davidwritesbugs

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Comment · 12 days ago
In the rural UK area where I live farmers will often be happy to have you shoot them with an airgun, if you seek permission. Nice (if stewed) cheap meat.
Comment · 24 days ago
Isnt that a bit slow for these?
Comment · 1 month ago
I wish HN could auto-tag comments from bots.
Comment · 1 month ago
I think there must be such a thing as design dyslexia because they all look fine to me shrug
Comment · 1 month ago
I am about to release a streaming Internet radio app (Pentode) and I thought it was cool to be able to listen to FM stations far away - but when I read this I realise what really WAS cool.

Edit: downvoted comment??

Comment · 1 month ago
I can imagine you’d be embarrassed, I did stupid stuff too, but unless you’re running for Congress you should just say “I was a stupid teenager” and let it wash. Anyone fair minded will dismiss it.
Comment · 1 month ago
Love the John Politics page, utterly slick completely bland and phoney. Assume it’s a meme i missed, love it.
Comment · 1 month ago
All I did was create a wrapper script to pipe to the torrent client, then "pipe these torrent files to the script" - so easy to circumvent you wonder why they bother
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
I already had DeepSeek tell me "I cant help you with torrents or other copyright infringing uses".
Comment · 1 month ago
As someone with coding projects in the is area would you care to elaborate on "a lot of learned lessons"?
Comment · 1 month ago
Shhh, do not talk about *senet!
Comment · 1 month ago
exactly, there's no meaningful discussion without the pelican.
Comment · 2 months ago
I wonder how much of this could be done by a clever linker? There’s a lot of skill in there but how would an llm do, for the rest of us?

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