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Re:Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual Plans on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @08:09AM (#47862443)
Microsoft's USP in one sentence.
Planning is important because you get the LLM to explain the problem and solution in its language and structure, not yours.

This shortcuts a range of problem cases where the LLM fights between the users strict and potentially conflicting requirements, and its own learning.

In the early days we used to get LLM to write the prompts for us to get round this problem, now we have planning built in.

Re:Ditching Obsidian and building my own on Sunday May 18, 2025 @05:29PM (#44024437)
Apple allowing iCloud directories to be permanently downloaded fixed this for me.
Re:Live Map of the London Underground on Friday April 11, 2025 @07:16AM (#43652607)
I also implemented this 16 years ago[1] while researching a lot of new technology all at once, it was tricky but very satisfying to get it working.

[1]: https://github.com/charleskubicek/wheres-my-tube

Re:Mouseless – fast mouse control with the keyboard on Thursday December 12, 2024 @12:01PM (#42400938)
Vimac[1], is Vimium for the entire screen and also works for web pages like GMail that don't work on Vimium.

[1] https://github.com/nchudleigh/vimac

Re:Mouseless – fast mouse control with the keyboard on Thursday December 12, 2024 @11:59AM (#42400914)
I've been using Vimac [1], which puts the targets directly on UI components.

[1] https://github.com/nchudleigh/vimac

Re:Towards Modern Development of Cloud Applications (2023) on Sunday January 14, 2024 @10:40AM (#38991369)
Great ideas. Observations:

- Making remote calls seem like they are local resulted in poor design decisions, the benefit of SOAP/REST was that people considered what the interface a useful service should be.

- Why not flip it and look to move groups of microservices onto the same machine, updating how the app communicate. - if component boundaries are fine grained, the combinations of local/remote services relative to each other increases, along with the testing burden; just because the system hides remote deploying, it still should be tested for.

- Incorporating this with storage, eg dynamic shard rebalancing would be super cool

Re:St. Cuthbert's Beads on Friday September 02, 2022 @10:40AM (#32691384)
I was there 2 weeks ago and got about 10. They are usually very small and take a while to find, you can often see people hunched over the same spot for a while sifting through the sand.
Re:I resigned from Twitter on Monday November 29, 2021 @12:36PM (#29382625)
This is good advice generally.
Re:Scala 3.0 on Friday May 14, 2021 @05:15AM (#27152346)
Re:Icecream: Never use print() to debug again in Python on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @08:32AM (#26633833)
The problem with printing variables is when you want to find them there's nothing to search for.
Re:Daft Punk Break Up on Monday February 22, 2021 @10:43AM (#26225775)
Maybe there'll be a Stardust reunion.
Ironic there's an option to share the article on Google Plus.
Re:Facebook Secretly Saved Videos Users Deleted on Sunday April 01, 2018 @12:04PM (#16728964)
Given any data submitted to FB legally becomes their property, they don’t have any obligation to delete it.
Re:Show HN: Rap Connects – Find every rap collaboration on Friday March 13, 2015 @05:35PM (#9200241)
OP here, thanks! Which 2 artists are missing songs?