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> which is why they have the little red thing on their mailboxes Yes. One of my surprises when moving from the US to the UK were that I couldn't mail a letter from my house (and al…

The Aero effects on Vista were cool enough (to this day, my two favorite Windowses are 2000 and 7), the problem with Vista is that it was extremely unstable. If you treat Vista as …

I'm far from an LLM power user, but I've found ChatGPT to be quite good at debugging my init.el and also writing little extensions I wish I had.

I'm a semi-professional violinist who got to borrow a Strad for a couple months and whose long-term teacher has the lifetime loan of a del Gesu (and has had access to a Strad but p…

I own a handful of TI calculators (TI-{80, 83, 83+, 86, 89T, NSpire CAS}, possibly a few others) but actually use a TI-89 Titanium emulator on my Android phone. I no longer do anyt…

I'd guess that the majority of people who've made a bug like this got started on Ruby via Rails, where many hashes are HashWithIndifferentAccesses. HWIAs are convenient, but they d…

Previously (2024-07-07; 136 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40898654

How do you think the LLMs train? If I release a new library tomorrow, do I not need to write docs for it?

>Europe is worse than the US on this front Would you please expand on this?

Theft does not exist. Only deficient windows intentionally designed to be breakable exist. if you want your "personal possessions" to not be taken, dont make them vulnerable. Yes, …

Don is especially susceptible to huge regional differences. It's as GP described in Honduras and I think as you described in Spain.

I've found the Metabase test suite[0] to be very good considering it's real-world software written by a for-profit company. Coverage is good, the correct tests usually break when d…

In these cases it's all Scottish Gaelic, which has a complex but very consistent phonics system. Complaining about it would be like complaining that Russian vodka brands are hard t…

Seems like a very backwards-looking article. Would've been interesting to hear more about his ideas for the future, such as what this should involve: > if the new Scottish Language…

My wife and I realized we were only really using Netflix to watch Seinfeld. I got a complete set of DVDs for less money than a month of Netflix and canceled my subscription

The etymology is from 'enCYClopedia'.

I worked for an IBM acquiree 13 years ago and as part of the "Blue-washing" process to get our software up to IBM spec we had to use their proprietary tools for verifying our depen…

American elevators are 1-indexed!

Time was you could check in online and get the ticket counter agent to print your boarding pass for you

A magnifying glass on its own could mean: 1. Search (across the application) 2. Find on page 3. Adjust zoom

My surname is Macdonald—some ancestor generations ago decided to use the lowercase d. When I lived in the US it took considerable coaching to get humans not to write McDonald, and …

Usually, thus the common construction "and/or" to unambiguously mean inclusive-or.

It's Mary -> Molly-> Polly, which makes slightly more sense

Tangential: I'm looking for a handheld Linux computer that's the approximate size and shape of a GameBoy Advance SP, but with a QWERTY keyboard and wifi. The old Zipit Z-2 would've…

If you find this remotely intriguing, I highly recommend Ross Duffin's book How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (And Why You Should Care) https://search.worldcat.org/title/How-equ…