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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage too many open tabs? on Thursday July 16, 2026 @11:49PM (#48943154)
3 monitors: 2K laptop on a stand, 4K rotated, 2K rotated & sometimes scaled to 4K. Lots of screen space.

Windows in strategic positions, sized small to fit the content. I removed maximize. I never maximize. I full screen a single game or video to one of the monitors when desirable. I rarely minimize. A dock on the bottom of the laptop with windows grouped by program -- very manageable. Placement and size of windows. Being able to see everything at a glance. I wish XFCE could save window positions and sizes.

No tabs. My default is new window. When desirable, I only create new tabs in a web browser window. Programs get separate windows, no tabs. I have custom CSS to hide the tab bar when there is only one tab. No tab bar is my default. I manually save URLs if important and close web browser tabs if I've gone down a rabbit hole. Destroy all tabs. My browser clears all history. Starting the browser opens a single custom web page window, no tabs, with recent URLs that I saved.

No tabs.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (non-AI)? on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @01:41PM (#48125018)
I had only ever known ski lifts.

One day, way before the lifts had started, I hiked up the mountain, snowboard under my arm. Trudging, my breath heavy, lungs filling, oxygen, snow, blue sky, cold but my body warmed. There was not one track in the fresh powder. My snowboard was slower in the powder, and I felt safe in the knowledge. I had to work a little harder. Carving.

1) Apple II plus with pulse dial at 110 or 300 baud, once a week or less in 1984 and make sure nobody needs to use the phone, the program that came with the modem or my hacked up version with better throughput.

2) local phone numbers, that use of the word "server" would have been unknown to me

3) again, what's a server?

4) limited discussion, games was the focus, my memory is probably wrong

5) the abbreviated word "tech" would not appear until at least a decade later. Programming was offline in books, class and classmates; not online. It was limited, flaky chat, no "topics" except games

Re:Ask HN: Non AI-obsessed tech forums on Saturday February 07, 2026 @11:08AM (#46924914)
the fediverse
diff in a text editor
Re:Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @12:12PM (#46888483)
The Commdore 64 has 64 kibibytes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Multiple-byte_units

"the C64 took its name from its 64 kilobytes (65,536 bytes) of RAM"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

Re:Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked? on Sunday January 11, 2026 @01:03PM (#46577934)
Programming was "cooked" before the current Artificial Inference hype. I am not saying reducing the tedium is not beneficial. Where is the innovation, attribution and intelligence?
This website was made by Thomas Bloom, a mathematician who likes to think about the problems Erdős posed. Technical assistance with setting up the code for the website was provided by ChatGPT -from the FAQ
Re:Ask HN: What do you use to manage your coding projects? on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @06:18PM (#46439339)

  P=project-name-0.0.0; mkdir $P; cd $P; b install
Re:Why xor eax, eax? on Monday December 01, 2025 @03:26PM (#46112719)
Try to keep the value 0 in the Y register.

  echo tya|asm|mondump -r|6502
                                A=AA X=00 Y=00 S=00 P=22 PC=0300  0
  0300- 98        TYA           A=00 X=00 Y=00 S=00 P=22 PC=0301  2
It is either a fork or new software based on what a people really want or need. This is not an easy hill to climb.

Unfortunately, "configuration" is the survey. I detest both configuration and surveys. Modify the open source code and rip out the Artificial Inference code because Firefox is open source, or build software from scratch: servo, ladybird, your own web browser based on a survey.

Re:Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for? on Thursday November 27, 2025 @01:50PM (#46072122)
GNU Linux BSD

  curl
Re:Ask HN: Why do people say LLMs create bad code "quality"? on Thursday November 27, 2025 @01:41PM (#46072040)
Garbage in, garbage out. Beautiful code in, beautiful code out.

Code "quality" is a judgement call. Just like some LLMs, I'll repeat your question: What do you consider quality code?

I treat all code from LLM, search, stackoverflow, etc, as "sample code" that requires review and most likely modification, or writing the code from scratch. Your abilities and laziness may vary.

Also, there are reasons other than code quality not to trust LLMs.

Re:The Carry-on-Baggage Bubble Is About to Pop on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @05:43PM (#45675540)
Given that planes still have to have places for ashtrays, and that I predict battery-powered airbusses won't be a thing, I am okay with failing airlines. The Ushuaia/Cape Town railway can't come soon enough.
Re:Forth: The programming language that writes itself on Monday October 20, 2025 @01:36PM (#45646692)
Yes, Paul Lutus wrote GraForth.

As for vhtab, I don't know.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.forth/c/WqrpoPtxwoM/m/...

A customized figforth 79forth proforth or some other forth lost in a basement.

Re:Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features on Thursday October 16, 2025 @04:35PM (#45610374)
True is the default. False is what I set these to. I have these documented.
Re:Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features on Thursday October 16, 2025 @03:49PM (#45609898)

    browser.urlbar.trimURLs         false  display http:// in the address bar
    browser.fixup.alternate.enabled false  disable adding www. and .com to urls
Re:Tor browser removing various Firefox AI features on Thursday October 16, 2025 @03:42PM (#45609826)
I think that windowing systems need to be way more flexible. I want to be able to drag fullscreens, workspaces, windows, tabs, MDI sub-windows, and other types of views from different programs into and out of each other. I think Serenity OS has this with windows and tabs.

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