressions and has powerful implications for eliminating so many data conversion bugs and complexities, all while usually not using static typing (!) and also for the language's extensivity and building DSLs
    3. Very simple syntax, again thanks to S-expressions - just (function arguments...) basically.

    I think Eich understood that when he initially wanted to port Scheme to the web browser, after all html does have lispy semantics, but office politics in the heyday of Java forced him to give up on this idea and we've ended up with this goofy counterintuitive mess that bred hacky workarounds instead of the extensivity we could've had if he did so - take a look at Hiccup templating DSL and decide for yourself if this or jsx are simpler ways of writing out stuff to the DOM.

  • What is something people you encounter at your job say that makes you want to scream? (Job, person & quote)

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  • premature optimization is a root of all evil.

    also when those morons decide to do 'microservices' but end up creating glorified SOA with one messy DB where half the tables are not even used by anything, updates in place are the standard and there is nothing like one team per service, but instead everyone is expected to navigate millions of lines of spaghetti code with poor documentation, barely any reuse and inconsistencies all across the board with this oh too-fucking-common entity service anti-pattern.

    and so much fucking coupling that you better start deploying your dev cluster just right after waking up so it maybe is up and running by the time your daily is over.

    Fun fact, I used to work at a company where a lot of projects use Elixir and a bulk share of my coworkers have been outspoken critics of microservices precisely because OTP manages to power fault tolerant and scalable systems but not by insane levels of complexity like kubernetes does but by CoC that rarely gets in your way.

  • The American dream is over: Why some first-generation Gen Zers are moving abroad

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  • Yes, fix the shit by kicking out the triumvirate of policians, corporations and military altogether, not by voting for lesser evil and dealing with shame after legitizming brazen, out of touch geriatric fucks; hoping that just one more legal act will prevent business from torching the planet, manipulating prices, avoiding taxation, eliminating competition, trampling down consumer rights and exploiting workers; or that there might ever be a good war and a bad peace and gaslighting yourself that it's for a just cause and not spheres of influence and profits off the backs of countries treated like the disputed territories of 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'.

  • The American dream is over: Why some first-generation Gen Zers are moving abroad

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  • American bourgeois democracy is not only a sham; it is rotten to its core. All that is missing is a force strong enough to kick it and watch it come collapsing down.

  • GOP threatened to sue over November ballot if Biden dropped out. Experts call that 'ridiculous'

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  • implying any court will do enough to send a major political party to it's right place at the dumpster of history

  • everywhere I go

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  • it's a feature not a bug, still simpler than chaining 10 iterators where half of them also requires a callback parameter. Clojure even disallows nested % iteratees.

  • Malware As A Service

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  • isn't XNU more decoupled than Windows kernel?

  • Malware As A Service

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  • Malware As A Service

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  • SHOULD'VE USED OPENBSD LMAO

  • everywhere I go

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  • if JS tried not only to use Lisp-like semantics but also Lisp-like syntax then probably we'd still be using it untyped

  • Two 80-something journalists tried ChatGPT. Then, they sued to protect the 'written word'

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  • Yes even for technical writing it's absolute shit. I once stumbled upon a book about postgresql with repetitive summaries and generally a very algorithmic, article-like pattern on literally every page.

  • Not everything can be done in constant time, that's O(k)

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  • plot twist to make it worse: you put in in an onInput hook without even a debounce

  • Not everything can be done in constant time, that's O(k)

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  • Also constant time is not always the fastest

  • low effort maymay

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  • yeah sysctl > regedit

    'tis a meme... ;)

  • Corpos being corpos

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  • AGPL RULEZ