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Re:ZCode: Claude Code from the Makers of GLM on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @04:52PM (#48752956)
Good desktop apps in this category can manage agents across any number of remote SSH hosts.
Re:Work with Codex from Anywhere on Thursday May 14, 2026 @10:26PM (#48143825)
Why not work the same amount and be at your desk less?
Re:Act on Press on Thursday May 23, 2024 @05:14PM (#40460000)
> But once I committed to the second click, I swear it would beep a fraction of a second earlier than that happened.

There’s a (very) short story about a device exactly like this: https://www.nature.com/articles/436150a

Re:How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @12:00AM (#36595386)
“The silent majority” was originally a euphemism referring to the dead, who outnumber the living. It only got its political meaning in the 19th century.
Re:Dark mode in a website with CSS on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @02:20PM (#21206199)
Re:Dark mode in a website with CSS on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @02:17PM (#21206172)
Yes, you could craft CSS to conditionally load an image based on the media query. This would let a server observe the client's setting.
Re:Dark mode in a website with CSS on Wednesday October 09, 2019 @02:15PM (#21206144)
There's a good discussion of "why dark mode" in the article that mine links to: https://web.dev/prefers-color-scheme#why-dark-mode
Re:Who Expected That? Extreme close-ups create a Klein Bottle. on Thursday February 23, 2012 @06:40AM (#3624571)
Are you talking about things like sensor noise and chromatic aberration? It would be interesting to see if downsampling the image beforehand affects the result.

However, it's hard to separate image patterns from camera structure insofar as linear projection is a result of camera structure.

Re:Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide on Sunday February 19, 2012 @06:01PM (#3610685)
That rule doesn't hold for some languages. For example, a Python lexer needs to remember a stack of indentation levels to know whether a given line's indentation should be tokenized as an INDENT, a DEDENT, or no token at all.
Re:1k Rose - How a 3D Rose was made in under 1K of javascript on Monday February 06, 2012 @02:43AM (#3556589)
None of these demo binaries will actually run on my OS, so maybe the extra 768 bytes are a fair tradeoff for abstracting away the platform.
Stephen Lavelle's Platonic Archetypes of Dice is a Pokemon-style Flash game based on this Rock-Paper-Scissors-like quality of differently distributed dice.

http://www.increpare.com/2009/11/platonic-archetypes-of-dice...

Re:I don't owe you scala-tools.org on Saturday January 21, 2012 @02:42PM (#3494365)
This reminds me of Neil Gaiman's "George R.R. Martin is not your bitch" essay, about reader entitlement:

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/05/entitlement-issues.htm...

Re:Playing chicken with cat.jpg on Thursday January 19, 2012 @11:39AM (#3485218)
Why should I care that the company is Swiss? The point of client-side encryption is that I don't need to worry about who's hosting my data or what jurisdiction they're under.
Re:Trust is Fragile on Monday January 16, 2012 @11:25AM (#3471187)
I wonder if parent was merely advocating obfuscating sensitive data so that engineers don't accidentally see things like "Downsizing-2012.xls". As long as the obfuscation is reversible, the data is still there for those who need it.

Of course, encryption per se is overkill for that. Something like ROT13 would do the trick.

  :w !sudo tee %
Re:Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period. on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @02:28PM (#3448554)
The OP says that double-spacing is an obsolete holdover from the typewriter era, where the extra space made monospaced type easier to read. I'll go one further and say that spacing sentences using space characters -- any number of them -- is obsolete.

In the present era, the act of typing is separate from the act of typesetting. The comment I'm typing now may be typeset in Arial in Chrome, typeset in Ubuntu Mono in Emacs, or read aloud by a software program to a blind person. No prescribed number of space characters is going to be appropriate for all cases.

The reading software, not I, should be responsible for locating my sentence breaks and setting appropriate spacing there. Perhaps in the future we'll assist the software by marking up sentence breaks using a special character sequence. Ironically, a double-space would serve that function pretty well.

Re:How should a startup founder value her time? on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @11:41AM (#3447618)
Because the subject of the sentence is "a startup founder", not "Jason Cohen".
Re:The only brain teaser I use in interviews on Monday January 09, 2012 @04:01AM (#3441869)
Is there an objective metric according to which guessing only positives is a less rigorous strategy than guessing both positives and negatives? Given no prior knowledge about the space of possible rules?
Re:The only brain teaser I use in interviews on Monday January 09, 2012 @03:28AM (#3441835)
You're claiming that you can infer, just from a triple that I guess, whether I am attempting to confirm or refute the "ascending even numbers" hypothesis. But if I guess (2,4,6) and learn that it doesn't adhere, that's as much a refutation as if I guess (1,2,3) and learn that it does adhere. (2,4,6) looks like an attempted confirmation to you only because you have prior knowledge that the rule is not more specific than "ascending even numbers".

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