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Re:Toit v2.0.0 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:12AM (#50349368)
The wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toit is short but still gives a lot of context.
Re:The designer lamps in my house on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @03:38AM (#49975406)
I noticed a Toyooka Craft box in the article (on the "Louis Poulsen PH 3/2" pic), and thought "fountain pen user." This article about their setup mentions fountain pens.
Those brands would lose the Chinese market.
Re:Turbo Haskell on Friday October 02, 2026 @05:02AM (#49931371)
FYI the article links a discussion on Reddit, which has answers for several comments made here.
Re:Turbo Haskell on Friday October 02, 2026 @04:54AM (#49931323)
The article gives a link to the discussion on Reddit. In it, Edward says "I actually did pretty much gave up sleep for a week. That said there are a few hour stretches here and there where I leave it on mostly cleanup tasks and doze off. you can find a couple of 2-3 hour breaks where it got hung up on approval while I was lights out. "
Re:Anecdotally, Programmers Dislike "Reduce" on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:11AM (#49737829)
My C is really rusty but aren't those different ? If using #if/#endif the compiler won't even see the comments.
Why is every paragraph in this article at most 2 sentences long, with most of them being a single sentence?
Re:Fastpotify on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @09:10AM (#49521499)
I use Deezer (in a browser tab, and on my iphone.) It's good, but far from great.

If several artists / bands share the same name, there will be one artist page with all of the artists/bands releases. The queue management sucks, I can add stuff to the queue, move / remove individual entries. That's it. If I added an album to the queue and want to remove it, I have to click a little cross one time for each track of the album. Notifications about new releases: great. Except the UI is a tiny dropdown, and hovering over an item removes the little marker signaling it's a new one. It's really difficult to catch up when there are more than 5 new entries. etc.

Re:Kumander Linux – A Linux Distro with a Windows 7 Desktop on Saturday August 29, 2026 @05:00AM (#49488195)
IIRC win2k introduced some transparency effects and shadows, like when menus would gradually appear from transparent to fully opaque (I don't know the right word for that.) I found it really cool at the time.
I thought it was more of a cultural thing, or perhaps enforced by the building code ? Here in France I've never seen a house or flat without shutters. In Bangkok, when I was looking for a condo, none of them had shutters.

A cursory web search tells me shutters can influence the DPE ("diagnostic de performance énergétique".) A bad rating means you can't rent your property.

They are complimentary. Shutters reduce the amount of heat coming in. AC gets whatever heat managed to go in out.

One thing I'll never understand is not having shutters, only curtains. I live in France, almost everyone has shutters. But in other countries it's often different. I lived in Thailand for a couple of years and had only curtains, so the sun would still get past the window pane, heat the curtain, and the AC would then have take this heat outside again. This seemed massively inefficient.

I thing the best compromise is using whatever traditional, passive means of cooling we can, and then AC as needed.

Re:I Started a "Dirt Notebook" on Saturday July 18, 2026 @03:10AM (#48955884)
The japanese page says "© Designphil Inc." at the bottom. Designphil also owns Traveler's Company which makes traveler's notebooks, another interesting system, and MD product.
Re:I Started a "Dirt Notebook" on Saturday July 18, 2026 @03:01AM (#48955860)
You could try getting an EF nib and pair it with a fast drying ink ( https://mountainofink.com/blog/fast-dry-inks for examples)? Also, some manufacturers (for example Lamy) make special nibs for left-handed people.
Re:15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test on Sunday June 21, 2026 @05:31AM (#48617206)
I initially thought about sharing this about stress and didn't, but then I read your post.

That's how I learned I was stressed while working. I have a Garmin watch and everyday I get an alert telling me I had a stressful day.

During the day if I do a little check-in where I observe how I feel, I often notice a lot of muscle tension, especially in the plexus area, and that I stop breathing for extended periods of time. I try to consciously relax, which would work for a few minutes before the tension comes again. I end up being exhausted almost everyday. My watch has been telling me I'm either in "recovery" or "strained" for months.

