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vogelke

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vogelke
·5 days ago·discuss
I love this. Straight into my quotes file.
vogelke
·last month·discuss
Matt Stoller has written some excellent articles about Ticketmaster's monopoly crap.
vogelke
·2 months ago·discuss
Probably. As an American, I have to agree with you -- it's been the case for many years (WAY before Trump) that within 50 miles of our border, your rights go to wherever last year's snow went.

It's too bad so few people can say "My country, if right to be supported, if wrong to be corrected."
vogelke
·2 months ago·discuss
I have a Dell 2208 monitor with 4 USB-2 ports. If I bought three of these switches, would I be able to share keyboard/mouse/monitor between two machines? My monitor does not have HDMI, just VGA.
vogelke
·2 months ago·discuss
Best part about open source -- Mercurial is still around, I use it for my home servers, and it's being maintained. I can use git, but Mercurial's workflow just makes more sense to me.
vogelke
·2 months ago·discuss
The "Demon Seed" book was creepier (and a lot more pervy) than the movie.
vogelke
·2 months ago·discuss
I hope you're kidding. I've seen lots of 'Net people claim to be experts, and I wouldn't trust most of them to feed my cat.
vogelke
·3 months ago·discuss
https://lwn.net/Articles/343828/ describes Alan Cox trying to fix the TTY layer, being trashed by Linus, and removing himself from the maintainer page.
vogelke
·3 months ago·discuss
Exactly. Legal drugs get weaker because you can exchange information about minimum required dosages (saving money) without risking arrest.

Illegal drugs get stronger for exactly the reason you stated in your first paragraph.
vogelke
·3 months ago·discuss
> It's a one lane road and "over taking" is not possible.

Best poop-related comment I've seen.
vogelke
·3 months ago·discuss
Your core skills are fine. Unfortunately, appreciation for those skills has already been blasted into orbit by the AI-BS bubble.

This tech has made it easier for second-handers to pass off inadequate work as the equal of your work. They're too lazy to exert the effort to read/think/write, and being second-handers, they're fine with the APPEARANCE of reading, thinking, and writing.

This has been going on for millenia, and the only fix I've seen is to call it out every time it rears its head.
vogelke
·4 months ago·discuss
Thank you for this article. If I want to be told when to upgrade, I know where to shop, i.e. Bill's Bloatware in Redmond.
vogelke
·4 months ago·discuss
Great example of a commonplace book. Jillian Hess has written extensively about this -- her books are well-researched and organized.
vogelke
·5 months ago·discuss
I've read at least 8 articles this week about LLMs having massive hallucinations/brain-farts when writing testbeds for code. Unfortunately, the author didn't see the problems until he tried adding a test; then he had a huge WTF moment.

The fact that the LLM you mention gave good answers is probably more a reflection of YOUR documentation than any particular "brilliance" on the LLM's part.
vogelke
·6 months ago·discuss
If I treated reading like a chore, it would start to feel like a chore.

I'm not being graded. If I start a book and I don't care about the subject or the characters after 50-100 pages or so, it goes in my Goodwill pile. The only decent exception to that for me is Stieg Larsson -- his "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" books take their time getting started without being boring.
vogelke
·10 months ago·discuss
> I don't think I've ever seen a school essay back then that wasn't obviously written by a parent.

That's when you discuss the essay with the kid, and if he can't understand something that presumably he wrote, immediate consequences. First time == suspension, second time == removal from that class.