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   by fainpul 9mo ago

   Obviously base 60 is superior to all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9m2jck1f90
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   by fainpul 9mo ago

   I think HN automatically expands the shortened URL. Here it is again, just in case: https://tinyurl.com/mrpas5dc
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   by fainpul 9mo ago

   > Second hand normally beats everything else since it's avoiding what would other wise be waste, and there's nothing new that needs to be manufactured. That's a fallacy. By buying second hand, you enable the second hand ma
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   by fainpul 9mo ago

   But for Fairphone repairs you don't even need a repair shop.
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   by fainpul 9mo ago

   And for metal surfaces which are not self-sanitizing by nature, like steel, there are coatings which can be applied to achieve the same effect. This is often used in public transport.
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   by fainpul 9mo ago

   If you use uBlock Origin, here's how to add automatic dark mode, based on your browser settings (modify "90%" slightly to adjust the contrast): ! dark mode news.ycombinator.com##html:matches-media((prefers-color-scheme:
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   by fainpul 9mo ago

   In game purchases are a dumb thing in itself and need to go away. You can sell add-ons for your game as additional packages, like DLC. Users go to the store (e.g. Steam) and buy an add-on to the game. It's priced like a normal article
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   by fainpul 9mo ago

   Questionable article. Just as you can make logic mistakes in Rust, you can make mistakes when checking the LLM output for sanity. Looking at the example at the end (modelling a traffic light), you would model that in Rust, so that invalid s
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   by fainpul 9mo ago

   > As software gets cheaper to produce (thanks to coding agents) and quality expectations shift Shifting quality expectations are a result of the load of crappy software we experience, not a change in what we want from software. I.e.
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    For example Netscape Composer: https://www.html-seminar.de/seiten-ueber-composer.htm
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    I have to praise PowerShell here. You get tab completion [0], type checking, automatically generated syntax help text etc. for free , just by writing your CLI tool in PowerShell. Then you can also use a simple, built-in, declarative DSL to
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    "I'm CEO, bitch!"
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    > When it became cheaper to … did the quality go up? No, but the availability (more people can afford it) and diversity (different needs are met) increased. I would say that's a positive. Some of the expensive "legacy" thi
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    His other comment in this thread is also a clone of someone else's comment.
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    Cheap watches are almost always quartz watches (electronic). Those are much more accurate than even high end mechanical watches. 15s per day is not unusual for a good mechanical watch.
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    You would probably use a chronometer: "The precision of a COSC-certified chronometer must be between -4 and +6 seconds per day." https://www.cosc.swiss/cosc-faq
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    2026 is the year of the shitty desktop OSes.
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    Or simply set the limit in bytes (e.g. 140 bytes of UTF8 encoded text).
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    I just tested Brave. It's possible to set anything as the default search engine, but the UI hides it really well. They sure don't want you to find out. You have to add it as a site search first (which is a different section), th
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    Since search engines are queried with a URL with a parameter for the search term, browsers could simply allow "power users" to enter a custom URL. Voilà — support for every imaginable search engine and they can still make their bi
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    I've read that document. As I understand, the "smart" capabilities are exactly the presets. Those need their server to function. Do you see anything saying otherwise?
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    > transformed the devices into dumb-speakers/amps Isn't that still gonna happen now? From [1]: What will no longer work: • Presets (preset buttons on the product and in the app) Of course Bluetooth and AirPlay continues to wo
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    The naming convention is `verb-noun`. It's convenient for discoverability and consistency. The short commands are aliases. The last command is properly cased, because I pressed tab (it auto-completes and fixes the case). The other co
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    > awk or jq, which are arguably more generally- and widely-applicable than nushell That is backwards. I know I said "complete programming languages", but to be fair, awk only shines when it comes to "records processing&quo
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    I get the point of "either Bash or straight to a real programming language". That's what I do too, for automation. I like how PowerShell makes one-off tasks easier which would otherwise be the typical pipe of cat, grep, sed,
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    I was trying to replicate the nushell example, which only has name and size in the output.
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    Great video about human topology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egEraZP9yXQ
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    Since not all paper is of the same thickness, shouldn't you compare "weight per price"?
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    My pet peeve with nushell: broken tables https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/13601 https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/16379
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    by fainpul 9mo ago

    I'm aware ;)