TacticalCoder

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by TacticalCoder 25d ago
What about an article about Eritrea? It's a country from eastern Africa that's never been colonized and it's one of the poorest country on earth.
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by TacticalCoder 25d ago
> i spend >80% of my time in terminal, My life is spent inside terminal and Emacs. Every time I reach for the mouse, I consider it a major fail. Like: big time failure. Now at times I'll use the mouse: for example when I'm d
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by TacticalCoder 25d ago
I'm in the EU and my masters did hand over the car market to chinese cars and this was a very stupid move. Some EU carmakers are fighting back but it's very hard when politicians managed to have energy price in the EU being about
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by TacticalCoder 25d ago
Yup and Moore's law about transistors doubling every 18 to 24 months did basically hold, which is even more impressive. Foreseen it was.
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by TacticalCoder 25d ago
SO was already well DeadOverflow way before LLMs were a thing. For reasons people explained when SO came out: just as FaceBook was bound to be filled with accounts of dead persons (earning it the name "DeadBook"), SO was bound to
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by TacticalCoder 26d ago
Linus also wrote: "the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it" and: "So credit where credit is due and I let the AI write the commit message
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by TacticalCoder 26d ago
> The second observation, on 1 October 2025, involved a mother and calf pair (Maserati and Bentley respectively). I don't know if I'm more impressed by dolphins using sea shells as tools or by researchers naming dolphins after
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by TacticalCoder 26d ago
> Let me inflation adjust that for you Oh, perfect! So what about solving every problem by going $40 more trillion in debt, to reach $80 T in debt? That way everything will be good inflation adjusted?
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by TacticalCoder 27d ago
> Okay, so ELI 5 why I would now use HDMI instead of DP? I use DP too when I can . For example my main desktop is using DP. But many devices have HDMI, not DP. For example I've got seven Raspberry Pi here: they all have HDMI and no
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by TacticalCoder 27d ago
> I always assumed that so-called “great” literature was a hoax, a punishment inflicted upon adolescents for the crime of being young. It's mixed. It's both true and false. There are a great many books out there, but there&#x27
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by TacticalCoder 27d ago
> Many early cars used a hand crank to start the motor. If you don't do it correctly, it was possible to break your arm. I daily drove for years a motorbike with a kickstart (and also rode MX bike with a kickstart but these were 2-s
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by TacticalCoder 27d ago
Because nobody knows Lisp? P.S: Clojure dev here
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by TacticalCoder 28d ago
In my case it's "software for the home" but then I work from home and it's stuff I actually use to help me in my day to day work. And I had "software only for the home" way before coding with LLMs were a thing
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by TacticalCoder 28d ago
One one hand you laud EV cars and on the other you say cars and automobility have killed 60-80 million people (nearly as many as communism). However what you don't talk about is how much progress as been possible thanks to cars. Like r
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by TacticalCoder 28d ago
> are people passionately tracking steps without their phones? The least apps on my phone, the better. And the least I've got my phone on me, the better. I often leave the house without taking my phone. I don't track my steps b
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by TacticalCoder 28d ago
No, no, no and no. There's is right and wrong and there are evil people. No all cultures are equal: torturing kids for as long as possible before they die, to extract as many tears as possible to please the gods, used to be a thing. We
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by TacticalCoder 28d ago
It's the little "punchy" things a Karen would say (no harm meant to real Karens btw): you write a sentence and end with "No account, no telemetry." (and then later on three no's). Humans usually don't wr
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by TacticalCoder 29d ago
> I've been using computers for more than 40 years now and the one component I have never seen fail is RAM. I think over the decades I got one RAM disk fail. And another one didn't fail but, although I bought a pack of four s
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by TacticalCoder 29d ago
> I think Leopold of "situational awareness" fame predicted this, tried to make it widely known on podcasts and x, and still started billions worth of hedge funding based on this. Ironically enough it's because of its bet
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by TacticalCoder 29d ago
> ... can get really great tires on all three. The Michelin CrossClimate2 tires are arguably the best traction tires, Consumer Reports estimates 95,000 miles of tread life in their testing (higher than basically anything else), and they
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by TacticalCoder 29d ago
> my Brother dcp-t230 also doesn't have macos drivers and it's a usb only printer. Same thing here brother: DCP-L2510D (laser printer + scanner). Wife is on MacOS and cannot print/scan from there, so I'm the scanman.
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by TacticalCoder 29d ago
If this could all finally solve, once and for all, printing and scanning issues it'd be lovely (btw there are entire businesses who's only raison d'etre is "installing printers at clients and fixing them when they stop p
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
I remember old games shipping with huge lists of codes on paper. Paper made, on purpose, too big for an US legal/A4 photocopier. And moreover the codes would be using "light blue characters on slightly less light blue paper".
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> HN search and Wayback Machine [1] seems to confirm, so maybe I've not gone completely off my rocker? Many of us noticed that, on various topics: it happens once in a while. When there's sufficient interest again, things can b
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> About 98% of mine is embarrassing and made for the ether. Same > Have you ever looked back on your history? All the time? I search in my history, re-launch past commands, etc. Now it's typically recent history, usually same d
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
Yup seeing the first picture at first I thought it would be some hack involving literal pizza boxes to do some ghetto build simulating good old... "pizza boxes" (the ones I fondly remember are the SGI Indy and then I guess the Com
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
So in Western Europe we're fucked by first having heatwaves (and fires everywhere) and, indeed, every field around me is yellow instead of green... And then, when the AMOC shall start running amok, we'll be forever in extreme cold
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
Here's a crazy one: I've got a 38 years old Porsche 911 Carrera since the last century (I bought it in 1999). It used to be my daily. It still runs totally fine: regularly using it to go pick the kid at school. I've got anoth
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
> Trusted by... six companies from the same YC cohort. I giggled.
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by TacticalCoder 1mo ago
Yup this. While working I love instrumental-only electronic music: no voices.

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