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“That’s real, and it’s interesting.” Stop with the slop.

Yeah, NeXTSTEP is notoriously a locked-down, untweakable OS. It's not like anyone was able to use it to program anything of consequence.

We don’t need aggregators like HN pitching AI-authored content, no matter how pedagogically sound. We can direct our own AIs to generate our own AI-authored content.

Almost nobody has DNSSEC enabled. Against DNSSEC: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/

Stop posting slop.

How about for wmv in Path(sys.argv[1]).rglob("\*.wmv"): print(wmv, end=" ") r = subprocess.run( ["ffmpeg", "-i", wmv, wmv.with_suffix(".mpg")], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subpr…

We're not talking about Nazis though, are we? We're talking about well over two billion people (possibly more than six billion if it extends beyond Christianity). Your prejudice ag…

I am an atheist. There's no desperation and no casting here. I am just pointing out objective facts. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bigotry > stubborn and complete intolerance o…

1. There is no religious affiliation for this project, official or otherwise. It is not “religious software.” The project founder is a Christian, that’s all. 2. You clearly are big…

I don’t know, wouldn’t you be pissed if you tried to search your browser history for “gay” and nothing was found? After all, that’s the threat model you’re proposing that you’re wo…

Good luck! It’s the most widely-deployed database software by far. I’m sure you have hundreds or thousands of SQLite files among devices you own. https://sqlite.org/mostdeployed.ht…

The source code is in the public domain. You can inspect it, fork it, and redistribute it as you like. Nothing is being shoved down anyone’s throat.

“No one is required to follow The Rule, to know The Rule, or even to think that The Rule is a good idea. The Founder of SQLite believes that anyone who follows The Rule will live a…

As the first section notes, the only reason they posted this is to fulfill a checklist requirement for certain commercial users. The external requirement for a code of conduct, whi…

Hetzner astroturf?

Engineers that didn't move past src.v35.final.zip version control don't really have jobs today, either.

He absolutely is.

You're trying to turn flexibility and the ability to adapt to new circumstances into a vice. You're wrong. It's a virtue.

I don’t think you’ve actually used any of these tools. 10 different examples in the same session would almost certainly make them perform worse.

You don't need a special feature for this. Just tell the coding assistant what to do.

You should try using the existing agents for your semi-manual editing. You don't need editor support. The coding agent can find "things like this" faster than you can. Just tell it…

> But ultimately, the only situation in which LLMs could meaningfully democratize access to software development is one where they achieve a true silver bullet, by significantly re…

Podcasts (and video) are very low-throughput, low-density information channels. Essays and articles are superior. To demonstrate this, you can just compare the transcript of a typi…