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Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:34PM (#50295502)
My first memory of his incredible voice is King Richard (and the narrator's voice) from Lands of Lore. He added something unique to every project he touched.
Re:Developing Taste on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:46AM (#50162644)
Not interested in engaging in a screaming match at all. Yes, I've used an extreme to try to make a point, which is not great. :)

I'm curious, though: How would you picture protecting taste while at the same time adopting an inclusive (as in not putting people off) stance? Do you have examples of such a behavior?

Re:Developing Taste on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:14AM (#50162427)
I see your point. I would argue that care and the protection of quality can take on many forms, but that behaving like Linus Torvalds is not a requirement.
Re:Developing Taste on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @02:14AM (#50161995)
It's great that we're calling for "taste" in software, but could we pick a less snobbish word? Like "care" or "empathy"?
Re:I paid people to try and follow my README on Sunday October 11, 2026 @09:03AM (#50042925)
Besides emojis, I find it too long. READMEs should be succinct and be like a switchboard to other docs (much like LLMS.txt tries to be for agents).

Also, it features an FAQ. FAQs are problematic (as in not often effective): https://passo.uno/what-the-faq/

Edit: Clarification

Re:Keep Our Servers Running: Your Recurring Donation Goes 3X This Sept... on Monday September 07, 2026 @10:14AM (#49598725)
Logged in to Archive.org profile, where you're supposed to manage "subscription". The site lets you donate recurrently even when unlogged, obviously.
Re:Keep Our Servers Running: Your Recurring Donation Goes 3X This Sept... on Monday September 07, 2026 @05:01AM (#49595855)
They do, but require that an incident is raised claiming fraud, etc. I guess they want to avoid misuse of this feature.
Re:Keep Our Servers Running: Your Recurring Donation Goes 3X This Sept... on Monday September 07, 2026 @05:00AM (#49595848)
Not if Google Pay has been used as the transaction agent. It's not a Google Play subscription.
Re:Keep Our Servers Running: Your Recurring Donation Goes 3X This Sept... on Monday September 07, 2026 @03:50AM (#49595245)
Just did. Not possible in Spain.
Re:Keep Our Servers Running: Your Recurring Donation Goes 3X This Sept... on Monday September 07, 2026 @03:11AM (#49594961)
Well, you can't if you paid using a debit card, like I did. Silly me.
Re:Ask HN: How do you manage skills files? on Monday September 07, 2026 @02:37AM (#49594699)
It clones the skills repo if not present and relies on the git last commit as the "version".
Re:Keep Our Servers Running: Your Recurring Donation Goes 3X This Sept... on Monday September 07, 2026 @02:31AM (#49594641)
Be careful: paying with Google Pay is extremely easy and the default setting is monthly recurrence. If you're not logged in, the only way to cancel (as far as I know) is by sending an email, which is incredibly precarious.
Re:Ask HN: How do you manage skills files? on Monday September 07, 2026 @01:22AM (#49594183)
We keep the skills in a repo, where an agentic workflow runs biweekly to check if their content drifted compared to the docs and opens PRs if they did. The repo is also a Claude plugin. The biggest problem is keeping skills up to date across users, so I developed a small Go binary that takes care of that across harnesses.
Re:Praearcturus gigas: giant scorpion from Lower Devonian (Lochkovian)... on Saturday September 05, 2026 @04:36AM (#49574487)
Ah, a fellow thalassophobic. Yeah, no, I'm not going to swim in the vast ocean at night, thanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassophobia

Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:05PM (#49526505)
Docs engineer here. Nice to read about writing style: would you consider creating a writing benchmark at some point? I guess y'all are painfully aware of the load-bearing issues (pun intended).

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