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  • How do you beat post-work floppiness?

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  • It's quite insidious, and tbh there's only so much you can do to control how you feel after work. Instead of hoping to feel good every day, I try and set myself up for success on random days where I do leave work with energy.

    In my case this means I have 1 or 2 braindead-easy dinners waiting in the wings. Good leftovers I can reheat in the oven, or a meal that takes 2 steps to prepare. If I don't have to worry about cooking dinner, then I have that much more time to dedicate to a hobby when the fancy strikes me.

  • Some of you guys haven't used luarocks and it shows

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  • I once got assigned a work project to add new functionality to the web service of a recently-acquired company.

    The meat of their codebase was a single lua file to handle web requests, query value from Redis, and then progressively filter out items in a loop. Of course, because Lua has no continue statement, the file was a long series of if / else blocks. It was clear that the development style was to just keep adding new things to the loop. There were, of course, no tests.

    I asked the former CTO of the acquired company (now in a sales) why they went with Lua. His reply was something about how if Lua is good enough for fintech, it should be great for web services. He must have been good in the sales role, because when I learned how much our company paid to acquire this crappy Lua script, my jaw dropped.

    Anyway, that's all to say that in my sample size of 1, Luarocks has been the least painful part of Lua.

  • What the fuck is a gentoo?

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  • What I'm getting at is that for people using FDE, any performance hit is worth it compared to worrying that you've covered every angle.

  • What the fuck is a gentoo?

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  • Suppose you're in some hypothetical country where torrenting is illegal. The presence of /usr/bin/qbittorrent on your disk could be enough to face charges. Unencrypted /var/log? Maybe they can see you've been running a cryptocurrency miner. There could be plenty of data outside of $HOME on your computer which a cop might try to use against you.

    In the most paranoid hypothetical scenario, someone could mount your unencrypted /usr/bin and replace openssl with a compromised version.

  • My hot take on the official pronunciation of GNOME

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  • Hey, not everyone was born to be a king.

  • Antiviruses?

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  • I wouldn't think so. Isn't bottles just an easier way to manage wine prefixes? If so, it doesn't do anything to hide your Linux system from the executable.

    Wine prefixes are not sandboxes. They are a way to separate the windows-level configuration for different programs (eg env vars, or drivers, etc).

    Wine is a translation layer between a compiled windows binary and your Linux syscalls/libraries/device drivers/etc, nothing more.

  • Antiviruses?

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  • Wine is not an emulator. It's not sandboxed either. If you can do it as a user, a program running in wine can do it too.

    There's nothing stopping a piece of malware from crawling your disk for sensitive information, or encrypting your files for ransom.

  • What is your favorite version of FTL in science fiction?

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  • I think it's called Shobie Story. It's part of Fisherman on an Inland Sea.

  • What is your favorite version of FTL in science fiction?

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  • I enjoyed reading Ursula Le Guin's stories about instantaneous travel.

    The process of instantaneous travel is so bizarre and unexplainable that every crew member experiences it differently. Some people think they haven't gone anywhere, some people think they're on the other side of the universe, and some people think the ship has disintegrated around them.

    The only way for the process to succeed is for the entire crew to agree on a shared reality. It has the effect of making FTL travel a dangerous thing that requires training and planning. You can't hop on a ship with random people and expect to survive. Everyone has to train together to really trust each other's perception and experiences.

  • High altitude issue with Bodum electric kettle, getting meh brew

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  • I checked a couple of reviews, and one of them mentioned they measured the temp at 212°F. Definitely sounds like something funky could be going on with yours.

  • High altitude issue with Bodum electric kettle, getting meh brew

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  • Is it under warranty? I'd send it back and/or ask for a refund. If there is any spec that mentions what temperature the kettle is supposed to reach, I'd point to that when asking for the refund/replacement.

  • What's a readability

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  • Gary should learn about Lazy

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    and stop reinventing the wheel.

    I put blame on any of his senior coworkers who didn't use this as a teaching opportunity during PR.

  • 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using

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  • The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home.

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  • Office parks in the middle of nowhere suck. You're never going to be close to everyone, employees can't walk somewhere for a change of scenery or to take a break, and being away from downtown means public transit is less likely to reach the area.

    I'm all for letting people pick a coworking space if they want, but making people commute to the suburbs is a different kind of hell.

  • What's the worst change made in a movie adaptation of a book?

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  • I read somewhere that this is basically Max Brooks' take on the film.

    Something about breathing a sigh of relief when he read the script, because it was such a distinct story that there was nothing left of his book to be butchered.

  • You're drunk at the arcade while your husband plays dancing games. What do you do while you wait?

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  • OK, you have a point on Godzilla, that machine is pretty fun. I also enjoyed playing John Wick despite my prejudice.

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    If AI “hallucinates,” doesn’t that make it more human than we admit?

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  • AI doesn't make things up: It "believes" (doesn't actually have belief) a real thing just as much as a false thing. The two are indistinguishable to LLMs because the only "true" thing for a chatbot is the existence of text and tokens. Everything else is meaningless to the math.

    Does my sewer pipe have imagination because is spewed black goop across my kitchen instead of carrying my waste water away like it normally does? Is my TV hallucinating a new show because the screen got damaged at the factory? Did a printing press create art when it smudged the text on my paperback?

    LLMs are tools with a high defect rate which tech billionaires and the media branded as hallucintation to sound more impressive.

  • You're drunk at the arcade while your husband plays dancing games. What do you do while you wait?

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  • Yeah. Stern is one of the few companies making new tables, and the stuff they produce these days is all about making an account and tracking your games with QR codes. They even have a few where there is a kind of meta-game that you play across multiple rounds. Not really my thing.

    A friend of mine got a summer job working a pinball joint, so I've learned to appreciate the game a lot more recently. Helps to have an inside person giving me free plays.

  • You're drunk at the arcade while your husband plays dancing games. What do you do while you wait?

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  • As long as there's one machine that's not Sternslop

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    Blog post where someone used Python quirks to evaluate false == true

  • Coffee @lemmy.world
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    Espresso shot pullers: How long does your method take?

  • Experienced Devs @programming.dev
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    Update on my last post

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Appropriate settings for a private matrix server

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    If you got accidentally duplicated, do you think your copy would try and kill you?

  • Experienced Devs @programming.dev
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    Our tooling saps my will to work