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tangent Once I've tried one SCM to track every single change to my files, and the other for bulk commits. The result was quite satisfying. It was some 15 years ago, we just switche…

A good moment to remind everyone that if we took the promise for granted, that AI will in fact prevail and prompting is the one skill that will rule them all... we'll lose all doma…

This. It's easy to make a good call, but it's really hard to stick with it. The main financial advice I'm giving to all relatives is to write down their decisions before buying any…

> The discs have been a formality for longer than most gamers understand or want to admit. Sony is discontinuing disc sales as a response to how gamers are buying games not the oth…

> I don't understand the fierce resistance to comparison with human behavior Because at the end of the day, regardless if it contains randomness or not, it's an algorithm. Your ope…

This is HN for Christ's sake. Stop treating deterministic algorithms like they are humans.

A textbook definition of "feature creep". I have absolutely no idea if CodePen is feeling pressure from their shareholders or want to cook before the IPO, but I often wonder why Sp…

tangent thought experiment So you bought that top of the line security-as-a-product thingy you can stick in your rack and it will make sure that your network is impenetrable? You k…

I'm afraid that HyperCard is too old for broader audience to be able to grasp how extraordinary experience it was providing. As a 6-7yo I had a collection of English words, stored …

Sad side of this is that decision makers are seeing these and think that AI can replace yet another department in their office. I just saw a nice presentation from SecFest from a g…

This is exact same difference as between junior and senior engineer. The premise now is that everyone and your mom can vibe code next unicorn during a lunch break using the latest …

Good Lord. Reminds me of Good Parts, Bad Parts meme of JS.

This is very similar to 30yo exploit in which you placed an alternative, infected dll inside a folder with mp3s (winamp), or photos (windows picture viewer).

Aye, you're right. My father took me to that conference so that would be closer to 2000 or 2001. Fun fact, around that time I attended 3 "microsoft summit" - that was the name of t…

Not at all. Ever wondered why, even on modern websites, css is riddled with repeated statements with this weird "moz-" prefixes? In 2006 when working at Wikia I wrote a tiny lib fo…

And that's probably a product of different incentives. Consultancy is getting paid for doing things. Product company is getting paid for getting things done.

In 2004 we solved the types for JS with ECMAScript 4 (or ActionScript 2.0). Unfortunately this was in the middle of browser wars, so no one cared about the standards and all of tha…

would it be possible to gdrive/rsync/git the data between machines and then use the data on an online server for retrieval (given that I would handle data sync myself)? also what e…

I'm sorry for not taking the time to read the docs, but I have a question. Some 20 years ago a friend of mine has set up a local proxy (python if I'm not mistaken) that was gatheri…

also a tangent - I can't find it right now - something I feel quite similar, albeit far less practical, was an experiment in which neural network was laid out as a 2D grid, i.e. sc…

My biggest gripe about AI is that very few people actually understand that, and many think that LLMs are "thinking" and capable with "coming up with a novel solution". They are not…

But that's exactly what LLMs are. :) My mental model and go to ELI5 is "imagine you compressed the whole internet into a zip-like archive and you have an extremely clever and effic…

On one hand I've been using almost the exact statement 25 years ago in my Flash (ecmascript) tutorials to narrow down the point of operator precedence. I still believe it's a good …

No idea why is this getting downvoted. I literally went to an Apple Store the other day after every influencer released their video on yt claiming that it's a great computer, you j…

let's make it $1099 and we'll throw a monitor stand for free