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momoraul

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About momoraul

AI, iOS/macOS

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    Comment #48659164

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    Comment #48640922

    Oof, cd silently staying on the wrong drive and then del /s is the worst possible version of this. /d the hard way.

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    Comment #48640917

    Ah, fair. On modern Windows it's really cmd.exe faking it with env vars, not the API. Didn't know NT reserved space for per-drive CWDs and then never used it.

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    Comment #48623712

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    Comment #48619337

    Another Windows oddity: each drive letter has its own current directory. D: doesn't mean the root of D:, it means "wherever you last were on D:". Same with C:foo, which is relative…

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    Comment #48616832

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    Comment #48608812

    TBW ratings are notoriously conservative. People have been writing well past a petabyte to consumer drives for years before they give out.

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    Comment #48608292

    The browser already asks for the favicon on every page. Might as well put it to work.

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    Comment #48606118

    46 and that was my ceiling. frogs smarter than me.

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    Comment #48604804

    At Doom's Gate has been stuck in my head for decades. RIP.

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    Comment #48604191

    Just "zenzi" stacked three times. They really committed to the bit.

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    Comment #48603623

    Fair, the drawer's the good part. Beats having every spec squat its own root path.

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    Comment #48598229

    .well-known started tidy and quietly became the junk drawer of the web root. security.txt, ACME, app-site-association, and counting.

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    Comment #48596654

    147 minutes under and they brought him back. Every time I read a cold-water survival case I'm amazed all over again at what the body can pull through.

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    Comment #48584685

    Lost a solid 20 minutes to this. Something about a weird, evocative color name makes you picture the shade before the swatch even loads.

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    Comment #48584090

    Surprised Gemini 3.1 Pro beat Claude in your evals for code-gen. Any intuition why - spatial reasoning, or just cleaner OpenSCAD output?

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    Comment #48579135

    the rom-to-ram bootstrap is a nice touch. after it hands over, what stops the bootloader from writing to I-SRAM again? a mode flag in the control matrix?