Piatro

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Looking for recommendations for developers who have been around a few years and stagnating a bit. Searching around I just get the same recommendations over and over so please don't say "Clean Code" or "Pragmatic Programmer".

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 9 points 1 week ago

Tldr; we shouldn't be idealistic, we should accept that LLMs stole from FOSS code, we should accept reality and instead of abandoning daddy GitHub we should ask them super nicely if they can pretty please open-source the training models trained on our stolen code.

I don't understand how the author simultaneously holds the position "we should accept reality" and "GitHub/Microsoft will open up their models if we ask them to".

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Only because I otherwise prefer KDE, nothing against GNOME, it's just preference.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know about mint specifically but I saw a while ago that the Dracula theme was owned by jetbrains so open source derivatives tended to play on the name like "darcula". Could be a licensing thing.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I would always use KDE on a desktop/laptop, but as soon as I have touch hardware (eg an old surface laptop), GNOME does win unfortunately.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Don't worry, we millennials had the same shit. I couldn't relate to half of the headlines and didn't know anyone who did.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can but the point is that people/companies/public services generally don't.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This seems to be the European take too from what I've seen.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I know a few people who subscribe who I never would have expected to do so, but I also know people who have started asking "why does Google show me an AI summary all the time when I don't need it?" I think any sheen it had is diminishing, slowly but surely.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago

It doesn't help that most people don't know that there isn't such a thing as "The NHS". It's just a brand that the state run health services use. As others have said, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales are entirely separate entities, who report to entirely different local governments.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Starmer, at least according to polling data, is less popular than all of them because he doesn't appeal to any of them. He isn't right enough for the Tories, Reform, or centre-right labour supporters, he's not left enough for core labour voters nor left labour voters. He was too harsh on Israel for the right, and too harsh on Palestine for the left. He has pissed off every possible political ideologue and everyone in the middle is just hearing about how pissed off everyone is. He could not have spent his political capital in a worse way than he has. I don't actually think people hate him. I think it's just that noone likes him. Say what you will about Boris, Truss, Sunak, Cameron, May, they all had their detractors but they actually had allies, or people to whom they were at least trying to appeal. Starmer doesn't have anyone, and it will be his downfall.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

TIL people actually pay attention to GitHub stars.

[–] Piatro@programming.dev 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Your syntax is fine, but not all commands/programs accept input from the pipe, or more accurately from stdin. Looking at the man page for file (https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/file.1.html) I can't see a stdin option, so you have to pass each of the files from your head output as arguments to file.

 

Hi all, my trusty (but honestly always pretty terrible) Amazon basics tripod finally died, does anyone have a tripod they'd recommend or brands they'd avoid?

Typical usage for me would be travelling/hiking and landscape photography so ideally small and light without breaking the bank (which I know is pretty tough). Budget is variable but call it £100-£200 for now.

 

It's being rolled out in stages so you, like me, may not have it yet.

 

Title. Friend group and I play regularly but most of us are bad at the role playing part of it to the point where it's hard to tell when the player or the character are speaking in some scenes. Conversations are stiff. We can't use too heavily modified voices because we're playing remotely. My character is about to die (probably!) so help me pick a character or trait of my new character that someone not comfortable roleplaying can stick to without feeling weird about it!

 

What do you have, what do you recommend, and why?

Asking as I've got a lot of spare components lying around that I'm planning on turning into a NAS. If it doesn't work out I'll buy a pre-built enclosure and reuse the drives.

 

Not affiliated I just find this useful and it exposed me to a few of the new features of Ruby 3.2 like not having to specify the value in kwargs if the variable is defined in scope, eg:

foo = 'bar'; call(foo:) is equivalent to foo = 'bar'; call(foo: foo)

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