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Comment · 3 months ago
Oops you're right. I double-checked both from the hacker News app preview (Harmonic), and mobile Chrome. No "show more."

I must have confused it with another article, sorry.

Comment · 3 months ago
There's probably an economic incentive to get visitors to read past the show more button?
Comment · 4 months ago
Because it's a common phrase? Same as "get carded"?

English is flexible; almost any combination of words can start to have meaning.

Comment · 4 months ago
> Parents buy those phones, phones could easily have a "user is a minor" setting (and a flag sent to all the sites that want one)

That's basically the California law! I hope other states adopt the "ask nicely for age but no online verification." OS setup asks for birthday, but you can just say January 1.

I also thought it should just send the flag, but I've heard there's good reasons not to. There's normally an affirmative prompt from the user to agree to send the age bucket data.

Comment · 4 months ago
Could you have a Trusted Platform Module tied to fingerprint reader, while the phone is rooted?

Nobody here complains that you can't install apps onto your TPM.

Comment · 5 months ago
AU is just as effective as humans at contributing to sqlite: they don't accept contributions.
Comment · 5 months ago
Thanks for sharing that nuance. It seems one court weighed in that Claude chat wasn't accepted:

> In February 2026, Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that a defendant who pasted information—including details conveyed by his lawyers—into a public, consumer-grade AI chatbot (specifically Anthropic's Claude) completely waived his attorney-client privilege.

But maybe if you are using a transcription tool that happens to send your audio through the Anthropic APIs, the ruling would be different?

Comment · 5 months ago
Like what cloudflare does in EmDash (the spiritual successor to WordPress).

But almost all plugins would need to be rewritten?

Comment · 6 months ago
A production app with customer data needs a data backup/restore strategy. I'm guessing a random app server writing to a local sqlite file isn't doing that either.
Comment · 6 months ago
In my USA high School, they started requiring graphing calculators in the 9th grade math class. You would fail most quizzes/exams without the ability to run the calculations that scientific calculators couldn't do.

I'm struggling to remember using my TI-84 in college though.

Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 6 months ago
I have a small CLI script that runs JQL `text ~ "$1"` (with per-repo filters on project/component).

I don't have to switch to the browser most of the time!

Comment · 6 months ago
So in the trolley problem, you would abstain from supporting either side? I think that's actually a choice of supporting the status quo.
Comment · 7 months ago
I was there when the SDET role was eliminated.

Our team of 8 SDE and 5 SDET became a team of 8 devs who also owned tons of QA frameworks. It was awful, except each tiny we deleted a test suite for not being valuable; that was awesome!

If the Azure org was flooded with senior engineers who did not have senior-level experience architecting production software... That explains a lot.

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