chipotle_coyote

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by chipotle_coyote 11mo ago
I liked the original Opera—it’s been a while, but I think I actually paid for it on Windows a long, long time ago—but I’m not sure they were ever a “potential Mozilla,” at least in the way I would interpret that. They were a closed source
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by chipotle_coyote 11mo ago
AFAIK, the current version of Nota Bene -- a direct descendent of XyWrite -- still has this; the current feature list explicitly mentions "Editable Show Codes view so you can see exactly where commands take effect, and edit them as des
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by chipotle_coyote 11mo ago
Simon Willison is on Bluesky, and I'm going to go out on a relatively safe limb and suggest that if you check out what he reposts, who he follows, etc., you will find people who do not deeply hate AI. I do think Bluesky, in general,
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by chipotle_coyote 11mo ago
Sort of side question, but why do you set the command key to be Emacs' meta key? I've sort of waffled on that myself -- the plus to doing it is that it matches Windows (which I am in too much of the time) and Linux, but the minus
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
You can say anything to an LLM, but it’s not going to actually write in your voice. When I was writing a very long blog post about “creative writing” from AIs, I researched Sudowrite briefly, which purports to be able to do exactly this;
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
Well, gosh. Maybe I’m glad I didn’t get that documentation job with MinIO after all.
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
I know very little about Rational Rose, other than it always sounded like the stage name of a Vulcan stripper.
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
I don't think I'm planning to go open source, although I have to get through the whole "have an actual application to start letting people beta test" stage first. Even if it's a commercial program my thought is &q
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
I'm attempting to work on a "spiritual successor" to Dramatica Story Expert, a crazy story theory/brainstorming program of days gone by. Technically, Dramatica is still around, but they never made a 64-bit version for Ma
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
I think at least a small version of a font stack like these isn't a bad idea even if you're using web fonts. Folks who insist on disabling web fonts are likely a small percentage of any given site's readers, but they'r
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
MacOS 26 actually has some really great new features around Spotlight, from actions to clipboard history, and the heretofore-underloved Control Center has been really improved (and is clearly being positioned as the new solution to the plag
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
"Excessive" is obviously a subjective measurement. At times I don't think that HN's median audience appreciates that a 400k/yr salary is objectively extremely high, even for software engineers, even in 2025. A &qu
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
Good news, maybe: macOS 26's Control Center is much more like iOS in that way, and they've also added an API that will let third-party apps offer their own control center widgets.
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
What it means, I suspect, is that you should look into the Zen browser for Mac (and Windows and Linux, to boot), which is very clearly heavily Arc-inspired but not aiming for VC Unicorn status. https://zen-browser.app/
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
I think that's sort of what the author is getting at, if expressing imperfectly -- when you look at black ink on white paper, you're almost certainly not seeing a physical embodiment of #000000 on #FFFFFF. I tend to think moving a
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
It's using a custom font called "ET Book," which is (according to its GitHub) inspired by Bembo. If I had to guess at what you find grating, it might not be the letter shapes, but rather the spacing. At least rendered on
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
The parent post saying they “cost a bit higher” is, AFAICT, understating it a wee bit. LG’s consumer 65-inch 4K OLED TVs run between $1200 and $2500 at retail, from a quick search; the 65-inch 4K OLED “professional monitor” linked on that p
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
That’s fair; it just makes it pretty steep at the low end compared to many other hosted solutions like Ghost, WordPress, or Squarespace. It gives the strong impression that they’re not looking for new customers as much as trying to keep exi
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
Movable Type is, perhaps shockingly, still being actively developed; version 9 is coming out later this year. I’m not sure who the customer base is at this point—some years ago, they dropped the open source version and personal pricing and
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
> still markdown just isn’t powerful enough for anything non trivial I see this sentiment a lot, and my reaction is always, “Sure it is, with asterisks.” In the past decade I was the primary author of the RethinkDB documentation, a senio
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
A lot of the compensation is in stocks, sure, but a lot of compensation is also, well, in compensation. HN users have been posting -- for years -- about salaries and cash (or cash equivalent) bonuses for starting level software engineerin
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
I mean, I get that argument, but I actually ran BeOS full-time for over a year. It had a great Works-style office suite (GoBe Productive) written by the people who wrote ClarisWorks, a few good graphics programs including an amazing compe
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
I think if you were already on a Mac and wanted to use Panic Nova, you'd be better off using Icaras: https://extensions.panic.com/extensions/panic/panic.Icarus/ The one you linked to looks like it's
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
If it gathers enough data on you, it can theoretically figure that out. Siri "Suggestions" have been around for years, and if you go to the same place frequently on certain days/times (e.g., your workplace, a friend you visit
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
I think you might be better off getting rid of the "AI slop" entirely. Without getting into the whole ethical debate (it's worth having, but not here), putting it front and center on the website for a new retrocomputing magaz
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by chipotle_coyote 1y ago
In the fiction publishing world, authors generally do make up their own titles. The editors at the publishing house might exercise veto power and/or make their own suggestions, but I don't think I've ever heard of novelists a
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by chipotle_coyote 2y ago
You are spreading disinformation. The FBI investigations into Russia collusion were separate from Mueller's special counsel investigations, Mueller's work did not refer to the Steele Dossier at all. https://www.acslaw.o
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by chipotle_coyote 2y ago
It's the dangling dash at the beginning of the line that gets me. I see a lot of word break algorithms, including the one WebKit (and I suspect Blink) uses, which are happy to break "foo—bar" on either side of the em dash.
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by chipotle_coyote 2y ago
Back in the day, Radio Shack offered gold plated connectors on their cables, too (IIRC, there was "Archer" and "Archer Gold"). To this day I always get a little prickly at people who sneer at audiophile cables and specif
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by chipotle_coyote 2y ago
Do you have a source that suggests the State Department spends a crazy sum maintaining the air quality app, or are you Just Asking Questions™? I mean, I've found those most passionate about capital-T Trump are often aggressively anti-s

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