socksy

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Comment · 26 days ago

I dunno I feel historically SoftBank have been a big deal in Silicon Valley

Comment · 26 days ago

I think the joke is that they only work half an hour a year...

Comment · 1 month ago

Btw, Germans have no problem with pronouncing the letter L (before a vowel, anyway)

Comment · 1 month ago

I think you misread, the fact that the UK is in the Anglosphere strengthens the GP's point

Comment · 1 month ago

It's amazing just how many stories of Rob Pike seem to show him being both a dick and wrong

Comment · 2 months ago

This is not how German culture works.

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Comment · 3 months ago

There's so many comments here railing against Android but... I can't recreate this at all? With Android 16 on a Pixel 7 using the Google photos app, if I tap the rotate button 8 times it dutifully queues the animations and ends up with a no-op (not even prompting you to save when you exit the view). This is exactly the behaviour one would expect, no?

Screen recording here (lower frame rate due to the recording, there's no stutter in normal usage): https://photos.app.goo.gl/45PjSYMMvAc8fxA57

Comment · 4 months ago

Ah, like this one? https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

Comment · 4 months ago

i mean, i definitely agree and am somehow allergic to seeing llm written text from other humans (you typed a prompt! why not just post it directly? i'd rather have bad spelling and grammar than llm slop). but... while i feel i can detect it pretty reliably in forums like HN, i can't help but think that this is the toupée fallacy[0] at work. of course, all the text that _i_ think is fake is clearly fake after all

[0] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Toupee_fallacy

Comment · 5 months ago

Isn't that just VAT?

Comment · 5 months ago

Weird to make reading zshrc supposed unsafe when I happily publish it in my public dotfiles repo... Who the hell keeps API keys in it? OTOH it seems like lots of these AI tools keep appending PATH in it so I guess there's a fundamental misunderstanding of shell best practices in the entire AI space...

Additionally, killing the results of `lsof` is _not_ safe - if, say, you have the web page open in firefox, or a client subshell in the agent itself, then boom, there goes firefox and the agent.

Comment · 5 months ago

Then as a California resident you should presumably be googling instead about the CCPA and the right to delete :)

Comment · 7 months ago

I can't stand this and will actively discriminate against comments I notice in that voice. Even this one has "Not because [..], but because [..]"

Comment · 8 months ago

Why? This is asserted throughout this HN thread as an obvious truism, but it seems precipiced on some dramatic right wing free market concept of how the world works that I can't tell is coming from the libertarians of hacker news, or is some kind of USA concept.

Why should society let the concept of a company exist if it is actively detrimental to society at large, for the gain of a very few?