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Re:A Broken Heart on Thursday February 05, 2026 @09:53AM (#46900289)
Still, I'm going to quote the living daylights out of "These coding agents are very much like a power saw. Profoundly useful, and proportionately dangerous."

Even though this particular case may not be fair, the comparison feels like a very fair one to me. The notion that these things can be very valuable in capable hands, but costly in others.

Will "Retro art" do?
Can you support this claim somehow? Because on the face of it this sounds dangerously wrong.
Re:Diagrams AI can, and cannot, generate on Thursday March 20, 2025 @06:37AM (#43421508)
Fair point. What the author does mention is that if you have to do a lot of work getting proper results out of AI (and potentially contend with hallucinations), you may as well do the actual work yourself and be more confident about the end result.

That being said, I think part of the potential is repeatability. Once you've done the work of property prompting for the desired result, you can often save the adjusted prompts (or a variation of it) for later use, giving you a flying start on subsequent occasions.

I run i3wm (poorly :P). Does anyone know whether it would it be possible to trick i3lock (or something similar) into showing the output of this "tool" instead of a static image?

Would be a fun look, with the added bonus of some colleagues potentially being tricked into thinking they have an opportunity to mess with my machine. :D

Re:Self-Hosting a Firefox Sync Server on Saturday March 01, 2025 @03:45AM (#43217361)
I completely understand the feeling, but when's the last time pointing fingers actually got you anywhere? :)
To be fair, not _just_ in tech. :)
Re:What We Watched: A Netflix Engagement Report on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @02:30AM (#38623796)
So is asserting that everyone is crazy, except you. :P
Re:The Scourge of Airport Noise on Friday September 01, 2023 @01:31AM (#37347169)
Yeah, for me that one's right up there with every cookie-cutter cookie-prompt on every website.

"We care about your privacy"

no. you. do. not.

Please don't pretend.

Re:Pangram on Sunday February 12, 2023 @06:10AM (#34761926)
Back in my Apple fanboy days, I was delighted to come across a pangram referring to Jobs and Wozniak, but I can no longer quite recall it, and my Google Fu is failing me. I think it was:

Jobs and Wozniak quibble mightily over expensive coffee.

It checks out, but it feels weird that I can't find a reference to it online.

Re:Start all of your commands with a comma (2009) on Thursday June 23, 2022 @06:43PM (#31856015)
Well, not exactly tab completion, but I have `fzf`[0] tied to my history search.

That allows me to type `soriloco`, punch ctrl+r and be prompted with `some ridiculously long command` (if, of course, I've run it before).

Combined with infinite history this trick has saved me a bunch of typing and even proper remembering. :P

[0]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

Re:Ask HN: Best Alternative to Homebrew in 2021? on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @11:32AM (#29082761)
Could you give (or point to) a description how compiling binaries using GitHub Actions can be done? Sounds really nice. :)
Re:Advanced console.log Tips and Tricks (2020) on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @01:45AM (#27525287)
Also, none of this stuff should ever be used in production code, only during development (at least IMHO). So even if some things were browser specific, it shouldn't hurt anyone but yourself if you run into incompatibilities while using any of it.
Re:Advanced console.log Tips and Tricks (2020) on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @01:27AM (#27525202)
Same here.
Re:What is the best dumb TV? on Saturday October 03, 2020 @05:00AM (#24670634)
The article actually addresses this:

Monitor displays are relatively darker than TV displays. This is because monitors are designed for people who sit up close.

It may not be a problem when you’re watching a movie in a dark room. If you watch with the windows open during the day, however, your monitor won’t be able to produce enough brightness to give you pleasant viewing experience.

Re:GitHub CLI 1.0 on Thursday September 17, 2020 @05:01PM (#24509918)
Damn, I should RTFM, 'cause that sounds super useful!
Re:GitHub CLI 1.0 on Thursday September 17, 2020 @05:00PM (#24509895)
Hey, thanks for sharing. I was wondering about hub vs GH.