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I had a driver in a Ford F-150 do this in front of me last week as he pulled away from a light. The smoke totally blacked out the windshield for 5 seconds while I was in motion. I …

curl -s https://api.github.com/users/mitchellh | jq .id

I used this entire HN discussion as the input to a design/task SKILL.md. I asked Claude to prepare the design document and a task list. When it was done, I asked it to implement th…

I am not understanding this. Propane does not freeze anywhere near -60C. Wikipedia [1] says it freezes (liquid to solid) below -187C and boils (liquid to gas) above -42C. Propane i…

Ah, you have fallen for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa4VJobPBr4

This is really interesting, but I need the highlights reel. So I need a script to summarize Hacker News pages and/or arbitrary web pages. Maybe that's what I want for getting the j…

Your knowledge of the author of Pingoo makes you more likely to believe that he may have erred? This explanation gains strength for you given your knowledge of his character and pe…

I was about to call fake on this -- Americans from south Jersey are largely unfamiliar with the present perfect and would not say "[I] have never heard of" but "[I] never heard of"…

'Racoon', variant of 'raccoon'. Of course, I prefer the double-c variant because of the orthographic anomaly of the person who tends to the raccoons' area at the zoo, the raccoon-n…

I thought it was a peevish Kiwi joke about how people of other nations do not use words as they do.

Yeah, but there is a distinct advantage to using a standard. Suppose you want your agent to use postgres or git or even file modification. You write your code to use MCP and your b…

Came here to understand exactly this point. It made no sense to me that a document created in 1215 would have a copy made in 1300 that was referred to as an original.

Because those packages are cheating us.

Odd. When I look at it, the first item is my own suggestion for debugging: > In my experience, the most pernicious temptation is to take the buggy, non-working code you have now an…

Sort of like the first debugging tip here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682602

https://archive.is/IWQFv

I am not sure I believe the numbers shown here. More jobs offered in Rust than C++? I would not think so. I think that many of the hits on 'rust' in the job postings are actually '…

> This puzzler, like many other difficult-to-spell food terms (such as hors d’oeuvre), also has its derivation in the French language. That's the whole story: people who don't know…

And owns the eatery, Restaurants Near Me.

> When 99.9% of posted jobs are fake (including in HN's Who's Hiring) Okay there a lot of fake jobs, maybe not as high as 99.9%, though. But what's the basis for saying that "Who's…

Your JSON schema says this: ``` "location": "City, State", ... "workField": "Industry Field" ``` But: `location` can be an array: ``` "name": "Shopify", "location": ["Ottawa, ON", …

This scientific-academic synopsis gives me only the faintest idea of what kind of animal this might be: > A new supergiant species of Bathynomus A. Milne-Edwards, 1879 from Vietnam…

He is currently a naturalized American citizen. For him to lose that status, he would have to be stripped of it by a legal process, commonly called denaturalization. [0] It is not …

He's an American because he got naturalized citizenship. According to the State Department and the Supreme Court, at a minimum, he qualifies as an American.

This is exactly what I do: I put my test file outside the git repo's tree. This does not introduce any complications to testing and is minimally annoying.