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> Why people bringing token prices ?

Enterprises needs to pay for API, they cannot use subs (for various reasons). In work environment it’s a higher chance you will pay raw token prices than have a sub.

Re:Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @01:01AM (#49722292)
You can make the Linux installation on Apple Sillicon Macs pretty painless nowadays. One terminal command on macOS, reboot to Linux, run one script - voila.
Re:Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down on Sunday August 30, 2026 @10:58AM (#49499226)
You probably also never met Elon. By your logic you shouldn’t use Hacker News just like Twitter.
Re:Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down on Sunday August 30, 2026 @10:56AM (#49499215)
> Now his brain droppings make it into everyone’s feed by default, from what I understand.

You can see only Tweets from people you follow and nothing else. As I said, you are controlling the buttons you push.

Re:Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down on Thursday August 27, 2026 @08:29AM (#49463730)
> And then I avoid them.

Hacker News and basically everyone from YC have an official profile on Twitter: https://x.com/hackernews

Re:Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down on Thursday August 27, 2026 @08:27AM (#49463706)
Sir, you are controlling the buttons you push. I.e. it's up to you who you follow and what exactly you read on Twitter - just like any other social network.

There are news that are circulating much faster on Twitter than anywhere else (for example about war in Ukraine). There are people and companies that post only on Twitter and nowhere else (especially in tech).

I am always baffled how many people does not know about Amphetamine.
Re:Bun support is now limited and deprecated on Saturday May 23, 2026 @02:42AM (#48245304)
> If you don’t trust the Bun team when they release a Rust version and give it their stamp of approval, why did you trust them when they released the Zig version two weeks ago?

I think you cannot make this comparison because Rust version wasn’t in fact written by the Bun team. It wasn’t even read by them.

Home distillation is very popular in Poland too. Risk of getting poisoned from it is near zero in practice. In some parts of Poland there is more home-distilled alcohol bottles at the tables during weddings than commercial ones.

In many European countries you will be offered home-distilled drinks, you would be very unlucky to get anything else than hangover.

The problem is overblown.

Re:Apple Introduces MacBook Neo on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @02:13PM (#47252369)
> I don't think an apple watch would help there?

You can authorize via Apple Watch everything you can authorize via Touch ID. You get the notification on the Watch, and you need to press the button twice to auth.

I don't remember if it works every time, or only when MacBook is closed and connected to external display/keyboard.

Re:Helium Browser on Thursday September 25, 2025 @08:55AM (#45372161)
> For which country?

At least one of the authors is Russian. They were giving away Helium stickers to “anyone who is in Moscow”, and not many non-Russians are traveling there nowadays.

Re:Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win in the AI Era [video] on Friday September 19, 2025 @04:16AM (#45299232)
Box is relevant in enterprise space. It's a very different business than Dropbox.
Re:Aaron Levie: Why Startups Win in the AI Era [video] on Friday September 19, 2025 @04:14AM (#45299216)
> because you can go further with fewer people

Can you though? From my experience this is just a wishful thinking. I am yet to see actual productivity gains from AI that would objectively justify hiring less or laying off people.

Re:Safe C++ proposal is not being continued on Saturday September 13, 2025 @03:31PM (#45234675)
I don’t think anyone is surprised.
Arbitrarily choose an option, but expose the fact that you've auto-resolved a conflict and allow the user to manually re-resolve. This requires even more UI work than option 1.

This is what every "cloud file sharing" provider like Dropbox is doing. If there is a conflict, the version on the server is "the right one", and your locally conflicted file is copied on the side with some annotation in the file name.

Re:A mistake that killed Japan's software industry? (2023) on Wednesday November 13, 2024 @09:55AM (#42126568)
Software in Japanese cars is terrible from European point of view, yet people are buying them because of the hardware (reliable engines).
Re:Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS on Thursday November 30, 2023 @03:10PM (#38478423)
This is great, thank you!
Re:Silicon Valley doesn't understand the concept of fun on Thursday November 02, 2023 @08:25AM (#38112539)
Today's society in general can be offended by everything, and corporations try to avoid that - not only SV ones. In most cases Social Justice Warriors ruined fun for everyone.
Re:LARPing and Violent Extremism on Monday September 25, 2023 @08:25AM (#37642603)
Few ambushes and you have the heavy equipment. That's how many Ukrainian volunteer groups armed themselves - on russian forces.
Most of these points would apply if you use phone in your car for navigation, and most of them are not a real issue (expect being a distraction maybe).

Screen is good enough to be used in a sunny day, phone will easily reach more than 35 degrees if you play a graphics-heavy game, so this is also not an issue, battery with a battery saver mode will easily last for a few hours even if you use Google Maps all the time, and with a good mount there is a zero chance you will drop your phone and break something.

Re:How Coders Can Survive–and Thrive–In a ChatGPT World on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:43AM (#36597028)
> I've been using Copilot for about a year and I can't imagine coding without it again

I for example used Copilot for 2 months at work and wouldn't pay for it. Most suggestions where either useless or buggy. But I work in a huge C++ codebase, maybe that's hard for it as C++ is also hard for ChatGPT.

Re:How Coders Can Survive–and Thrive–In a ChatGPT World on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:39AM (#36596981)
If you worry about "staying ahead of generative AI" in it's current state, then I think you are not a good coder and you should learn more instead of worrying about that.

LLMs are only good in writing new code without surrounding context. They are pretty useless in legacy codebases and in codebases with a lot of internal solutions. I've used Copilot for 2 months at work and maybe 10% of suggestions were useful, and from that 10% maybe 10% did not contain bugs.

> The phone distracts from the goa

So does life. I think we should lock the children in school from the beginning of the education period, without the access to the external, disctracting life. They can leave when they are 18.

> these are children in schoo

Policies apply to secondary education, i.e. high school. You are an adult in higher grades of high school.

Re:Sourcegraph is no longer Open Source on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @04:07PM (#36591899)
I am pretty sure that for most developers open source = source code available, and nothing else.

Anegdotally I have been a professional dev for 10 years and this is the first time I hear your definition of open source.

> In that case, new developers just don't need to learn the old feature at all

That's not true if you want to be a professional C++ dev - you will encounter projects stuck in older standards, or legacy code written in the age of old standard. In practice you need to know everything from C++98 to the newest.

I think Google is scrapping websites, not using the APIs?
Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th on Friday June 09, 2023 @04:51PM (#36264003)
> when they started enforcing that policy.

I don't have a real name on Facebook not have any of my friends. There are also a lot of fake/troll accounts on Facebook. I don't think they ever enforced that policy.

I’ve tried Dvorak and Colemak but went back to QWERTY. Whole software world is developed with QWERTY in mind, and it was too much PITA.

Split keyboard (especially with ortholinear, column staggered layout) will give you much more benefit than any alternative layout - and will be much easier to switch too.

Carrying about climate was the zero interest rate phenomenon.

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