jlarocco

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by jlarocco 7mo ago
I don't mean to be condescending, but since you just learned about emacs-nox... If you haven't already, try tramp mode to edit files in containers and VMs. It also lets you edit local files using sudo. There's also a docker
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by jlarocco 7mo ago
> The list of things emacs users don't get seems to get... There are a ton of Emacs users, and it's doesn't make much sense to talk about them as a group like that, no more than if I were to say, "The list of things W
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by jlarocco 7mo ago
I tell emacs to create all of the files in "~/.backups", and it names them using the full pathname with "/" replaced with "!". So "~/foo/bar.txt" -> "!home!username!foo!ba
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by jlarocco 7mo ago
I won't defend the automatic backup file, because it annoyed me, too. But it's easy to disable or have them created somewhere else, which is more than you can say for most software lately.
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
> People who lost their job might be able to pick up doing something they actually enjoy… That's so out of touch. First, you're conveniently ignoring the possibility that people actually like the job they are about to lose. And
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
Which part of my post was being an ass? Sorry, but I experienced first hand Firefox's memory leaks not being taken seriously. This "bitflips" news is just released, but I fully expect anybody complaining about Firefox crashe
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
Firefox has a long history of denying problems, blaming the user, and fixing the issue years later. It used to be memory usage, now it's crashing.
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
Yeah, most of us absolutely are not getting our money back. The importers pay the tariffs, and they might get a refund, but it's unlikely they can distribute the money back to the people who they passed the price increase onto. Imagine
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
They didn't have to rule on it because there's already precedent that tariffs that shouldn't have been collected have to be repaid.
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
Not to detract from the Show HN entry, but I made this back in 2012 to play with 3Delight's API and implicit surfaces: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/56307994 The one posted to HN is better in several ways,
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
Doesn't matter when everybody around you has one.
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
It already started: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatb... > the airline said the chatbot was a "separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions".
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
Imagine being laid off by somebody who doesn't understand capital letters.
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
I agree with you. To me the maker movement has always been about people wanting to tinker and create things for themselves. If anything "vibe coding" makes the maker movement more accessible because people who couldn't (or
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shatner#/media/File:Wi... For 93 that's amazing.
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
I don't think that example works. Theoretically a person who read and memorized a book and then typed out copies for people would be violating the copyright, but so few people can do that, and it's so cumbersome that it just doesn
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
If Google thought it was okay to hide a microphone, I'm sure less scrutinized companies try to get away with worse. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47303077
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
In practice everybody uses an off the shelf modeling kernel like Parasolid, ACIS, C3D, or OpenCascade.
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
I was researching bluetooth low energy for a project, and discovered "Beacons": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_Low_Energy_beacon What's more insidious than just tracking people through the stor
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
Exactly! The problem isn't this toy example. It's all of the more complicated cases where this same type of disconnect is happening, but the users don't have all of the context and understanding to see it.
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
He's lucky it didn't kill him. https://www.denverpost.com/2026/01/15/broncos-reporter-ai-fa...
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
I can't disagree that they have a moat, but it's a hard problem and if it were as easy as you say somebody would be disrupting them already to get a share of that $24T. Just dealing with fraud is a major problem in itself.
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
I don't see what you're getting at with respect to writing bindings. The whole point of using "static" in that way is to prevent people from using it outside of the file. If you need to call a static function (inline or
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
I have mixed feelings about .Net. I think C# and .Net are objectively better to use than Java or C++. But the tooling and documentation is kind of a mess. Do you build with the "dotnet" command, or the "msbuild" command
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
Home users are icing on the cake. Suing them for privacy is a bad look (see the RIAA), and using Windows and Office at home reinforces using at work. On the other hand, since they own GitHub they can (in theory) monitor the downloads, chec
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
I'm sure they'll fix this, but it would be funny if the downfall of AI was the ability to use it to hack around its own billing.
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
Yeah, the best way to learn the value of project management is to work somewhere without it.
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
It's even worse - project management where you have to micromanage every thing the AI is doing. But yeah, if anybody can do it, the salaries are going to plummet. You don't need a CS degree to tell the AI to try again.
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by jlarocco 8mo ago
I don't know about the dedicated Civilization fans, but 3 was the only version I played. I didn't play it much, but when I did I'd play for 6+ hours at a time. I'll check this out later tonight, and might see if I can f
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by jlarocco 9mo ago
And worst of all he had to watch "Melania" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melania_(film)#Release

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