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Re:The Vibe Tax on Sunday August 23, 2026 @07:50PM (#49413733)
So we're coding in an ill-defined, ambiguous and error prone language.

Sweet, I can't believe some people don't love this.

Re:Apple Introduces MacBook Neo on Sunday March 08, 2026 @08:45AM (#47296883)
I really dislike "tap to click" for some reason. I like the feedback of actually pressing it.
Re:Tell HN: Ublock Origin stopped working with Youtube on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @01:58AM (#45808130)
I had the same issue but updating uBlock fixed it.
It's completely different to snip a cheap wire lock or even just pull hard on it and have the lock break versus pulling out the angle grinder and making a huge racket for a minute.
Re:Upcoming Rust language features for kernel development on Thursday October 16, 2025 @11:13AM (#45606410)
It's not that hard to implement a linked list in Rust in exactly the same way as in C or C++, using raw pointers, and putting a safe API around it.
Re:You Want Technology with Warts on Friday October 03, 2025 @08:43AM (#45462312)
I don't think it's unpopular at all that bash scripts suck a lot.
Doesn't the pilot press the button to do it himself? It's not like it's a surprise, he can tense the muscles beforehand.
Even if the ejections happened with no fault on your part?
Re:The Best Line Length on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @08:54AM (#44875632)
The problem is that on regular 13/14" laptop screens, it becomes hard to have two code editors side by side if you make the lines too wide.

And that's before we factor in all the nonsense IDEs like to clutter the screen with.

Re:Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance on Saturday March 08, 2025 @09:37AM (#43300574)
I know it's not the point but fun fact we've had big billboards advertising a specific OnlyFans account in a few cities in Portugal, with matching picture (not full nudity).
Successfully replicated after trying this!
What is this "Custom Color"? I clicked the "+" icon to open the color picker and did as described and I cannot reproduce this.

Sequoia 15.3.1 (24D70)

Re:I've Acquired a New Superpower on Friday January 10, 2025 @01:28PM (#42658428)
Try the second test image (the one labelled "Hard", with the snow). That one was far easier for me than the first (the cat one).
Re:M4 Mac mini's efficiency on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @04:19AM (#42124359)
My half solution is to use a keyboard that physically feels quite different to help my brain use a different mode. The Linux keyboard is a big heavy mechanical keyboard while on the macbook I just use the built-in keyboard.

It's not a perfect solution and I still make mistakes, but it helps.

They can start by taxing the poor less.
Re:The Introverts Are Winning on Monday August 05, 2024 @05:22AM (#41159442)
Typically real estate is extremely expensive near the places where company offices are. So it's a little unfair to call this a "choice".

Show HN: Redu – ncdu for your restic repository

https://github.com/drdo/redu

Redu helps you find what's taking up so much space in your restic repository, all the caches and useless things you might be backing up.Redu aggregates data from all snapshots into one view so you can easily find the culprits.It lets you navigate around and mark all the files you want and generate a restic-compatible exclude file that you can just use.There's a fairly complete README in the...

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Re:Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @05:24AM (#41044208)
I'm not sure that I fully understood the theming aspect but one point I think is that the standard 8/8 ANSI colors are presumably picked to be readable by the terminal theme itself, independent from your application.

So if you just use those in your application you don't know the actual colors that the user will see on their screen but you know that they will be something readable.

Re:Libera IRC Channels Sorted by Number of Users on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @07:16AM (#40984651)
I've used thelounge for a while but I'm baffled by how slow searching is.
Re:Rust for Filesystems on Monday July 15, 2024 @09:12AM (#40967590)
That is of course correct.

The main value is that you only have to make sure that a small amount of code surrounding the unsafe block is safe, and hopefully you provide a safe API for the rest of the code to use.

Re:Rust for Filesystems on Monday July 15, 2024 @07:14AM (#40966810)
But unsafe blocks are available! And you should use them when you have to, but only when you have to.

Using an unsafe block with a very limited blast radius doesn't negate all the guarantees you get in all the rest of your code.

I have the same experience. I never saw a captcha in the past couple months but in the last couple of days I'm getting a lot of them.
Re:Desktop Linux is an Untapped Gold Mine on Friday June 07, 2024 @11:55AM (#40609845)
I used Linux on personal machines for decades but recently switched to Mac because I no longer have the patience to deal with the constant jank (and these M1/2/3 macbooks are so good).

I would pay for nice vertically integrated Linux laptop where everything works well and I don't have to deal with numerous small problems that amount to a suboptimal experience.

Re:Ice - open source bar manager for macOS on Friday June 07, 2024 @06:58AM (#40607370)
I care! Does your solution involve disabling SIP?
Re:A love letter to bicycle maintenance and repair on Saturday May 04, 2024 @05:22AM (#40256156)
This perfectly matches my experience.
Re:A love letter to bicycle maintenance and repair on Saturday May 04, 2024 @05:18AM (#40256129)
Do you have some exotic luxury car? What kind of clutch costs 2.2k euro?
Yes, that's pretty much how it works. The city has the right to become the buyer for the specified price for any property sale.
Re:GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide on Friday October 20, 2023 @08:18AM (#37955089)
I reinvented the wheel on this one. It does expense tracking and shopping list for now.

Just took the opportunity to use it as a personal project to experiment with rust and htmx.

Not very relevant but I just thought it was funny how it's obvious that you don't do cycling when those are the prices you came up with as an example :)

It's considerably more expensive than that.

Re:GTK File Chooser Dialog gets a thumbnail view after 18 years on Saturday December 17, 2022 @10:33AM (#34028558)
That's just like... your opinion man.

I find modern UIs much more aesthetically pleasing than that GTK1 pic, by far.

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