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Amusingly, when a coworker was looking for this postmortem, they found a different postmortem of three Claude issues that caused decay. This one was in the platform, not in Claude …

I was thinking the same thing. There are OLED USB-C monitors on Amazon for dirt cheap that are light if a little fragile.

Add the following to your settings.json: "assistant": { "version": "2", "default_model": { "provider": "anthropic", "model": "claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620" } } Once this is done, you…

https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/system/gdb.html

And that is where the drama is frequently found in the Culture series — when Fluffy the Pet Human meets Spot the Feral Human and disaster ensues.

When Iain (M.) Banks published science fiction (or essays about science fiction), he used “Iain M. Banks.” Other works he used “Iain Banks.” You can sometimes separate the fans and…

It's hard for me to read the Culture novels and not hear Porno for Pyros' "Pets" on loop in my head. It is amusing that this essay starts with "Government" and does not get down to…

I was expecting electron in there somewhere.

I think of contexts as being Go's answer to dynamic variables in earlier languages, like Lisp, and less like thread local storage (like Pthreads). Much like how Go works with error…

You can bypass a Nushell command by prepending "^". To use MacOS open, this would be "^open cat.gif" This tic drives me nuts when I hop between fish (which I use for two features, …

Good microsd cards are cheap as dirt and easy to use with a Steam Deck. I do not regret getting the lowest storage model and just using a card.

You can also get a non-customized version without resorting to dead trees -- the Economist is also published on Kindle. https://www.amazon.com/The-Economist-US-Edition/dp/B0027VSU9…

Ditto. I came to HN after seeing the email, looking for the best way to migrate my passwords out of Lockwise. Well, still looking. They are outta here.

That is like saying Scheme does not have exceptions, except in C, we have setjmp instead of call/cc. It is technically correct, but there is something more flexible that can be per…

The actual image is linked from https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/nud0y0/if_there_we... if you are frustrated with the tiny images in the Big Think article.

Same. I cancelled last week for one too many link-bait articles on the front page. After the usual page or two of pleas to stay, they let me go.

Goes further back than that. I used to refer to the Powerbook G4 as a liquid cooled laptop -- where the liquid was the user's circulation.

This is also hitting meat processors very hard. Fabrication (the processing of slaughter to produce cuts of meat ready to ship) is human labor intensive and must be done in refrige…

They may mean "Open Source Intelligence" as in OSINT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_intelligence

Do bicyclists have an organization like the Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF)? Most of what I understand about motorcycle safety was taught by various MSF courses. In many states,…