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deanishe··on OpenAI – How to delete your account
Surely it depends what you're compromising.

Your demands are one thing, your integrity is another.

deanishe··on Lua 5.5
> You kind of always have to go on a quest for a library on the internet

Plenty of languages come with standard libraries that are more than sufficient for handling plenty of tasks.

deanishe··on Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment
> Why does every discussion have to wind up with a digression thread about how "real" or, even worse, "basic" journalism

Hardly surprising given the contrast to the level of journalistic integrity on display at the Beeb recently.

deanishe··on Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide
> We only permit pesticides for which there is undisputed evidence that the chemicals do not cause problems for humans/animals/other plants etc.

This is broadly how the EU operates. If companies want to start putting new stuff in/on our food, they first have to demonstrate it's no dangerous.

Not the best approach to everything perhaps, but I'd rather not have capitalists freely innovating on my food.

deanishe··on Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo
At least 2.

Being able to put language-specific shortcuts on keys that change with the keyboard layout is damn useful.

Why does software have such powerful modes for Python and JavaScript, but never for French or English?

deanishe··on How I block all online ads
> just to reach pihole at home, that sounds like overkill.

Host AdGuard on a VPS (same one as the VPN?). Then you can use it from everywhere.

deanishe··on Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
> Even if the university is free you must pay for food and housing.

A one-person apartment in the local halls of residence costs under €500/month here in DE. A room in a shared flat costs a lot less.

deanishe··on 'The French people want to save us': help pours in for glassmaker Duralex
Someone asked Rohloff how long their bicycle hub gears last, and the answer was, "We don't know. We've only been making them for 25 years."

A lot of German SMEs still work that way, even if their big engineering companies have rather lost their way.

deanishe··on Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification
On a German PC keyboard, @ is ALT+Q.

That was a big problem when I switched to macOS. I kept hitting CMD+Q every time I tried to type an email address.

deanishe··on PHP 8.5
> I don't think the amount of breakage per se was the problem with Python 3.

The lack of u"" is just another manifestation of the complete breakage they wrought upon Python's string handling, isn't it?

It was closer to a decade (3.7) till they'd put enough of the bits they'd ripped out back in for Py3 to be suitable for the things I used Py2 for.

deanishe··on Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure
I don't think you can make management take a long-term view when shareholders have a short-term one, tbh.
deanishe··on I Am Mark Zuckerberg
We had a board member who frequently emailed confidential documents to a security guard with the same name as another director.

It was his iPad's fault, apparently.

deanishe··on Why we migrated from Python to Node.js
> The author addresses that in the article. Python can scale but then developers would have to work with unintuitive async code

Python didn't cause their problems, Django did. They wanted async, but chose a framework that doesn't really support it. And they weren't even running it on an async app server.

Python didn't work for them because every subsequent choice they made was wrong.

deanishe··on AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS
That's Lamborghini, isn't it?

IIRC, he only got into making cars because Enzo Ferrari disrespected him.

deanishe··on Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
> I am saying you have to understand the revealed preference vs what people tell you.

And what they're saying is that this isn't just an indication of how awesome the US is compared to other places, but also of how averse Americans are to learning other languages compared to other people.

deanishe··on Microsoft 365 Copilot – Arbitrary Data Exfiltration via Mermaid Diagrams
> whereas for em-dash you need to do something extra

OPT+SHIFT+- on macOS. It's no more difficult to type than a lot of other punctuation/common symbols.

deanishe··on Poison, Poison Everywhere
> Small businesses are fantastic drivers of prosperity and creativity

That's a huge generalisation. Plenty are every bit as dodgy as the big ones.

deanishe··on Disable AI in Firefox
I'm not sure that was ever realistic.

It's been 20 years since Apple decided they needed a browser of their own, and even then they chose to throw their weight behind KDE's KHTML, not Gecko.

deanishe··on Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';
There's a certain irony in holding North Koreans or Chinese responsible for their governments' actions, but denying any responsibility for your own democratically-elected government's.
deanishe··on Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';
> The only reason they're not sanctioned

Aren't a lot of your religious fundies Zionists because the believe Jesus isn't coming back unless there are Jews in the Levant?

deanishe··on We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA
He collected a literal bar of gold (with some glass stuck in it) from Tim Cook a couple of weeks ago.
deanishe··on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
The GitHub unicorn doesn't look as if it came out of a furry dev's wank bank.
deanishe··on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
Excel's behaviour is almost as annoying. It's basically impossible to produce a correctly-formatted German document on an English OS and vice-versa.
deanishe··on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
Is Apple really an ad company?

I think it's reasonable to expect better from them.

deanishe··on The Who Cares Era
> Under-explored topic perhaps.

Gen-X in a nutshell, isn't it? People rarely seem. To remember that that generation even exists.

deanishe··on US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]
> didn't have to be ad- or surveillance-supported

Which freemail service isn't ad- or surveillance-supported?

> suggests that something vital has stalled

Why does it have to be a technology-driven limit? I dare say Google thinks that anyone with more than 15GB of email is a serious enough user to pay for it.

deanishe··on The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023)
The former PM's memoirs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9NifqJyDMI
deanishe··on The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023)
Definitely. It's rather that the plucky underdog surviving on his wits is practically absent in British comedy.

Brits don't do Bugs Bunny, only Wile E. Coyote.

deanishe··on The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023)
It's not standup vs sitcom so much as winning vs losing.

British comedy runs on kicking its protagonists in the nuts. Ideally, they bring it upon themselves, but cosmic irony will do in a pinch.

It's practically unheard of for a British protagonist to end an episode in a better place than they started unless it's the Christmas special.

deanishe··on A Map of British Dialects (2023)
To be fair, it was nearly 50 years before I knew what the "liquor" Cockneys put on their pie and mash is.
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