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Re:T3 Code now synced between GitHub and GitCafe on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:11PM (#50175232)
git.cafe appears to be either incredibly slow or completely down, for me.

What is it?

Re:Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:06PM (#50175197)
Sometimes you're given an HDMI cable to plug into your device, like in an office meeting room. Or in the article's case, a classroom.
Re:NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect on Sunday October 11, 2026 @03:43PM (#50047052)
Corruption is part of the job description, for the NYPD.
Re:NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect on Sunday October 11, 2026 @03:42PM (#50047040)
I've also been disappointed by the lack of enforcement, and it's not necessarily for violations with little harm.

Failing to provide salary transparency in job postings is another common one with zero enforcement.

Re:What About Rails? on Friday September 25, 2026 @08:57AM (#49844008)
Writing deployment manifests and CI pipelines is not really the core part of "SRE" to me: it's more related to how you run software in production, not the build/test process to get it there.

If you don't look at your code and need to debug a production issue, do you just panic chat with your agent to solve the problem?

Re:What About Rails? on Friday September 25, 2026 @08:55AM (#49843980)
The only people I know still using Hey are doing so because there's no way to move your address elsewhere. It's a PITA to change your email everywhere (and some unfortunate place don't let you; e.g. email as the login and primary key)
Re:VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @08:00PM (#49824401)
It didn't occur to me when I first read the article, but I do see now the author called it "remote editing" as you did too.

It may be worth more attention though. VSCode is not really remote editing (thick client, thin server binary), it's setting up a development environment (compilers, LSPs, editor extensions, etc.) on a remote thing (VM, container) that you access with a thin VSCode shell.

If you want to quickly edit a config file on a remote machine, TRAMP seems great. VSCode Remote SSH is not meant for that.

Re:TALA Is Open-Source on Monday September 07, 2026 @09:41PM (#49604772)
I thought "how bad could it be" and I was quite surprised :)

That's spectacularly obfuscated in comparison to the rest.

Re:Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @05:13PM (#49528289)
Don't worry, they wouldn't lose the chance to trademark something silly like CameraJet™
Re:Reverse Engineering My ADHD Test on Monday August 31, 2026 @09:37PM (#49516922)
That's not really an "addiction" by any reasonable meaning besides "something I do often".

The actual meaning is more complex, involving inability to stop, negative effects on your life, etc. - none of which apply to wearing your glasses or breathing.

Do you have a particular issue with... the company that wrote this post, their choice of DB, decisions made in Litestream, SQLite, etc.?
Re:Small Models Have Arrived on Thursday August 27, 2026 @01:33PM (#49468320)
"with multiple 3090s" is quite a bit of burying the lede for "most local models work just fine", don't you think?
Re:Omacom Foundation Launches with $8M on Friday August 21, 2026 @01:34PM (#49391400)
If you're concerned about Apple's relationship to the Trump administration, it seems a bit odd not to mention DHH has much more discriminatory views and is not afraid to voice them loudly: https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-...
Re:Tell HN: GitHub Is Experiencing Degraded Performance on Monday August 17, 2026 @02:30PM (#49335557)
Architecturally, how are you storing Git data? If it isn't fundamentally different from bare-repo-on-disk with libgit2 or wrapping the git binary, you're not going to scale any better.
They wanted capitalism, no? Here's the competition in the market.
Re:Elixir-lang.org has a new design on Saturday July 18, 2026 @01:02PM (#48959888)
How is this language related to Elixir? Or are you just commenting that another language has a website?
Re:Grok Build is open source on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @06:35PM (#48928065)
Twitter (and others) had an algorithmic feed long before LLMs.

These don't actually seem like "good reasons" to me.

Ah, you meant differences in access to fuel, not differences in storing the waste.
What are the fuel constraints the French have that we don't?

Is it geographic (we have a lot more unused/undesirable than France, for example), regulatory, etc?

Re:OpenPrinter on Sunday July 05, 2026 @09:10PM (#48799645)
If it is not an open source license, you should not call it open source.

Imagine someone saying the same thing about MongoDB's license, for example.

I'm not sure how outlandish we're allowed to get here, but IMO we have a fundamental mismatch between application <> operating system <> CPU in terms of dependencies and trust.

Fixing this is beyond any one tool, of course :)

Re:Costco Is the Anti-Amazon on Saturday July 04, 2026 @11:26AM (#48786078)
Why do you need to visit Costco every week? This feels like the most inefficient combination of the city-style "shop small quantities often" and suburb-style "buy everything in bulk once a month".

> ...it may just be disguised political messaging article.

It doesn't seem to be particularly for or against the NYC proposal to me, so I don't understand why you are suggesting this.

Re:The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s on Thursday June 25, 2026 @10:09AM (#48673690)
I live near a very congested area and watch ambulances and fire trucks (which are also too big) get stuck in heavy traffic all the time.

Bikes do a lot of package and food delivery here, but fewer people commuting by car would make it easier for ambulances to get where they need to.

I don't know what resolution or display you built this on, but a heads up the initial impression on my 4K monitor is that everything is incredibly tiny.
Re:The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @11:28PM (#48668471)
Even a year from now you're still likely to need a custom firmware.

The custom firmware today is more than good enough, and the devices often sell for under $70.

Re:The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @11:26PM (#48668458)
There will be an Android (11, unfortunately) reader, the S4. (This is already visible on xteink.cn and they've teased it in social media.)

There's also going to be an X4 Pro, which is an ESP32 reader too, and this seems to be an X4 with backlight and touch screen.

Re:The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @02:09PM (#48648936)
There are millions of people in American cities, and tons of people move from the less dense suburbs to these cities.

There are probably even more people who would move if they could, but our cities are expensive (because housing is expensive when you don't build it) and so they stick with the "default". Staying put, getting a car, and finding a way to make it work.

You can't conflate "this is what Americans want" and "this is largely the only choice most Americans get".

Re:The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @02:07PM (#48648890)
> Commuter rail has 1/200th the economic impact of interstate highways.

Ok, and what fraction of investment has it gotten?

We've underfunded rail/bike infrastructure for decades, of course money is going to flow on the cheapest route. Roads are cheap because we've subsidized the shit out of them.

If someone referred to the "previous decade" in 2004, would you have said the same thing?

As the calendar rolled from 1999 to 2000, we entered a new millennium, century, decade, year, day, ...

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