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  1. Comment on Should C be mandatory learning for career developers? in ~comp

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    It's because this already IS part of most computer science educations. This was a basic part of my curriculum

    It's because this already IS part of most computer science educations. This was a basic part of my curriculum

    2 votes

  2. Comment on Tildes' Colossal Game Adventure: Inauguration and nominations in ~games

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    I will second the MattKC video series recommendation. This truly has been a work of pure love, and since I never played it, I am curious what about this game has captivated all those people to...

    I will second the MattKC video series recommendation. This truly has been a work of pure love, and since I never played it, I am curious what about this game has captivated all those people to undertake such a collosal endeavour

    2 votes

  3. Comment on Most people, even highly technical people, don't understand anything about AI in ~tech

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    Can you tell us something about what you are doing with your company? What do you make/research? How do you make money? You make a lot of claims in your post but they are almost all backed by...

    Can you tell us something about what you are doing with your company? What do you make/research? How do you make money?

    You make a lot of claims in your post but they are almost all backed by arguments of authority, not actual justifications.

    That can be fine, if you actually are such an authority on the subject. So I would love to hear more about it.

    FYI: Myself, I am a senior cloud security engineer. I use AI mostly to iterate quickly with POCs for apps or scripts. I believe its a great tool to get some basic things working or to learn faster when starting with something you are inexperienced about. But it also often really sucks and wastes an enormous amount of time making up nonsense for me to falsify.

    47 votes

  4. Comment on People who contribute to libre projects - how do you find time for this? in ~hobbies

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    For me, this often starts as trying to achieve something with xyz program/library. I then run into some kind of issue/obstacle that is preventing me from achieving my objective. I will then debug...

    For me, this often starts as trying to achieve something with xyz program/library. I then run into some kind of issue/obstacle that is preventing me from achieving my objective.

    I will then debug things to figure out if things are failing because I did something poorly or if there is an actual issue with the tool/lib or a feature does really not exist.

    At the end of this, I will usually already have a good idea of what needs to be done to fix the issue / add the feature.

    I can then either create an ugly hack/workaround. Or I can contribute the fix to the project

  5. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Tildes will host it :) This beautiful website is open source, so I am contributing my time to write the code for the API. This will then be reviewed and if approved, will become part of the...

    Tildes will host it :) This beautiful website is open source, so I am contributing my time to write the code for the API.

    This will then be reviewed and if approved, will become part of the website in a little while

    8 votes

  6. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Making slow but steady progress on the JSON API for tildes. Today I added the endpoint to get comments for a topic

    Making slow but steady progress on the JSON API for tildes. Today I added the endpoint to get comments for a topic

    10 votes

  7. Comment on Recommendations for a obscure newer games in ~games

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    I played this to scratch an itch after playing Outer Wilds. It's a nice game but it also felt very tedious at times. Maybe it's because it didn't quite fill the Outer Wilds void but it didn't do...

    Return of the Obra Dinn

    I played this to scratch an itch after playing Outer Wilds. It's a nice game but it also felt very tedious at times. Maybe it's because it didn't quite fill the Outer Wilds void but it didn't do it for me

    5 votes

  8. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Started work on the JSON API for tildes. The read-only APIs that don't involve user authentication should be fairly straightforward. The authenticated api endpoints will prove more interesting....

    Started work on the JSON API for tildes.

    The read-only APIs that don't involve user authentication should be fairly straightforward. The authenticated api endpoints will prove more interesting.

    Gonna need to figure out how to nicely integrate REST api token based authentication into the tildes codebase (which relies a lot on user sessions) without duplicating too much code

    3 votes

  9. Comment on The vast majority ~90% of us only consume, never post and never comment. So come on in, leave a tildes-worthy comment, and join the 10% my dear lurker in ~talk

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    Seeing you put in the effort of posting topic after topic with interesting content has actually pushed me to start contributing a little as well. I do so mainly by commenting more than I would...

    Seeing you put in the effort of posting topic after topic with interesting content has actually pushed me to start contributing a little as well. I do so mainly by commenting more than I would naturally do, and a tiny bit by posting my first topic recently. I also started contributing code to the tildes repos, which is more my natural inclination.

    8 votes

  10. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I threw a minimal draft version for a first endpoint as a merge request. Do have a look so I can incorporate feedback before continuing on the rest of the API endpoints.

    I threw a minimal draft version for a first endpoint as a merge request. Do have a look so I can incorporate feedback before continuing on the rest of the API endpoints.

