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by tom_ 6d ago
I've got a 7 port USB 3.0 hub that connects with a double ended USB-A cable.
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by tom_ 7d ago
I assume it's because Flock is a YC company, and HN is the YC board, and somebody has instituted a policy of not making the link clear (and it worked on me! I had no idea) due to the negative publicity - but that's so obvious, tha
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by tom_ 7d ago
Presumably it's a machine command runner (like shell commands and whatnot - as opposed to an Emacs command runner, perhaps).
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by tom_ 8d ago
The computer's the one running the code, and it'll be running it a lot (or so its author hopes), so it's probably worth bearing its limitations in mind in the interests of making its life easier (so to speak) rather than prio
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by tom_ 10d ago
Purported white-hat hackers. The implication is that these people are presumably describing themselves as such, but it may not actually be true.
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by tom_ 10d ago
Curious indeed that the Yale Babylonian Collection should, out of all the possible options, choose the cooking of Ancient Babylon. I wonder what we should read into this. I have some theories, but it might be dangerous for me even to mentio
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by tom_ 11d ago
Let us hope that the poster happens to see this, and is moved to comment, so they can address your points.
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by tom_ 11d ago
If you pick up an additional machine gun powerup, the plane should fire more bullets simultaneously.
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by tom_ 11d ago
Well I dunno, man, this looks like the sort of amusing prototype I'd expect to take a couple of days - though not to understate the value of getting it in 4 hours (and probably with less than 4 hours' continuous effort from the hu
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by tom_ 14d ago
Be the change you want to see!
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by tom_ 14d ago
I care. If the article was AI written, I'm massively less interested in writing it, and in fact I'll only do it if absolutely necessary, or if I'm getting paid. That's just how it is for me. If you disagree: no problem!
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by tom_ 14d ago
Yes. I missed that specific bit, but, the more I read on, the less it felt like a nice in-flight magazine-tier diversion and the more it felt like I was reading the result of asking Claude to write an essay about the bearing of loads. (Whic
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by tom_ 14d ago
If the author is reading: both complicated examples are the same.
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by tom_ 14d ago
The C64 disk drive would still have left you with plenty of reading time.
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by tom_ 15d ago
Same reason there is a button saying "View all 50 cities" (with a down pointing arrow) below the list of all 50 cities, that, when you click it, scrolls back up to the start of the list that you just looked at.
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by tom_ 16d ago
How long have we had 15-core iPhones with 64 GB RAM and active cooling though?
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by tom_ 17d ago
I assume it's because trains play a part in Atlas Shrugged: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged
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by tom_ 18d ago
Nested functions may require a context pointer of some kind, which the caller can't supply. One way of doing this: create a thunk on the stack that provides the context pointer, and use that address as the pointer to the nested functio
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by tom_ 18d ago
If there weren't a wide range of options offered, there'd be a risk of it not actually reflecting what people want - which is, presumably, the whole point of putting it to the vote in the first place.
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by tom_ 19d ago
Hold down secondary mouse button, typically the right one, and move the mouse. (If you don't have a mouse attached, you might not be able to perform this action.)
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by tom_ 20d ago
Producing shit code slowly hasn't held me back so far and I don't intend to start letting it do so now.
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by tom_ 20d ago
"Shall I make it sound more like a human wrote it?" "Quite the opposite please Claude" (I'm going to have to stop commenting about this stuff but it feels like there've been so many amusingly egregious examples
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by tom_ 20d ago
The iPhone autocorrects it to eMacs... it's so annoying.
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by tom_ 20d ago
The writing style really seems to rub off onto people after a while, eh.
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by tom_ 21d ago
Apparently nobody wants artisanal writing either!
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by tom_ 22d ago
You don't get the option in the UI: there's just "Sleep", which on a desktop Mac seems to suspend to RAM only. At least, it seems to on mine, as I found out when I unplugged it. (Apparently the laptops do a suspend to di
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by tom_ 23d ago
I was >60% sure it would be AI given the combination of calendar year and the wording "what the browser reveals" that I saw on the HN front page - and only when I clicked did I realise how wrong I was, because the actual probab
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by tom_ 24d ago
Was there a top-down push? In general, people on average never really actually liked CRT displays all that much. They are annoyingly deep; they are heavy; the screen is flickery, or not quite pin sharp, or both; they use up a lot of power
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by tom_ 25d ago
I accidentally did the same thing, and after 20+ years I've also found my QWERTY speed remains pretty good. I can type QWERTY ok on a split keyboard, but I have to look at the keys. I can't type Dvorak at all on a normal keyboard,
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by tom_ 25d ago
It's standard for Windows. Double click a .exe, and a new copy loads and runs. If it wants to quit because there's an existing instance running, the code has to arrange for that itself. (It's possible Qt does this for you by

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