Cyberdog

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Cyberdog is the internet alias of a guy with interests in:

- Swift programming language

- Cryptocurrency

- Vidya gaems

- Unix and macOS (though I don't hate Microsoft/Windows - you do you)

- Instinctively distrusting Google

- East Asia culture, language, politics, and especially food

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Comment · 3 months ago
In a sense, yes. They used third-party extensions (XCMDs) to HyperCard to add features it didn’t support out of the box, such as full-color support.
Comment · 3 months ago
Don't worry. I'm sure EU legislation will solve nuisances that are solely a creation of EU legislation.
Comment · 3 months ago
So the "cut" file doesn't disappear from its directory when you "cut" it? Only when it's pasted?
Comment · 3 months ago
Former foodservice worker (in the US) for several years here. Servers do not spit in customers' food; that would be psychopathic behavior that no manager would tolerate and grounds for immediate termination, and the type of person who would actually do that is the type of antisocial person who is going to struggle in any job. If a known bad tipper ends up in a server's section, she'll roll her eyes in private, perhaps grumble to her co-workers, then go put on the customer service smile and serve them as normal.

That said, please tip. Note that (where legal) servers are generally paid below minimum wage because it's expected their income will be supplemented with tips. Consider the tip not a bribe but as a payment for a service you were provided which, at least in the current cultural climate, is not being tacked on to the actual bill; you may not like that and want that cultural norm to change, but it hasn't changed yet and is unlikely to in the near future. If tipping really offends you, then order pick-up instead of dining in, or just cook at home.

Comment · 3 months ago
So the "cut" file just disappears then? Is there an "undo?" That seems really horrifying.
Comment · 3 months ago
Agreed, the Thermos company's lawyers will probably fire off a terse letter once they find out.
Comment · 3 months ago
What does happen if you never paste the file?

It feels to me like cut/copy (in the clipboard manipulation sense)/paste are nonsensical operations on files in the first place.

Comment · 3 months ago
HN title is misleading; the article merely says that the people were non-citizens. And as this happened when they were at a government office in the process of getting ID cards or driver licenses, it's safe to assume the vast majority of them were not undocumented - they were literally obtaining documentation.
Comment · 3 months ago
If I can tell that the LLM didn't answer my question properly, why would I engage with the ad the answer contains, which would likely be equally irrelevant?
Comment · 3 months ago
Incredibly Reddit-brained, if you're serious. Just say "explain, in simple terms, this thing," then ask follow-up questions on the parts you still struggle to grasp. It works for me - one of the things I find LLMs are quite good at, really.
Comment · 3 months ago
Is this the same "Kagi" that used to manage shareware license purchases (primarily for Mac) 30 years ago? I assumed it was as this Kagi also seems to be Apple-centric, but that Kagi was run by a man named Key (Key Netherly or something like that), not Vlad.
Comment · 3 months ago
I'm giving it a try after a couple months of daily driving with Zen, which I've become quite fond of. One potential deal-breaker is that it seems to be impossible to log into GitHub. After autofilling my credentials from the keychain, the form submits, and then I get redirected right back to the form with no error message. The same thing happens when I try logging in with my passkey. Has anyone else run into this and found a workaround? I tried turning off auto-submitting password forms in the Settings but that doesn't change anything.
Comment · 3 months ago
SponsorBlock has a native Safari/iOS extension that works fine.
Comment · 3 months ago
Thanks for that clarification. I was scouring the article and this comment section for some sort of clarification on how this would be enforced, since nowhere does it say that a new law was being passed or something.
Comment · 3 months ago
querySelector/querySelectorAll() are great for plucking out deeply nested elements but if all you need is to find all elements of a certain class and the API gives you a tool to do exactly that, why not do that instead of reaching for the general-purpose Swiss army knife? Sure, the execution speed difference may be only measurable in microseconds, but it takes about the same amount of time to type so why not use the specific tool?

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