andrewshadura

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by andrewshadura 6mo ago
From that website: "Every bullet point or list item starts with a bolded phrase or sentence. Extremely common in Claude and ChatGPT markdown output. Almost nobody formats lists this way when writing by hand. It's a telltale sign
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by andrewshadura 6mo ago
It’s not just 5, it’s also 21 to 25, 31 to 35 etc. However, some Slavic languages (e.g. Slovak and Czech) don’t do that, and only have those special numerals for under 5.
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by andrewshadura 6mo ago
> In real-world trials conducted on the streets of London in February, in cooperation with Deliveroo couriers, the bell proved so effective that couriers expressed a desire to keep it. Of course they would, because a lot of them either d
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by andrewshadura 6mo ago
The problem with headphones is not noise cancellation. It’s the fact they play music. My regular Widek bell penetrates ANC, but when there’s music, ANC or not, it’s hard to hear. I’m struggling to believe the claims this bell is going to be
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A satellite-smashing chain reaction could spiral out of control(theguardian.com)
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by andrewshadura 7mo ago
This website is almost impossible to read. Pop-ups, "see also" blocks, lots of distractions. I wonder if the creators ever tried actually using it.
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by andrewshadura 7mo ago
Judging by the style of the tables and the overall sloppiness, it looks like the article was authored using Claude.
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by andrewshadura 8mo ago
Debian has always been political, since its inception.
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by andrewshadura 8mo ago
Wikipedia claims it was invented as an ad-hoc convention by some Twitter users, and eventually it became so popular Twitter started turning @username into links.
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by andrewshadura 8mo ago
Happens to me all the time in PWAs. I get it roughly once in two days, sometimes a few times a day.
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by andrewshadura 8mo ago
Why do you think GIMP is a nightmare? I don’t find it problematic at all. The only issue I’m hitting once in a while is that I click on a button on the toolbar, and I guess I hit its edge, as I doesn’t switch modes. Other than that, I don’t
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by andrewshadura 8mo ago
I'm a bit disappointed all names are changed in the new edition. I understand that SCP-... had to become U-..., but I've grown attached to the character names, and they're all different!
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by andrewshadura 8mo ago
Disck.
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by andrewshadura 8mo ago
Too bad there isn't something like this bug focused on Dutch and German city bikes. There's a lot of knowledge not covered in one single place, spread over hundreds of small webpages, YouTube videos etc in multiple languages. Some
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by andrewshadura 9mo ago
Referring to a recent debate on HN, if text is king, what is queen?
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by andrewshadura 9mo ago
To me, this reads exactly the opposite.
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by andrewshadura 9mo ago
You can't, unfortunately. No trains run between Poland and Belarus.
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by andrewshadura 9mo ago
Don't hurt me, no more.
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by andrewshadura 10mo ago
Disqus shows a lot of ads these days.
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by andrewshadura 10mo ago
I run an e-commerce website on Hugo. The only non-static part is a short Python function I run in a cloud to forward the orders to Stripe.
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by andrewshadura 10mo ago
I don’t have a slightest idea why would anyone want this. Borrow checking is one of the greatest benefits of Rust.
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by andrewshadura 10mo ago
Wasn't the original Redis prototype written in Tcl?
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by andrewshadura 10mo ago
Wow, this now includes a floppy drive sound emulator!
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by andrewshadura 10mo ago
How about git-crecord?
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by andrewshadura 11mo ago
My understanding it's a reference to Steve Coogan, who played Alan Partridge, who in one episode sees a friend called Dan, and starts shouting his name, but Dan doesn't react. Alan proceeds shouting: Dan! Dan! DAN! and eventually
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by andrewshadura 11mo ago
Has he also written a Dan?
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by andrewshadura 11mo ago
You mean Real London and Fake London?
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by andrewshadura 11mo ago
It was never required to show a pop-up for essential cookies.
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by andrewshadura 11mo ago
And htop is still good enough.
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by andrewshadura 1y ago
Same as it ever was.

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