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jelder

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    Electricians, sure, but carpenters? I figured these buildings always had steel frames.

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    Comment #49100364

    This doesn't seem like a niche that isn't filled. Am I missing out on something by still just using iTerm2 and tmux?

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    Comment #49021750

    Simple Network Management Protocol Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Sometimes I think the RFC editors are trolling us.

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    Comment #48985144

    This sounds an awful lot like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip , which has been illegal for a long time and for good reason.

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    Comment #48844547

    > This is not bad luck. It’s a structure. Either AI wrote this, or the author thinks this is what humans sound like now.

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    Comment #48821304

    Pour one out for anyone who hoped to start a new brand.

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    Comment #48804476

    Is laser printing more feasible? I've had the same Brother black & white laser for almost a decade and it's more than adequate for everything I do. If I ever need color, I send it …

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    Comment #48613788

    Untrue since the introduction of zstd support in PostgreSQL 15.

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    Comment #48360496

    > If you encountered a cheetah in pre-industrial times (and survived the meeting), you might think it was impossible for anything to go faster. Fun fact, there is no historical evi…

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    Comment #48178226

    LSPs are already miles better than grep-like tools. This was true for humans as much as it is for LLMs. It's a shame that Claude still treats it as a second-class citizen (both in …

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    Comment #48108290

    There's a huge difference between a program which can be verified as correct by static analysis, and a program which can only be verified as correct by running it. Python is the la…

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    Comment #47529424

    Who goes out of their way to “star” a GitHub repo, and what does that even mean? Is it a “like” button, a tip jar, or a bookmark? Does this bare any relationship to the importance,…

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    Comment #47466505

    We did this with MotherDuck, and without introducing a new language. Every tenant has their own isolated storage and compute, so it’s trivial to grant internal users access to spec…

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    Comment #47152291

    It would be a shame if somebody modified this to trigger Bluetooth and Wi-Fi deauthentication attacks.

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    Comment #47124591

    DuckDB had the right idea: just allow some flexibility in the relative order of the `select` and `from` clauses, and make a few other concessions for ergonomics. This then becomes …

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    Comment #46949841

    You can't trust a product that uses ads, because then you are the product.

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    Comment #46912391

    If you were to rank all of the C compilers in the world and then rank all of the welfare systems in the world, this vibe-coded mess would be at approximately the same rank as the A…

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    Comment #46737065

    Couldn't coding agents just run `tail -f *`?

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    Comment #46526131

    Indie games don’t have a budget for playtesting, but they can probably swing a GA account.

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    Comment #46520601

    I just today realized io_uring is meant to be read as "I.O.U. Ring" which perfectly describes how it works.

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    Comment #46517663

    eTAXI is just one such solution https://www.safran-group.com/videos/e-taxi-safran-unveils-it...

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    Comment #46517623

    > You’re already flying this route with a 300-seat plane where 80+ people in business class generate most of your profit. Give those passengers a supersonic plane, cut the flight t…

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    Comment #46350120

    Haven’t seen a loading progress spinner on a landing page in a while. The Ruby website now loads almost as slowly as Ruby on Rails boots up.

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    Comment #46295638

    “Most people” is not even remotely accurate.