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Re:US boy names that became girl names and vice versa on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:40AM (#50350753)
Pretty common, the state of California also prevented someone from naming their child "X Æ A-12".
China isn't threatening to invade European countries.
Re:Living off-grid: Hundred Rabbits on Thursday October 08, 2026 @06:24AM (#50004065)
Interesting that donsol[0] looks at least superficially similar to scoundrel[1][2] which I've also implemented as a (much simpler and completely unpolished) online game[4]. That game was one of the last public things I've built that wasn't more or less LLM-generated, and it feels a bit nostalgic. I liked building small simple stuff like that myself. Also, Gleam was a joy to work with.

Edit: On closer investigation, it looks almost exactly like scoundrel.

0: https://100r.ca/site/donsol.html

1: http://www.stfj.net/art/2011/Scoundrel.pdf

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt2tYzM93h4

4: https://munksgaard.me/scoundrel/

Re:The Sneakerweb on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @02:20PM (#48821530)
I've just add a Nix package, but I don't know if/when it will be merged: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/539297
Re:Road to Elm 1.0 on Monday July 06, 2026 @09:13AM (#48804130)
Nope.
Re:Road to Elm 1.0 on Monday July 06, 2026 @08:59AM (#48803972)
Does it though? They are many longstanding bugs reported in their compiler repository, and this release doesn't seem to address any of them.
Re:Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network on Monday July 06, 2026 @06:49AM (#48802977)
Here's the Danish one (with some trains in Sweden): http://landetspuls.dk
Re:We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @12:18PM (#48734911)
How many of those organizations you named were VC-backed?
Similarly, "heli" is a commonly recognized clipping of helicopter: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heli#English

See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helipad

Re:U.S. Science Is in Chaos on Thursday June 18, 2026 @12:02AM (#48580675)
So pretty much any other country.
As far as I can tell, Kagi also requires you to create an account before you can try it out. You can of course disagree with that practice, but it is not like Uruky is requiring something far out of the ordinary.
Interesting! All the license stuff aside, there's definitely a desire for more EU-first services like this.
Re:Encephalitis on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @02:41PM (#48388009)
> [...] Since I had been cleared physically, getting out of the psychiatric hospital quickly to see a neurologist proved difficult. This was the single point, in retrospect, where our health care system let me down. It took a lucky connection with someone who happened to be a doctor to get me out of the psychiatric facility and into the neurology department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

That sounds scary. As someone without any experience with psychiatric institutions or the US health system, I'm curious what people's views are on this.

Re:What Color is Your Function? (2015) on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @04:16PM (#48285410)
The terminology in Erlang predates green threads by a decade or so.
Re:My two-part desk setup on Saturday May 23, 2026 @02:54PM (#48250232)
Not necessarily that specific lamp, but GULLSUDARE from IKEA is the same kind.
Re:Consider the Sister on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @05:12AM (#48191057)
For people reading the comments first: This is an article about David Foster Wallace (DFW) and her sister, Amy. The title is a rewording of the title of one of DFW's essays "Consider the Lobster"[0], which is an interesting read if you haven't read it.

0: https://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf

Having taken a license in both Denmark and the states, the test in the states was laughable in comparison. In Denmark, there are like 20 mandatory lessons, wet-surface practice, a theoretical exam and a practical exam, both of which people routinely fail (because they're hard). In the US, I paid 20 bucks, drove around the block, parked and received my license.
It was pretty well received when mitchellh copied the idea and formalized it into vouch.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930961 - https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch

> Why would it be?

That's literally what they explain in the rest of the comment.

Re:GitHub Actions is the weakest link on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @02:38PM (#47938598)
Even with a lock file, the action can download and execute arbitrary code from the internet.
Re:Thoughts on Slowing the Fuck Down on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @03:40PM (#47522156)
Peter Naur had that realization back in 1985: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
Re:Pi – a minimal terminal coding harness on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @08:13AM (#47151054)
Pretty easy, the prompts can be seen here[0] and pi supports setting SYSTEM.md.

0: https://cchistory.mariozechner.at/

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