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one_old_coder

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  • Copilot AI ‘Microslop’ Chat Ban Is Not Censorship—Says Microsoft

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  • Censorship is not censorship -- says Microslop.

  • Or the person wearing a thin jacket in -20C

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  • That's me, I'm never cold. Cold wind can be cold, but when there is no wind, there cannot be cold.

  • What search engine do you guys use?

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  • I learn a lot while I search. LLMs may or may not hallucinate, and I'm not learning.

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  • What search engine do you guys use?

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  • I don't know how those search engines evolved, but last time I checked (a few years ago), Qwant was the worst search engine ever, and DDG was pretty average. I don't know how Kagi works, but it's good for every query. I usually don't recommend it because it's expensive ($10 a month) but it really changed how I work, especially for programming topics.

    As an example, Qwant still uses w3schools as the reference for C++, which is some "4chan trolling" level of stupidity.

  • What search engine do you guys use?

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  • It feels like spam to mention Kagi since it's all over the place (even on Hacker News), but I've been a subscriber since the beginning and it made me a "2x programmer" due to their good results.

    If I had no money left, I would try SearXNG.

  • What are some hugely important music albums?

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  • IMHO, perfect albums that you can listen to from the beginning to the end without skipping anything:

    • Guns n' Roses, Use Your Illusion 1 & 2
    • Radiohead, OK Computer
    • Portishead, Portishead
    • Bjork, Homogenic

  • Is it a bad practice to replace compiler warnings with a bunch of TODO notes?

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  • It is bad practice. You'll obviously have 0 warnings if you hide the warnings. You don't go from warnings to YOLO mode. You should compile with "warnings as errors" and fix those if you want to really remove those warnings.

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    Reddit decides to remove r/all

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  • Those who post links to Lemmy instances are quickly banned.

    And how was /r/all an experiment? I thought it was there from the beginning. Or am I hallucinating?

  • What's up with expired domains being unavailable?

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  • If it's not a cooldown period as that other guy said, you may contact the scammer new owner, he will ask for a billion dollars and it's up to you whether that domain was important enough. Consider finding a new one right now if you can.

  • What's up with expired domains being unavailable?

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  • Try to buy it to see who is holding it to scam people.

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    An AI Agent Got Its Code Rejected. So It Published a Hit Piece on the Developer.

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  • Dupe and old, are you a bot?

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  • I'm not a freelance but I have thought about it, and a friend of mine has been doing this for years. He's a software project manager but developers are still popular of course.

    You will have some kind of administrative stuff to take care of. In France you can use the "portage salarial" which is a company that takes care of getting money from your clients, pays taxes, gives you a salary, and gives you some kind of healthcare and retirement program.

    You will make much more money but you have to make sure your taxes are taken care of.

    As for the clients themselves, you can have long missions (up to 3, 4, or 5 years) but most of the time it seems that my friend finds new jobs thanks to previous clients or coworkers. If you're new, you can bootstrap your clients' list with full-remote offers from LinkedIn or other job boards.

  • Automated catalyst testing uses two coordinated robots, cutting 32 days of work to 17 hours

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  • I hate AI as it is, but those robots can have precision up to a few nanometers, which humans will never be able to do. Those machines are not replacing anything here.

  • Automated catalyst testing uses two coordinated robots, cutting 32 days of work to 17 hours

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  • IMHO you're right. Most people don't know that "one arm robot" do exists and can be programmed to do a lot of stuff with great precision (some up to almost a micrometer/nanometer). They already have eyes (precise cameras on the side of the robot) and don't need legs or torsos because they don't need to move.

  • Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious'

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  • It's the new ReiserFS! (sorry)

  • A Meta AI security researcher said an OpenClaw agent ran amok on her inbox

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  • The epitome of "I'm so quirky lol (heart emoji and shit)."

  • Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot

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  • Or one organic dildo trying to fight a mega-dragon-dildo 10 times its size.

  • Mike Hardaker accuses Reddit of holding organic posting ‘hostage’ unless he buys ads, shares email screenshot

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  • It's a clone of Digg which was a clone of forums, and it's full of ads and bots. It's the trashcan of the internet. I don't know why people still lurk there.