ValentineC

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by ValentineC 5d ago
I don't know if I'm getting more sensitive to Claudisms because I've been reading them everywhere (and I use Claude a fair bit myself), but I feel like the comparison page is full of them.
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by ValentineC 5d ago
> They also charge a pretty hefty membership fee if you’re not at least a PR It's $43.60 per year [1]. Thank you for contributing a bit more to the library's budget…? [1] https://www.nlb.gov.sg/main/servi
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by ValentineC 5d ago
> Only professionals and enthusiasts care about bokeh. I mean, consumers would probably just know it as "nice and pleasing blurred background", versus "this blurred background isn't as nice".
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by ValentineC 5d ago
As someone who's been trying to build a single project since February, I never expected things to take this long. "The team" keeps finding things to extend because of some issue somewhere (so many race conditions), and I&#x27
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by ValentineC 6d ago
> They're going to have to try a lot harder than $1 for 50 days worth of reading, in a world where any time taken off from work is a risk. If the "get paid to walk" programmes [1][2] were an inspiration for this, it&#x27
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by ValentineC 6d ago
> Even their public swimming pools (not allowed to use them if you are a visitor, their digital ticketing system requires the local equivalent of a SSN). The official excuse is that it's tax payer subsidized. There's a FAQ sp
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by ValentineC 6d ago
> https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s... This link stupidly 503s for me here in Singapore (so does Archive.today right now, for some reason), so I had to use Internet Archive to read it
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by ValentineC 7d ago
Yeah, in Singapore, the cards to flex are DBS Insignia, UOB Reserve, Citi Ultima, and that black Amex.
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One Week After Board Crisis, Automattic Employees Say They're Kept in the Dark(therepository.email)
4 points by ValentineC 8d ago|0 comments
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by ValentineC 8d ago
That sounds mildly disingenuous. Surely there are buses nearby that connect to the MRT station?
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by ValentineC 8d ago
> Singapore really wants to look like Season 3 of Westworld. Some scenes in Westworld season 3 were filmed in Singapore: https://www.timeout.com/singapore/film/11-places-in-singapor...
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by ValentineC 8d ago
> Also, I notice a lot new SF based AI companies have started establishing their offices in Singapore too. Sierra, and Fireworks coming to my mind. As government plays a huge part in Singapore, I guess, government noticing these as nece
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by ValentineC 8d ago
In the 80s and 90s when the housing market was more immature, I believe condos and landed property were around the same price, and condos were seen as somewhat more prestigious because it came with private facilities.
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by ValentineC 8d ago
> Doesn't Tokyo have very low unemployment? According to Wikipedia: Japan 2.5%, Singapore 3.2%, USA 4.1%, EU 5.2%. Singapore's unemployment statistic only counts people who are looking, not people who are retired or have give
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The iPhones 18 Pro(daringfireball.net)
3 points by ValentineC 8d ago|1 comments
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iPhone 18 Pro Camera Review: Dunton, Colorado(austinmann.com)
2 points by ValentineC 8d ago|0 comments
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by ValentineC 9d ago
From the article: > I’d expect this to be the tip of the spear for eventually removing all HFS support from macOS, but given the timescale of the AFP transition, I wouldn’t be too worried about it evaporating in the next year or two. T
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by ValentineC 9d ago
I dread new macOS releases, because it signifies one year less support for my current version (I'm on Sequoia now, having jumped from Ventura) being supported. Every new version wrecks my workflow a little. macOS 28 will partially remo
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by ValentineC 11d ago
The links are usually to Archive.today (aka archive.ph and a bunch of other domains), not Wayback Machine (which is run by Internet Archive).
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by ValentineC 11d ago
No, but I'm referring to the AI news that gets posted on HN with a former Twitter link, because those companies don't have a proper news site of their own.
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by ValentineC 11d ago
I call it "former Twitter" to honour the good times, and maybe because deep down I hope it'll one day escape from fElon Musk's evil clutches.
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by ValentineC 11d ago
Also, for some reason, AI companies like DeepSeek who would rather post news exclusively there than vibecode their own news site.
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AppleCare One Family Launches at $49.99 per Month(macrumors.com)
1 points by ValentineC 11d ago|0 comments
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by ValentineC 11d ago
There are a lot of sycophants posting in the comment threads here and on Reddit. If you look up their career histories on LinkedIn, some of them are rising pretty quickly within the Automattic ranks.
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by ValentineC 11d ago
> If you don't want people like Mullenweg treating your business like a toy, try not having an internet monoculture. There were plenty of competitors to Wordpress that didn't have an insane database schema, but web programmers
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by ValentineC 11d ago
> Also in respect to Mullenweg, afaik he owns 84% of the company. This never had a chance without his consent. He has proxy agreements with Automattic's investors for 84% of the vote. I don't know how they're structured,
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by ValentineC 11d ago
When was Automattic ever "for the people"?
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by ValentineC 11d ago
> There's a whole ecosystem behind WordPress that, while it's a security nightmare, is also pretty damn useful. You can't vibe code that yet, you have to build it over years, if not decades. To be fair, I think a lot of
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by ValentineC 11d ago
> I was seeing companies with massive, clunky CMS installs just so their non-technical/less-technical staff could update their websites without filing tickets to IT/dev. It seemed to be more about those departments wanting aut
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by ValentineC 11d ago
> Part of what led up to this was a feud he had with a plug-in author, that led to Mullenweg signing his own plug-in as an update to the original author's plug-in, in the official Wordpress plug-in repository. Not just (forking an

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