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fastily

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    Comment #48790882

    I’m reasonably certain GP is (humorously) trolling us

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    Comment #48406292

    Yup the readme reeks of llm generated fluff. Lately I find myself getting more and more suspicious whenever I see lots of emojis in markdown headers..

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    Comment #48144537

    Source? Been googling for this but I don’t see any relevant info

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    Comment #48003734

    Ive installed the gtar formula and aliased it to tar. Cant be bothered to memorize the differences between macOS tar and unix tar, especially when the latter is considered to be th…

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    Comment #47803179

    Would you happen to have a link to this? For science of course :)

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    Comment #47538021

    It’s already getting hate: [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/304953 [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79914612/how-can-i-resto...

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    Comment #47527307

    This has been ongoing for some time. I’ve raised valid issues in several encode projects and received rude/dismissive comments from this individual. I’ve reviewed their recent inte…

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    Comment #47045698

    If component prices keep going up and the respective monopoly/duopoly/triopoly for each component colludes to keep prices high/supply constrained, then eventually devices will beco…

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    Comment #46970383

    Yup that’s why I suggested it. The vsdx schema is notably complex and I don’t see a lot of code examples in the wild. I seriously doubt an llm would be able to output working code …

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    Comment #46970030

    Would be more impressive if this was done for something obscure like Microsoft Visio. Theres countless oss ms word editors/libs Claude probably ripped off

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    Comment #45973325

    Citation needed. I know folks using the free plan that have gotten ddos’d and cloudflare kept them online. Can you point me to an article where cloudflare disconnected someone for …

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    Comment #45910718

    I do something similar. I bootstrap all my new installs with brew cask https://github.com/fastily/autobots/tree/master/macOS/setup

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    Ask HN: Windows/Linux software that has no real equivalent on macOS?

    Asking about productivity software and not video games. I’m curious about any niches that are underserved and/or have no real alternatives

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    Comment #45853213

    > They know that with enough reports in a short period of time they can get the content removed for a while This can be accomplished with bogus dmca notices too. Since google gets …

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    Comment #45840093

    There’s also hummingbird: https://github.com/hummingbird-project/hummingbird

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    Comment #45805797

    Personally I gave up a long time ago and just installed Debian Linux. But it’s wild to me that the average non-technical/casual windows user has to put up with so much bs… it’s an …

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    Comment #45793902

    I’m using steam on Ubuntu 24.04 with 9y old hardware (which was mid-tier when new), playing mostly 2d platformer games and older resident evil titles. Never had any issues, this se…

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    Comment #45701137

    There’s already a free self-hosted version of this that’s significantly more capable: https://github.com/C4illin/ConvertX . Not sure what your path to profitability is here but you…

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    Comment #45191729

    It’s just another tool in the downsizing toolbox. Also traditional layoffs and RTO “layoffs” don’t have to be mutually exclusive, both can easily occur at the same time

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    Comment #44565961

    the curse of bgp strikes again

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