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Re:An Elegy to Git Push on Monday July 20, 2026 @12:37AM (#48974390)
The biggest emotion I had with git is just fear. I'm ok with using GUI. Agents seem unnecessary.
Re:Tangible AI Dungeons and Dragons on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @11:18AM (#46290439)
As a prototype, it's amazing. As a product, the cost of running OpenAI Realtime won't scale to your users. Hope we can get cheaper realtime voice AI soon so more people can build games like this in the future.
Re:Vibe Coding the MIT Course Catalog on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @04:27PM (#44817361)
Lots of school infrastructure is decades old. I bet lots of students can better manage the IT than the IT department. The only issue is security and privacy. Not sure if there is a balanced solution for self-governance.
Re:YouTube Premium price increased by nearly 30% on Thursday October 20, 2022 @04:45PM (#33280441)
May be related to not being able to monetize 4k (https://9to5google.com/2022/10/17/youtube-premium-4k-test/), so they just charge more.
Re:YouTube Premium price increased by nearly 30% on Thursday October 20, 2022 @04:31PM (#33280272)
I share my US family plan with friends in the UK. Their account would be banned occasionally. So, Google is probably aware of this hack, it's just they are not enforcing it too seriously.

EDIT: they only banned the added family member, not the account owner. My workaround is to just recreate family member account.

Re:Ask HN: Learning Functional Programming in 2022? on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @01:45AM (#32328068)
I find this talk inspiring. Underscore.js got many things wrong for FP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3svKOdZijA.

I've read Grokking Simplicity too. It's very approachable book. Highly recommend it for JS/TS developers who want to learn FP!