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100% agreed. Once you get over the hump of "I don't need to be notified of everything" and start pairing down the notifications, I find that most of the time I can put my phone dow…

Because the whole goal is not to help us . It’s to train their AI models. You hate it and then fix it. AI gets “better”.

I mean, they do go well together.

As a Sicilian and university computer science lecturer, I can say that hand gestures are my primary way of communicating concepts. So much so that the old joke holds true. How do y…

Wow. Did not expect this when I logged in to HN today. It's 1998 all over again for me. :)

Seriously, this. More calculators need RPN. It’s the reason I keep my HP 50G in as pristine condition as possible. If this had RPN, I’d likely purchase one. Without, it’s a pass.

I use TLPI as an optional text for my CS Operating Systems course! It's honestly the best resource for a comprehensive look at the innards of Linux. I actually even snip select pag…

I count myself among this group. I actually emailed Adams sometime around 1999 or so to ask him a question about a game that I thought was his. Turns out, the game was included in …

Thankfully, it plays nicely on iOS and Android under ScummVM!

Just tested Soundcloud with a PWA using iOS Safari and Private Relay enabled. It works fine, albeit a few annoying popups asking to download the app.

Yes, but that happens to be the mainframe version. They are a bit different.

MDL, actually, which was derived from LISP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDL_(programming_language)

Also, part of the idea is discovery through linked high-quality sites. Like the webrings of the 1990s. You find a capsule you like and discover others through that person's links.

I've had a Gemini Capsule (what Gemini calls a 'website/blog' since about 2021. It gets very little traffic, but it's fun to have. Browsing the smallweb is nice in the evenings whe…

> I would be immensely skeptical of this unless he was talking about something much more narrow, like how there's a fraction of people who have really unfortunate genetics and can …

I teach CS at a state university, specifically computer security. At the beginning of this semester, I did a poll of my students and asked if they use any form of ad-blocking. Less…

I think the conclusion of this article is slightly flawed. The issue isn't with engagement with the training (although, the typical corporate training material is pretty bad), rath…

I’m pretty sure that Gopher was only “Green on Black” because many of the terminals used to display them (ie. DEC’s VT220) used green phosphors. If you had a white phosphor termina…

AFAIK, the MLB.tv subscription includes full audio for every game, including in-market games. My understanding of the issue is that MLB sold off the TV rights to local games years …