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niceguy1827

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    Comment #49111466

    Please stop writing straw man arguments to sell your product. Worktrees do work as intended for most people. And they work better than your broken homepage.

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    Comment #49083942

    This is the wrong take. You are basically arguing that if we have one solution, why bother having a second one?

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    Comment #49070163

    May I introduce https://xkcd.com/927/

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    Comment #48250146

    I guess I totally agree. But wait why are we placing a 100% tariff on these EVs again? Are we saying that they are simultaneous not a threat and a serious threat?

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    Show HN: Givemesearch: live web search grounding for coding agents (free alpha)

    I built givemesearch because I kept seeing Claude Code confidently generate complete BS using function signatures that had been changed or removed. This is using a setup that I've …

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    Show HN: Stint – Fire-and-forget AI agent orchestration

    I built Stint to let me give Claude goals and walk away. It automatically breaks tasks into parallel work, spins up multiple Claude workers in isolated git branches, and merges res…

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    Comment #47127655

    So tiring to keep hearing this argument "humans only use vision to drive, so why would self driving cars need more?" This argument is inherently anti-progress. It's like saying hum…

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    Show HN: Find good party/happy hour games quick

    I have been constantly frustrated trying to find good games for remote happy hours and team events. We'd find a promising game, click the link, then hit a paywall or signup form. N…

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    Comment #46962540

    Your comment seems to miss the point. It is totally possible to enable the first two of your bullet points without Visa or Mastercard, for example banks could just give lines of cr…

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    Comment #46729302

    Thank you sir. Love learning new things every day in a tech forum, especially Latin.

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    Comment #46661920

    I don't think you understand the bigger issue. Locking out competitors will save these jobs for now, but it will not last forever. This is exactly what happened to the US automaker…

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    Comment #46355829

    Don't you worry. If they do, we will just call them copycats. /s

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    Comment #46339002

    Aren't people already stupid enough? The fact that the author wrote this article without verifying if the existing trend of children's IQ shows some level of stupidity. And please …

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    Comment #46265381

    Forgot to mention one benefit, for the ultra-lazy like myself. You can just leave the display on forever and you never have to wait for the screen to wake up again. I use amphetami…

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    Comment #46265339

    Yes, it's basically a large Kindle. For reading and work, I actually prefer this experience. The contrast for text is way better and more crisp than regular LED/LCD/OLED displays, …

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    Comment #46265294

    Weird. I have a work MacBook Pro m3 and a personal m1 MacBook Pro. Both are just plug and play for me. I actually have my displayed connected to a CalDigit TS3 dock and just connec…

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    Comment #46265250

    I cannot make guarantees but I do remember temporarily using it for my Debian installation for my home server -- can't think of any reason why it wouldn't work though. For both Win…

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    Comment #46260876

    Dasung 253 is a 25.3 inch eink display. https://shop.dasung.com/products/dasung-25-3-e-ink-monitor-p... I bought it two years ago for over $1800, and I have to say, it was worth ev…

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    Comment #45837882

    I've seen somebody on Reddit using LoRa stuff for the home. The problem with these wifi based sensors is that you eventually run out of IP addresses (yes you could get fancy with s…

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    Comment #43530912

    Did you finish reading? The author said later on that holding the bar high wasn't an option since it would risk his job. The blame should be on the universities, not on the profess…

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    Comment #42938147

    Consider this as very much back-of-napkin math, a Chinese 055 destroyer is about a third of the cost of an Arleigh Burke. So you’d be looking at roughly 300%.

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    Comment #42589771

    Arguing about the Plaza Accord is really a moot point. The real argument is that in the 80s, Japan-bashing was a real thing, just like the China-bashing today. https://en.wikipedia…

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    Comment #41981543

    > In fact many would argue Chinese languages were never unified (mandarin/cantonese/etc) but the scripts were. This is the correct understanding, even within mainland China, and ac…

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    Comment #41750007

    but did Shakespeare ever get a subsidy? /s