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If v4 is a ground-up rewrite, I'm not sure it deserves to inherit the community's trust in the previous version.

Twenty years, but apparently no screenshots. How can they be serious about making a graphical operating system with no screenshots anywhere on their web site?

If you're building a RSS reader, you'd probably want to process the data and store all relevant fields as columns for storage. Not much point to storing the XML. Entries in feeds s…

Claude Code was writing one-off details (specific to one task) as memories, so I instructed it that memories require explicit approval before writing, and that seems to work reason…

Fable might be using those phrases less, but its writing is still terrible and exhausting to read.

Are there no property taxes in the US? And how do you know if the price is reasonable without knowing its relationship to the property size?

Pretty sure you're responding to someone talking about game development.

I’m not sure if resets require that much compute, maybe a few whales will use the service a bit more right after a reset. What matters more is the money, as they’re giving away fre…

I haven't received any AI spam. You don't need an LLM to spam people. Good spam filters should be enough to get rid of spam without annoying people who email you.

The author has supposedly created a company ( https://sf.tools/ ), with a broken /jobs page, and yet is developing the project under their personal GitHub account. Does not look tr…

On the first screen, the only "rewriting" done was s/dataroom/Room/g.

> Stewart Butterfield has talked about the pressure Slack faced from large organizations in its early days wanting features that would have fundamentally changed what Slack was. Th…

https://hackaday.com/2023/08/29/polish-railways-fall-victim-... tl;dr: Trains can be stopped by a transmitting a simple, documented tone sequence over analog radio.

The short version is, the DOS-era Japanese character sets had replaced \ with ¥, and modern Windows still shows paths as C:¥WINDOWS if you're using the Japanese locale.

But they do see / or : in file names, and the interesting question is which one it is today on which filesystem.

You need a separate UI to handle things like entering the file name and filtering for appropriate files. Windows was designed so that the same file browser component is used in the…

Can we stop this stupid trend to generate prose using LLMs?

First DuckDuckGo result for "windows s mode": https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/switching-out-of...

> Packaging can be irritating although uv takes the sting out a bit. uv proves the OP’s point. Why couldn’t the core team and the core-adjacent PyPA make a tool as liked as uv, and…

The standard library is full of dead batteries. If the stdlib is so good, why does everyone install requests instead of using the stdlib http client? And why requests or something …

IEEE Spectrum is one of the many things that is always high on the HN front page, but is never worth reading.

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Let’s look at the Git history: https://github.com/jdevalk/specification.website/commits/mai... Yeah, mostly slop. I wonder why the slop slingers never disable Claude's self-attribu…

Google barely maintains Blogger, and people have old blogs with old templates they never felt the need to change.

Taking notes in class is akin to making a transcript of what the teacher said in class so you can remember and refer to what was said in class. The encyclical is a written document…