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by hk__2 4mo ago
Not amazing enough. Let me present you claude-md-symlinker [1], an 8k-lines Rust project designed to do exactly the same as a symlink but in an obscure manner, running as a Linux service and maintaining its own database. This is like left_p
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by hk__2 4mo ago
You make friends by meeting the same people in the same place(s) for a while: school, work, sport club, etc.
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by hk__2 4mo ago
As an introvert, one thing that works is that I repeatedly go to the same shops and restaurants so people know me and I know them, and we’re not strangers anymore.
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by hk__2 4mo ago
I have a static blog with a public comments system using Disqus; it’s just a JS snippet and it works great. I’ve seen people (ab)using GitHub issues too, or even use gists for blog posts.
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by hk__2 4mo ago
> As a writer, receiving feedback on my work is welcome and rare. This blog gets thousands of readers a month, and yet the amount of direct feedback I’ve received over all the years is a small fraction of that. If you don’t have any comm
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by hk__2 4mo ago
I don’t think that’s a useful metric. WhatsApp, TikTok have way more MAUs (3x and 2x) than ChatGPT and yet they are below it in that ranking, because people use apps rather than websites.
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by hk__2 4mo ago
Cars are not something that didn’t exist and then was suddendly invented; it has slowly evolved over centuries.
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by hk__2 4mo ago
Also because it’s factually false, and it’s doubtful to compare human rights and AI.
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by hk__2 4mo ago
> ChatGPT is extremely popular Citation needed. Most people use it once a while but not daily; they tried it once and played a bit with it but then forgot about it because it’s not clear what they should use it for.
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by hk__2 4mo ago
Maybe that’s some scoring to decide if you should be able to pay or not with some method.
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by hk__2 4mo ago
Are photos considered PII?
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by hk__2 4mo ago
Yes there is a right and wrong. The default browser behavior is the design that every user expects, so unless there is a very strong argument for a different way, this is the _right_ design.
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by hk__2 4mo ago
There’s no link here
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by hk__2 4mo ago
What’s the use-case? Do people routinely generate LaTeX documents written by Claude? What’s the advantage of this over just using Claude Code? (genuine questions, I just don’t understand what this is for and the README is not clear on this)
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by hk__2 4mo ago
> Not unlike uploading a personal photo or video to social media -- that's not yours anymore. You gave all rights away when you put it on their servers. 99% of users are unaware of that, so it’s false to say they "are willfully
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by hk__2 4mo ago
This is mostly a restatement of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552687
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by hk__2 4mo ago
New prices: https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availabi... Old prices: https://web.archive.org/web/20260513201413/https://docs.hetz...
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by hk__2 4mo ago
Yes and I disagree. Youtube doesn’t "erode the user’s trust" with an animation that the author of this post finds yanky just because if you take a screenshot in the middle of it you see a frame that no real user sees that doesn’
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by hk__2 4mo ago
> It's like you read until that point, but then didn't read the justification My comment starts with "After reading this blog post"; of course I read it, but it left me totally unconvinced, especially because the auth
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by hk__2 4mo ago
> The rule of thumb is: If I take a screenshot of your app at any moment, it must make sense After reading this blog post, I think the rule of thumb should be "If I take a screenshot of your app at any moment (except during animatio
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by hk__2 4mo ago
> This means if you have hints off (via HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS) then I suspect you can start getting this behavior without warning which is a bummer. I read this as "This means if you close your eyes you don’t see things, which is a
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by hk__2 4mo ago
Hi Mike, I’m @bfontaine on GitHub (I helped maintain Homebrew in ~2014-2016). I’m always impressed at your longevity as a maintainer; it’s been like what, 16+ years you’ve been maintaining Homebrew and you’re still here, still shipping new
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by hk__2 4mo ago
Only if you publish something.
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by hk__2 4mo ago
> The president of the United States tweeted an AI generated image of himself as Jesus Christ descending from the sky and saving a sick person. I feel like that is a good example. I feel like this is the worst example, actually, because
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by hk__2 4mo ago
> doesn't it blow your mind that there exists a 1 Gigabyte file/program that can generate any image you can think of just from a rough description of it? I can make this into a 5-lines Python program. I’m not saying the images
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by hk__2 5mo ago
This is not any simpler
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by hk__2 5mo ago
You’re just splitting your dotfiles into a public and a private part. That’s useful if you want to publish the public part on GitHub, but not everyone wants to do this, and the issue of storing secrets in plain text files remain.
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by hk__2 5mo ago
Italians have a gesture for this as well, and it speaks for itself: nobody says "mmmm" while doing it.
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by hk__2 5mo ago
Isn’t it strange to mesure this in surface rather than volume?
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by hk__2 5mo ago
Thanks, but those are only ~150 random words; that’s not enough to be important.

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