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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I'm talking about the 90's. I'm sure they did sell computers with Windows pre-installed in the 90's. But almost every place also sold computers without any OS. It was not at all unusual. The computing world wasn't j
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Naive world view. They also filed other less serious charges against him (of which he may have been guilty). He intended to plead "Not guilty", but after 2.5 years of him being held before trial[1], they offered him a deal. Plead
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> This is not a reasonable expectation. I may be of a different age, but in my time it was common to buy computers without any OS pre-installed. It was on you to install one (from CD, floppy, whatever). Of course, vendors selling PCs oft
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Ouch. A good friend of mine was charged with providing material support to terrorists for providing similar donations. And all his donations were prior to the US designating the recipients as terrorists. The government's arguments we
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> and most GUIs should just be web. Yikes, no! One of the reasons old timers like me say that using a computer has sucked a lot in the last ~20 years is the use of a browser as an interface to everything. If you want to make an app that
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Mildly off topic, but getting to the original GUI vs TUI debate: Speed can also be a factor. I've yet to find a GUI file manager that is better than Midnight Commander/Far. I think there are some graphical orthodox file managers,
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> They have the capability, but they just don't want to do it because they don't feel like it. Well, the US does have this whole "freedom" thing. Which said soldiers presumably fight for companies like Anthropic to ha
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> I’m not trying to discount mental health, I just think there are better solutions than drugs to fix your state of mind. Find one that's as effective on the general population. I mean, sure, perhaps lifestyle changes are better. Ca
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> Emacs isn't ready for the masses. It never will be. It's simply not a goal they have. It's tiring to keep hearing people point it out. Emacs is also not ready to be your web server. Or your Jira replacement. It's no
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> But wanting something good for yourself and your peers isn't anti-progress. It is if it makes it worse for everyone else.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Much of computing history has been about replacing humans. If they were proud of their work pre-LLMs, then at least they're being consistent! It's kind of hypocritical to change just because it's now a different industry bein
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Height limiting is anti-progress, which was his point.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> if it didn't, it would launch to little more than an elisp REPL by default. I'm confused. Have things changed? The scratch buffer it starts with is for writing elisp. > this is a shipped feature that _does not function
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I speak only for myself and not the Emacs team, but ... IMO it shouldn't do this by default - unless there is a clear "winner" among all the choices. IIRC, for eglot I had to install a Python language server. There are a bu
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I'd be happy with it as a service where I search for a video, and get a decent result, and not see shorts. In particular, what I don't want to see is a hundred videos where all the person does is use clips from other videos as b
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
If I pay for a streaming service, I'll compare it with other paid streaming services. Youtube is, for me, the worst streaming experience - by a significant margin. Terrible curation. Terrible recommendations. Terrible UI. No way would
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Which has a better monthly plan? Right now Z.ai "Pro" plan (the middle one) is $56/mo if you prepay for a year. I signed up for their Lite plan when it was only $28 for the whole year (less than $3/mo). Definitely very
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Well, now one of them does!
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I've heard Discount Tire prices are almost comparable. The main issue is scheduling and tire rotation. From every person I know who's used it, it's typically a 2 hour wait. The notion of "leave car, do shopping, pick it
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
If you're on Android, install F-Droid and get one of the apps there that let you watch Youtube. No ads[1] and you can disable shorts. [1] I'm not fundamentally against ads, but the Youtube ad situation has gotten ridiculous. They&
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
The key difference between this and all other GLM models is it's multimodal. You cannot send images to the other GLM models.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Oh, I'm happy to do my shopping there. Just not gas and tires.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
Dealing with Django, they give quite a few ways to query data. For the small internal web site we ran, I've yet to encounter an N+1 situation that I didn't find an alternative Django API that I should have been using. Not saying y
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
There was a blog post around 10 years ago where someone did the math and found the extra wait wasn't worth the savings if you value your time. For me, locally, there's a grocery store chain that also has gas stations. If you are a
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
It used to come up often several years ago. See some examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19493179 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19493147 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
It can be derived from a bunch of them, depending on the situation. If you call an Uber and it's 30 minutes late almost causing you to miss the flight, the fundamental emotions could be anxiety, fear, annoyance, distraught, dismayed, r
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I read everything you say, can agree with everything you say, and it still doesn't answer "Why should this make you/me angry?" As per the article, it does answer why I should be anxious. Not why I should be angry.
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
> Maybe anger helps draw attention to you. Maybe it garners some form of sympathy. Maybe people get out of your way when you're angry, giving you a certain kind of power. I know it's much maligned here on HN, but you've ar
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I used to read his stuff ~20 years ago. He has cool things to say, but his writing always sucked. I often write lengthy pieces. Then I look at it and say "Oh no, I don't want to become Steve Yegge!"
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by BeetleB 2mo ago
I'm fascinated to hear that this worked. I worked at one place where that was the goal: Everything had an owner. It was terrible (and from what I hear, still is). I'd have a job which required some expertise. John nearby had his

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