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> I always wish I could replace the UI with my own embedded editor (emacs in my case) Consider his his older project instead? https://overtone.github.io/ He even used to perform us…

> A two hour commute is much less of a problem if you can be a bit productive. A two hour commute sounds absolutely unbearable to my ears. I guess it makes sense if you are able wo…

> What is the cost balance from being that net exporter? Are they selling energy for more than they buy? Electricity production is a subset of energy production. A lot of factories…

> The oil industry is full of really smart people, but this all appears to be so stupid. Why don't the fossil fuel companies just expand their investment portfolios to include off-…

I am sure some variant of the infinite monkey theorem applies. Anthropic devs have unlimited access to Claude, so they are no doubt lazy when it comes to prompt writing and just br…

I don't think these numbers are correct, but desktop Linux is no doubt having its year now. So many big YouTube content creators are covering Linux content and switching to Linux s…

They don't act the way humans would. It's normal to start a sentence after the other person in the conversation pauses, especially if you're eager to say something (like the chat a…

> Or are there other reasons why this lib was moved to TS? I'm pretty sure reach was the motivation. The author basically wrote his own TypeScript libraries duplicating a bunch of …

I don't think you can conclude much from a sample size of 1. My country at least (and probably yours too) is producing more organic products than ever before. People are also consu…

I am pretty sure Dustin Getz is American.

NemID, the previous national 2-factor solution, used a small card with rows of pre-printed single-use codes. When you logged in to a bank or a public sector website, it would ask f…

Maybe the momentum of Stoxx600 will last the next 4 years? Or maybe the S&P500 will come crashing down soon? Who knows. The Shiller PE ratio is insanely high. At least the European…

> And what's the actual result? Just look at the market capitalization of European companies compared to US companies.. Europe is actually doing quite well at the moment. The Europ…

It's a crucial step on the way. Definitely nothing to scoff at.

Eu Inc. will become a reality soon, so it isn't like the Commission is standing still: eu.inc/what-is-eu-inc

> What's the saying? Time in the market vs timing the market. Seems like he managed both.

I am talking about the purpose of the law and the way it is written. It's not hard to create a law that only targets the bigger services, just make it apply to entities with a dail…

Why do you think it's going to be arbitrary? The law will obviously be framed in such a way as to hit the targets it is supposed to hit, avoid collateral damage. It's not like comp…

> everyone but the biggest players throwing out a lot of bathwater with very little baby by simply not accepting Danish users (if required). The biggest players in social media are…

> in exchange for a promise to use the revenues "for good purposes". They still do an enormous amount of charity, though activities of the foundation are probably highly localised …

The behaviour of an HTML datalist is basically completely different in every browser. It is a highly flawed element.

> How does programming with Clojure targeting multiple platforms (JVM, JS, CLR, LLVM, ...) work? Each variant has its own file extension, e.g. .clj for JVM and .cljs for JS. In cas…

I'm not talking about the content but about the topics.

Having to rate the 30 examples made me realise just how much HN is dominated by LLM content these days. Kinda sad.

Maybe you can argue why it's not most countries? It seems obvious to me that it is, but I also come from a country where everyone is bilingual. Many former European colonies are mo…