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Re:Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @09:13AM (#49182418)
I guess there’s no way to constrain these jamming signals to some reasonable perimeter? 400 miles of overspill seems like sloppy engineering.
Re:MAAS Fabrics: The Cartoon Version on Friday September 12, 2025 @12:08PM (#45223689)
Live from my old college dorm room, with a dozen funny T-shirt slogans and an avatar with better hair.
Re:Is there a no-AI audience? on Friday July 04, 2025 @09:10AM (#44464223)
"Yes, Emacs! Strange visitor from another subculture with powers and abilities far beyond those of plain-text code editors!"
Re:Is there a no-AI audience? on Friday July 04, 2025 @09:07AM (#44464202)
there's still emacs.
Re:Googler... ex-Googler on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @11:57AM (#43694717)
"Don't be evil" comes to mind. I wonder if any company -- or for that matter, any software development organization, whether paid or volunteer -- can really avoid bad decisions when they get big?
Re:Stop Juggling Chainsaws on Saturday March 22, 2025 @12:28PM (#43446867)
early teaser!
Re:Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using? on Saturday March 01, 2025 @09:29PM (#43226561)
(kebab-use-elisp)
Re:Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model on Friday February 14, 2025 @08:28AM (#43048061)
hmm. company mode has been doing part of this job for a long time now.
Re:Don't Be Frupid on Monday February 10, 2025 @07:54AM (#42999667)
suboptimization; learned about this in engineering school 40 years ago: don't optimize the most visible parameter by itself, or you'll likely end up crashing. why do we have to freaking rename everything?
Re:Liberux: The Linux Phone You Have Been Waiting For on Thursday January 23, 2025 @08:59AM (#42804066)
looks like a trojan horse attack to me.
Re:Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine? on Friday January 03, 2025 @05:09AM (#42584296)
org-mode helps:

  6:50......TODO wake up
  7:00......TODO brb
  7:02......TODO catfood
  7:04......TODO fasting glucose
  7:05......TODO ketones
  7:06......TODO weight
  7:07......TODO hydrate
  7:08......TODO am meds
  7:10......TODO shower
  7:20......TODO hair
  7:22......TODO shave
  7:25......TODO teeth
  7:27......TODO deo
  7:28......TODO morning netty
  7:28......TODO wash netty
  7:33......TODO chg jeans (+3d)
  7:33......TODO dress
  7:38......TODO pockets
  7:42......TODO litter
  7:45......TODO bkfst/coffee
  8:00......TODO journal
  NB: this is a good time to
  apply the quiet art of attn
  (see my other HN post) and do
  your best to like or dislike
  current thought patterns
  8:15......TODO email
  8:30......TODO chats
  8:40......TODO calendar
  8:45......TODO planning
  9:00......TODO login/execute
 12:00......TODO lunch/nap
 18:00......TODO logoff
 18:10......TODO text friends
it's not just morning that matters. and don't let the jerks and trolls get to you: it's your time and your life.

New year's Unix haiku chain, for fun

Posted by billwear on Thursday January 02, 2025 @10:16AM
from the self-post dept.

happy new year. here’s a collection of twenty Unix-inspired haikus, strung together in Unix tool style. enjoy.1.Shell whispers commands, Pipes carry thoughts unseen, Files wait in silence.2.Awkward, but precise, Awk scripts slice through data’s fog, Patterns laid bare, whole.3.Man pages unfold, Cryptic wisdom hides within, Seek, and grep shall find.4.Chmod's gentle touch, Permissions carved...

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Re:Ask HN: Where to Work After 40? on Thursday January 02, 2025 @09:56AM (#42574928)
At 60, I applied to Canonical and got hired. The hiring process is thorough but very fair, all WFH, and they generally don't care about personal attributes. Gave me 20% above my asking price and a higher starting rank than expected.
Re:How Well Do LLMs Generate Code for Different Application Domains? on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @10:02AM (#42559066)
forget benchmarks. use emacs lisp as a test case. i have yet to find an LLM that can consistently generate working functions in elisp (possibly even lisp itself).
Re:The Quiet Art of Attention on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @09:35AM (#41848452)
good advice on the site CSS, meeting you halfway (black on white is too stark for my eyes, as it is for many people)
Re:The Quiet Art of Attention on Monday October 14, 2024 @05:17AM (#41835736)
haven't read that book, but it's not unusual since language is finite.

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