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I love it when Americans take the moral high ground
Waiting 3 months to disclose this is suboptimal.
Re:What if AI centers were producing food and jobs? on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @09:37AM (#47600706)
Shades of Day Of The Triffids here. (https://youtu.be/G8xD_vcK258?si=r1AQ-f6YOAjJByQL&t=1349)

I for one welcome our new shiitake overlords.

Re:The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @10:42AM (#47588072)
I watched the first one. That article on the last testaments made me want to watch it again. Ben Whishaw was the perfect choice, wasn't he?
Yes!! This goes for any time you declare a time interval variable. The number of times I've seen code changes with a comment like "Turns out the delay arg to function foo is in milliseconds, not seconds".
Re:The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @08:59AM (#47516769)
Love this, nestled in among the posts about forking httpx and similarity search in DuckDB. It makes me want to watch the BBC adaptation of Richard II again, and listen to The Rest Is History's episodes on the same period.
Re:VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @05:40AM (#47515201)
I was never cool enough to run BeOS but I coveted it. It looked so cool and futuristic compared with Windows.

I'm not cool enough to run VitruvianOS either, but i'm glad it exists.

Re:25 Years of Eggs on Sunday March 22, 2026 @02:45PM (#47480701)
I'm such a sucker for a good, data-driven article. Love this.
Re:'Your Frustration Is the Product' on Thursday March 19, 2026 @09:43AM (#47439311)
I've used an ad blocker for so long, I'd forgotten the web has got so terrible.
Re: on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @06:06AM (#41107632)
Nice! Lots of fun, I'll be coming back. Is it a new game each day?

Show HN: Runny Is an Alternative to Makefiles

https://github.com/simonwhitaker/runny

Using GNU make to run tasks in 2024 made me sad, so I wrote a thing. There are other things like it, but this one is mine. I'd love you to check it out!* Simple YAML syntax (inspired by Github Actions) * Full schema validaton == autocomplete in your favourite code editor * Build workflows through composition with needs and then * Run steps conditionally with if

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For those caught out by this, I put together a Github repo that shows how you can work around it in your Github Actions. Hope it helps! https://github.com/simonwhitaker/setuptools-demo