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Re:Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:55PM (#50317826)
yep, that was so annoying to hear him say that. grrrr.
Re:What on Earth Is Dekton? on Friday October 16, 2026 @02:29PM (#50122383)
Exactly why we changed it to natural stone at the last minute. Otherwise Dekton seemed pretty awesome. But we needed something literally indestructible, even if its thicker than Dekton ;)
Re:Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:50AM (#49875267)
Yeah its annoying. I need to pay for thinking, but I can't see it :/
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:03PM (#49633360)
Can attest to that. My wife always complains how big phones don't fit well in her shorts. But when I remind her of that when she is buying a new phone, she goes "Yeah well its annoying, but videos are nicer on a bigger screen".

Oh well :)

Yeah which is why its imperative that you _never_ connect to the Internet.
> Corporations lobby the government to implement laws that seem to hurt them but in actuality create an uneven playing field where marketshare becomes available due to the higher implementation cost

(nit: I assume you meant "marketshare becomes unavailable")

So you mean that regulations that are created based on lobbying by corporations help them become monopolies? Sure, that makes sense. But thats different from a blanket "Regulations create monopolies".

Re:Epic Games announces Lore version control system on Thursday June 18, 2026 @02:25AM (#48581499)
> I feel like other commenters are being obtuse on purpose and avoid the point?

nah, people are just built differently. Not everyone gets frustrated with "learning to remember", and then some do. Both are valid. The people who seem to be obtuse to you are in the first group, myself included. I didn't instantly catch the fact that instead of `svn commit` I have to now do `git add`, `git commit` and `git push`. But, and this is the key difference, when I forgot I just checked my bash history to recall the sequence. It doesn't bother me because I know either of two things will happen:

A. Over months and years, you then understand how things work and its second nature.

OR B. The tool was just a one-off and you won't use it after some time, so it doesn't matter you won't recall the steps.

Its the same with any professional tool, really - even outside software (think carpentry, for example).

Re:Epic Games announces Lore version control system on Thursday June 18, 2026 @02:18AM (#48581464)
> The point was that this bothered me when I used git for the very first time

and that is fine. From your original comment, you "just" wanted to save things and got confused why you had to `add`, `commit` and `push`. Its just that you didn't know that git isn't a word processor that gives you a way to save your work - you've done that already when you saved the file with your editor.

When I came to git, I was also confused why commit and push are different steps - so much work, I thought. Until one day it finally hit - wait, this lets me keep "saving" my work locally until I'm ready to upload it - which is when I push.

or, if you are replaying a single-player game that you saved+loaded (i.e. the replay only worked if the full game happened in one go without any loads).
Re:Codex for almost everything on Thursday April 16, 2026 @03:47PM (#47798543)
Well thats good then, it means that they'll always need the likes of Scotty, LaForge, Torres and O'Brien ;)
Re:No right to relicense this project on Thursday March 05, 2026 @04:27AM (#47259539)
> plenty of projects changed licenses lol.

They usually did that with approval from existing license holders (except when they didn't, those were the bad cases for sure).

Re:Something is afoot in the land of Qwen on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @02:38PM (#47252702)
> that it would be "simpler" to just... not do what I asked

That sounds too close to what I feel on some days xD

That and PROGRA~1 brings back memories.
Well the current US Administration would agree - the law doesn't matter, we need to be "pragmatic" and do what we think is right. Rules be damned.

Once you deviate a bit from the standard, you're down a slippery slope. Its not that difficult to use pragmatism to justify wrongdoing.

Re:The kind of company I want to be a part of on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @09:04AM (#45887366)
Qt has provided a solution for this since its early days: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/i18n-source-translation.html#handle-p...
Re:When I say "alphabetical order", I mean "alphabetical order" on Sunday September 28, 2025 @03:50PM (#45407360)
That only happens for the datetime metadata of the files (modified, created, access etc). The EXIF metadata will still remain the same.
Re:Why our website looks like an operating system on Friday September 12, 2025 @02:02AM (#45219056)
Yep, it baffles me that a lot of people would rather not have the option to reject cookies. Its weird to say "I don't want to stop a website tracking me because the UX is terrible. I'd rather get tracked instead.". Of course, it would be better if the UX were even better, but I'd rather take something over nothing.
Re:Sci-Hub has been blocked in India on Thursday August 28, 2025 @02:58AM (#45049260)
Same in Germany, unfortunately. Was on HN a few days back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45003033
Re:AI coding made me faster, but I can't code to music anymore on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @03:27AM (#45036509)
I describe it slightly differently. Similar to what the author described, I'll first plan and solve the problem in my head, lay out a broad action plan, and then put on music to implement it. But, for me the music serves something akin to clocks in microcontrollers (and even CPUs), it provides a flow that my brain syncs to. I'm not even paying attention to the music itself, but it stops me from getting distracted and focus on the task at hand.
Re:DeepSeek-v3.1 Release on Friday August 22, 2025 @03:26AM (#44981846)
Yep there's no need to apologize, you've been very courteous and took all that feedback constructively. Good stuff :)
Re:Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:11PM (#42937921)
I think you and the parent comment are onto something. I also feel like the parent since I find it relatively difficult to read code that someone else wrote. My brain easily gets biased into thinking that the cases that the code is covering are the only possible ones. On the flip side, if I were writing the code, I am more likely to determine the corner cases. In other words, writing code helps me think, reading just biases me. This makes it extremely slow to review a LLM's code at which point I'd just write it myself.

Very good for throwaway code though, for example a PoC which won't really be going to production (hopefully xD).

Indeed! Bollywood makes it to HN xD
I use Firefox simply because the address bar UX is better. It prioritizes my history over search results, I almost never have more than 3-5 tabs open, so I rely heavily on typing a keyword in the address bar to go to a page in my history. Another thing I rely a lot is Multi-Account containers, which makes it very to keep aspects of life separated.

This ad stuff is very concerning, though :(

Re:Ball: A ball that lives in your dock on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @06:20AM (#40798347)
Reminds me of Plasma's ball widget: https://store.kde.org/p/1172489/

Apart from amusement, this served as a nice example when you are giving talks at universities trying to motivate students to tinker. Just multiple gravity by -1 and voila!

Re:Local First, Forever on Tuesday June 25, 2024 @07:13AM (#40786994)
I'm sorry we let you down :(
I find going through monthly statements quite cumbersome, so instead what works better is to enable notifications for each transaction. That way I just get an email when something is charged to the card, makes it easier to notice unused subscriptions.
I'd argue that your latter point (optimizing background apps) is majority of the improvement and this is something you can do in the OS regardless of where an app comes from (excluding rooted/jailbroken devices from scope). This would've been a reasonable argument if Apple only ever denied apps because they did stupid things, not because they offered a payment gateway that did not pay Apple commission. Lets not pretend that Apple's control is only about curating an experience for the user, it is very significantly about maximizing profit as well.

As a side note, I've always understood that just stock iOS is way more optimized than stock Android simply because of better engineering. However, this is anecdotal and I don't have any references as such.

That is an interesting take, so basically in your opinion the main thing that makes iOS better than Android is that Apple has tighter control over the apps? What I've heard from most iOS users is other things like smoother interface, better battery life, great camera etc. I've never heard "I like iPhone because Apple moderates the App Store" from laymen (i.e. non-HN crowd).
Re:Google to shut down Google One VPN on June 20 on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @05:11AM (#40582906)
My guess would be Voice Control

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