Canadian software engineer living in Europe.
Yeah I’ve always been frustrated with this trope. Somehow, we’re expected to believe that a technology capable to creating and assembling all the atoms in a chocolate sundae is incapable of modifying the recipe.
In my head cannon I’ve always understood this to mean that the replicated food is “too perfect” and lacks the human imperfection/variation you get with real cooking.
This “1000 words to conversational” sourdough sounds really good to me. Thanks for sharing!
Agreed. Despite appearances, subsidies like this don’t help the public, they’re just giving cash to energy companies with extra steps. Long-term planning on the other hand makes a lot more sense for the public, while sending less money to the energy companies.
I wonder how many of those companies are involved with that think tank.
Oh I didn’t know this was available in Codeberg! Thanks for sharing.
I know it’s supposed to be a joke how a nerd will spend six hours writing a script to automate a 30second task but… it’s not really funny.
Working with less-experienced developers, I’m amazed at how slow everything is for them: No keyboard shortcuts, no automated scripts, just slow, plodding mouse-driven tinkering.
Automation, shortcuts, and scripting drive your ability to iterate and therefore learn.
Train your fingers, and spend those hours automating repetitive stuff. It’s worth it.
Is there a particular reason we need another flag? What’s wrong with this one that’s been around a long time?
It’s true. They’re for-profit, so the motivations are still there. Fragmentation helps a lot though. If a third of us move to one, and another third to the other, that would cripple any party’s ability to enshittify.
That’s a worthy goal, but the problem isn’t so insurmountable that we have to wait for some theoretical new feature to be available and adopted. There are three dominant players out there, one of which has demonstrated a willingness to screw everyone and the “it’s not perfect yet” excuse is getting pretty thin.
Switch to Codeberg today and there’s a good chance that this federated login will be supported there when/if it’s ever available. GitLab could do it too, and moving there will give you a bunch of nice things you don’t even get in GitHub let alone Codeberg.
But it’s long passed time to move. Microsoft has stolen our code to feed into their slop machine and enshittified the platform. Sticking around because a perfect alternative isn’t available only serves to harden the network effect that keeps GitHub dominant.
What is it going to take to push FLOSS software out of GitHub? Everyone here can move their projects literally anywhere else today. I did it for my own (roughly 10 projects) five years ago and it only took about an hour:
Oh don’t misunderstand me. I’m an atheist and think the idea of your god is ridiculous. I just think it’s even more ridiculous that a theocracy like the US could get tripped up and torn between its two favourite things: religiosity and property rights.
It points out the absurdity of both.
I love this so much.
The aversion to using a GPL library is a red flag for me. It basically says: “we don’t want to grant our users the same rights we have”.
Most of Europe is better. I say this as a Canadian living in Europe.
It’s nice to see that he’s already traking a principled stand.
Clever, but as far as I know, Jesus isn’t credited with actually writing any of the bible. The actual authors, like Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, are all long dead.
The following don’t seem to fit any of these (and they’re all excellent):
I used to get very upset by this, but I’ve taken great solace in seeing how their power and influence are waning.
Is there a more reputable source other than RT? In the age of deepfakes, it’s reasonable to require evidence from trusted sources. RT is not.
I want Kit stickers for my laptop. I will pay for them. Mozilla please take my money and give me adorable stickers.
I imagine it’d be a case of: “scan this food that I just made by hand, store its structure, and replicate that exactly later”.
So the replicator could make Grandma’s soup for you, but it would always be exactly how Grandma made it that one time.