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Re:Help Keep Thunderbird Alive on Thursday April 09, 2026 @11:32AM (#47705061)
I think email is one of the few critical services that takes a lot of effort to get it right. I'd rather have them take a while to ensure it is reliable rather than have a buggy mess on launch day.
Re:List Animals Until Failure on Sunday February 01, 2026 @12:10AM (#46843801)
I like how it triggers an overlay when you try "human", it's a nice touch
Re:Why didn't AI "join the workforce" in 2025? on Monday January 05, 2026 @11:50PM (#46508871)
I get the point you are making, but the hypothetical question from your manager doesn't make sense to me.

It's obviously true that any of your particular coworker wouldn't be useful to you relative to an AI agent, since their goal is to perform their own obligations to the rest of the company, whereas the singular goal of the AI tool is to help the user.

Until these AI tools can completely replace a developer on its own, the decision to continue employing human developers or paying for AI tools will not be mutually exclusive.

I think the initial job loss from AI will come from having individual workers be more productive and eliminate the need to have larger teams to get the same work done.
Re:Telegram Stars: Pay for Digital Goods and More on Thursday June 06, 2024 @11:26PM (#40605020)
Discord is one other messaging platform that I've found to be very bot friendly
> Like how Reddit is fine with r/Superbowl deleting any post that isn't a picture of an owl.

Minor nitpick: I agree with the idea, but the deletion of any post that doesn't contain an owl on r/Superbowl isn't a ridiculous rule. The subreddit is dedicated to "superb owls" and not to anything else.

Re:List one task, do it, cross it out on Saturday June 10, 2023 @05:23PM (#36275260)
Applying LLMs or AI to our schedules isn't an unreasonable idea. If it could improve our own productivity even just slightly, I would consider that a win. It would be democratizing the effects of value add from traditional assistants to everyone.

I think good ideas sometimes come from connecting two concepts that seem unrelated, and we shouldn't really silence any of these ideas.

All this feels like a rehash of the British Empire selling Opium to China in the 18th century. Only this time it's China supplying the United States along with other addictive digital platforms such as TikTok.
I've found myself running into sync-conflicts while editing my Obsidian Vault in a syncthing folder in the past. Did syncthing work flawlessly OOB in your experience?
A similar web-based keyboard model/layout generator for Dactyl (concave) keyboards is https://ryanis.cool/dactyl.

I think concave keyboards tend to be more ergonomic than 2d layouts, but to each their own.

I agree. Abagnale never outputted anything for the public, but he has outputted tremendous good for himself at the expense of others. Him and Jobs both achieved feats that no average man could have achieved.
Re:ARM64 Linux Workstation on Friday March 03, 2023 @04:12PM (#35015060)
Does anyone know how cost effective a base M1 Mac Studio would be compared to a PC build with comparable cost? There's also the obvious set of trade offs, such as being quiet, compact, but being unrepairable, while the PCs having nearly the opposite qualities. Is the power efficiency of Apple Silicon still a major advantage in a desktop system?
Yes, but if you know that you can probably steal the enemy's golden goose if you tried hard enough, I would think you wouldn't kill it outright.

CCP is better off keeping the world's best chip fab in a region they claim to be their territory.

This looks pretty cool. Might be too similar to https://jumpcutter.com/ though.
Re:Why JSON Isn’t A Good Configuration Language (2018) on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @08:30PM (#31661762)
They aren't supported by the standard libraries of those languages though. It is still a major advantage of JSON.
Re:Tell HN: HN is not immune to manipulation on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @09:20PM (#31010194)
Maybe there needs to be a way to flag a user if they are negatively contributing to HN.
Re:Charm – Tools to make the command line glamorous on Sunday January 23, 2022 @02:58PM (#30049866)
It really does. I wonder if these SSH applications can be linked and used like web applications where it's delivered to the end-user over the network with terminal + SSH being used as a browser. The only problem for these applications (and Charmbracelet) would be that there isn't much audience that could use these.
Re:Ask HN: Predictions for 2022? on Sunday January 02, 2022 @05:35AM (#29767555)
There is another Ask HN thread regarding predictions for 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29746236
Re:China: Democracy That Works on Sunday December 12, 2021 @01:06AM (#29527528)
I just thought that this whitepaper from the Chinese government was interesting to share. I do recognise that the whitepaper is propaganda but not all my submissions have to reflect my thoughts and opinions.

Given that Hacker News occasionally has discussions on politics I believe that it is fitting to share, propaganda or not.

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