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I think I have permanently broken my mental model of the clipboard. I’m always alternating between Linux, Mac and Windows and muscle memory invariably causes me to do the wrong key…

While I never posted much to Stackoverflow I have fond memories of it as a sole developer, finding other people with similar issues and the quality solutions offered that often got…

I kind of like the uppercase keywords of older programming languages, it makes the non-code parts standout more, probably even more important before syntax highlighting became comm…

>you can probably keep playing it until Gabe Newell dies I remember Valve talking about the concern that if anything happens to Valve they have some contingency that basically rele…

I agree Asimov's laws are intentionally flawed/ambiguous (which makes the stories so good) but a slight difference to LLMs is the laws aren't just software, the positronic brain is…

This comment made me feel better about my woeful track record with nethack

Wow, I’m making this my homepage.

>As this new kind of writing draws readers away from traditional media, we should be prepared for whatever PR mutates into to compensate. When I think how hard PR firms work to sco…

I used Mercurial before switching to git. The positive difference from switching was how branches worked. I don’t know the technical details but branches on git felt “lighter” to u…

What’s the issue with homebrew?

This seems like such a tricky problem. There was a no-ai camera posted here recently which verified the photos were genuinely taken on the device. It was pointed out someone could …

GOP

Once I realised I rarely read my notes, I now put them in a single note and prepend it when I add something new. It’s weird but I think the value I get from notes is in the writing…

> Jukedeck – create unique, royalty-free music for your videos using A.I. Aquired by TikTok in 2019 for an undisclosed sum.

At last, extension properties in C#. I’ve been waiting for these for years.

What eventually tipped your boss off? Was it the smile issue?

Can any Helix users share how the muscle memory from vim is working out? I’d really like to give it a go but I’m worried I’ll pollute my memory of basic vim commands. I’m bad enoug…

I decided to try this: > sample a random number from 1 to 10 > ChatGPT: Here’s a random number between 1 and 10: 7 > again > ChatGPT: Your random number is: 3

I run into this a lot when working with legacy code. The first reaction most teams have is to mock it, not understand it.