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by _jackdk_ 5d ago
Speaking of page 3, Google's been asking me to sign in if I try to go beyond page 2 of search results. What a wonderful modern WWW we live in.
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by _jackdk_ 9d ago
I agree with your concerns but also think that a new viable browser engine will be such a benefit to the health of the open web that I'm willing to overlook such irregularities, at least for now. sqlite doesn't accept contribution
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by _jackdk_ 15d ago
Firefox is great, and I use and recommend it as daily driver, but the actions of Mozilla leadership are really hard to differentiate from deliberately managed decline. It will be interesting to see what happens as Ladybird matures.
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by _jackdk_ 17d ago
I did, yes. A but ironic indeed.
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by _jackdk_ 17d ago
I wonder if at any point during writing, the heroic author of that Super Metroid guide learned that "missiles" are not spent "missles", and decided to own the mistake rather than reword the entire guide. Also, the font u
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by _jackdk_ 20d ago
The blog link I mentioned avoids this cost with literals, by providing using a required type argument to check the string length at compile time without TH. It requires a relatively recent GHC: make :: forall symbol -> (IsNonEmptyS
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by _jackdk_ 20d ago
Liquid Haskell might require you to prove that the divisor is nonzero, but even in standard Haskell there's common idioms for ensuring that a list is non-empty (data NonEmpty a = a :| [a]) or that text is non-empty (newtype NonEmptyTex
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by _jackdk_ 21d ago
Given the passing of nitter, xcancel, etc., thank you for quoting the relevant text.
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by _jackdk_ 29d ago
It helped that Apple had a page for their statutory warranty in AU, so I could point to the sticker price of both machines and say "look, Apple acknowledges the consumer guarantee for at least 24 months after purchase and possibly long
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by _jackdk_ 29d ago
What fun. War stories like this are what keep me coming back to HN.
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by _jackdk_ 29d ago
Yeah, the ACL is fantastic. I have an AMD Framework 13 that had a fan bearing fail, which caused the fan to scream and spin up/down erratically. I had a long back-and-forth with Framwework support where they told me what I already knew
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by _jackdk_ 1mo ago
The 8088 MPH demo, for example, pushed the PC Speaker pretty far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHXx3orN35Y
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by _jackdk_ 1mo ago
I haven't seen a https://wiki.c2.com/?SmugLispWeenie in the wild for a very long time. I thought they'd all gone extinct!
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by _jackdk_ 1mo ago
Because Fastmail is one of the relatively rare non-American companies that's managed to get a good position in a challenging market. The UK's "Snooper's Charter" also has a mechanism to send Technical Capability Not
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by _jackdk_ 2mo ago
And how, exactly, will one acquire this "full EU Digital Identity Wallet"? Will I be able to compile it from source and run it on a computing device of my own choosing?
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by _jackdk_ 2mo ago
Thanks for replying, that's an interesting architecture. The idea of using a high-up parallel state seems particularly neat as a way to ensure every part of the page render stays independent, and to burst up the compute serving the res
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by _jackdk_ 2mo ago
That is not a use cases I would've expected Step Functions to handle; I'm intrigued. You're using express ones, I assume, but how are you wiring them up and why?
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by _jackdk_ 2mo ago
Single Instruction, Multiple Data.
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by _jackdk_ 2mo ago
So did consumer advocacy sites; this one is slop.
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by _jackdk_ 2mo ago
Perhaps coincidentally, it was also around the same brief beautiful moment in time where one could talk with all of one's friends using a single messaging client, possibly even over federated XMPP.
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by _jackdk_ 2mo ago
How much do we trust those guarantees? Apple currently alleges that OpenAI employees have been stealing Apple's trade secrets: https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai-trade-secre... > [Mr. Ta
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by _jackdk_ 2mo ago
USB-C maximalism is great for travel. I personally recommend travelling with a USB-C desktop charger, but use one that accepts a IEC C7 ("figure-8") cable. Then, travel with only the cable corresponding to your destination (or b
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by _jackdk_ 2mo ago
This is also something to be aware of when teaching people, too. I've seen advice for designing Anki-style flashcard decks that reminds people to create flashcards for both A->B and B->A.
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by _jackdk_ 3mo ago
That'd be https://www.costarastrology.com/why-haskell , if I remember the job ad correctly.
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by _jackdk_ 3mo ago
It's such a shame because back then even Windows was motivated by actual human user research and had thorough guidelines. https://ics.uci.edu/~kobsa/courses/ICS104/course-notes/Micro... (HN discussi
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by _jackdk_ 3mo ago
Qantas gave its final 747s a nice send-off too, back in July 2020, flying its final commercial 747 flight as QF7474. https://www.qantas747.com/ They also had QF7474 trace the Qantas logo in its track along the way, which is
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by _jackdk_ 3mo ago
The problem is that Wayland just isn't a compelling alternative for many people, so they don't move. For me, I see no benefit because I got used to avoiding HiDPI and don't have a mixed-DPI workspace. For some bizarre reason
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by _jackdk_ 3mo ago
Not in my experience, because the self-checkouts have to be designed for untrusted users instead of trusted employees. So I spend more time reacting to "please scan item" -> "place item in bagging area" -> "un
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by _jackdk_ 3mo ago
I used to get paid to scan groceries. I have no intention of doing it for the same companies for free.
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by _jackdk_ 3mo ago
Speculation, as someone who grew up with some of those games: We could use Heretic/Hexen as the most direct contemporary example of a "Doom++ engine": it had keyboard look up/down, inventory, and the ability to fly up&#x

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