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Re:The World's 2,400 Castles on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @01:31PM (#48995467)
The ones in the area where I used to live are all missing.
Oh boy this hits home.

At this point I entered surviving mode, and curious to see where we will be 6 months, 2 years from now. I am pessimistic.

I want to tinker with my beloved Z80 again.

Re:Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info on Friday February 06, 2026 @03:15PM (#46917599)
A web site as old as the internet, and still relevant.
Re:The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe on Monday January 12, 2026 @01:27PM (#46592266)
The idiotic rounded corners of Tahoe are so ugly I just wish I didn't upgrade. I hope Apple will make the radius configurable.
I didn't know they skipped 10 version numbers.
Re:Some thoughts on LLMs and software development on Thursday August 28, 2025 @03:28PM (#45056066)
> hallucinations aren’t a bug of LLMs, they are a feature. Indeed they are the feature. All an LLM does is produce hallucinations, it’s just that we find some of them useful.

Nice.

Re:Volcanoes Can Affect Climate on Friday July 05, 2024 @04:32PM (#40885741)
This post is most likely related to a recent post on HN: https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/so2-injection
The bicycle is definitively the best mean of _transpiration_.
Re:lsix: Like "ls", but for images on Thursday June 06, 2024 @02:21PM (#40600663)
Quite the list of deps (from brew install): dependencies for lsix: bash, libpng, freetype, fontconfig, jbig2dec, jpeg-turbo, libidn, libtiff, little-cms2, openjpeg, ghostscript, brotli, giflib, highway, imath, openexr, webp, jpeg-xl, libvmaf, aom, libde265, glib, shared-mime-info, x265, libheif, liblqr, jasper, libomp, libraw, m4, libtool and imagemagick
Re:Sieve is simpler than LRU on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @09:22AM (#38854348)
This is presented like the best cache algorithm ever invented, but it's not simpler than LRU.
Re:Argonne: Lithium-Air battery 1200 wh/kg, 1000 cycles on Thursday February 23, 2023 @03:58PM (#34916366)
From the article, now, this air battery is only vapor.
Re:Argonne: Lithium-Air battery 1200 wh/kg, 1000 cycles on Thursday February 23, 2023 @03:53PM (#34916311)
People driving oversized cars from US in EU have no qualms about taking 2 parking spots.
Re:The next time Wikipedia asks for a donation, ignore it on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @03:20PM (#33181723)
I donate a little to the most useful site on the internet. It's a bargain. It doesn't matter if they don't need my donation to survive.
Re:The most dangerous road for cyclists in America on Friday September 30, 2022 @02:58PM (#33039141)
If a driver cannot react fast enough to someone on a crosswalk, then the driver is driving too fast. Cyclists don't throw themselves right in front of a moving car. It's a lot safer to cross on a crosswalk, even on a bike.
I argue that the car is mankind's worst invention, by many metrics.
Re:GraphQL kinda sucks on Saturday August 06, 2022 @12:18PM (#32369369)
I'm happy to read this. I had to use GraphQL once in an old job and I hated, hated the freaking thing with a passion, but there was so much hype about it I concluded the problem with it was caused by myself, a getting older and more close minded self. I see now that GraphQL may not be that wonderful, after all.
Re:In Praise of Writing (2021) on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @09:31AM (#30441338)
Which Babel tool are you referring to?
Re:Ask HN: How did dark mode win? on Thursday February 03, 2022 @04:41PM (#30199317)
What I want to know is why I'm not reading this in dark mode.
Re:NOAA upgrades the U.S. global weather forecast model on Friday June 14, 2019 @11:31AM (#20183786)
Wouldn't this kind of problem be a perfect match for machine learning? It would have a huge dataset to learn from. Why isn't it happening or what prevents AI tech from forecasting the weather?
No. We "moved to the cloud", everything became a "microservice", put together using existing libs, and I now spend my time trying to figure out why things running in obscure black boxes stop working in the middle of the night. I hate it. I wish I was coding instead of pushing buttons.
Re:Elmore Leonard's Rules for Writers (2010) on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @08:21PM (#16426019)
I don't know about Chrome extensions, but there's Grammarly and the Hemingway App.
Re:Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017) on Saturday February 03, 2018 @08:34PM (#16300743)
> "[Intuit] regularly lobbies to keep the complicated U.S. tax code in place, and opposes proposals that would radically simplify it."

Nice.

Re:CDE – Common Desktop Environment on Saturday February 03, 2018 @08:21PM (#16300699)
It looks like outdated shit, and that makes me happy. I worked on CDE HP systems for many years, and I liked it. The fact that it looks bad now is proof that we've come a long way and that great progress has been made, hence the happiness.
Reading his name at the beginning of the article made me check my calendar to see if it was already April 1st.
Re:GIMP – 2016 in review on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @09:07AM (#13417587)
GTK literally means the Gimp ToolKit. It's not based on, it's the toolkit that started it all.
Re:Montreal Is Leading the AI World Takeover on Monday January 16, 2017 @09:47AM (#13410227)
A lot of people I work with in Montréal only speak English. It's not a big deal because everyone else is bilingual so the communication isn't broken. The main problem is when it comes to finding a job - speaking French and English is usually a core requirement. If you don't, you'll have to compensate.
Re:40-Plus Years of Man Page History on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @08:49PM (#13173146)
Archive of the first edition of the Unix Programmer's Manual, 1971: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/1stEdman.html (PDF, PS, and images)
Re:Ask HN: Why is Notepad++ not ported to mac yet? on Monday December 05, 2016 @01:42PM (#13108011)
What is the point when you have Vim, Atom, and Sublime Text?
Re:Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @05:37PM (#13066818)
I love Atlasboard because it's simple and you can do anything, anything at all. The only limit is your imagination. Welcome to Atlasboard.

Seriously now I wonder how Cyclotron compares.

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