Stress can be difficult to notice, especially when you're stressed.

Re:The Two Sleeps on Friday May 15, 2026 @04:38AM (#48146064)
Same, and most of the times it’s when I sleep longer. Perhaps because there’s a lot of REM sleep towards the end of the night (as my Garmin watch tells me) and/or because I’m kind of half awake at that time. So maybe dream recall indicates I slept a whole night
Also: M-x artist-mode in emacs.
Re:Code is cheap. Show me the talk on Saturday January 31, 2026 @10:34AM (#46837527)
I was thinking about this and wonder if a LLM trained exclusively on the language spec and API docs would be able to generate code in it?
Re:Vibe a Guitar Pedal on Friday January 23, 2026 @03:41AM (#46730051)
I agree a good multi-effect is useful to learn what the different effects actually do, but there are good entry-level multi-effect pedals that are cheaper than that. And this pedal can only have one effect at a time.

Also, it seems there's no preview in their AI playground, so you have to burn tokens and upload the effect to test it, and it may take lots of iterations to get what you want.

So I think this could mainly interest developers who are able to use it as a platform to develop their own effects without going through the AI thing, and beginners who want to be able to use different community effects to test things.

Re:Vibe a Guitar Pedal on Friday January 23, 2026 @02:11AM (#46729436)
They should have used a screen for the front plate and have the IA generate a visual. But then they'd pass the $20 per plate.

I don't like these kind of products, what I get in breadth I lose in depth, it's like having a enormous Steam library but only play the first half an hour of each game because I have limited time to invest and too many things. I'm already overwhelmed with my Katana 100.

Re:The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe on Monday January 12, 2026 @01:08PM (#46592031)
> Don’t try to interact with a windows desktop while it is still booting up

I experience the same with macOS. For example Discord steals focus.

Re:It's hard to justify Tahoe icons on Monday January 05, 2026 @11:12AM (#46500530)
What's trollish about his blog ?
Re:10 years of personal finances in plain text files on Friday January 02, 2026 @07:54AM (#46464283)
I started to use PTA several times already, and I always have an issue with the granularity of transactions. For example when I go to the local supermarket, do I track food and hygiene products separately ? Some supermarkets give the subtotal for different categories, some don´t. It could be useful to see where the money goes.

I'm about to start out again and I chose not to track different categories individually, knowing that I can still add sub-accounts to distinguish between them later (even if I can´t recover the information for older transactions.)

Now I just need to investigate how to track gains/losses on the ETFs I own but that's common enough that there should be information out there on how to do it.

Re:Win32 is the stable Linux ABI on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @10:49AM (#46445165)
It was more about everything since the Amiga being a regression. BeOS was sometimes called a successor (in spirit) to the Amiga : a fun, snappy, single-user OS.

I regularly install HaikuOS in a VM to test it and I think I could probably use it as a daily driver, but ported software often does not feel completely right.

Re:Win32 is the stable Linux ABI on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @03:53AM (#46442520)
What about BeOS ?
Re:Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @05:12PM (#46370086)
Scala has the @tailrec annotation which will raise a warning if the function can’t be TCO’d
My windows are insulated. Is it more expensive than a screen/camera/electronics ?
Why don't they make part of the door with that magical see-through material my windows are made of ?
> Sam’s girlfriend, theorized that in the hospital Sam didn’t want to be a bother and didn’t advocate for himself

I'm like that and it sucks, I now bring my wife to medical appointments so she can complain for me while I downplay everything.

Re:An Opinionated Critique of Duolingo on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @04:05AM (#45435455)
I learned english at school in France, and we're notoriously bad at teaching foreign languages. The approach is way to academic and mainly based on reading. That's why our accents are often atrocious. I was good at written tests, but what allowed me to actually get fluent (as in being able to think in english and convert my thoughts to speech in real time) was watching tv series in english with subtitles in english (no translation involved.)
Re:Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy on Monday September 22, 2025 @10:48AM (#45334236)
omakub (https://omakub.org/) is/was (for Ubuntu), this looks more like a "real" Arch derivative.

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