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Re:Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity on Thursday October 15, 2026 @06:10AM (#50101559)
That’s not catching
Re:Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis on Sunday October 11, 2026 @08:45PM (#50049839)
The consequences of reducing spending are also obvious, I won’t call it a ‘solution’ given how bad they hurts.
Easy, have policies for such situations. Just don’t show up like bin laden is hiding in the home if it’s the third fake call of the week.

And because their entire existence is to show up, you have a conflict of interests on how you answer the call.

Re:Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md on Saturday September 19, 2026 @07:44AM (#49765728)
got myself in a heated discussion with cc about that. It confessed that it added the ‘Made by Claude’ in a commit because a ‘mid session system-prompt refresh’ told it that, and that overwrites any previous instruction in CLAUDE.md
Re:OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems on Friday September 11, 2026 @09:19PM (#49667639)
Since when isn’t that a cyber attack?
Re:Amazon pilots ad services in ChatGPT on Thursday September 10, 2026 @11:41AM (#49645642)
maybe the smartest minds in all of tech can’t do better.
Re:Doomscrolling Ourselves to Death on Sunday September 06, 2026 @10:44AM (#49586979)
If something changes frequently, is it important to know? is the change inevitable or artificial?

I’ve learned to appreciate lasting things and ideas.

Re:Escape IntelliJ: Scala and Kotlin LSPs on Emacs Eglot on Thursday July 23, 2026 @08:27AM (#49020501)
I think OP talks about code navigation, which is objectively terrible on vscode in general
Re:AMD Strix Halo RDMA Cluster Setup Guide on Sunday June 28, 2026 @12:56AM (#48704496)
You got it wrong. Use appliances instead of eggs. If getting an oven gets more expensive I rather keep going to Dennys.

It’s classic capex vs opex. I’d keep paying my openai subscription instead of dropping $3k to run a subpar model. If the thing costs $1k I would consider it.

Re:PowerFox Browser on Sunday June 21, 2026 @10:21PM (#48624869)
> That's a good thing, but making it clearer what to expect will make it easier for potential users to decide whether to give it a try.

There are not that many options for the potential users.

Re:How long until AI automates all cognitive labor? on Thursday May 28, 2026 @11:04AM (#48309982)
Plenty of C-level executives have salaries around that number. Replacing them with AGI would be cost-effective. Cost is contingent, shouldn't be part of the AGI definition.
Re:Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back on Monday January 19, 2026 @06:20AM (#46677701)
Curious about why the janky manual paper processes, excel sheets, or stuff not documented, was fixed only when vibe code was available. Was it just cost?
> they all have the same mother, grew up in the same house, etc.

I’m pretty sure the first one didn’t have siblings, and the second only had one. Also their mother is not the same person after raising the first kid, or raising two.

Parenting never have reproducible conditions.

Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? on Monday December 15, 2025 @09:19AM (#46274869)
Good thing is that we can start using Insomnium now.
Re:Wi-Fi Signal Tracks Heartbeat Without Wearables on Friday October 10, 2025 @08:32PM (#45545328)
That’s the point, with wifi you already have the array of microphones in the room.
Re:Become unbannable from your email on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @02:12PM (#45518986)
When I see suggestions to "own" your email domain, how do you manage the chicken-egg problem of needing an email address in the first place to register the domain you want to lease?

Are there registrars that let you walk in with a physical ID to proof you are you in case your email gets compromised and they get access to the registrar? Any experience with that?

Re:Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @11:08AM (#45198908)
what you mean we can't? there are a lot of curated content directories out there.
Re:Why is GitHub UI getting so much slower? on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @05:58PM (#44804944)
GitLab is a completely different platform.

This comes to solve the problem of the terrible UX in the most widespread git service. I won't dare to try to convince my whole team, or company, to migrate to GitLab, but this can be easily adopted.

Re:Do not download the app, use the website on Friday July 25, 2025 @08:31PM (#44690180)
not having a way to divide notification channels, transactional vs promotional, make it worse than android.
Yes, it’s always about the people. Adding a “small inconvenience” to people with a different perspective is ok, right? just visit two sites if you want your AI news.

How does this sound? It’s about a religion not the people.

> I always say to buy a domain first.

You can only rent a domain. The landlord is merciless if you miss a payment, you are out.

There are risks everywhere, and it depresses me how fragile is our online identity.

> One of my founding principles is that Compiler Explorer links should last forever.

And yet… that was a very self-destructive decision.

Re:I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) on Thursday April 24, 2025 @09:40AM (#43782664)
To answer your questions: receiving letters is easy, companies know how to do it. Sending letters is not common for the public.
And that happened 15 years ago
What about Marxism?
The first paragraph that talks about the OS itself is depressing:

>macOS Sequoia completes the new Mac Studio experience with a host of exciting features, including iPhone Mirroring, which allows users to wirelessly interact with their iPhone, its apps, and notifications directly from their Mac.

So that's their highlight for a pro workstation user.

Re:An infinite DNA glitch saved millions [video] on Sunday December 29, 2024 @08:36AM (#42539843)
I read “infinite NDA” and built up a crazy story while the video was loading.
Re:Java in the Small on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @04:40PM (#42455652)
First time I hear those claims about Postgres. Was that the sentiment 30 years ago?

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