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Windows 11 is what made me switch back to dual booting, after 4 years being content with WSL. Everything is slow, everything's GUIs have two versions and it nags endlessly for a "W…

> We used opcode charts like musicians used sheet music. Maybe like musicians use chord charts? In this analogy, sheet music plays a better role as the program.

"Parity is what makes the replacement a drop-in rather than a migration." It always reads like a 14 year old arguing.

"One, the path not taken, started with an Arduino or Arduino-like microcontroller. The other began with a Raspberry Pi or Pi-like computer-y thing. I went with the Pi, variously us…

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I am very curious: did you figure some of the books they were using?

I have almost the same setup. Plus a 3rd party app called "Material Files" to access it on my phone.

It's sad to have to unearth the very human line of thought in this article from the very foamy LLM slop.

No more LLM-written articles in HN!

It could have been a tweet, but it was a prompt instead.

Nowadays you don't just write an article. You ask Claude to write it for you.

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https://archive.md/4slNQ

"So the interesting question isn't whether personal hardware is coming. It's who gets to write the software that runs on it." It's not that I don't like your point of view. It's th…

I would avoid sentences of the form "It's not A. It's B." It reads very LLM-like.

I'd like to gently push back because this is a misconception that is worth untangling. It's not that no one is talking about it. It's that there's a genuine silence about the subje…

Bolt a magnet mount on the dashboard. Slap your phone.

Open youtube through a browser with uBlock origin, with this line in the filter: m.youtube.com##.rich-section-content This blocks the shorts bar. I also block the other algorithmic…

I have been using Emacs+git on termux on an Android phone for more than 5 years. I don't even use a third party software-keyboard, I just use termux's special key bar. To set it up…

> I’ve seen employees spend days drafting documents that a free tool like Mistral could generate in seconds, leaving them 30-60 minutes to review and refine. What I have seen is em…

Up to now, my attempts at doing what the author claims to be possible ends up in a broken piece of code that the agent only makes worse when asked to debug, and finally it wont eve…

Org mode versioned with git. Every issue at work becomes an item in this org, and all information relevant to the issue goes there: emails, chats, code snippets, documentation para…

Maybe this: https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/twenty-rules-of-formulatin...

I don't have this problem. Recommendation algorithms disgust me so much that I end up closing the site/app in anger.