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Re:The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:23PM (#50174934)
Lavender extract is about as effective as klonopin according to a study.

I use it to deal with my anxiety.

I don’t trust benzos in the slightest. Especially so after reading the horrors of this thread.

Re:Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @02:39AM (#49342139)
it would have been like 520 hours to download 500mgb. Assuming it didn't break at some point.

That was pretty tough in that day and age. Especially from pirate sites.

mIRC had some good servers but getting someone to keep a direct connection with you for that long was problematic too.

And then if you didn't have a dedicated phone line for the modem...

good ole Rule of Acquisition #1 - Once you have their money, you never give it back.
Re:The weekend is 100 years old on Sunday August 16, 2026 @12:30PM (#49321497)
Considering what work looked like in even the 18th century it was indeed rest in comparison.
Re:No One Can Afford to Make Myst Games Anymore on Saturday August 08, 2026 @10:38AM (#49222250)
you can test case / bug fix your way through bad code. You can't always do that with art.

Also - the playerbase is sometimes ok with buggy games; for example - the first ARK game was a buggy nightmare, but it was still awesome and fun (it used the unreal engine visual development system...)

Re:Devtools must be open source on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @01:54AM (#49164751)
have you considered the token inefficiency of what you're doing and that you're burning electricity to re-invent the wheel? I'm being a bit of a PITA here but if everyone does what you suggest the real world implications could be staggering.

Especially if we aren't committing code back into public places for LLMs to ingest and use.

I think from an efficiency standpoint it's almost always better to use something already battle tested and used in the open than rolling your own; regardless of leveraging LLMs or not.

Re:Twenty Years of RISC OS Open on Sunday August 02, 2026 @10:17AM (#49144945)
there are plenty of screenshots in the user guide:

https://www.riscosopen.org/zipfiles/platform/common/UserGuid...

Re:Kimi K3 is now live on Thursday July 16, 2026 @11:31AM (#48935929)
definitely take the breaks when you need them. I've already had a few friends just get lost in the AI train of stuff and suffer mentally a bit.
Re:F-35 is a masterpiece built for the wrong war on Monday April 20, 2026 @04:51PM (#47840437)
That is totally false.

They have been getting replacement MiG-29s and Su-25s from allies and are starting to use f-16s from NATO nations.

"A coalition of NATO countries, primarily the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, and Belgium, are providing F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. The United States authorized the transfer and is providing training and spare parts, with deliveries having begun in 2024 to strengthen Ukraine's air force against Russia."

So yes, they still have an airforce. They're just getting re-supplied.

Also the Ukrainian airforce was ULTRA conservative about sorties to make sure they conserved as many fighters as possible.

Re:Mad Bugs: Vim vs. Emacs vs. Claude on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @02:35AM (#47597608)
Remote code execution - aka they can run arbitrary code on the compromised machine via the bug.

Basically the worst possible thing.

We are 100% there already. In browser.

the webgpu model in my browser on my m4 pro macbook was as good as chatgpt 3.5 and doing 80+ tokens/s

Local is here.

That's fucking insane. Thank you for sharing.

I had a bad feeling we were basically already there.

They have variable dc power supplies on amazon on the cheap.

If you want that sort of reliability it will probably go towards 100$.

Please go try and do anything on the internet at 2G speeds in todays world.

You can barely even use FB messenger (you need to get messenger-lite).

I only know this cuz tmobile would give you free 2g all over europe. it was JUST BARELY helpful. mostly just sms and email.

google maps was unusable etc. This only got worse over the years.

They now give you free 3G and it's bearable. 2G is insanely slow in the 2020+ world.

2G ~= 5 KB/s. That means 40 seconds just to download a properly optimized react bundle.

5MB site? 16+ minutes.

Re:Reversing memory loss via gut-brain communication on Thursday March 12, 2026 @10:02PM (#47359845)
thank you going to try this. I noticed my heartburn got a lot worse after having to take a few courses of antibiotics.
I hate liquid glass with a burning passion. I've never understood why people get so irritated at design changes until now.
Re:GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @12:29PM (#47050210)
at best it's "cover your ass security" so when you do get pwned you can say you went through an "accrediting auditor" - blah blah blah.

Agreed on everything you said. Just wish there was a more efficient way to do things :/

Re:Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code on Thursday February 12, 2026 @02:43AM (#46985934)
Same. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
Re:Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @01:52PM (#46979116)
I think this change is really disingenuous.

If they hide how the tool is accessing files (aka using tokens) and then charging us per token - how are we able to track loosely what our spend is?

I’m all for simplification of the UX. But when it’s helping to hide the main spend it feels shitty.

Re:Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @05:09PM (#46802263)
Some additional context to explain the numbers:

Game industry in general pays like shit - japanese software engineering pays even worse, so double negative modifiers on salaries in this comparison.

source: worked in games, worked at japanese tech company with us division.

Re:RIP Low-Code 2014-2025 on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @03:33AM (#46777127)
Swagger is critical. The graphql schema.json is very very good at helping ai's figure out how to use the service. Swagger evens that advantage.
Re:Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic? on Friday January 16, 2026 @05:18AM (#46644956)
It helps to not look at this as zero sum.

A lot of people are more comfortable with a shared experience objective. This provides a means to do something and a reason behind meeting.

If you are always in the mindset that you are giving and everyone else is taking that can really impact how you perceive everyone. And 9/10 most people over estimate how much they give and under-estimate how much they take.

There is also something powerful with "I _get_ to take my new friend to a place I find cool" rather than "My new friend is using me to go to my cool place". Changing the way you internally frame things drastically helps.

I know it sounds absolutely stupid hogwash but it helps.

https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/gratitude-bed-every-morning...

I hope this helps!

Re:Lessons from 14 Years at Google on Monday January 05, 2026 @04:03AM (#46496678)
It’s hard for some people to understand that situation until they are in it. Unfortunately.

Totally agree with you.

Re:Venezuela's capital hit by explosions, smoke seen on Sunday January 04, 2026 @08:22PM (#46494313)
It's always about the oil.

Venezuela has a substantial amount of heavy crude oil. which the USA is good at refining. Shocking.

they probably deem it as not important. "Context is all you need to tell the difference, keep the font clean"
Re:A “frozen” dictionary for Python on Thursday December 11, 2025 @06:32AM (#46230120)
I also SUPER LOVE this feature. Especially when you make a type union of the keys for easier indexing.
Re:Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros on Friday December 05, 2025 @06:32PM (#46168831)
I think they also used their metrics to figure out people liked kevin spacey (whoops) - and created house of cards - which catapulted netflix's production side.

https://medium.com/@danial.a/how-netflix-used-data-to-create...

Re:The HTTP Query Method on Sunday November 30, 2025 @05:55AM (#46095627)
I think graphQL as a byproduct of some serious shenanigans.

"Your GraphQL HTTP server must handle the HTTP POST method for query and mutation operations, and may also accept the GET method for query operations."

Supporting body in the get request was an odd requirement for something I had to code up with another engineer.

Re:System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4 on Saturday November 29, 2025 @02:23AM (#46085732)
more the fault of MB of ram and HDDs being quite slow to be honest.

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