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Re:Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6 on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @03:28AM (#50270242)
OneDrive, Dropbox etc are not backup tools, they're file sync tools. This really should be common knowledge.
Re:A Modern Web App in C on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:11AM (#50067477)
I think you severely underestimate the speed of sqlite + nvme.
Re:How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs on Monday August 24, 2026 @11:18AM (#49421006)
"in your field"? All small businesses and solo enterpreneurs that I know who are hit by this are not "in this field". Their field is making jewelry or knitted toys or something similar. Now many are just not planning to ship EU wide just because it's too high risk for them.
Re:Fable and the End of the Free Lunch on Monday August 24, 2026 @02:45AM (#49415988)
Add new route to API that displays additional information we need, work out query for it, update controllers/models/whatnot. No need for top model for that.
Re:Apple is getting this wrong on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @05:24AM (#49166152)
I've worked in strategically important sector and only USB devices that were allowed were keyboards and mice. The use of Bluetooth keyboard/mouse was discouraged.
Re:Orion Browser by Kagi on Monday July 20, 2026 @06:52AM (#48977007)
It wasn't in Mosaic either so I have no idea where they took that fact from.
It was just one off task and I already had agent doing categorising with the same data so I just asked it. Otherwise I agree.
Because I was already doing categorising and analysing same data with agent and I had my session open already. It should've been an easy task for an agent, right?
Just today I gave my local agent a CSV which listed a bunch files with of human readable size units and asked it to count rows in each GB range. Sounds simple enough but it completely miscalculated, because it parsed MB as GB for some reason. In hindsight it would've be quicker just to do it in Excel or something.
I live in the center of a capital of small EU country and I'm scheduled to get fiber Q3 this year. Copper is getting tired and flakey, 5G is overcrowded. There's been close to no progress in residential internet for the past 15 years.
Re:Show HN:Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer on Friday July 10, 2026 @04:28AM (#48857282)
For long time my daily driver was T480s with 24GB. I still have it, but don't use it anymore because it is slow for my needs now.
Re:Herdr: One terminal to rule them all on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @04:52AM (#48829373)
Zellij has context sensitive hint bar that shows possible key bindings. You can turn it off, but by default it's there.
Would you like them to as a local? That probably is the answer to your question.
Re:Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models on Sunday June 28, 2026 @01:33AM (#48704677)
I'm from Europe and never hear indians clumped together with chinese as "asian". When speaking of geography, then yes, but that's about it. It's always "Indian startup", never "Asian startup" for example. Indian food, not Asian food etc. YMMV
Re:Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models on Sunday June 28, 2026 @01:10AM (#48704563)
Are you from UK perhaps? Because UK is the only place I know where "asian" also includes India and Pakistan. Everywhere else India is sort of separate entity and always mentioned separately.
I replaced my M1 Air with M1 Max 64GB few weeks ago, not the biggest upgrade, but memory was that made me decide. It's hard to find even 64GB models nowadays.
Sure, but Gemini subscription gives you just that - Gemini subscription, but new computer allows you to do other stuff with it as well. When you're upgrading anyway for other reasons then it's not fair to compare full Studio price to just one subscription.
In my experience they require much more hand holding and more specific directions with less possibilities to interpret a command in several ways. You do the planning, keep on eye on that they're producing and they do the legwork. It's not that their knowledge of Java or PHP or what have you is lacking, it's the long horizon planning that you have to do yourself. Technically they're good. You just have to do more thinking and more reviewing yourself. YMMV.
Huh, and I thought it's just my crappy old external monitor.
Re:New Beam Spring Keyboards on Monday June 01, 2026 @12:39AM (#48352668)
20g? How do you use it? I'm light typist, I'm not hammering on keys at all and even 32g is too nervous for me, I can't rest my fingers on keyboard without typing a novel. Can't imagine 20g keys.
Re:SQLite is all you need for durable workflows on Saturday May 30, 2026 @03:34AM (#48333658)
Everything is huge compared to sqlite.
At my last workplace I was not allowed to install JSON viewer/prettier extension for my browser, but I was allowed to install VScode with random JSON plugins.
Re:Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged on Thursday May 14, 2026 @06:07AM (#48133291)
Ship of Theseus.
Re:I’ve banned query strings on Sunday May 10, 2026 @03:58AM (#48081924)
But you see that anyway from access.log or whatever your server supports and dashboard/analytics shows it anyway? What's the benefit of adding origin to query string?
Re:A Beginner's Guide to Split Keyboards on Friday February 20, 2026 @03:52AM (#47085430)
Many-many moons ago I moved my mouse to the left side because I didn't have enough room on my desk on the right side. I became equally good with both hands and this has been paying dividends for years. Except I didn't reverse buttons, my brain just adapted and I never confuse which button to press.
Re:Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace on Wednesday February 26, 2025 @02:46AM (#43181631)
I paid happily for monokai pro vscode since it was a one time payment. However I will not purchase a subscription for jetbrains intellij because per year it'll cost me the same amount as the intellij idea ultimate and that just doesn't seem like a fair price.
Re:Svelte 5 is not JavaScript on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @11:15PM (#43098490)
Yes, but not everybody builds the next social network or complex commercial app with 50 pages and 150 forms. It used to be that svelte was the perfect choice to build simple spa fronts to backend services, there already was react for complex applications. Now we have 2 additional reacts with svelte and vue and no mainstream simple framework for smaller stuff. Why does everybody feel they need to build eventually the same thing, but slightly different?
> real drivers licence

Drivers licence as a personal ID is not really a thing in Europe. It's accepted at some places, but either passport or your state provided ID-card is much preferred.

Re:Apple Acquires Pixelmator on Friday November 01, 2024 @01:06PM (#42019134)
Yes you are. You probably live in the US, Canada or the UK.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024) on Monday October 28, 2024 @04:23AM (#41968792)
Thank you for working on light theme, it seems that 90% of themes are dark nowadays. Depending on languages I switch between dark and light themes and for the latter there's lot less choice. My brain has gotten used to that Java and R must have light themes, most other languages dark. I even have different color theme for each language. It's how my brain works.

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