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Re:Computers Cannot Make Decisions on Saturday October 10, 2026 @06:00AM (#50031311)
Some might argue that humans (or any other species) cannot make decisions either and that the process is simply more evident in simpler scenarios, like computers.
Re:Don't Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables on Friday September 11, 2026 @04:37AM (#49655256)
I am sharing this link to my wife right now!

In my defense, over the years, I upgraded the box for one of this big semitransparent IKEA boxes, lid included.

I must say this, and the absence of piano black, were some key determining factors for me to buy the new Hyundai Kona (of course, maybe not the most important ones, but decisive nonetheless).
Re:Julia: Performance Tips on Friday February 27, 2026 @01:59AM (#47177431)
Legitimate and honest question: in which circumstances would you choose Julia over more mainstream alternative like Go?
Re:Opentrees.org (2024) on Sunday February 01, 2026 @04:57AM (#46844953)
Well done, Barcelona! I am always amazed when I watching TV shows or movies how few trees there are in certain cities.
Re:From Millions to Billions on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @05:19AM (#45577893)
I shared this article internally and my peers were impressed about how similar it is to our final implementation. (It differs in the fact that we use Redis as queue.)

Happy to exchange notes about our journey too.

Cheers

This is so great!

On one hand, I love the possibility of having millions of albums at your disposal via streaming services. On the other hand, I hate having to type or click to select them (voice recognition just doesn't work).

Yours seems to be the best combination.

Congratulations!!!

Re:Why I'm Spoiled by Apple Silicon (But Still Love Framework) on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @12:45AM (#45342923)
I am forced to use a MacBook M4 at work but I have and love my Framework 13 Intel.

Battery management is superior in MacOS but I can leave my Framework suspended for more than at least a week (I never measured how long it can stay like this).

I run vanilla Ubuntu with TLP, though, which might be the trick.

Well played!

For all those hating the Twitter link, it's a practical way to convert traffic and likes. It doesn't have to be your favourite tool, it serves his purpose.

Re:Apple Debuts iPhone 17 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @04:56AM (#45195060)
I wasn't aware about how bad the situation was for devices, in general, about privacy until I installed a Pi-Hole in a Raspberry and used it as DNS service at home.

It's really surprising the amount of data that tries to leave the premises, and this just the one that I block with a mid-range security ban list.

Re:Exploring Coroutines in PHP on Tuesday July 08, 2025 @06:24AM (#44498693)
I don't write PHP code anymore. I had a great time doing so for years but now I mostly write in Go for a company that writes a lot in PHP.

What I see from PHP is a missed opportunity for not having any native lightweight multi thread capabilities not a robust HTTP server.

I wish the situation changed.

Why does code always look better in Gitlab/GitHub than in my editor?

No matter how much I fine-tune my editor (these days I only use VSCode), code always feels more pleasant and polished when I see it in GitLab or GitHub compared to inside the editor itself.I've tried different themes, fonts, colours, even tried to mimic the same look as the web UI (after all, VSCode is also Electron-based!), but I still get the same impression: code looks cleaner and somehow...

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Re:Gonzalo Guerrero on Sunday May 11, 2025 @02:01PM (#43955603)
Not necessarily, but it's not not that hard to find anymore to the curious eye
Re:Gonzalo Guerrero on Sunday May 11, 2025 @12:44PM (#43954994)
Unofficial history, many times, is simply glorified memory, which is very biased and dangerous.

This fueled quite a lot the hangover of the nationalisms born during the XIX century.

Re:Gemini 2.5 on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @03:29PM (#43474926)
It really surprises me that Google and Amazon, considering their infrastructure and the urge to excel at this, aren't leading the industry.
Re:I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @05:33AM (#43469418)
I just spent €1,250 for an oven (the only one I could find that was 45cm in height and could cook with steam).

It works very well but I was horrified when I saw the message saying that "It required an urgent security update" and that it would download it from the cloud.

I feel we went too far.

Re:MacBook Air M4 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @12:25PM (#43269564)
Can't be any happier with my Framework laptop.

Give it a read and do a simulation of how much it would cost you to replace the part that forced you to buy a new laptop.

In the past I used clickhouse-bulk and the buffer engine, mostly, which did a good job indeed.

However, during the last years I always find myself using https://vector.dev/ for all sort of tasks, including bulk inserts in ClickHouse.

Don't think I'm taking sides. I'm trying to simply look at it from a neutral bird point of view.

I think this cease fire somehow legitimises, to the public eye, Netanyahu's strategy of intense attack.

It gives the message of "we won't stop until we get the hostages back" and gives the world a reminder of what this is all about, at least according to what he claims.

Again, just trying to observe the message

Re:Threads of God on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @08:34AM (#42501798)
You don't even have to go to these extremes to understand how rich and delicate Italian cuisine is.

I am lucky to have lived 10 years in Italy and, after they, 25 in Spain. Although Spain is one of the Meccas of food, Italy is simply another level and you can see this from how deeply in the people the food and their techniques are, not just by how good Michelin star restaurants are.

And my prediction is they one day the international community will understand how much there is in Italy beyond pasta and pizza.

Re:Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History on Friday December 13, 2024 @01:34PM (#42411065)
I love it! Very well done!
Re:Show HN: Gemini LLM corrects ASR YouTube transcripts on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @06:35AM (#42244802)
Hmm, so this is expecting me to upload a personal API Key...
Re: on Thursday November 21, 2024 @09:27AM (#42204603)
Can someone explain why this has been flagged?

I think it's interesting to explore how LLMs react to certain input.

https://www.honeypot.io will be discontinued at the end of the year

Just got an email from them saying:----Today we’re reaching out with a heavy heart to let you know that Honeypot will be discontinued at the end of the year. Our recruiting business suffered strongly during the Covid pandemic, and the ongoing recession in Germany has only added to this. As a result, the Honeypot platform including your Honeypot profile will no longer be available from 1 January...

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Re:Php.new – set up PHP in seconds on Sunday October 27, 2024 @06:19AM (#41961332)
Why not set the environment by spawning the proper docker containers rather than having to choose for a specific version of PHP and its dependencies?

And this, of course, applied to as many things as possible.

One of the many beauties of Framework laptops is that you don't have to take that decision and can mount the ports you want at anytime.

Check them out. It's probably the best decision I have taken in terms of technology in years.

Re:Show HN: Laptop Prices on Sunday October 13, 2024 @05:49AM (#41826572)
Maybe I'm one of the few that really care about it but, the first things I look in a laptop are:

- can ram be upgraded?

- is screen matte?

Maybe it would be good to add these as filters.

(No wonder why I bought a Framework laptop.)

Because I have custom needs
I wish there was an alternative to Kong API gateway where I didn't need to write my plugins in Lua (the go and js sdks seem abandoned and are incomplete).

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