[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 19 points 9 months ago

It's in Proverbs 11:20

The C++ developers are an abomination to the Lord,
But the Rustaceans in their Rust-based OSes are His delight.

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 18 points 10 months ago

Let's not rule out Æ

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 21 points 10 months ago

Isn't it Mac OS X 14? I.e., Mac OS 10.14?

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To the best of my knowledge, this "drives from the same batch fail at around the same time" folk wisdom has never been demonstrated in statistical studies. But, I mean, mixing drive models is certainly not going to do any harm.

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 18 points 1 year ago

Educator here. This is called "discovery learning". (The alternative to discovery learning, "direct instruction", would be if someone had told OP about these permissions before OP got themselves into a pickle)

When discovery learning is successful, it leads to better learning outcomes. Compared to direct instruction, you learn the material more deeply and will have better recall of the material, often for the rest of your life. The downsides to discovery learning are that it's very time-consuming, very frustrating, and many students will just fail (give up) before learning is completed.

Consider yourself one of the lucky ones, OP.

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 24 points 1 year ago

I love the arrogant confidently incorrect at the end of the blog.

  • The comments in the code are wrong
  • The official documentation is wrong
  • The manpage is wrong
  • Every blog article ever written is wrong
  • Linus Torvalds is wrong
  • Everyone who knows what they're talking about is wrong
  • No, I don't know how to read kernel code. Why do you ask? You're wrong
  • Shut up. You're wrong
[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 17 points 1 year ago

Article reads as propaganda

More like advertising. I'd put down a pretty big bet that Life360 sponsored this article and probably wrote a fair chunk of the copy, too.

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nobody is going to move a dotfile as a breaking change in any established software

We have oodles of counterexamples to this. GIMP did it, Blender did it, DOSBox did it, Libreoffice did it, Skype did it, Wireshark did it, ad nauseum. It's not really as big a deal as you make it to be (or a big deal at all). You have a transitional period where you look for config files in both locations, and mark the old location as obsolete.

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Out of curiosity, were you born roughly in the early 1990s? I asked because I could have written very much the same stuff as you, except shifted back 10 years. By the year 2000, in my view, the Internet was already locked down and was a completely shitty version of what I felt "the real Internet" was like. Technology in the late 1980s and early 1990s was (from my view) hopeful and optimistic, constantly getting better (computers doubling in speed and memory and getting cheaper every year), and by the early 2000s, it was just shitty AIM and MSN Messenger and Windows-only KaZaA garbage with MySpace and shitty centralization like that. MySpace completely shit all over the early web rings.

I've come to realize that it's always been shitty. That's my conclusion after going on a nostalgia trip and watching old Computer Chronicles shows and reading old computer articles from my golden age, now through adult glasses. I just didn't understand all the politics and power manoeuvres at the time because I was a stupid kid who just saw cool things. Look at all the cool and exciting and great stuff that was happening in the late 1980s and early 1990s that I thought was so wonderful, and realize that it was mostly just shitty attempts by shitty power-hungry companies trying to lock down something cooler that had happened earlier.

The difference in the early days I think is that companies wanted to control us and make our lives as terrible as possible. They just couldn't because computers weren't powerful enough yet.

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 22 points 1 year ago

chess.com has cute profile pictures for its bots. Bullying "Martin" is just scientifically more fun than bullying "Stockfish Level 1".

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 21 points 1 year ago

Is there a lemmy community for self-hosted GPTs, like LocalLLaMa from reddit?

[-] duncesplayed@lemmy.one 18 points 1 year ago

I should try this manoeuvre when my friends need help with something.

Here's what I think you're asking about: Move all your furniture this weekend. Is that correct?
Yes
No

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