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Re:An update on recent Claude Code quality reports on Thursday April 23, 2026 @08:25PM (#47884025)
So this explains why resuming a session after a 5-hour timeout basically eats most of the next session. How then to avoid this?
As is the case in Australia. We personally pay around AU$2/day grid connect fee
Re:AI is making junior devs useless on Sunday March 01, 2026 @04:17PM (#47210757)
Similarly, I started using Claude to add some features to an native app on iOS and Android in early January. That was so successful (tooks days instead of weeks) I started applying it to client work and basically haven't written any substantial code since. A big change from around 40 years of writing code pretty much every day and I'm enjoying the increased velocity from not having to web search for API and CSS syntax details.

My son, working in another dev company, reports the same - he basically hasn't written much actual code for about three months. It's a massive change.

Re:Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust on Thursday May 29, 2025 @02:12AM (#44123552)
I didn't see 'highlighting on wrong line', but double-click a word not selecting the word is annoying (Firefox on Windows11)
Re:So Much Blood on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @07:30PM (#43921535)
The term for slaughtering pigs around here is 'turning them off' - all attempts to disconnect from the reality of what is happening.
Re:Why Is the Kiwi's Egg So Big? on Saturday May 03, 2025 @04:00AM (#43877544)
Moa seemed to contradict this
It’s an issue for everyone not in a car
Māori were the first settlers of NZ. There’s no record of any earlier population being “dinner” for anyone.
Re:How Airbnb Measures Listing Lifetime Value on Saturday April 05, 2025 @12:40AM (#43590798)
Airbnb hosts are penalised if they cancel - they get downrated - so it's not something that hosts generally want to do. Far better if they can persuade a guest to cancel
we keep bread in the freezer. eggs are fine at room temperature for a few weeks if they have never been chilled.
Re:Where is London's most central sheep? on Thursday January 23, 2025 @05:04PM (#42808527)
For NSW it’s time to dead kangaroo on the roadside
Re:Post World War II Food on Thursday October 24, 2024 @04:43PM (#41939548)
It was one of my grandfather’s (WWII veteran) favourite foods, a taste acquired in his army days.
Thunderbird is great until you receive Teams invites. It removes/hides the links in the calendar entry so you need to keep the email in order to be able to click on the meeting link.
Re:Repairing my mug with kintsugi on Saturday June 01, 2024 @05:51PM (#40549363)
The BBC “repair shop” show recently (last year?) had an episode repairing a shattered vase with some specialist glass repair glue, so you can probably find some for this.
Re:Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @07:24PM (#40448137)
They don't seem to have considered domestic abuse situations where this makes everything visible to the abusive partner.
Attaching to the roof requires screwing fasteners through the metal in fairly arbitrary positions based on the underlying framing. It’s not going to be easy to have electric connections.
Re:We've Been Treating Concussions All Wrong on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @05:33PM (#39772269)
If you weren't ok you would black out so really best to get checked at a hospital.
I think a number of people noticed (including the cabin crew) but nobody said anything. I guess we assumed the flight crew knew what was going on, but no, that was not the case. This was a Qantas regional flight Sydney-Armidale
This was on a Dash-8 and I was a passenger seated beside the wing. The aircraft shook when the tyre burst and the cabin crew looked concerned but nobody did anything. Eventually, an hour into the flight, one of the flight crew came back with a torch (it was nighttime) to look at the window at the landing gear.
I certainly regret not reporting a burst tyre while taxiing to depart as we ended up diverted to an emergency landing with all the passengers in brace position. No real harm done but stressful for everyone.
Re:Amazon Disables iOS Kindle App on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @06:05PM (#38861031)
Definitely a bug. Deregistering the device resolves the issue. Discussed on reddit and apple forums.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kindle/s/IOnHT8bA2D

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255387338

Amazon Disables iOS Kindle App

In the last 24 hours Amazon made a change so that downloading a new book to the iOS kindle app causes the app to shutdown. Once a new book is downloaded the app will spontaneously shutdown after about 30 seconds. Currently there’s no fix.

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The source is available (https://github.com/ubicloud/ubicloud) and the license says it's free to use so long as you don't use it to run a hosted service. It looks fairly 'open'?
Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @04:45PM (#38634593)
I wrote my own version of the quickbooks pro timer app since the old one doesn't work on modern windows but I need it to track time to bill clients and I didn't want to use one of the subscription-based timers. Wrote it in Avalon so it works on PC and MacOS.

I wrote https://gardenate.com for my own use so I could get reminders for when to plant vegetables - it's expanded a bit since then.

The motivation is the large number of workers contracting silicosis

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