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by alexaholic 13d ago
It mentions it: > Complexion also determined what a person should eat, so that (for example) garlic and pepper were good for the phlegmatic, but “venym” to a choleric person.
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by alexaholic 13d ago
I enjoyed reading this, I found the article equally interesting and amusing. As a curiosity — it says that beef was cheap and suitable for manual labourers, and salmon was a staple of the monastic diet. How did they end up being among the m
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by alexaholic 15d ago
> Bespoke interfaces everywhere From bespoke to Bootstrap, to Tailwindshitification
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by alexaholic 15d ago
We used to do this during the Web 2.0 era with PNGs, GIFs and `progid:DXImageTransform` because back then you couldn't do it with standard CSS alone. Then as CSS (and MS!) evolved to enable it, the world moved on to flat UIs. It's
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by alexaholic 18d ago
Rust is a tool that allows one to build cars for humans to drive, in order to avoid certain accidents. If you try to put your dog in the driver’s seat of a Rust-powered car, Rust will stop you and ask you to produce proof that the dog is a
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by alexaholic 18d ago
The Jehovah's Witnesses of programming
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by alexaholic 19d ago
Anyone remember Xandros? https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=xandros Iirc it was a bit wonky and it eventually convinced me that, if I wanted to ever use Linux, I didn't need a Windows UI — I needed to learn
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by alexaholic 20d ago
> Any half decent product, with a nice website, a real solution and some SEO can get in front of say 100,000 prospects these days A lot of the Internet says otherwise — especially these days. Care to share your sauce?
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by alexaholic 1mo ago
I assume you're talking about O Mundo Fantástico da Sardinha Portuguesa (The Fantastic World of The Portuguese Sardine). It's obviously a tourist trap and, btw, contributing to the craze.
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by alexaholic 1mo ago
I haven't heard of Delphi in ages. Where I grew up, I was the first generation to start high school with C++ as opposed to the previous ones who were stuck with Pascal. I believe I did some in university, but not much. Anyway, I am amu
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by alexaholic 1mo ago
This is awesome! I wonder how far can you get with a wood and iron build
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by alexaholic 1mo ago
Fwiw Rovo is built on top of Claude
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by alexaholic 1mo ago
> or you can just wire everything up in the shell itself keeping it as simple as possible with one single tool If I understand correctly, you’re not answering my question, and you’re not talking about MCP either. Have you considered that
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by alexaholic 1mo ago
MCP is nice, but does your agent use it without you explicitly asking it to do so? From my experience, instructions in `.md` files aren't enough. In fact, Claude seems to prefer the shell over even its own built-in tools (e.g. `read`,
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by alexaholic 3mo ago
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by alexaholic 3mo ago
Excellent!
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by alexaholic 4mo ago
If you believe the EU cares about kids, then yeah, I guess you could say it's sad to talk about the EU targeting Temu. If you believe the EU cares about the EU economy, then I think it's absolutely relevant to talk about the EU ta
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by alexaholic 4mo ago
https://archive.ph/ea6TC
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by alexaholic 4mo ago
The Amália model is not yet publicly available. Until it's ready, one can fool around with Anália at https://analia.pt
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by alexaholic 4mo ago
> I know that at least Blik is working on making it possible for international payments International transfers between MB Way (PT) and Bizum (ES) are working e.g. via phone number. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by alexaholic 4mo ago
> personally I'd still wait for some reviews from some real world people Fine, wait, but do encourage everybody else to buy, otherwise you won't see any review from any "real world people"
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by alexaholic 5mo ago
> winget install 9NQ7512CXL7T LOL
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by alexaholic 5mo ago
If you’re a paying customer, it’s paying customer funded, not VC funded.
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by alexaholic 5mo ago
> more substantial changes still to come for anyone not grandfathered into a Pro plan The change applies to existing subscriptions, some paid a year in advance.
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by alexaholic 5mo ago
I have a GitHub Pro subscription, renewed for the 2nd year, and I just found out I can no longer use Opus with it. Opus was one of the reasons I had a subscription in the first place. Opus 4.6 had a 3x multiplier in Pro. Now the new Opus 4.
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by alexaholic 11mo ago
Specifically Google Analytics cookies, but I found you can uncheck the box.
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"Elected leaders must tax us, the super rich. We'd be proud to pay more."(proudtopaymore.org)
9 points by alexaholic 3y ago|23 comments
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by alexaholic 3y ago
On a reasonably large project, you accumulate sufficient dependencies that you end up doing all of that.
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New SARS‑CoV‑2 variant BA.2.86 has 30+ mutations, causes concern(theguardian.com)
3 points by alexaholic 3y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Am I the only one suffering from bullet points fatigue?
3 points by alexaholic 3y ago|2 comments

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