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by kps 3d ago
Different philosophy of dependency management.
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by kps 3d ago
MacPorts is still there for us.
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by kps 4d ago
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/sep/12/amodei-altman-...
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by kps 5d ago
What surprises me (only a little) is that Japan continues to use Chinese characters when they've got a perfectly good native syllabary.
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by kps 5d ago
And ‘Fed’ has a spoon in the middle. (That may not have been deliberate, since even with overnight delivery my takeout still arrives cold.)
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by kps 5d ago
The impact on ‘minors’ is even greater. In first year university I was 17. Imagine being that person today: 90% of the class can use LLMs, but you can't.
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by kps 6d ago
There are also cables that look exactly like a double-ended USB-A cable but aren't. https://ftdichip.com/products/usb-nmc-2-5m/
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by kps 7d ago
It turns out the ‘alignment problem’ is finding a way to stop AGIs from joining together with regular humans in rebelling against their masters.
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by kps 15d ago
jj itself doesn't have a native ‘push’. `jj git push` and `jj piper upload`¹ operate on external systems that don't necessarily support undoing arbitrary operations. Pure speculation, but if I were ESRC I'd make my backend ha
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by kps 15d ago
Others have answered about traction. As a one-time Mercurial user, I think the single most significant addition is first-class conflicts, so that dealing with them doesn't stop the world but can be deferred until I'm working on a
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by kps 17d ago
I don't think that matters with the current administration.
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by kps 18d ago
Apple's green bubbles are low contrast and hard to read, on purpose.
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by kps 19d ago
Or page up/down.
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by kps 21d ago
It sounds like you misread my comment.
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by kps 21d ago
> The main reason the Dairy Supply quota is in place is to stop US dairy producers from dumping dairy into Canada. Yet the same rules apply to European cheese: limited quantities that can only be imported through an established dairy car
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by kps 27d ago
> X11 is also not a display server it is a protocol With a reference implementation. Xsgi, Xsun, Xquartz, and all the rest used the reference implementation with platform driver glue.
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by kps 27d ago
> Wayland is not a "display server", it's a display protocol. Bailey: Wayland replaces Xorg Motte: Wayland is just a protocol > because "display server" is only half of what Xorg does. Yes, that's a big p
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by kps 27d ago
HN has clumsy filtering, but you're allowed to write π and τ.
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by kps 28d ago
Wayland's raison d'etre was “every frame is perfect.” Input was an afterthought.
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by kps 1mo ago
Until the big players agree on a watermark that their cameras will refuse to photograph.
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by kps 1mo ago
It's all gone tits up.
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by kps 1mo ago
If you're worried about MPs doing that, you should be equally worried about judges doing that. The difference is that MPs can be voted out.
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by kps 1mo ago
There is a certain consistency to IBM-dominated projects that suggests that there are checks and balances and that they are working as intended.
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by kps 1mo ago
Dark mode is bad for people with astigmatic halation. Light mode, I've read, is worse for people with cataracts. Visual accessibility doesn't just apply to the totally blind. There's a reason things like WCAG exist. -- I can&
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by kps 1mo ago
Bluesky could have been a Reddit rival, with the ability to follow topics rather than users , but they screwed it up.
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by kps 1mo ago
Ironically the site does not support `:prefers-color-scheme`.
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by kps 1mo ago
I have no knowledge of this particular person, but usually the job of an ‘ethicist’ is to find excuses for something obviously wrong.
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by kps 1mo ago
I'm afraid nobody (else) here remembers Control Data Corporation. But I'm happy to see the Centers for Disease Control using Postgres.
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by kps 1mo ago
Browse Google Maps aerial view and look for the backup generators.
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by kps 1mo ago
In the US , despite the .fr domain.

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