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Recently they also seem to have made big changes that makes Cursor worse for editing code by hand. I'm not sure what they are trying to do, but it doesn't feel like vscode fork any…

For many people it's still compelling and not "a concept". If you're looking for the cheapest phone with most performant CPU, RAM etc. (relative to price), then you're probably not…

Uh, Fairphone does have compelling products?

> I don't need e2ee for group messages and it brings too much complexity with it. E2EE is not mandatory and public rooms don't usually use it.

Don't bigger companies also often benefit from scale in multiple ways so it gets harder and harder for newcomers to compete? And if a newcomer does manage to get a foothold, it mig…

And at least in Chromium project, half of those memory safety issues are use-after-free: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...

Personally, I haven't had any serious leaks that I know of so I've mostly suffered from increased spam and scam attempts (I know they were a result of a leak). One time there was a…

The paper actually says: "We find that all context files consistently increase the number of steps required to complete tasks. LLM-generated context files have a marginal negative …

For large changes that are not straightforward and include architectural decisions, I wouldn't trust Claude enough to not read most of the code myself. I'll have to read it to be a…

Yeah, I shouldn't have mentioned C++, it was a bad example.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding something but non-GC language doesn't mean you have to do memory management manually? I mean, for example, in Rust (or modern C++), it's basically automa…

I don't think that's it

If not using any esoteric features, it's more human readable (imo), easier to write, can have comments and has some useful features like different kind of multi-line values. JSON i…

Can you elaborate a bit on how that looks like in practice?

> It’s really sad to see how quickly Hacker News, of all places, is jumping head first into welcoming age restrictions and bans with barely a passing thought to what it means. I'd …

1. The pipeline is simple to split or cut entirely, though. No reason to grow it into a monstrosity, but many reasons to not do it. This problem sounds similar to growing a functio…

> Yeah, it’s more lines. But each step is just sitting there. No decoding required. I actually think the first code block is easier to read. It's a familiar (to me) and simple patt…

> Especially small and independent artists should absolutely avoid any software that introduces additional risk of project failure as one such crash scenario at an advanced project…

Any idea if ESD can damage the monitor over time?

I actually have been lucky since even my laptop from 15 years ago already worked well with Linux and suspend while Windows didn't (wasn't OEM Windows anymore). I have also had mult…

> Desktop Linux is not useless, but it is really just sub-par compared to Windows. Each to their own. My experience is the opposite (I use KDE). I have to use Windows at work and i…

You'll have to be more specific what kind of "privacy claims" you're talking about. Proton is definitely a lot more private than, say, Google. But, as always, you'll have to trust …

And then everyone disagrees what counts as luxury in software.

Hey, me too! I do touch typing with home row and tried using mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Brown switches, but eventually switched to scissor switches. I like them for the sam…

I get your point that plastics are relatively inert and may not cause noticeable harm (depending on quantity?), but I think it'd be wise to be cautious. See for example https://en.…