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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_apples

Immoral boot-licking human engineers are indistinguishable from LLMs.

> it's also accelerating digital UBI

Do you have sources for this claim?

> So Wikipedia is corrupt as per usual. Grokipedia's article is significantly less biased and more accurate.

I hope this was sarcasm.

Re:My First Impressions of Gleam on Saturday September 13, 2025 @01:10PM (#45233634)
I thought so too, although treating everything as data and functions is really nice [1].

Regarding the BEAM and why Gleam has a separate library for actors: [2]

> "One notable difference between Elixir and Gleam is that Elixir gets to just re-use the OTP code as-is (with some Elixir wrappers on top for convenience). Gleam concluded that the OTP is built expecting dynamic types, and that for best results in Gleam they'd need to re-implement the key primitives. That's why the example shown is an "Actor" not a GenServer - it serves the same purpose, and might even fit in a Supervision tree, but isn't actually a GenServer."

There's a brief snippet mentioning this in the Gleam OTP readme as well: [3]

> "Actors do not yet support all OTP system messages, so some of the OTP debugging APIs may not be fully functional."

[1] https://mckayla.blog/posts/all-you-need-is-data-and-function...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40645489

[3] https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp#limitations-and-known-issu...

Snippet from Wikipedia: "In August 2023, Unity China announced that it would soon launch a Chinese edition called Tuanjie Engine based on Unity 2022 LTS, which includes support for Chinese platforms like Weixin Mini Game, OpenHarmony and AliOS."
Re:Try and on Sunday August 10, 2025 @01:32PM (#44856782)
I spent 20 minutes looking for an Esperanto reference to this but could only find pages related to "in" words [1] and profane neologisms [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_vocabulary#Cultural_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_profanity#Neologisms

Re:MacBook Pro Insomnia on Friday August 01, 2025 @11:51AM (#44758600)
From `man pmset`:

    SAFE SLEEP ARGUMENTS
        hibernatemode supports values of 0, 3, or 25. Whether or not a hibernation image gets
        written is also dependent on the values of standby and autopoweroff
    
        For example, on desktops that support standby a hibernation image will be written after the
        specified standbydelay time. To disable hibernation images completely, ensure hibernatemode
        standby and autopoweroff are all set to 0.
    
        hibernatemode = 0 by default on desktops. The system will not back memory up to persistent
        storage. The system must wake from the contents of memory; the system will lose context on
        power loss. This is, historically, plain old sleep.
    
        hibernatemode = 3 by default on portables. The system will store a copy of memory to
        persistent storage (the disk), and will power memory during sleep. The system will wake from
        memory, unless a power loss forces it to restore from hibernate image.
    
        hibernatemode = 25 is only settable via pmset. The system will store a copy of memory to
        persistent storage (the disk), and will remove power to memory. The system will restore from
        disk image. If you want "hibernation" - slower sleeps, slower wakes, and better battery
        life, you should use this setting.
    
        Please note that hibernatefile may only point to a file located on the root volume.
Depending on the definition of "nicely", FWIW I currently run Ollama sever [1] + Qwen Coder models [2] with decent success compared to the big hosted models. Granted, I don't utilize most "agentic" features and still mostly use chat-based interactions.

The server is basically just my Windows gaming PC, and the client is my editor on a macOS laptop.

Most of this effort is so that I can prepare for the arrival of that mythical second half of 2026!

[1] https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/faq.md#how-d...

[2] https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen25-coder-66eaa22...

Re:My First Impressions of Gleam on Monday June 23, 2025 @12:05PM (#44357169)
On a related note, Gleam's OTP implementation recently hit version 1.0! https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp/releases/tag/v1.0.0
Re:My First Impressions of Gleam on Monday June 23, 2025 @12:04PM (#44357164)
Re:The Zed Debugger Is Here on Thursday June 19, 2025 @01:22PM (#44320677)
Re:The Zed Debugger Is Here on Thursday June 19, 2025 @01:18PM (#44320647)
Recently the Zed team added some tools to help with merge conflicts: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4964#issuecomme...
Re:The Grug Brained Developer (2022) on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @10:35AM (#44310279)
Agreed!

If you usually aren't able/allowed to use a debugger in production and must rely on observability tools, it's helpful to know how to utilize those tools locally as effectively as possible when debugging.

Re:Timescale Is Now TigerData on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @10:15AM (#44310105)
I'd like to see more references to biological taxonomies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera
Re:Ditching Obsidian and building my own on Sunday May 18, 2025 @04:25PM (#44024077)
For anyone who would prefer to get the Syncthing-Fork build from F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncth...
Re:Reservoir Sampling on Thursday May 08, 2025 @03:51PM (#43930582)
I loved the "Sometimes the hand of fate must be forced" comment!
Re:I'd rather read the prompt on Monday May 05, 2025 @12:50AM (#43892010)
Yeah this was the part I found a little silly, mostly because I just couldn't visualize what that mesh looked like or how I would describe how to operate it.
Re:The complicated business of electing a Doge on Sunday May 04, 2025 @05:00PM (#43889534)
Re:I'd rather read the prompt on Sunday May 04, 2025 @04:50PM (#43889464)
Out of curiosity, I used your prompt but added "Do not make it a very formulaic physics-based puzzle."

The output is pretty non-sensical: https://pastebin.com/raw/hetAvjSG

Another good name would have been "Barify".

I use a combo of xbar [1] and Menubarx [2]. I used to have several widgets just for system stats but eventually moved to mac-stats [3] for that.

[1] https://github.com/matryer/xbar

[2] https://menubarx.app/

[3] https://github.com/exelban/stats

Re:Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one on Monday March 24, 2025 @12:46PM (#43462978)
Commercial Driver's License. Other countries might have their own terms for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_driver%27s_license
Re:IO Devices and Latency on Friday March 14, 2025 @01:20PM (#43364810)
Your diagrams are fantastic; I'd enjoy a short blog post or snippet just on how you used D3 for this!

As someone who has also use GSAP a decent amount, these days I usually have a better experience with SVG.js [1].

[1] https://github.com/svgdotjs/svg.js

Which features specifically? I can't find a conclusive list anywhere. Other than searching GH issues for bugs like: https://github.com/containers/podman-compose/issues/655#issu...

RE debugging spam, the only thing I can think you're referring to can be turned off by setting `export PODMAN_COMPOSE_WARNING_LOGS=false`.

I'm also curious how it doesn't adhere to the spec. I don't doubt you, but it'd be cool if there was a test suite or audit tool that could document that.

Interesting; I have yet to run into any issues with it. Teams I work with mostly use it for local development/testing and do actual deploys using Kubernetes, so we don't use Docker Compose for deployments that utilize features unavailable in Podman Compose.

I'll try to do some more testing between the two and edit my original comment with my findings!

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