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Yhippa

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About Yhippa

https://yhippa.github.io/

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    Comment #49184180

    After a bad day of work I've noticed that driving a manual transmission car helps me from stewing about it as opposed to driving an automatic where my mind can wander more often.

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    Comment #49054532

    I recently vibe-coded an app in Codex and it has nearly the exact same style.

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    Comment #48995936

    Clearly vibe-coded. Cool idea though. I can see what was leveraged from the Wikipedia data set. Side question: why does Claude prefer dark backgrounds with low-contrast text?

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    Comment #48781055

    > This is not a spending problem. Families spend less on clothing, food, and appliances than a generation ago, adjusted for inflation. [19] The increase is entirely in fixed, non-d…

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    Comment #48547068

    This post resonates with me. I remember in Kindergarten getting my very first life experience with computing tech: grounding myself by touching the bottom screws of a Apple IIe. I'…

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    Comment #48547030

    > but on a more tired or rushed day This has nearly gotten me before, and I got lucky.

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    Comment #48536330

    If you draft Tom Brady in the sixth round, you can win seven Super Bowls.

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    Comment #48498129

    > Makes bank for 9 years > Quits > Takes the moral high ground on the way out despite highly profiting from all the things he's decrying Pretty nice life if you ask me.

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    Comment #48399256

    They had some cool form factors too. I remember I had one of the phones with a landscape slide-out physical keyboard.

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    Comment #48399239

    Way more fun than JaCoCo (which I actually like): https://www.eclemma.org/jacoco/

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    Comment #48337505

    An equally rude and aggressive response.

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    Comment #48304319

    At this point you can abstract what you wrote to any kind of task. I'm seeing people generate multiple takes on one concrete topic, poop out all kinds of artifacts, and keep emitti…

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    Comment #48171022

    Kids aren't allowed to play at the playground unsupervised or walk around anywhere by themselves. Cars are all now 4,000 pounds, have terrible sight lines and are lifeless. I don't…

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    Comment #48170980

    Wasn't this the same thing when enterprises started using cloud computing? Did the bomb explode for them?

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    Comment #48136162

    I didn't grow up in Canada, but I miss these days where the universe of knowledge about computer tech and hardware wasn't impossibly large. It was possible to meet with people in m…

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    Comment #48121720

    I'm curious to know how this will work in practice. I have tried multiple times for Gemini to take a look at what's on my screen on my Android device and create a Google Calendar e…

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    Comment #48110621

    The first time I soldered, it was for a job interview to work for a professor building gastric pacemakers after university graduation. My eyes were still sharp so it was actually k…

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    Comment #48058567

    Is it a requirement in Hawaii because of the generally high prices of everything there?

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    Comment #47940835

    Just ask Claude and some agents to fix it...

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    Comment #47724667

    As I'm typing on mine right now, I wonder why they made these so sharp. It hasn't cut me yet, but they are decidedly uncomfortable.

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    Comment #47627891

    Your first link...I miss portals so much. Rip ig.

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    Comment #47627874

    > I would be careful with calling that kind of design function over style. Why?

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    Comment #47570186

    This reminds me. Google Reader had comments enabled from your friends on posts you shared. This was the best form of social media I have ever experienced.

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    Comment #47507518

    "Alternative Terms" was the giveaway.

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    Comment #47469317

    > He invested a lot of his own life on a promise that didn't pan out Whose fault is that?