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The risks, such as they are, of walking in a city are blown way out of proportion to reality in order to sell ads or elect political candidates.

How much of the performance differences come down to language or compiler choice in these examples? Would I see the same kinds of performance gains or losses avoiding or using cert…

I think people use these tools in varying ways, sometimes in the same session, and there are no hard-and-fast correct answers. For example: Sometimes I just need to blast something…

I recently, with the help of Claude Code, made a tool which involved a database, two separate apps surfacing and interacting with various aspects of the data, and a user base of do…

It took browsers and web dev until, IDK, maybe 2010? to match the interactivity and capability of Hypercard circa 1994. The actual killer app turned out to be the network itself, b…

Super useful knot for when you don't have a ratchet tie-down. Learned and used this knot all the time hauling around dirt bikes.

Ha when I read “I won’t name the system; let’s just call it Minerva,” I thought, “I’ll bet it’s called Athena irl. “

I have a lot of fun memories about when I moved to SF in 2006. Among them was meeting Craig and interacting with him casually a handful of times. He was a regular at Reverie in Col…

I'm not picking up any subjective, simplistic labeling like "good" or "bad." Are we reading the same paper? Haven't fully read the paper, just the introduction and skimmed through …

I agree with the sentiments -- knowing the scope of a change is more essential, in most cases, than knowing whether the change was a "fix" or a "feature" -- but much of the scope i…

Half of the purpose of me documenting things is to make certain that I fully understand the problem and its solution. As I write out the explanation, if something doesn't make sens…

As I'm sure many people on HN with kids do, I think very highly of my toddler's capabilities. I'm looking forward to the day I can stick him on a cross-town bus and have him fly so…

as someone who laments the loss of spaces and pastimes that once brought people together -- bowling alleys, dance halls, pubs, movie houses, etc. -- to work from home, home enterta…

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It's not that credit card companies have some kind of moral bone to pick, it is that the legal, logistical and political morass of dealing with the variety of state and national la…

There is a psychological hype effect which affects both audience and performers in a capacity room of any size. Whether it's 50 or 5000, if the room is full, you feel it, and it ad…

only slightly serious. children are a joy! right? right??

It's not even "in the street" I'm worried about -- it's the lunatics who drive like they are the main character in a single-player RPG. Not looking for bikes or pedestrians, crashi…

Riight! I was wondering why some people had more than one. Like, I wonder that every single ever-loving day

My biggest fear of letting my young kid play alone outside is getting hit by a car.

The alphabetical streets in the Richmond and Sunset districts of San Francisco do a similar thing

The artist was the band Van Halen; the forbidden color was brown https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/

It’s interesting comparing the enthusiasm I see in this thread compared to the more jaded responses I’ve seen in r/synthesizers I think it looks cool and fun. Wish my workflow and …