    1 vote

  11. Comment on How are you different than you were ten years ago? in ~talk

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    First of all, congratulations on any and all progress you have made. Hard drugs are nuts, and crawling back from abusing them is incredibly hard. However, if you don't mind my curiosity. What does...

    First of all, congratulations on any and all progress you have made. Hard drugs are nuts, and crawling back from abusing them is incredibly hard.

    However, if you don't mind my curiosity. What does "less" mean in that context. I am not a user, but I always believed that there is no such thing as 'a little' heroin. I did not think that was a realistic tight rope to walk?

    Please disregard this comment if you do not wish to talk about it, or if my views are too short sighted. Just genuinely curious...

    7 votes

  12. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    @talklittle, was there some way to load a bunch of dummy data (users, topics, comments) into the tildes dev environment? I would have sworn I saw something about doing exactly this wile reading...

    @talklittle, was there some way to load a bunch of dummy data (users, topics, comments) into the tildes dev environment? I would have sworn I saw something about doing exactly this wile reading the code or issues on gitlab, but I can't seem to find anything like it.

    This would make testing a lot smoother

    1 vote

  13. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    I am happy to see that the big decisions have already been made! I'll spend some more time getting acquianted with the code and then getting a working dev environment. And then I will likely give...

    I am happy to see that the big decisions have already been made!

    I'll spend some more time getting acquianted with the code and then getting a working dev environment.

    And then I will likely give it a go, because it sounds like a fun side project! But don't expert anything soon, I only have limited time to spare...

    2 votes

  14. Comment on Exercise boosts colon cancer survival in ~health

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    While you are no doubt correct, there are indicators that those correlations might not be causal, or at least not to the extent currently believed. For example, research points out that physical...

    While you are no doubt correct, there are indicators that those correlations might not be causal, or at least not to the extent currently believed.

    For example, research points out that physical fitness reduces the risk of dying by random accident by a significant amount.. This is ofcourse not really the case, and implies some inherent sampling issue in other studies that is not yet fully understood

    We found that people with high fitness levels in late adolescence had a lower risk of dying prematurely, for example from cardiovascular disease, compared to those with low fitness levels. But when we looked at their risk of dying in random accidents, we found an almost similarly strong association. This suggests that people with high and low fitness levels may differ in other important ways, which is something that previous studies have not fully taken into account.

    6 votes

  15. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    In the few minutes of spare time I have between my job, a fresh baby and some projects I have mentioned here in the past, I started this week looking at some of the tildes source code. I'm...

    In the few minutes of spare time I have between my job, a fresh baby and some projects I have mentioned here in the past, I started this week looking at some of the tildes source code.

    I'm considering if I want to put in the effort of building (part of) the JSON api for tildes. As far as I can tell, this was discussed a couple times in the past but never started. It honestly seems pretty doable simply from a coding POV.

    But I have a feeling it will involve so much debate on how to do it 'properly' or on which library to use for it that it is making me second guess myself before even starting.

    Regardless, just getting caught up on the source code of a platform I use a lot is a fun activity in its own right. So I'll just do that for now

    4 votes

  16. Comment on Swarms of tiny nose robots could clear infected sinuses, researchers say in ~health

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    Can't wait for vibe coded nanobots to travel up the wrong tube and melt my brain instead of my sinuses!

    Can't wait for vibe coded nanobots to travel up the wrong tube and melt my brain instead of my sinuses!

    14 votes

  17. Comment on One quirky anti AI technique I've used is leaving in the typos in ~tech

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    Ironically, if I were using a screenreader, letting AI transcribe images for me would actually be a great usecase...

    Ironically, if I were using a screenreader, letting AI transcribe images for me would actually be a great usecase...

    26 votes

  18. Comment on Global hack on Microsoft SharePoint hits US, state agencies, researchers say in ~tech

  19. Comment on Edible microlasers made from food-safe materials can serve as barcodes and biosensors in ~science

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    To remove/reduce packaging altogether? Especially for fresh produce?

    To remove/reduce packaging altogether? Especially for fresh produce?

    2 votes

  20. Comment on Did a fictional character from a show/movie influence your life? in ~talk

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    It was the same for me. I think I cried at the end of that book at the unraveling of the statue. I am aware of the political message that is clearly there in hindsight. It is a simplification of...

    It was the same for me. I think I cried at the end of that book at the unraveling of the statue.

    I am aware of the political message that is clearly there in hindsight. It is a simplification of an ideal and the book demonizes valid opposition to that ideal, but I'll be damned if its not a beautiful ideal at its core.

    3 votes