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Re:Left to Right Programming on Monday August 18, 2025 @02:06PM (#44943542)
This is it right here. I love the Python ecosystem but if I can find a JS alternative I'm using that for ergonomics.
Re:QuakeNotch, Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch on Sunday July 20, 2025 @03:17PM (#44628405)
Thanks! Just learned about hot key windows.

https://www.karam.io/blog/2018/turning-i-term-in-to-a-quake-...

Re:AirPods succeed by not selling you a new pair on Friday July 18, 2025 @12:38PM (#44606748)
When my pair of Airpods started hissing, I bought "cheap" headphones from Amazon for $40. No Siri integration or what have you, but mic & speakers work great and if I lose them I'm not out hundreds of dollars.

Also the bluetooth pairing / switching between devices is much saner for me.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09FLNSYDZ

Is it just me or am I not seeing any example that isn't pure theory?

And if it is just me, fine I'll jump in - they should also make it so that users have to approve local network access three times. I worry about the theoretical security implications that come after they only approve local network access once.

It's 2025's ROT13 cipher for API. /s

It's also "Model Context Protocol", a protocol for LLMs to interact with third-party services.

Re:A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @11:51AM (#41502060)
Thus cross origin resource sharing. Thanks!

At least it's consistently inconsistent.

Re:A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @11:46AM (#41501987)
> Internally, we call the request’s destination server its “origin”

Origin: The point at which something comes into existence or from which it derives or is derived.

How can the request's destination server be the origin, if it is the destination server?

gross
Seeing the title reminded me of "Warriors of the Net".

We were genuinely told, as a class, to watch this video to learn how the internet worked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhvKm0RdUY0&themeRefresh=1

Good times!

Re:GitHub Is Down on Wednesday August 14, 2024 @07:45PM (#41251880)
It looks to be contained to just GitHub, azure service page shows no outages at this time.
Re:One Million Checkboxes on Thursday June 27, 2024 @12:06PM (#40812026)
The timeout can be about 200 before you need to chill out..
Re:The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @01:34PM (#40649149)
Thank you
Re:The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards on Monday June 03, 2024 @12:41PM (#40564456)
This tracks - it's difficult to speak at the same pace in Chinese as I can English. That said - are those 39.15 bits plaintext? Compressed? Encrypted?

The size of a word does not correlate with it's concept - I still posit that some languages can transfer concepts faster than others, minus our baud rate.

Edit: Or, perhaps I am not as gifted an English speaker as my bias has presumed :| For example, I had to lookup "syntagmatic".

Re:The Forgotten History of Chinese Keyboards on Saturday June 01, 2024 @08:27PM (#40550335)
I just started learning Chinese about 2 months ago, to me it seems they stuff whole concepts into characters.

For example,

"去" (pronounced "Qú") is "going to the". "超市" (prounced "Chao Shi") is "supermarket" "去超市" (pronounced "Qú Chao Shi") is "going to the supermarket".

3 syllables vs 7 syllables.

To me, it seems that instead of composing letters into words to convey meaning, they have more letters that are mini-words unto themselves.

Saw the headline, found your comment within two seconds, exhaled with relief.

Every time a cohesive pair of words is redefined, a new JS framework is born.

Re:OpenAI and Elon Musk on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @12:59AM (#39612782)
I don't know what to say more than - I wish they'd calculated in KWh instead of $.

I really want to know that figure, but I'm left extrapolating.

I could _guess_ it's huge, but that's not the point.

> "Can we make a separate intelligence beside ourselves, damn the energy expenditure?"

Re:Show HN: Nekoweb – a retro static web hosting on Monday February 26, 2024 @01:02AM (#39508068)
"Clearfix" - when this article was in the bookmarks bar: https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/clear-fix/
Re:RoR Debugbar on Sunday February 18, 2024 @07:28PM (#39424981)
We recently installed something similar (https://miniprofiler.com) into a legacy ASP.NET MVC app. It is setup to only be visible in local development environments.

In areas of the code where ORMs obscure the actual SQL that runs, it's shortened the amount of time and effort it takes to discover a slow route and optimize it.

"Handy to have that extra info in your dev environment" is pretty spot on.

Re:Autopay Is Making Us Worse at Managing Credit-Card Bills on Monday October 09, 2023 @01:04PM (#37822570)
Well said.
I recently (in the last 2 weeks) used Wayback Machine to miraculously restore an old static site where the backups had also been lost.

https://github.com/alessandropellegrini/WebsiteRecovery

Re:Embrace the Chaos: How to Write a Code Editor in 4 Months on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @12:06AM (#34591412)
> Randomly deleting unit tests may seem like insanity to some of you

I too, like to live dangerously.

Re:An Unexpected Benefit of Unit Tests on Sunday January 22, 2023 @05:24PM (#34482882)
Yes, test frequently and automatically.
Re:An Unexpected Benefit of Unit Tests on Saturday January 21, 2023 @01:46PM (#34468987)
Our team too, time saved is fairly quantifiable.
Re:GPT-3: Techniques to improve reliability on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:20AM (#34464575)
It is interesting to me that the approach required to work with this tool, is almost identical to using every other tool.

It boils down to - "try breaking this problem into smaller problems to increase the solution space".

~Can't wait to try this out~ just installed, thank you!
The Marriott have had some of their best earnings from the last 6 quarters.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MAR/marriott/reven...

I kind of agree and disagree (enough to type some stuff)

I can see how interaction with a human-like device is more engaging than Alexa (I have a Google Home speaker and feel the same)

However, then we're entering "uncanny valley", where we're always acutely aware that we're not talking to the caliber of consciousness we're used to.

Other companies have tried this: https://www.engadget.com/2018-07-25-adorable-home-robot-kuri...

Whatever voice assistant "dominates" next should be fun and not get in the way. Two very complex requirements in that particular domain.

That literally leads to the conclusion that prices rose, in your example.
Re:Blip: A tool for seeing your Internet latency on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:26PM (#33446142)
Couple of clues

The author mentioned the tool sends out requests, and just measures response time regardless of response status. (If they fail, they fail!)

And they measure response times from gstatic.com, which should have edge nodes near most locations.

Shot in the dark guess - perhaps you're hitting some kind of rate limit somewhere in that chain?

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