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Re:I don't recommend Tailwind CSS on Sunday August 02, 2026 @05:14AM (#49142608)
I'd appreciate a way to disable the real-time chat on this website, I don't see a way on mobile. It's currently full of racial slurs.
Re:GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @08:15AM (#48816669)
What are the choice cuts?
Re:GPT-5.4 on Thursday March 05, 2026 @06:10PM (#47268526)
Git hooks
How exactly did you get "burned" ? I'm still wearing an original pebble. It's worked fine for years.
For more thoughts along these lines, I recommend folks read Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
What's absurd? Sounds bang on
Re:Sanding UI on Sunday September 22, 2024 @03:26AM (#41615260)
It also helps with accessibility, screen readers etc
Re:Researchers find signs of intelligence among jumping spiders on Thursday January 25, 2024 @02:30AM (#39127145)
Douglas Adams was right, the mice are experimenting on us
Re:Mounting Git commits as folders with NFS on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @05:15AM (#38529009)
What's the difference?
Custom games? :D I miss playing "tree tag" on Warcraft3 Battle.net
Re:Splitting the Web on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @07:36PM (#36964800)
I like cozyweb
Re:Degrowth and the Monkey's Paw on Thursday May 18, 2023 @06:13AM (#35986040)
What about increased natural resource consumption?
Re:Sailcargo on Sunday April 09, 2023 @08:48PM (#35507978)
The napkin-math contrarians are out in full force today!

I urge folk to consider why folk would come from around the world to help build and sail these ships. We build container haulers to live but there are folk that live to build sailing ships.

How can natural gas be net zero?
Re:Over 16,000 people still use a Pebble smartwatch on Thursday November 03, 2022 @07:44AM (#33449607)
I am one of those people! I'm scared of the day my pebble stops working, it's honestly the best peiece of electronics I've ever owned.
Re:Using a Framework will harm the maintenance of your software on Thursday October 13, 2022 @01:35AM (#33187616)
I was against frameworks until I used re-frame in Clojurescript. If the framework is sufficiently pluggable it can be incredibly valuable.
Re:Logic on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @02:54AM (#31336637)
I wonder if To Dissect a Mockingbird inspired Urbit's Nock
Some other cool Ink & Switch projects:

Cambria [1], "isolated software layer that translates data between schemas on demand"

Diesis [2], a browser plugin that locally finds connections between the pages you've visited

[1] https://www.inkandswitch.com/cambria.html [2] https://github.com/inkandswitch/ksp-browser

Just a heads up, I listened to a podcast about bird feeding recently and they mentioned that ground beef can cause serious bone density issues in magpies and crows, they're used to eating the bones of small animals alongside the meat and with a full belly of mince they won't seek them out.

May be worth looking into! They suggested mixing ground-up calcium supplements into the beef.

Re:I made an eInk newspaper on Monday March 29, 2021 @04:37AM (#26618909)
> Curiously HN gets people who want to be as rich as Elon Musk, but don't think anything should cost money!

Those are different people, just both using HN

Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App on Friday January 22, 2021 @07:08AM (#25870952)
champing at the bit** :P
Re:I have seen things on Saturday March 07, 2020 @07:34PM (#22515351)
> but I only get to look at them for 10 seconds

You can touch the screen and hold to keep the picture there for longer. If it's like Instagram stories you can tap the far left side of the screen to go backwards as well.

Re:Redecentralize.org on Thursday February 27, 2020 @08:31PM (#22439793)
Re:Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later on Monday November 25, 2019 @12:40AM (#21625748)
> 4. Buzzword soup

Maybe I'm in too deep but peer-to-peer is a buzzword? I mean person-to-person, without intermediaries. This seems useful and powerful to me (and my politics I suppose).

> 5. no transparency/security using crypto as bulk transport

I don't mean building a social layer on top, I mean building digital infrastructure on top, 'smart contracts' etc.

I still maintain hope for something like this but after watching the gradual but massive increase in the complexity of 'DeFi' (decentrialized finance) in the Ethereum community I don't know where to look and what to work on these days...

Re:Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later on Monday November 25, 2019 @12:30AM (#21625706)
My apologies, I shouldn't treat HN like Twitter. My statement was meant to spark a discussion but I should try to explain myself.

Maybe "Money laundering doesn't exist in a hypothetical world of private peer-to-peer transactions" is better? That's what I believe the crypto-folk are working towards.

I recognize the existence of laws again 'money laundering' in countries like the USA. I suppose a better way of framing what I think is that money laundering is an invented crime in order to further empower agents of a State to seize assets of those suspected of actual crimes. By 'invented' and 'actual' I'm appealing to a sense of legitimacy separate (or adjacent?) to said State's legal system.

Re:Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later on Sunday November 24, 2019 @07:42AM (#21620064)
1. I don't know if it will work, but the idea is Proof of Stake (ETH2 in Ethereum-land)

2. You can't -- this is a cultural problem, not a technological one

3. There's no such thing as money laundering

4. Peer-to-peer, transparent finance infrastructure

5. User-money as a layer on top of cryptocurrency

Re:Clinical Trial on a Public Blockchain on Sunday July 28, 2019 @03:43AM (#20546329)
A centralized, trusted authority does a good job until it doesn't.
Re:Land of Lisp (2010) on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @12:17AM (#19679710)
Does Common Lisp have something similar to Clojure's threading macros?

  (trim-string (get-string '(some data)))

  (-> '(some data)
      get-string
      trim-string
https://clojure.org/guides/threading_macros

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