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Re:Apple A19 SoC die shot on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @05:10PM (#45352797)
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Re:'Block Everything' protests sweep across France, scores arrested on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @05:15PM (#45203858)
this is called goomba fallacy.
Re:Firefox Has Moved to Firefox.com on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @05:01PM (#45045217)
would be pretty difficult to sell out while dead
Re:DeepWiki: Understand Any Codebase on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @06:19PM (#45033063)
Re:macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @06:06PM (#45032945)
thank you for unlocking the mystery
Re:Show HN: Bizcardz.ai – Custom metal business cards on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @05:14PM (#44966544)
if it forbids commercial use, it's not MIT. like at all
Re:AnduinOS on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @02:05PM (#44964471)
it's a copypasta
Re:GitHub is (again) having issues on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @11:25AM (#44877530)
not gonna happen. society loves monopolies because they're convenient
Re:Using MacBook's trackpad as digital weighing scale on Monday July 21, 2025 @09:37PM (#44642397)
> pressing as hard as i could

you are a brave one

Re:XMLUI on Monday July 21, 2025 @05:49PM (#44640807)
that is insane.
Re:Most people who buy games on Steam never play them on Sunday July 13, 2025 @03:04PM (#44552642)
the original title is "Most people who buy your game won’t play it", which is actually equivalent to what you're saying (even though it still says 'most people'!). HN mods edit titles to avoid clickbait and the like, which can end up like this
Re:Faking a JPEG on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:22PM (#44538482)
sounds like a botnet to me
Re:The Day You Became a Better Writer (2007) on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @09:18PM (#44505470)
woah
Re:Reverse Engineering Vercel's BotID on Monday June 30, 2025 @06:18PM (#44428523)
> If my IP address says I'm in Romania but my browser is asking for the English language version of the page... That's a signal.

jesus christ don't give them ideas. it's annoying enough to have my country's language forced on me (i prefer english) when there's a perfectly good http header for that. now blocking me based on this?!

Re:The Book Cover Trend of Text on Old Paintings on Saturday June 28, 2025 @11:54PM (#44410238)
love the juxtaposition! beautiful paintings with hideous typography on top
Re:Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk on Saturday June 28, 2025 @11:47PM (#44410214)
just use nushell man
Re:Alternative Layout System on Saturday June 28, 2025 @02:38PM (#44407030)
it's "my father and I"
Re:Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @03:23PM (#44380975)
this reminds me of the plot to Black Mirror's Plaything :-)
Re:Web Translator API on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @02:27PM (#44380413)
how do you know this?
well the editor was obviously designed primarily for Windows, not sure why the title says Linux
Re:I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst on Monday June 23, 2025 @12:21AM (#44352425)
you are wrong. typst's lead dev has stated that an important goal is to have the CLI (which is open source) and web app behave identically, even refusing to implement such a basic feature as PDF embedding because, due to technical reasons, it is currently incompatible with this goal. [1]

typst, the project, is not by any means a "mix" of open and closed, even if typst, the company, is. indeed, the most thorough LSP implementation available (tinymist) is not only open source but a community project. for another funny example see typstify, a paid typst editor not affiliated with the company. [2]

[1]: https://github.com/typst/typst/issues/145#issuecomment-17531...

[2]: https://typstify.com/purchase/

Re:Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly on Friday June 20, 2025 @10:22PM (#44333972)
this solution is just fundamentally insufficient. in the age of LLMs it's pretty insane to imagine programmers manually hard-coding an arbitrary subset of grammatical corrections (sure: it's faster, it's local first, but it's not enough). on top of that, English (like any other natural language) is such a complicated beast that you will never write a classic deterministic parser that's sophisticated enough to allow you to reliably implement even the most basic of grammatical corrections (check the other comments for examples). it's just not gonna happen.

i guess it's a nice and lightweight enhancement on top of the good old spellchecker, though

Re:Workout.cool – Open-source fitness coaching platform on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @11:36AM (#44310822)
just fork it?
Re:Working on databases from prison on Monday June 16, 2025 @08:21PM (#44294572)
yuck
Re:Simplest C++ Callback, from SumatraPDF on Monday June 16, 2025 @11:56AM (#44290792)
the pdfkit from the first google result doesn't seem to be related to apple's. what happened here is that "pdfkit" is a very generic name that happens to coincide with apple's convention of naming many of their frameworks something-kit (uikit, appkit, avkit, ...)
Re:Cure Dolly's Japanese Grammar Lessons on Monday June 16, 2025 @01:26AM (#44286833)
take a look at the long comment on that pastebin, this is some really interesting hobbydrama
Re:Simplest C++ Callback, from SumatraPDF on Monday June 16, 2025 @01:18AM (#44286799)
firefox uses pdf.js, but chromium uses pdfium and safari uses pdfkit
so, in your opinion, the best way to be polite is to not exist? that's a nice outlook on humanity
how is it any sillier?
they're not asking for a structural typing overhaul, just a way to make ad-hoc anonymous types with named fields and pass them around. a lot of times with tuple return types you're left wondering what that random `usize` is supposed to represent, so having names for it would be very convenient. i don't see why, under the hood, it couldn't just be implemented the exact same way as current tuple return types

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