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It's a twist on the Scorpion and the Frog story. In other words, Larry Ellison is going to do what Larry is going to do, and there's no use wondering why. Usually, that's to make m…

Using a global agent rule with something like the following makes agent output much more tolerable for me: "Use only ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English when communicating with…

Not the OP, but because it appears structured just like AI output? (This isn't a condemnation. AI can often do a better job of representing thoughts than humans.) Examples: - The a…

LOVE the industrial design. HATE the font, especially on the number keys. But, great job overall!

You just described Acorn, Atari, DEC, Nintendo, Commodore, HP, IBM, SCO, Sun and Microsoft in certain decades. A few of those aren't strictly consumer, I suppose, but my point is: …

My objective is to minimize risk of lawsuits, even if I'm sure I'd win them. Of course, this can be solved by not working at places where this is a concern.

This read like a lot of pain and suffering. I've tried this for kicks myself. There's a lot of sacrifices to be made. But I'm rooting for anything Linux on smartphones.

The first rule of AI club is you do not talk about personal AI projects at work. - Don't do any of it on work equipment, otherwise your employer may own your works. Do you like bei…

I guess you'll have to define what you mean by "none of those were directly consumer companies" because I disagree, with the exception of Sun.

When I say "it's talked about constantly in commercial circles" this comes from personal experience, so no. Put another way, don't you think companies have considered this? It's a …

Several of the companies I mentioned also had this, some rather notoriously, such as Sun, IBM, and Microsoft.

I once felt that way about Zenith, RCA, Timex Sinclair, Acorn, Atari, Commodore, IBM (especially them), the old HP, DEC, SCO, Sun Microsystems, and Microsoft. In other words, all t…

The only viable solution is to reduce dependencies where possible and deal with it. Nobody in the commercial space is going to follow step 4. It inhibits growth and innovation and …

Sonnet 5 Medium and GPT 5.5 Medium for coding. I drop down to a Mini model for file-based tasks. Codex keeps trying to revert me back to 5.6 but 5.6 seems to use too many tokens to…

> How is this hacker news? If it wasn't, it would've been flagged or not voted up, and you wouldn't be here complaining about it. :-P > Hundreds of musicians died today. Whom? With…

It is a massive pain in the ass, but if the case is thrown out, the gov't may be less likely to arrest someone again. Who knows, under the current regime. They seem to go after who…

I'm waiting to see whether he is convicted before I form a strong opinion around this. I'm leaning toward thinking this case will be dropped or at least severely reduced charges.

Fedora KDE or GNOME. I bounce between. Everything works out of the box. I was always a Debian and Ubuntu guy, and hated RPM OSes, but between Debian's old releases and Ubuntu's dec…

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+1. Unless you want to spend a huge amount of time trying to keep up with the state of the art, just follow simonw. The links in the comment above are great.

Jerk City lives on, and is now known as Bonequest. Here's today's comic: https://www.bonequest.com/

Flutter-based. Runs on Android and iOS. Requires being sideloaded (but no jailbreak) on iOS. No background sync on iOS yet -- you have to open the app to sync. Doesn't appear to be…

I don't know if it meets your needs, but I use MacWhisper (Pro) for this. I was an early Pro user so I think I only paid $5 at the time. https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper…