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I just noticed “Apple Fitness+ Free for 3 months” in Settings. It’s definitely an ad but less annoying than candy crush.

So a completely broken product went through the review without problems. This makes me wonder: what do they actually review? Do they even try to run the thing before approving?

The smallest triply perfect number? https://oeis.org/A005820

Most of the participants in this “Hacker” News thread are definitely not hackers ;)

For me the only KDE distribution that works is OpenSuse. I tried many others (including Fedora KDE spin) and had significant issues each time. Even KDE Neon was a disappointment. So I’m in the green chameleon land for now.

You’ll need to also add -flto to your LDFLAGS.

I use a similar program called rdfind. It can replace dupes with hard links.

I used to have a job where I always had a feeling of being watched. Pretty much anyone passing by saw my monitor and there were always lots of people passing by. So during (rather frequent) downtimes I just had to “look busy” - always paging through some code, etc. I did browse the web sometimes but I used lynx so it looked more like I was working…

It’s all about the costs. You too can get such remote job if you accept $20 per hour and no benefits.

Or very young. Young people never experienced what the Internet was like before the corporations destroyed it.

My last raise was before the pandemic.

There was even a kitchen computer (in 1960s though): https://www.wired.com/2012/11/kitchen-computer/

If you “happily pay” that means you have money to spend on things that are not bare necessities. This makes you a very valuable advertising target. If Instagram eliminates people like you from ad audience (by allowing you to bypass ads), then their platform will become less valuable for advertisers. After all the only people remaining that have to see the ads would be the ones that do not have money.

I don’t think Rust is inherently bad to write emulators. For example one of the best cycle-accurate IBM XT emulators is written in Rust: https://github.com/dbalsom/martypc

This will take at another decade at least.

Right. I use x2x which is kind of like Synergy so I’m staying with xorg for now.

This could be some variation of Baader-Meinhof phenomenon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

Right. In this example lambda does not capture i at all. You would need something like

    funcs.append(lambda i=i: print(i))

Correct. It must literally be positioned on top of your desk to be counted as desktop.

I used Slackware on Pentium with 16MB of memory. In order for my sound card to be detectable from Linux I had to run a special proprietary program to set it in “Sound Blaster” mode. So my computer actually booted in MS-DOS, ran the sound card utility and then started Linux using LOADLIN.EXE. All from autoexec.bat.

We had a similar event a couple of months ago. After the layoffs the remaining employees were told to increase the productivity (do more with less) by utilizing GPT. Of course there will be no increase of compensation. The real cause of layoffs were financial, GPT is just an excuse to fend off complaints of (now overworked) employees.

The dialogue will suck with all the “As an AI language model I can’t…” in place of potentially offensive content.

Many HOAs require a specific type of grass so they might have no choice.

Apparently libSegFault has been removed from glibc, so recent distros might not have it.

On average 3-4 hours. But the variance is large. Sometimes I work 10 hours straight and sometimes I barely work for 1 hour.

My ISP gives me /64. It is unusable with consumer routers.

Most of us use scihub to retrieve papers.

My HOA once fined me $39 per dandelion on my lawn. They claimed there were 6 dandelions although I counted only 4. Lawns are serious business here and they must be kept in perfect condition.

We just went through layoffs and the remaining employees were told to become more productive by utilizing GPT. So in my employer’s case the reduction is already happening - though it’s probably caused more by GPT hype rather than the GPT-4 itself.

I use GPT to generate silly poems for my kid. It works great for this purpose. But for programming it feels like interacting with a very obtuse human. I find it emotionally draining. Yes it can write a Python function to compute edit distance, so maybe I can use it for coding interviews?