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  2. smlavine parent
    It says the first half of the advance would be paid on approval of the first third of the book. It also says that the first third of the book was never submitted. So I don't think the advance was ever paid out.
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    The Pentagram at the top of the page does not load without JS enabled.
  5. smlavine parent
    I use Firefox on Android perhaps entirely because it supports uBlock Origin and my other extensions.

    I would guess that of people that would ever go out of their way to use a non-Chrome browser on Android, the fraction who care about extensions is pretty significant.

  6. smlavine parent
    This is terrifying. Truth is dead.
  7. smlavine parent
    Related: a cool blog from a year or two ago from a participant in this program: https://brr.fyi
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    > They're all using it.

    Not really. Go talk to anyone who uses the internet for Facebook, Whatsapp, and not much else. Lots of people have typed in chatgpt.com or had Google's AI shoved in their face, but the vast majority of "laypeople" I've talked to about AI (actually, they've talked to me about AI after learning I'm a tech guy -- "so what do you think about AI?") seem to be resigned to the fact that after the personal computer and the internet, whatever the rich guys in SF do is what is going to happen anyway. But I sense a feeling of powerlessness and a fear of being left behind, not anything approaching genuine interest in or excitement by the technology.

  9. smlavine parent
    Because then you'd have to do that.
  10. smlavine parent
    It means that every now and then, the Glance weather widget will pop up. I'll click on it, then it will bring up the full UI and ask me if I actually want to use it. I click "Disable Smart Lock Screen" instead, then it goes away from my lock screen. For a while.
  11. smlavine parent
    On my Moto G, Glance keeps getting re-enabled every month or so even after I disable it every time. Annoying.
  12. smlavine parent
    Says God, would say the framers.
  13. smlavine parent
    I think it's fine. Better than purple on dark-grey that I've seen posted here.
  14. smlavine parent
    The setup UI has no option for you to proceed beyond this point without internet access.
  15. smlavine parent
    Having been through interviews lately for mid-level CS internship positions, I'd say that having FOSS contributions on my resume that I was able to discuss extensively was indeed a factor in both attaining an interview and ultimately an internship.
  16. smlavine parent
    As a CS undergrad in my final year of study, a 5-year contract with guarantees with regards to employment, benefits, promotion etc. would appear to me and think would also appeal to many of my peers.
  17. smlavine parent
    The god-mode minor mode that is linked is also mind-boggling: https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode
  18. smlavine parent
    It's really cool to see this and other recent experimentation towards breaking past the local maximum of modal editing we've been in since Vi. Really neat stuff!
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    Do you use snippets or something to help speed this up? Manually typing `printf("longvarname=%s secondvarname=%d\n", longvarname, secondvarname);` adds up over a debugging session, compared to a graphical debugger setup with well-chosen breakpoints, watches etc.
  20. smlavine parent
    It's not a silver bullet, but Visual Studio is leaps and bounds ahead of gdb et. al. for debugging C/C++ code. "Attach to process" and being able to just click a window is so easy when debugging a large Windows app.
  21. smlavine parent
    Out of curiosity, how often do you use your bank's app? I don't have my bank's app on my phone. Pretty much nobody ever gives me paper checks, and all of my employers have strongly encouraged/required direct deposit as part of the usual onboarding process. If I want to check balance or move between checking/savings, I use their website. I have a debit card, and my (Android) phone has tap-to-pay built-in.
  22. smlavine parent
    Related recent news, the 0.15.1 release with the start of some IO changes: https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=44964701
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    Should be easy enough to do the math: https://netsplit.de/networks/
  26. smlavine parent
    I think this is the number one reason more people don't end up using IRC nowadays. The flow for newer, younger users is:

    - Use some software project, want to ask a question, see they have an "IRC channel" - Hopefully it's a hyperlink to an IRC web chat, or else they'll have to do a lot of research to find out what IRC is - Join the web chat link, see a room with a list of names - See no messages - Ask a question - Wait ten minutes, get no reply - Assume it's just dead and leave

    The ability to see older messages would be a huge boon, and to see messages between connections as well. I've seen it happen that a user joins a channel, they leave because nobody talked to them, somebody answers their question after they leave, they rejoin, they ask the question again, then disconnect.

  27. smlavine parent
    Being a programmer is absolutely about knowing how to configure your development environment, though.
  28. smlavine parent
    I once used m4 to generate my blog. Hated it. Escaping was a nightmare and I was always afraid I'd quote something wrong.
  30. smlavine parent
    If Duolingo wants to be an "AI-First" company, then what's stopping all of us from being an "AI-First" society and just using Google Translate all the time?

    This contradicts the whole thesis statement of their company -- that it is worth time and effort to collaborate and learn with others, even when a machine can make it easier.

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