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Re:Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
on Monday June 09, 2025 @03:40PM (#44228547)
> (they no longer teach that in "computers" at school, by the way, iPads only)
I swear, some decisionmakers deserve a brutal punch in their face. I don't even care anymore about being civil in such matters.
Re:TL;DR AI are better community-written abstracts for research papers
on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @03:37AM (#40208210)
Has that abomination of a title also been generated by one?
Re:Hitting every branch on the way down
on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @03:30AM (#40208170)
"But it is littering the commit history with useless commits!" is what I always hear
That hasn't seen so much as even a patch in years
Re:Open-source alternative to Heroku, Vercel, and Netlify
on Monday April 29, 2024 @08:59AM (#40197732)
Just set up a simple VPN with nginx and upload the page, done. Stop overthinking and overengineering everthing to smithereens.
Re:TfL's simple pop-up message led to a significant drop in paper tick...
on Sunday April 28, 2024 @04:36PM (#40191598)
We have something similar in Switzerland called FairTiq
Re:The First Website
on Saturday April 27, 2024 @06:19AM (#40178821)
Technically, there was DSSSL already though. It is missed dearly.
Re:Opengist: Open-source alternative to GitHub Gists
on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @04:13AM (#40141878)
I guess one neat feature is that every gist is actually also a git repository, but that's about it...
Re:Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package ...
on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @04:10AM (#40141860)
That is literally a bash oneliner - pipe curl into tar, and have it unpack to ~/.local/bin.
Re:Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package ...
on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @04:10AM (#40141859)
That is literally a bash oneliner - pipe curl into tar, and have it unpack to ~/.local/bin.
Re:Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package ...
on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @07:43PM (#40138696)
Or Guix
Re:Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package ...
on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @07:42PM (#40138692)
Thank goodness, someone with a decent distro
Re:Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package ...
on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @07:41PM (#40138682)
Ah yes, when using your package manager is too cumbersome...
Re:Show HN: Getada: rustup-like installer for Ada's toolchain/package ...
on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @07:38PM (#40138663)
We're doomed.
Re:The Beautiful Dissociation of the Japanese Language
on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @07:33PM (#40138623)
>Demotic then mixed with the greek alphabet by the Coptic community into the Coptic script!
At that point, it already was a looong time since the greek alphabet evolved - via a few other cultures in between - from hieroglyphs, so it went back to egypt the long way around
Re:No one buys books
on Monday April 22, 2024 @10:01PM (#40127691)
At least as long as you manage to find an old, not-yet-mutilated version...
Re:No one buys books
on Monday April 22, 2024 @06:40PM (#40123380)
Most Harry Potter fans have never even read the books, but just seen the films, further supporting your argument
Re:Ex-Amazon exec claims she was asked to break copyright law
on Monday April 22, 2024 @09:47AM (#40114328)
You need a really warped view of reality to see these three phrases as "meant to neg the person into thinking they are worth less"
Re:LLM-powered automated software testing
on Monday April 22, 2024 @09:45AM (#40114309)
So, generative testing.
Re:Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop (2021)
on Monday April 22, 2024 @06:47AM (#40113066)
Since when does Python have proper static typing?
Also, why grep in the age of lsp?
Re:Ruby vs. Python comes down to the for loop (2021)
on Monday April 22, 2024 @06:41AM (#40113030)
Having a full numeric tower and stuff like having 1/2 evaluate to 1/2 (like in Scheme) definitely is the language designer's responsibility.
Re:A flat map with the least error possible: The Gott-Goldberg-Vanderb...
on Monday April 22, 2024 @02:36AM (#40111891)
At that point, just render a globe.
Re:The failure of the Domino's 30-minute delivery guarantee
on Monday April 22, 2024 @02:32AM (#40111880)
> Getir they use different algorithms with artificial intelligence to find the shortest and fastest route
Were they that desperate for funding that they had to come up with some AI stuff for an already solved problem?
Re:I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own
on Monday April 22, 2024 @02:26AM (#40111856)
Oh, yes, I used to use gdb just a small handful of times a few years ago, but Emacs' gdb mode is very powerful. But I assume there is a gdb DAP as well by now?
Re:I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own
on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:34PM (#40108982)
And same for Emacs, great LSP and DAP integration.
Re:I can't stand using VSCode so I wrote my own
on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:32PM (#40108970)
Emacs
Re:A new look at the original Romantic heartthrob, Lord Byron
on Sunday April 21, 2024 @04:31PM (#40108965)
Sci-Fi, but what's the second?
Re:Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things
on Saturday April 20, 2024 @06:14AM (#40096198)
Aaaagh, make it stop!
Re:Why did software become worse lately?
on Saturday April 20, 2024 @04:40AM (#40095816)
It is getting worse and worse due to CV-driven development, hypetrains, and moving further and further away from standards. It is horrible and frustrating.