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The thing is now the average Joe doesn't need to. Just tell Claude to fix it

Feels like my scroll is hallucinating

Yep, or the hose that was being used to water the playing field. Ah the sweet taste of pfas on a hot summers day

There are some corn/rice pastas that are pretty close to the real deal. Sure a seasoned pasta officianado could tell the difference, but we have gluten intolerant in the house so p…

I remember flying in the 80s (and early nineties in parts of Europe) and always got 'air-sick' which made flying awful. Only after smoking was banned did I realise I wasn't motion …

Apparently glm5.1 and qwen coder latest is as good as opus 4.6 on benchmarks. So I tried both seriously for a week (glm Pro using CC) and qwen using qwen companion. Thought I could…

It reads as a stream of thought. I quite enjoyed it. He can't get his kids off the computer, are they gaming? Or on Facebook (unlikely given their ages). Sounds like the alternativ…

Since this accepts all marine, freshwater and sky animals (birds) also this could take a very long time. For a bit more of a challenge in a shorter time list all animals starting w…

What are devs using to run Gemini agents in vscode? 2.5pro on Cline/Roo was pretty buggy compared to Claude/gpt4/5 (also using Cline /roo), kept getting stuck in loops outputting r…

And many irreplaceable ships will be sitting ducks for mid range missiles

Not just nickel and diming with cars, in Germany/Switzerland/Austria you have to pay to use toilets in service stations, showers in campsites (2min hot water per payment) and dozen…

I've never used bread as a yogurt starter, but I have used yogurt to kickoff a starter to bake sourdough bread. Takes a few days before the starter starts growing nicely but makes …

And the many keen HN readers down in South Africa! (also CET)

Needed a new SIM in the UK recently so ordered a pay as you go one from Vodafone. Discovered to my horror that the new payg 'plus' can only be used with an app (that's locked to UK…

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Back in 2015 I walked 2 miles to a bowling alley tagged on Google maps (in Northwich, England) with my then gf...imagine our surprise when we walked in to a steamy front room and r…

Also Cape Town is a city in South Africa..no idea where Capetown is

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Toy's R Us 'R' still in most the big malls in South Africa. Was dragged around just the other day. Haven't changed much since the 80s/90s

I have 20 hens and 2 roosters (living in a country village where neighbours like the authentic rural vibes) I buy 50kg of feed every 6 weeks for (equivalent)$23. Outside of winter …

I have a sunsynk inverter which is the same hardware as deye but apparently different software. I have it hooked up to a Pi4b running home assistant using this https://github.com/k…

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