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Re:Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @09:57AM (#49978588)
> instead of striping types

That's what Deno does too, tho. Typescript is designed to work that way.

Re:Nvidia Halos on Monday June 22, 2026 @11:20AM (#48631448)
I don't think a single human read this thing before they published it.
Re:Linux 7.1 on Sunday June 14, 2026 @07:18PM (#48534087)
>"Perfection is achieved..."

I, too, am a fan of RFC 1925.

Re:Biff is a command line datetime Swiss army knife on Thursday May 28, 2026 @01:27PM (#48312396)
Perl's DateTime module was pretty solid, IIRC. One of the things I miss about using Perl.
Re:you_can::turn_off_the_borrow_checker on Monday May 25, 2026 @09:03AM (#48266365)
This reminds me of Perl's ACME modules and I'm here for that.
I did something similar last year with a monitor without built-in KVM but with good DCC support (Ultrasharp U3417W) and Synergy [0].

I use Synergy as part of my desk setup already, but needed a way to view the UI of a normally headless machine. The solution I built was a small shell script that terminated the active Synergy session and started a new one with a different config file (so keyboard/mouse input would map to the normally-headless machine), and fired off a DCC command to the monitor to change its input. The same script ran with a different argument would switch back to the normal display/control configuration. This solution worked pretty well until I was able to retire the headless machine early this year.

[0] https://symless.com/synergy

Re:Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @11:50AM (#48110030)
Here's a good starting point for those of us that use XFCE:

https://www.xfce-look.org/p/1231025/

This [0] is pretty close. IBM made a version of the Model M with Trackpoint but those are rare. Lenovo also sells [1] a keyboard that's basically a Thinkpad keyboard with trackpoint in a separate chassis.

[0] https://tex.com.tw/products/shinobi [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CS1FVF2

I loved my N900. Enough that I eventually replaced it with an N9. It wasn't the same, tho. The N900 had a certain charm.
Followed immediately by these groups making VPNs a standard part of their toolkit. This data is enlightening but its reveal doesn't solve the problem.
I thought Myna looked weirdly familiar. I use Source Code Pro just about everywhere.
Re:Starcloud on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @10:44AM (#45669897)
The Webb telescope is a _wildly_ different apparatus, designed from the ground up to run as cool as possible, and with an effectively unlimited budget. It lives in the shadow of the Earth behind multiple layers of shielding. These "data centers" need to live in direct sunlight and operate as cheaply as possible _at scale._ Very little of Webb's tech is applicable.
Re:The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @09:55AM (#45669224)
"Every time I see a programmer they're just staring at their monitors." :D
Counterpoint: any modern linux distro will run fine on your 10yo computer.
I have three of the cells, framed in my office. I adored the TV show.
That's high praise. :D
Re:Moshi: A speech-text foundation model for real time dialogue on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @04:33PM (#41585118)
The response rate is impressive! The "quality" of the responses not so much. Here's a transcript of my second test:

Moshi: "Hi there, what's going on?" Me: "What year is it?" Moshi: "Oh, it's 2019. I think it was about a year ago." Me: "Are you sure it's 2019?" Moshi: "Oh, yes, I'm sure. It must be 2019. The number is for the last one." Me: "What is COVID-19?" Moshi: "That's a rare disease. It's caused by an overactive immune system that attacks the skin."

At this point it stopped responding to me.

Re:Windows NT for Power Macintosh on Friday July 12, 2024 @10:13AM (#40945751)
The truest of arts require no purpose other than to exist.
Re:Playwright Test Generator on Thursday March 14, 2024 @12:06PM (#39705713)
100% agree, that screenshot is a _perfect_ example of why I don't use these tools.
Re:Playwright Test Generator on Thursday March 14, 2024 @12:04PM (#39705698)
SDET here, and no, I don't use these tools. Hammering out the actual test code is the easiest (and most fun!) part of the job for me, tools like this one actually make that experience painful and slower. :(
Re:Untranslatable on Friday January 26, 2024 @11:55AM (#39144821)
I like the idea, but the "see what people have added" button on the landing page links to the new-entry page instead of the explore page.
Re:Show HN: Heynote – A Dedicated Scratchpad for Developers on Friday December 22, 2023 @10:03AM (#38734785)
Nitpicks:

* On Linux, clicking the main "Download / Linux AppImage" button results in Windows .exe download instead of an .appimage. Clicking on the down arrow and selecting Linux does work, however.

* The opening sentence of the description includes "it's" instead of the more correct "its".

Google Fiber started a deployment in my city (Louisville) in 2017 before eventually giving up [0] after ~2 years.

AT&T, on the other hand, has been steadily rolling out gigabit fiber across the city since 2016ish, and I've enjoyed their service that entire time. It's consistently stable, fast, and the price is only slightly higher than Google Fiber's - I think I'm paying $90/month right now for symmetric gigabit.

The local Spectrum cable ISP guys offer ~300mbit (with a pathetic upload rate), and a Spectrum sales guy once asked me if I "really needed a full gigabit, no one actually needs that much speed." Lol.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/googl...

Re:Show HN: Watermelon – open-source copilot for code review on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @12:33PM (#38279581)
According to the aria-label in the page: Go, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, SQL, and TypeScript.
Re:Therac-25 on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @10:35AM (#37481972)
The always-excellent Plainly Difficult ran an episode [0] on this topic a few years ago.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7gVqBY52MY

Re:Debian Celebrates 30 Years on Thursday August 17, 2023 @10:03AM (#37161738)
Debian installs perfectly on my Thinkpad x61, and works great out of the box. (x)Ubuntu's installer won't even boot on this hardware.
My parents bought a PS1 shortly after they were available. We very much enjoyed it, but I _distinctly_ remember each time my friend brought over his N64 and copy of Goldeneye. The PS1 may have been the superior console, but Goldeneye was the superior game.
Re:Oracle Cloud is having a major outage on Friday June 02, 2023 @04:27PM (#36170302)
I snagged one of those as soon as they were available. And, so far, I've only used it to host my portfolio, which is entirely static. :D
Yes, it's the specific (hazardous) conditions involved. Teenagers can and are legally employed, but there's laws that control the allowed nature and scheduling of that employment. Young teens cleaning dangerous meat-processing equipment during nightshifts is several kinds of nope.
Re:PSone.css – Playstation 1 style CSS Framework on Monday January 23, 2023 @12:43PM (#34492190)
Many PS1 games stored their soundtrack as normal CD audio tracks on the same disk. The first track would contain the game data, additional tracks were music.

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