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"The Expanse" (or: "Leviathan Wakes" by James S. A. Corey). They talk about "living at the bottom of the well" within our solar system (gravity well, that is). Mars effectively "di…

"superset" is just marketing mumbo jumbo that says: "I promise to embed an x86 virtual machine inside my spec that'll still parse whatever weird JSON you're currently handling and …

In many situations you're already "latent" due to interacting via voice: "Hey Siri, turn on the lights" is ~3-4 seconds to say casually, allow another 0.5-1.0 seconds due to voice …

I wish there was better support for something like `SECRET_CMD="..."` (ie: "run this command to get/refresh secrets"), but that's just baking arbitrary command execution into your …

I really love hearing/learning about this! Imagine "The Mickey Mouse Earthquake Alarm" vs. "Yeah, NERV-Alerts, nbd..." I never watched much anime, but an old college roommate put m…

Noice! :-D Never knew about that (even though it might be vim-specific), but yeah, so much easier than where I'll usually have to do some trial + error to get my cursor to land whe…

It's one of those things you'd _never_ stumble over naturally, but once you're aware of the concept, it makes a ton of sense and you can immediately think of tons of uses for it. /…

I think it's actually due to "pelican on a plane" isn't the same as "pelican on an airplane" (Sonnet5 @ Flamingo x Plane), some consistent and warranted semantic/linguistic confusi…

Another slew of utility lies in `:help searchoffset`, often like the following: https://til.codeinthehole.com/posts/about-vims-semicolon-sea... /x/e-3 /x/+1 /x/;/yz ...it allows ne…

...and BUTTONS! Pebble's capabilities are excellent b/c the UX of a ~1.5" screen is wildly different than that of an iPhone. Up/Down/Forward/Backwards and the occasional long-press…

Mitch Hedberg... "I want to get a job at the Kitchen Appliance Naming Institute: Refrigerator, Toaster, Blender.. you just say say what it does, then you add '-er' What's this thin…

...and the Ally ISN'T EVEN AN XBOX!!!! """AI Overview: No, the Asus ROG Ally is not actually an Xbox. It is a handheld Windows computer made by Asus, even though it features Xbox b…

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903): "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all …

Fuben-Eki! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37169679

SCADA. Mechanism Design. ANSI/ISA-18.2-2016. NASA "Power of Ten" Safe Coding. "The Pit of Success". Poka Yoke. Kaizen/Seiton. "The Five S's". Fuben-eki ("The Benefits of Inconvenie…

It makes sense even more. If you never enter "insert" mode, you still have powerful navigation and overview capabilities. `*`, `#`, n/p, :set fdm=indent + zM/zR, gf/gx, :bp, the ve…

There was an old blog post comparing pianos to text editors. A "simpler" piano would only have white keys, but to a piano expert the piano appears invisible (and powerful) after th…

Meta: in addition to upvotes and downvotes, we almost need a slop/not-slop slider. This one barely scrapes by at what feels like 30-40% "slop": "honestly", "the one thing", etc... …

That’s amazing! I am just imagining a room full of programmers with slightly divergent crontab start times all playing a "moo" sound effect, seemingly at random... not a bad ambien…

So I made a comment a while back about lilypond: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148831 A salient extract: ...but why is it so complicated? A novice interpretation of "music…

That's a really great reframing: "predictability" ...I think we've been exponential (or s-curve) w.r.t. repeatable predictability that _smaller_ prompts are yielding. eg: `regform.…

Yeah, but IP address is "obviously" correlated with a distinct/persistent tranche of users. It's surprising that volume c_time is both more persistent as well as more unique than I…

```Based on a binomial/Poisson distribution and a baseline of 21 million U.S. device sales per release, a fingerprint relying on "seconds since setup" fails to uniquely identify in…

"A compiler is free to optimize...", on sufficiently basic prompting "make me a user address collection form that writes to a database table called 'registered_users'..." ...I agre…

Don't tell me you're reading all assembly generated by your local golang or javac compiler? And that you've read every line of code down the dependency tree for your node_modules? …