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Also, not just followers. There’s a kinda “merchant” behaviour too I think … signalling and trading in hype perspectives. But to be fair, I’m not sure what the average dev/eng is s…

Indeed, likely a useful lens on the current moment I’d say. For better/worse, and whether completely so or not, the time of the professional keyboard-driven mechanical logic proble…

How do people find these trackpads? I’ve seen them or at least similar in the Kyria at al keyboards[0] and am intrigued but suspicious too. [0] https://splitkb.com/collections/keyb…

I resonate. For me I’m vaguely but persistently thinking about a career change, wondering if I can find something of more tangible “real world” value. An essential basis of which b…

Agreed. And I feel it fair to argue that this is the intended interface between proprietary software and its users, categorically. And more so with AI software/tools, and IMO frigh…

Salient quote under the “AI” question in the FAQ: > we aim for a computing system that is fully visible and understandable top-to-bottom — as simple, transparent, trustable, and no…

Hmmm … my beginner’s rust is getting too rusty. Is this valid rust (it’d be new to me)?! If not, I’m guessing, from memory, the only way at this in rust is to through traits?

Agreed! The only silver lining I can see is that a new perspective may be forced on how well or badly we’ve facilitated learning, usability, generally navigating pain points and ma…

Rings true for my impression too. In the end, she’s a YouTuber now, for better or worse, but still puts out what look like thoughtful and informative enough videos, whatever person…

> Ironically, the best answer to many of the article's suggestions (thousands rather than millions, easy to modify, etc.) is to write your own software with LLMs. Not sure exactly …

This, for me, has been the question since the beginning. I’m yet to see anyone talk/think about the issue head on too. And whenever I’ve asked someone about it, they’ve not had any…

> I have no idea why you’d want to do that. Browsers are bad at it, dedicated tools are great at it. Fair! I was just aspiring to a place where web pages and documents converge mor…

Are there good deep dives on how far you can practically this? Especially in combination with headless browser pdf generation? Last time I looked into it, a while ago, my impressio…

Yea. Having intentionally stayed away from going down the PDF rabbit hole, but now confronting it again recently … what’s the deal with how sparsely populated the space is with sol…

Certain corners of the world have absolutely cared about and employed the proper use of all the “dashes” well before but all the way up to 2022. I’d imagine LLMs have just consumed…

Ha, yes. But in HN’s defence, I think HN is not willing and capable of correcting toward narrowness when needed than SO is the other way.

In the abstract this is an excessive take. The point is that trust is a major component of scientific work and how it functions collectively. A effect being that when that is viola…

I feel like the new kinda-alternative on the rise is to support federation with either ActivityPub, BlueSky/ATProto or both. That is, instead of going for search engines, go for op…

So I’m completely out of the loop on the whole de-googling your Android phone thing. How workable is it today and how well would it work on a phone like this?

> 1. Always sad for me to know how much popular are wireless chargers, wasting 47% more energy aprox for charging the same as a wired charger. Lots of sibling replies pointing out …

The idea of GPT or code generators supplanting the need for libraries and languages with large standard libraries is likely jumping ahead with optimism. But … I think the idea is r…

This is where I landed. CLI for power user mode.

Really hope details come about this with all perspectives being provided. Whether they stuffed up or there are some details that made the situation unworkable for the board, it’s a…

> it's hard to imagine a line between "it is possible to build a computer capable of computing " and "it is expensive, on the scale of reasonably-advanced civilizations, to build a…

> If it is possible that to make a simulation which matches our experience, then it is likely possible to make an unbounded number of such simulations. Why? This seems to me to be …