IdiotSavage

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by IdiotSavage 7d ago
You're right. I mis-remembered it. I see that it applies styles to markdown documents, but keeps all formatting characters visible (e.g. # for titles). I guess I wasn't happy with that and looked for another solution.
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by IdiotSavage 8d ago
TextEdit.app supports printing, so does Notepad.exe (unless they removed that recently).
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by IdiotSavage 8d ago
> any program that supports printing Unfortunately printing support seems to go out of fashion, at least in macOS land. Lately I needed a quick printout of a markdown document. I could have used TextEdit for the raw text, but I wanted th
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Ask HN: Tagging AI-Related Posts
2 points by IdiotSavage 9d ago|0 comments
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by IdiotSavage 19d ago
> …and that means that users can input and navigate at light speed. Oh yeah? I remember when they introduced these shitty animations that made everything feel extremely laggy. From the article linked below: "Microsoft Excel now anim
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by IdiotSavage 19d ago
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjAxMzY3NjcxNF5BMl5B...
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by IdiotSavage 21d ago
> other than that all I really need is a web browser and Ghostty with good battery life. Then why bother installing a different OS?
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by IdiotSavage 2mo ago
I hate the round corners. It's already too much on 15, but way worse on 26. It looks like "Baby's first OS", designed by Fisher-Price.
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by IdiotSavage 2mo ago
> Another important feature of a tool like this is the ability to tolerate errors: I can't imagine a Linux today that would be able to even boot if the shell was extra pedantic about errors. A lot of mostly irrelevant things routine
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by IdiotSavage 2mo ago
What if there was a less cryptic way to have mandatory arguments, something harder to get wrong, like param( [parameter(mandatory)] $name ) "Hello, $name!" And then: $ ./script.ps1 Dave Hello, Dave! $
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by IdiotSavage 2mo ago
Is any of MIT's stuff "open"? Clicking around on news.mit.edu I see lots of cool ideas. Articles mention "the software allows users to...", yet I never see a link to actual software. For example, I expected to be ab
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by IdiotSavage 2mo ago
Meanwhile in Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9FsQXYVgUE
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by IdiotSavage 2mo ago
In this thread: bash experts with arcane knowledge, unintentionally demonstrating how awful bash is. The obvious solution would be to use something more sane, like PowerShell or nushell, but instead old experts will always defend the skills
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by IdiotSavage 2mo ago
Interestingly the "activate on release" logic was implemented in computer GUIs long before touchscreens were common, used purely by mouse-click (a physical button).
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by IdiotSavage 2mo ago
My point was about user expectations / users not being aware when the button triggers. Your argument has nothing to do with that.
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by IdiotSavage 2mo ago
Isn't this exactly why browsers implemented "private mode"? Why don't they inform users about how to properly use private mode, which works with any website, instead of rolling their own solution, which the user has to l
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by IdiotSavage 2mo ago
> But a button that works like that in a GUI would feel wrong. No, it doesn't. It feels way more responsive. My pet peeve is "stopwatch apps" which trigger on release instead of on press. When timing something where fracti
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by IdiotSavage 3mo ago
You're wrong. "Users should vote and comment when they run across something they personally find interesting—not for promotion." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#:~:text=Use...
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by IdiotSavage 3mo ago
If you want to see what a random distribution looks like: jot -r 100 0 1 | rs -t 10 I noticed my "fake randomness" is lacking long sequences of the same key. I feel like I'm "predictable" when I press the sam
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by IdiotSavage 3mo ago
Only in theory. A 3D printer doesn't need to sustain lateral forces - a router does. It might not be built for this.
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by IdiotSavage 3mo ago
The docs say that's the default: https://docs.deno.com/runtime/desktop/backends/#webview-(def...
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by IdiotSavage 3mo ago
More fun facts: Omitting those characters makes it good for generating passwords if they need to be typed in by hand. Double-clicking a base58 string always selects the whole string and it doesn't wrap accidentally, thanks to missing &
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by IdiotSavage 3mo ago
Or the more recent memory of the F1 ad pushed via the wallet app.
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by IdiotSavage 3mo ago
This is just a continuation of common StackOverflow advice to "make it work", which the LLMs use as "knowledge": https://stackoverflow.com/a/28002687 https://stackoverflow.com/a&#x2F
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by IdiotSavage 3mo ago
Already works with nightly: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/cargo/reference/unstable.h... #!/usr/bin/env -S cargo +nightly -Zscript ---cargo [package] edition = "2024"
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Rust goal: cargo script (like uv does for Python)(rust-lang.github.io)
1 points by IdiotSavage 3mo ago|1 comments
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by IdiotSavage 4mo ago
I think you've misunderstood the analogy. Just ignore it, analogies mostly break down anyways. > a model capable of completing the tasks assigned to it The thing is, the "task assigned to it" is changing with improved capa
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by IdiotSavage 4mo ago
I find that hard to believe. The AI companies will want to control what's possible and find new things to do that "need" their services. Otherwise it would be like Intel and Microsoft had decided in the year 2000 that compute
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by IdiotSavage 4mo ago
Definitely. x-cache: Error from cloudfront
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by IdiotSavage 4mo ago
But can you show me a "top of the range" product? Not Ikea's top range, but "high end" in the common sense.

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