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I think I have permanently broken my mental model of the clipboard. I’m always alternating between Linux, Mac and Windows and muscle memory invariably causes me to do the wrong key combo for the OS/app I’m using. Throw in clipboard sync/history tools etc which aren’t always reliable, I regularly paste and either nothing happens or it’s a previous copy of something. It sounds like a small thing but it’s maddening and mostly my own fault.

While I never posted much to Stackoverflow I have fond memories of it as a sole developer, finding other people with similar issues and the quality solutions offered that often got me out of a jam.

I kind of like the uppercase keywords of older programming languages, it makes the non-code parts standout more, probably even more important before syntax highlighting became common

you can probably keep playing it until Gabe Newell dies

I remember Valve talking about the concern that if anything happens to Valve they have some contingency that basically releases your whole library to you without Steam DRM/etc.

I agree Asimov's laws are intentionally flawed/ambiguous (which makes the stories so good) but a slight difference to LLMs is the laws aren't just software, the positronic brain is physically structured in such a way (I'm hazy on the details) that violating the laws causes the robot to shutdown or experience paralysing anxiety. So if an LLM's safety rules fail or are subverted it can still generate dangerous output, while an Asimov robot will stop working (or go insane...)

This comment made me feel better about my woeful track record with nethack

Wow, I’m making this my homepage.

As this new kind of writing draws readers away from traditional media, we should be prepared for whatever PR mutates into to compensate. When I think how hard PR firms work to score press hits in the traditional media, I can't imagine they'll work any less hard to feed stories to bloggers, if they can figure out how.

I think it's safe to say they figured it out.

I used Mercurial before switching to git. The positive difference from switching was how branches worked. I don’t know the technical details but branches on git felt “lighter” to use and maintain than with Mercurial.

What’s the issue with homebrew?

This seems like such a tricky problem. There was a no-ai camera posted here recently which verified the photos were genuinely taken on the device. It was pointed out someone could photograph an ai image via the camera to produce a verified image.

Maybe it needs to be similar to SSL certificates where trusted authorities can verify and revoke verification for digital assets.

GOP

Once I realised I rarely read my notes, I now put them in a single note and prepend it when I add something new. It’s weird but I think the value I get from notes is in the writing of them, it’s a way of thinking rather than for recall.

Jukedeck – create unique, royalty-free music for your videos using A.I.

Aquired by TikTok in 2019 for an undisclosed sum.

At last, extension properties in C#. I’ve been waiting for these for years.

What eventually tipped your boss off? Was it the smile issue?

Can any Helix users share how the muscle memory from vim is working out? I’d really like to give it a go but I’m worried I’ll pollute my memory of basic vim commands. I’m bad enough remembering cut/copy/paste keyboard shortcuts in different OS/applications.

I decided to try this:

sample a random number from 1 to 10

ChatGPT: Here’s a random number between 1 and 10: 7

again

ChatGPT: Your random number is: 3

I run into this a lot when working with legacy code. The first reaction most teams have is to mock it, not understand it.

The whole skin economy around CS has gotten way out of hand. It’s less about the game and more about speculation and gambling at this point.