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by hliyan 7mo ago
I assume you consider this a bad solution because the free market would always converge on the right solution(s), including reparable machines. However, if all participants (in this case manufacturers) in a market conclude that: (1) product
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User Mode Linux(kernel.org)
11 points by hliyan 7mo ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 7mo ago
That reminded me of another complexity: virtual DOM diff.
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by hliyan 7mo ago
I'm starting to wonder whether reactivity (not React specifically) was the originally sin that led to modern UI complexity. UI elements automatically reacting to data changes (as oppposed to components updating themselves by listenin
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by hliyan 7mo ago
I've recently discovered FLTK: https://www.fltk.org/doc-1.4/intro.html Haven't used Qt in a while, but at first glance, seems simpler: https://github.com/fltk/fltk/blob/master&#
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by hliyan 7mo ago
I heard somewhere that there is some sort of evangelical Christian sect in Korea that believes the current US president was sent by God. Not as a positive force, but as a force to end the global status quo (which I suppose they consider unj
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by hliyan 7mo ago
If only your country operated on the Peelian principles of policing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles Relevant fictional quote: There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the
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by hliyan 7mo ago
Isn't this also in line with recent proclamations by at least two venture capitalists that they do not reflect / introspect / dwell on consequences in any way?
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by hliyan 7mo ago
Why can't we handle this the same way we handle knives, guns and chainsaws: require adults to secure the device before letting minors near them? All the devices need is the ability to create limited access profiles. A human adult perfo
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by hliyan 7mo ago
Your comment, translated: It looks like the system is picking up anything in the URL parameter as the target output language. Always interesting to see how these edge cases play out in production! #TechInsights #SoftwareDevelopment #Locali
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Stop trying to sell me things while I'm trying to use the thing you already sold
6 points by hliyan 7mo ago|1 comments
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by hliyan 7mo ago
Please feel free to do so. Years ago, another HN user and I tried to make some headway, but our day jobs intervened. Now that we have LLMs at our disposal, you might have better luck!
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by hliyan 7mo ago
I used have a netbook as a second personal device around 2013 and loved it. Very easy to carry around and work on the go, and it could do everything except development work (web browsing, Word, Excel). I actually miss the form factor.
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by hliyan 7mo ago
Many years ago, I had an idea to use specially formatted emails as a transport layer for a social network. Predictably, it too, went nowhere: https://medium.com/@hliyan/email-re-skinned-as-a-social-netw...
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by hliyan 7mo ago
I still remember the original key combo to insert a row above the current selection, from nearly 30 years ago (Excel 95 I think): Alt A, I, A.
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by hliyan 7mo ago
I keep staring at this image, hoping we could go back: https://stonetools.ghost.io/content/images/2026/02/123_001.p... Information density, no decorative UI elements distracting you from the content, and
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Jargonism: A Business English Dictionary(jargonism.com)
4 points by hliyan 8mo ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 8mo ago
Large corporations do not, and are not able to, respond to long term signals. One month is literally a third of a corporations's attention span (a financial quarter).
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by hliyan 8mo ago
Even for people who intend to use it in the future, there's a way to send a message with only a 30 day hiatus: if you really want, you can recreate the account with the same email address after 30 days, withe a clean slate. I'm be
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Californian pulls AI ballot measures, citing OpenAI intimidation(politico.com)
6 points by hliyan 8mo ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 8mo ago
Continually surprised by politicians wanting an OS to do what a parent should be doing. Why not just mandate that all devices with access control capabilities implement parental controls, and then mandate that all adults enable controls bef
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by hliyan 8mo ago
I've come to a similar conclusion. I now almost exclusively post under my real name online, and before writing something, I ask myself whether it's something I'd say to a person's face and whether I'm comfortable be
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by hliyan 8mo ago
I recently thought my keyboard was faulty. I take my notes on notepad, and after a recent update, sensed that keystrokes occasionally get missed or delayed. After a few days, I noticed it was not happening on Google Docs. On a whim I checke
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by hliyan 8mo ago
Here's what I found the most frightenting: > Hesitation detection — they tracked whether I paused during the process > They use uploaded images of identity documents — that’s my passport — to train their AI. > Persona’s Terms
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by hliyan 8mo ago
In an adult (excluding the random teenager here), a lack of ethics, craving attention, lack of concern about consequences are actual symptoms of underlying mental health issues.
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by hliyan 8mo ago
I think React originally started with the opposite intent: a library where you can mount a component onto selected elements of the web page. The lock in only happened when React was used to develop SPAs, which effectively meant that React t
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by hliyan 8mo ago
Important to note that online culture isn't entirely organic, and that tens or perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars of R&D has been spent by ad companies figuring that nothing engages the natural human curiosity like something a
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Microsoft 365 Copilot for Android or iOS auto-sends files to AI and OneDrive(windowslatest.com)
4 points by hliyan 8mo ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 8mo ago
I don't know if I'm helping make things better or adding to the problem, but here's the sort of thing I share with my audience: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/day-life-hft-developer-two-de...
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Quiet: A private, P2P alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor and IPFS(tryquiet.org)
3 points by hliyan 8mo ago|0 comments

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