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CombatWombat

@ CombatWombat @feddit.online

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In the fediverse since 2017. I mostly talk sports. If something on the internet doesn't spark joy, mute it.

Do not yell at me simply because I am in front of you and the people responsible for the problems are not. It is extremely unpleasant.

  • We replaced Node.js with Bun for 5x throughput

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  • “We rewrote the code to be much more performant as part of a migration to Bun, and achieved a 5x throughput increase!” Okay but to bill this as a difference in runtimes, you have to compare the optimized code on both runtimes, rather than the unoptimized code on node to the optimized code on bun? Bun’s dev team was annoying before but now that they’ve been bought by anthropic they’re truly insufferable.

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  • Hell yeah. “I’ve never eaten a thing so I cooked it to try it” is top tier mentality.

  • Is it bad form to patch a dependency?

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  • Patching is a reasonable temporary solution while you are actively working to get the patch merged upstream. If you’re not doing that, a better solution is to fork. If you’re not doing that either, then you should be updating your resume.

  • How many Lemmy users post regularly (let's say daily)?

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  • Every day? How many people post to lemmy every day? It's gotta be zero, right? No-one's dumb enough to post daily.

  • i'm high rn, what do you want to ask me?

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  • I’ll count it. Sounds like a great trip!

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    What's your impression of a person who says they're Machiavellian?

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  • They send catty text messages after four glasses of wine to their friends to complain about their kids’ third grade teacher and think they’re being manipulative.

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  • Hypothetically, yes. Practically, no. Arguing is fun and engaging when you have a sparring partner who is sharp, engaged, and persuadable. If changing someone’s mind isn’t on the table, or if all you’re capable of doing is poorly repeating memes and headlines you’ve seen, I’m not interested.

  • i'm high rn, what do you want to ask me?

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  • What is the coolest, awesomest, most mind-bendingest thought you’ve thought while high?

  • What is a good age bracket for this pile of trash I found on my land?

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  • The boombox is the only concrete clue I can identify. It’s an am/fm cassette, but doesn’t seem to have a cd player, so I’m assuming it went out of style in the early aughts. Best guess, this trash is about 20 years old.

  • How do you feel about the current state of Lemmy?

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  • Eh. It only feels dead if you let it.

  • How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?

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  • So easy! If you wanna get paid, just already be getting paid et voila:

    The best defence against this is to have lot of paying sponsors!

  • Unemployment part 2 - Thailand

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  • It’s tough to say definitively because there are a bunch of dialects, but in mine (west coast USA), “on another continent” is correct and “in another continent” sounds a little off.

  • Today I got my CI/CD pipeline running for Keyboard Vagabond

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  • Uh-oh, seems like trouble in paradise:

    upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection termination

    Hope you get everything up and running again — keyboard vagabond is awesome.

  • AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles

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  • There’s a capital strike on, and you can’t simply withhold capital or else it is put to use elsewhere so it has to be employed for enshittification.

  • AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia Articles

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  • If you used Google Translate previously for translations, they’ve switched out the backend for Gemini. Most of the existing translation tools have been destroyed and replaced with LLMs already.

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  • If you create a new community and start up megathreads for big news events, people can vote with their feet (so to speak). Folks who don’t like them can keep posting to their communities, and folks who do can join yours. I like a megathread for folks who have a take on an event, but don’t care to read the particular article they’re commenting under — I totally get it can be tedious to read a bajillion articles on the same event just to participate in the conversation, but it’s also annoying for those of us who are interested in discussing the contents of a specific article. Megathreads seem like a good compromise that can make everyone happy, so long as you understand that your thread will not prevent other kinds of posts in other communities.

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  • There’s a lot of people who come to fedi looking for this spot — maybe it makes sense to see if programming.dev is willing to host such a community?

  • What do programmers and dentists have in common?

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  • They both have to be careful about bites (bytes)?

  • FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn

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  • I’m not as quick as you. I got most of the way through article and was still wondering why X would expose a database of historical prompts to an llm for querying by law enforcement.