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Ephera

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  • Well, there might be other reasons to need them. For example, I once got locked out of an account, because I had lost the 2FA credentials (which I did not have in KeePass, incidentally). The webpage let me back in with a recovery question.

    Well, technically, it was a recovery code which was just random symbols I had been provided upon account creation, but kind of the same thing in the end.

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  • Well, I'd rather write down anything I enter, in case I do ever need it. But yeah, generally speaking you shouldn't need the answers.

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  • You can also store these in a password manager like KeePass...

  • Stop Closing the Door. Fix the House.

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  • Man, I understand that it's trying to give tips, but this really comes off as condescending. "Just create these three pieces of complex, non-obvious documentation and ensure you have highly automated specification and code quality checks."

    I also have to say, if you expect maintainers to be experts in how to correctly prompt LLMs, and expect them to be hot for reviewing/rewriting generated code, then they might as well prompt the LLMs themselves.Sure, there may be extra effort involved by outside contributors – may, because they do attract folks who have no interest in putting in any effort – but is that really worth the overhead of having to communicate with the LLM through a middleman?

  • it's a long distance relationship

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  • I'm open for counterarguments, but I always felt this was a silly way of looking at things. You cannot measure stuff at the quantum level without significantly altering what you measured. (You can never measure without altering what you measured, since we typically blast stuff with photons from a light source to be able to look at it, but for stuff that's significantly larger than photons, the photons are rather insignificant.)

    As such, you can look at measuring quanta in two ways:

    1. Either the quantum had the state that you end up measuring all along. It is only "undetermined", because strictly nothing can measure it before you do that first measurement.
    2. Or you can declare it to have some magical "superposition", from which it jumps into an actual state in the instant that you do the measurement.

    Well, and isn't quantum entanglement evidence for 1.? You entangle these quanta, then you measure one of them. At this point, you already know what the other one will give as a result for its measurement, even though you have not measured/altered it yet.You can do the measurement quite a bit later and still get the result that you deduced from measuring the entangled quantum. (So long as nothing else altered the property you want to measure, of course...)

  • it's a long distance relationship

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  • The analogy that makes most sense to me so far, is this:You rip a photograph in half and put both halves into envelopes. Now you send one of the envelopes to your friend in Australia. You open the other envelope. Boom! Instantaneous knowledge of what's in the envelope in Australia. Faster than light!!!

    In quantum terms, you "rip a photograph in half" by somehow producing two quanta, which are known to have correlated properties. For example, you can produce two quanta, where one has a positive spin and the other a negative spin, and you know those to be equally strong. If you now measure the spin of the first quantum, you know that the other has the opposite spin.

  • TIL that I18n is Internationalization, and why

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  • Yeah, some folks even say "ally" with their mouth, when they're talking about accessibility/a11y...

  • TIL that I18n is Internationalization, and why

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  • I2O

  • Stop generating, start thinking

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  • I think, the problem is that management wants the expert humans to use the non-expert tools, because they're non-experts and don't recognize that it's slower for experts. There's also the idea that experts can be more efficient with these tools, because they can correct dumb shit the non-expert tool does.

    But yeah, it just feels ridiculous. I need to think about the problem to apply my expertise. The thinking happens as I'm coding. If I'm supposed to not code and rather just have the coding be done by someone/-thing else, then the thinking does not occur and my expertise cannot guarantee for anything.No, I cannot just do the thinking as I'm doing the review. That's significantly more time-consuming than coding it myself.

  • Do you miss drinking from the water fountain?

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  • Never used one...

  • What additional concepts should I learn before starting to learn rust?

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  • I would also definitely recommend to get started with learning Rust. You will need to learn more concepts along the way, but you can still learn about them while you're coding Rust.

    Or rather: I always found it most productive to learn about concepts, while I'm actively using them in a project. So, I would even recommend to jump into Rust now, try to tackle a few smaller projects, and then continue learning general concepts later.

  • Taste the flavor

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  • Capsaicin (the chemical that causes the heat sensation in chilis) is soluble in oil, so it can definitely play a role.

  • Not that limit

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  • In my experience with maths, there's a whole bunch of different conventions all over the place, so it might've genuinely been how they were taught, even if you were taught differently...

  • Three dinosaurs in a trenchcoat

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  • Oh yeah, that was my assumption, for sure, too. I was just playing devil's advocate for the trenchcoat theory, because it's funny.

  • Three dinosaurs in a trenchcoat

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  • I mean, probably happens a lot that the bones of different dinosaurs end up next to each other.

    Would it happen for every T-Rex fossil in the same way? Well, less likely...

  • What are movies/tv series that has the same vibes of Shrek movies?

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  • Sort of in the vein of Pixar movies is also Big Buck Bunny, which I had to think of. (With the caveat, that I'm the opposite of a movie person. 😅)

    But well, it's only 10 minutes long and freely available, so IMHO definitely worth watching.You can do so here, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Buck_Bunny#Plot

  • How many daily drivable desktop operating system( familie)s are there?

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  • Not entirely sure, if ReactOS would count. Its documentation has a section on WiFi and one of the screenshots on their webpage shows Firefox, but that looks to be a rather old version of Firefox, so no idea if modern versions of it work, too, well, and how well the whole WiFi business works, too.

    Well, and one could argue that it's part of the Windows family.

    https://reactos.org/

  • What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?

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  • Yeah, similar to VR, they have their use, but compete with technology that pretty much everyone already has, so when push comes to shove, people will use what they have.

  • AI Slopageddon and the OSS Maintainers

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  • Really my biggest frustration is that it isn't transparent what's generated and what's not. If a human wrote the code, then I want to teach them, especially if there's glaring logic issues in the code.

    But at the same time, the most likely cause for glaring logic issues, is if they generated the code. And then it's just a complete fucking waste of my time to try to teach them.