@FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@daisy The thing that stumps my coworkers when they paste responses from LLMs to me is me asking for evidence it's correct. Me: "Where's the corroborating evidence? Can you link me to the documentation that supports this?" Them: "Huh?" Me: >:-(

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@dabertime US: "Let the market decide!" Canada: *does* US: "No, not like that!"

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 3mo ago

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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party Is it as simple as: loans don't accrue tax obligations?

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@rygorous Ah, but what if it's a Wensleydale?

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Can anyone recommend a budget wifi6 PCIe card that has solid #linux driver support?

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@mike805 @daisy That onus is on the person using the bot, who is presenting its response to me as fact.

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@mike805 @daisy Friend of mine is a uni lecturer, and had much the same idea. Ask your preferred bot, paste its answer in a DOC, turn on edit history, and correct it. Absolutely a strong way to demonstrate you understand the subtleties of the material.

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@stilgherrian Experience has trained me to take a cautiously negative view of things labeled so.

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 7mo ago

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@jwz@mastodon.social What I love about this is it's from the time before generative AI ... so all of that work is photoshop, not photoslop.

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 2mo ago

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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io Heh, reminds me of when we rolled at an IE7 tax, and my discounts calculating machinery didn't account for "negative discounts".

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 9mo ago

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@tante@tldr.nettime.org Wait.. wasn't there a browser that tried something like this about 20 years ago? Strip out everything and push them into plugins so the user could choose their own level of bloat? What was it called, again? Oh, right... Firefox.

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@quaap 🎶 But I was young and foolish then. I feel old and foolish now! 🎶

Lucky Ball & Chain / They Might Be Giants

#tmbg

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 7mo ago

Does anyone know of an editor like vscode, but it doesn't keep throwing pop-ups over top of where you're looking?

I know it's trying to be helpful, but this modern editor attitude of "anywhere you lay your mouse must trigger a context pop-up" is just infuriating.

#programming

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

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@luna or even as simple as "gives sallary range"

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

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@rygorous Reminds me of a story I read about the DEC Alpha engineers, who then turned to making the StrongARM. Essentially "every choice for performance", then "the opposite of everything we just did".

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 4mo ago

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@futzle@old.mermaid.town To be fair, only because of @freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems I've often advised people treat LLMs like "StackOverflow, but faster". You can't trust any results and should verify them, but often it'll give you a direction to follow.

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@daisy Where we find it saves the most coding time is with proofs of concept. We can rapidly stand up something that at least shows the concept is viable, or looks pretty to a client, before we knuckle down and do the real work.

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@blursedtexts@jorts.horse

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@HopelessDemigod We somehow had a 5MB brick attached to our Apple2, but the OS needed it partitioned into lots of little slices because it couldn't handle drives that large.

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 11mo ago

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@fastmail@mastodon.social Don't get me wrong -- I'm a big fan and very satisfied client. But the last thing I need is _yet_ _another_ browser install on my machine.

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@bitprophet @aburka Note that in my initial version of that pen, main was a div, so both inner boxes were green.

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@aburka @bitprophet https://codepen.io/editor/FunkyBob/pen/019d895a-3548-746e-a345-9938a489d56f

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@bitprophet Yeah, they leave Redux in test mode, too, so you can use the redux inspector on it :P

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@bitprophet Oh, look! Another rovo icon on my page! And another! Oh, and this one randomly suggests something to me? !!!!

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

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@yoasif@mastodon.social Indeed, that does look dramatically better than the last one I saw. Odd, whilst I did see it was announced as a feature under development, I never saw it in the release notes. Thanks for the heads up.

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

I've been telling myself for years the reason I don't migrate to #firefox is because it doesn't have a usable profile UI.

Though, the more and more I see of their governance and business model, perhaps I have a more persuasive reason now.

A new browser codebase can not come soon enough.

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 11mo ago

Replying to on mastodon.social

@fastmail@mastodon.social Why does this smell like "yet another massive Electron app"? Oh, and Linux apparently isn't _quite_ available yet :/

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

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@Unixbigot i think you may have overloaded their poor ol' ColdFusion server... it's not loading for me :(

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 10mo ago

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@tubetime something something beowulf cluster something

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 25mo ago

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@dave0@a2mi.social I've said this else where, it bears repeating. Nobody is working as hard as Google to break the world of the habit to say "just Google it!".

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

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@rygorous So many i860s! From one of those times intel took a risc...

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@stilgherrian In my head it's connected with the same people who unironically use "meritocracy" ... or make LinkedIn posts.

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 2mo ago

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@daisy@cloudisland.nz it's large in character :)

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io I mean, on the one hand if people are stupid enough to fall for it... ... but then, there's who it's enriching. ... and all the corruption.

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 6mo ago

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@yoasif@mastodon.social is the OOTB one even remotely as easy to discover and use as the one in Chromium?

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 8mo ago

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@halfpress@mastodon.social @LibrarianRA@worldkey.io @tankgrrl@hachyderm.io it doesn't half go on for a bit, eh?

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@philnash@mastodon.social The one that bugs me is in Slack Huddles that message makes the button bar shift up... so if you were going to press the "Unmute" button... nope, you just missed it!

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@bitprophet @aburka Yeah, all I can think of is: foo > * > * > bar

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 9mo ago

@pfmoore I figure there's no need to go any more complex than is helpful. Splitting your JS and CSS into separate files helps keep things orderly, and can benefit caching. If later it becomes useful to split your JS further, to make it easier to manage, do so; consider a sub directory - again, for your convenience, only. It's highly unlikely you'll scale to a point where splitting up files will make any significant performance difference, so make life easier on you, the maintainer.

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz @andrew@fedi.aeracode.org Yeah, bodies are weird.

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Funky Bob @FunkyBob@chaos.social

· 5mo ago

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@mike@social.chinwag.org More "frustration" than "existential threat"?

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