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Re:Logitech Launches MX Master 4 Developer Edition Mouse on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @01:38AM (#50269686)
Yeah, nah. Guarantee me the coating doesn't moult in a few years and I'll buy two, until then I'll stick with my patchy, gross, MX 3.

Give me a way to take it apart and clean it and I'll buy three :)

Re:No More Icons in Every Menu by Default on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:39PM (#50189159)
> Alan Kay (of Smalltalk fame)

Alan Kay (of Alan Kay fame)

Re:2D Vehicles on Sunday October 11, 2026 @08:39AM (#50042682)
I just sunk an hour into this. I'm feeling better already.
Re:Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop on Friday September 25, 2026 @02:07AM (#49840700)
> Tiling window managers aren't new though, I went through my tiling phase 25 years ago (Ion).

Me too! Never moved off of it: https://notionwm.net/

An alternative is Joker: https://joker-lang.org

I think it is brilliant and completely underappreciated :)

"A good craftsman doesn't blame his tools" might be the western equivalent.
I like these efforts to neatly categorise the extent of AI usage in a project. I do think they need some kind of neutrally worded classification but this and the original post are fine attempts at this emerging niche. It's important to some of us and I look forward to what ends being adopted.
Re:Prism on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @10:12PM (#46790606)
... aaaand now it's JATS.
[delayed]
Re:Seeing Geologic Time: Exponential Browser Testing on Monday January 12, 2026 @11:36PM (#46597366)
> This architecture was subjected to a definitive stress test at 100,000 years using a single-file artifact.

what does this even mean?

Re:Flame Graphs vs. Tree Maps vs. Sunburst (2017) on Monday December 29, 2025 @09:23PM (#46428764)
See also `gdu` for an `ncdu` more suited to SSDs: https://github.com/dundee/gdu
Re:Claude was down on Thursday October 02, 2025 @10:44PM (#45458351)
Session resets at 2:30am
Re:OpenTSLM: Language models that understand time series on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @10:10PM (#45445730)
fwiw, I'm finding claude2 released a few days ago to be a lot less infuriating
I think I'd be down for anime catgirls in my builds. Something particularly anti-corporate about that I could get behind.
Not at all. I can't stand it either. It's definitely patronising and infantile. I tolerate the silliness, grit my teeth and move on but it wears away at my patience.
Re:AI Is Forcing the Return of the In-Person Job Interview on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @01:39AM (#44884975)
Hey, good luck with the interview!
The Vero 4 and Vero V by the OSMC team are amazing: https://osmc.tv

They do a terrible job of marketing themselves though, so quite underrated.

Re:Show HN: I made CMS less than 15 kilobytes, flat file on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @11:36PM (#41453226)
oh - some of those designs in the examples (quark, 0832) take me back. Pure nostalgia. Thank you.
Re:CIEL Is an Extended Lisp on Friday August 30, 2024 @07:09PM (#41405325)
I like to bring up Joker (https://github.com/candid82/joker) whenever there is a discussion of some lisp that is fast and convenient.

Clojure syntax implemented in Go.

I'm not affiliated I just think it's brilliant.

CEIL's example in Joker:

  (prn {:a 1 :b 2 :c 3})
Gist for downloading, installing and executing the above example: https://gist.github.com/lsh-0/f7df23777ef35a8cc3d85e1dcbf0eb...

Executing script took 2.1s overall. Execution of example took 0.007s.

Re:Elasticsearch is open source, again on Thursday August 29, 2024 @06:53PM (#41396187)
> the small company that is 1% of the size of AWS

What on earth? Elastic is a multi-billion dollar company. They are no indie startup, scrappy underdog nor are they victims here.

AWS took the high road during this fiasco despite Elastic's mudslinging and flailing about.

Re:Linux: We need tiling desktop environments on Monday August 26, 2024 @06:51PM (#41362997)
Re:Australian slang terms every visitor should know on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @08:50AM (#41309762)
hm, yeah, nah.
I do own one, owned both the Vero 4k and Vero V and they have been brilliant.

OSMC do very little marketing for some reason and are extremely underrated but their customer service and support has been exceptional, new features and patches roll out regularly and the hardware itself is powerful, silent and has a minimal form factor.

Support for mapping Dolby Vision (DV) to regular HDR was recently added and it works seamlessly for the few DV-only media files I have.

The largest file I have is 4K77 (https://www.thestarwarstrilogy.com/project-4k77/) at about ~80GB with a bitrate that can hit 120mbps during particularly grainy scenes and it works perfectly on both the Vero 4k and V.

The only problem I have is anime encoded as Hi10P which stutters slightly on the Vero V during playback because hardware decoding isn't supported for 10bit H264 (Hi10p and the anime encode scene is unusual like that as 10bit is usually reserved for H265).

Re:Rye Language on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @07:18PM (#40991212)
A similar language is Joker (https://github.com/candid82/joker), Go based, Clojure syntax. I've been using it for years as a general purpose scripting language and Clojure code linter and formatter - it's exceptional.

It doesn't integrate non-Joker Go code as far as I know.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2024) on Monday June 03, 2024 @10:08PM (#40570006)
Location: South Australia, Australia

Remote: Yes, and hybrid

Willing to relocate: No

Tech: Linux, Go, Python, Clojure, SQL, AWS, Cloudformation, Salt, Ansible, Django, Nginx, Caddy, Docker, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenAPI, SRE, microservices, monoliths, polyliths.

Resume: on request

Email: lsh AT ccxx.cx

Github: https://github.com/lsh-0

Linkedin: https://au.linkedin.com/in/luke-skibinski-275259309

Languages: Native English Speaker

20+ years of experience as Software Engineer/System Admin/SRE, recently ended a 10 year role at eLife Sciences. I'm most proud of the invisible work I've done: the maintenance, the debugging, the carefully planned transitions, the technology choices, code and dependency reduction, documenting and explaining infrastructure and processes to others.

I'm always happy to chat, especially about OA publishing, just shoot me an email.