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Re:OLED iPad Mini on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:36AM (#50244472)
Definitely an odd choice. Especially when two images later has it again
Re:Jujutsu (Jj) 0.46.0 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:57PM (#50015828)
Definitely excited about the workspace git collocation added in this release. So many workarounds can just be removed now.
I still don't see the appeal of Auto Mode. If I don't trust the model to run arbitrary commands, how much additional trust can be gained by an additional non-deterministic system. The point is that there are some failure modes which are completely unacceptable. Auto Mode lowers that risk but doesn't remove it. An unacceptable failure is still possible.
Are there any plans to sandbox the agents? I suspect it would be fairly trivial on macOS using sandbox-exec. This looks very useful but I hesitate to run yolo mode agents (even with clear instructions) on my machine.
Re:Ente – Opening Our Books on Thursday July 16, 2026 @09:32AM (#48934320)
I have been impressed with Ente products and customer service. It's good to see they are growing. That said, revenue information is not entirely helpful in a vacuum. I'd be more keen on seeing profit (even at a lower timeline resolution). What's the average cost for taking on a new customer? What's the retention/turnover? Etc. That said the products are great and I'd recommend them to anyone.
Ah. Missed that. Thank you
But isn't this built into uv already? Just point the sources table to GitHub.

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/projects/dependencies/#pr...

Not sure if you're referring here to Windows or Microsoft as a company. Could fit either /S
> They already did

Yes, but they don't and won't too (at least until they do again)

Re:Apple Business on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @06:12PM (#47510218)
What's bad is that it's so much better than it used to be and still this bad.
Re:Outsourcing Thinking on Sunday February 01, 2026 @05:44AM (#46845169)
I really enjoyed and agree with the majority of the article, but this was my nit as well. My hatred of vacation planning is often the reason I don't go on more vacations. It seems like automating a task that is experienced by the individual as completely monotonous ( and only affects that individual) would be a great example of something worth handing off to a text generator.
I read though the GitHub readme but I'm still unsure what "new" this brings this brings to the table. It seems like a thin wrapper over existing tools. Since Microsoft rarely deprecates and removes anything, this feels like just another unnecessary complexity layer.

I'm not a traditional app dev on Windows though, so I'm likely missing something. For those of you who are more familiar, what about this are you excited about?

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026) on Sunday January 11, 2026 @01:43PM (#46578425)
This is awesome! I can't believe I've not heard of it before. Thanks for sharing!
This is how WinGet works. It has a small SQLite db it downloads from a hosted url. The DB contains some minimal metadata and a url path to access the full metadata. This way WinGet only has to make API calls for packages it's actually interacting with. As a package manager, it has plenty of problems still, but it's a simple, elegant solution for the git as a DB issue.
Re:Ask HN: What are your top reads and listens of 2025? on Monday December 22, 2025 @07:15AM (#46353560)
Really enjoyed Goliaths Curse by Luke Kemp
Process and Reality by Alfred North Whitehead
Re:Using Git add -p for fun (and profit) on Sunday December 14, 2025 @09:38AM (#46263323)
This is one place jj really shines. Using jj new to quickly switch to a new change makes it easier to not drop flow but still break up work. You can come back later and add descriptions or reorder and squash. That way, you don't get into as many situations where splitting a commit is necessary. For those that remain, jj split works well.
Re:Hacking on the ReMarkable 2 on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @08:01AM (#46120773)
Have you seen these? https://usetrmnl.com/developers

I was thinking about picking one up and giving it a shot.

Reference? My anecdotal experience so far leads me to believe the opposite.
Re:The Algorithm Failed Music on Monday November 10, 2025 @08:07AM (#45875586)
I wish there was a good in between option. I despise the autogenerated playlists for all the reasons mentioned in the article, but I also enjoy the ease of not having to choose what to listen too.

Algorithmically generated playlists from my personal library with the occasional new song thrown in. Maybe, new songs introduced that my social circle is listening to.

That said, I'm recently back to listening to albums exclusively again, which mostly solves this for me. If a friend suggests a song or I hear something on the radio, I pickup the album and listen through. It's a great way to discover new stuff while avoiding the trash. My only real issue is that so many artists I enjoy are in the EP only stage of their career, so for those, custom playlists is the only way.

Re:Gmail AI gets more intrusive on Saturday November 08, 2025 @06:28PM (#45861107)
Unrelated, but if you have an iPhone, I use Chuck for this. The free tier is plenty if you just want to use it to clean up the inbox.

https://chuck.email

Recent related post where Apple seemingly forgot to disable source maps for the App Store

Apple's App Store Full Front End Source Code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804664

edit: formatting

Re:Shutdown with no clear end poses new economic threat on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @04:52PM (#45661543)
Saw this related post a bit ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45637049

usa-status.com was enough to make me laugh a bit at least

Re:Ripgrep 15.0.0 on Saturday October 18, 2025 @05:39PM (#45630552)
> Directories containing .jj are now treated as git repositories.

So glad to see this!

Re:Warp Code: the fastest way from prompt to production on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @12:37PM (#45117812)
If warp had just stuck to being a decent terminal emulator with great UI, I would be using it without question. This AI nonsense is why I don't even consider them an option.
Re:Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @12:34PM (#45117750)
Merge tool is the big one for me
Re:It's Not Wrong that " ".length == 7 on Saturday August 23, 2025 @07:26PM (#44999920)
After reading this, I did a search for mentions of this article and found this StackOverflow gem. The top answer basically picks up where the JoelOnSoftware article leaves off and filled in the rest of the blanks for me.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2241348/what-are-unicode...

Still have more reading to do and a lot to learn but this was super informative, so thank you internet stranger.

Re:It's Not Wrong that " ".length == 7 on Saturday August 23, 2025 @05:08PM (#44999156)
Haha, this is fantastic.

> So I have an announcement to make: if you are a programmer working in 2003 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch you, I’m going to punish you by making you peel onions for 6 months in a submarine. I swear I will.

Thank you!

Re:It's Not Wrong that " ".length == 7 on Saturday August 23, 2025 @04:19PM (#44998807)
Can anyone recommend a good intro to understanding string encoding article?
Re:Microsoft POML – Prompt Orchestration Markup Language on Sunday August 10, 2025 @09:34AM (#44855099)
With greatly reduced reliability...

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