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The Ralph Wiggum Plugin, so you don't need the bash while loop: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/... The README.md has prompt examples.
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I think mostly it's a chew risk for dogs and won't help if the dog is far from the AirTag network. I still have one on my dog anyway (he's not a chewer) and my daughter puts one on her cat occasionally. (Both pets are microch
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> Seem perplexed why Americans they know do not seem more alarmed. It's because we live in the beginnings of a dual state: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/opinion/renee-good-ice-im... Quoting
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> I wonder if some of the horror in it (the constant threat of the Stasi and its implications) translates well to non-German audiences. The film The Lives of Others should give folks a pretty good idea of what the Stasi was.
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> Photos on Mac doesn't have an option to download photos directly Yes it does. It's called Download Originals to this Mac . https://support.apple.com/guide/photos/use-icloud-photos-pht... You keep a
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> eat actual plastic. Foreseeing such Crimes of the Future , David Cronenberg has already made that one into a movie.
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An NC state professor previously determined it's aluminum reacting with acid in the bees' stomachs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46501058
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An NC State professor figured it out in the 1970s[^1]: > At N.C. State University, Professor John Ambrose, an entomologist and assistant vice provost of undergraduate affairs and director of N.C. State’s First Year College program, perfo
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by js2 9mo ago
Here's an article from 2010 I submitted a few years ago along with other links I was able to dig up at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32810786
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He also wrote a free BitKeeper client, antagonizing Larry McVoy, which is largely why we have git. https://blog.brachiosoft.com/en/posts/git/
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BTW, if you're looking for something minimal that you can self host, say for a home lab environment, I landed on Pocket ID: https://pocket-id.org/
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I'm just commenting to mention The Sure Thing , a delightful and endearing romcom with John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga, with small parts by Anthony Edwards, Nicollette Sheridan, and Tim Robbins.
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Companion thread (196 points by ggm 11 hours ago | 50 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46252993
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Nit: the tool-tips on the action icons in the top-right aren't consistent. When music is playing the tool tip is "unmute" which is a verb. It should either be "mute" (to indicate what clicking will do) or "unmu
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Previously: Times New Roman is being phased out at the State Department, replaced by Calibri 207 points|danso|3 years ago|256 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34427504
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You guys know he talks about this 4 minutes into the video, right? See also: https://diy.stackexchange.com/a/315031
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I was having trouble getting Verizon to unlock an iPhone that had been purchased (not financed) from Best Buy and that had been on Verizon's network for more than two years. Verizon support said only BB could unlock it[^1]. I thought t
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Perl died for many reasons. For me, it was a language that was always too tempting to be too clever by half. I'd been using Perl pretty significantly from 1995-2000 (perl4 to perl5) when I was introduced to Python (1.5.2)[^1]. I greatl
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Or even worse: my($f) = `fortune`; # assigns first line of output to $f. my $f = `fortune`; # assign all output to $f. Which allegedly got a HS kid in hot water[^1]. [^1]: "It's all about context" (2001): https:&#x2
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Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/technology/openai-chatgpt...
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I'd rather have that commit message than one that doesn't explain anything, but it's a bit verbose to my taste because I don't really care how he discovered the issue. I really just need to know what and why. So let me l
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I've been running docker apps via podman inside alpine containers on Proxmox. Works for me with homebridge, scrypted, and plex. I created an alpine container per app with "nesting=1". Inside each alpine container I installed
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Details about the shebang/hash-bang mechanism on various Unix flavours (2001)(in-ulm.de)
87 points by js2 11mo ago|16 comments
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There were two deaths yesterday at the Indianapolis marathon: https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2025/11/09/indiana... As someone who's run a couple dozen marathons and a few ultras
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Increased Coronary Artery Plaque Volume Among Male Marathon Runners(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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> This isn’t actually a “time” as implied by a name — it’s a countdown! Every time a router forwards an ICMP packet along, it’s supposed to decrement the TTL number. No, it's actually a time, it's just that it has a precision o
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Merck has a promising pill (enlicitide) coming that blocks PCSK9, lowering LDL-C: - up to a 60% reduction in LDL cholesterol, with sustained reductions at 52 weeks; - a 53% reduction in non-HDL, a combination of all types of cholesterol exc
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FWIW, these lines are not equivalent: @major, @minor, @patch = parts[0] || 0, parts[1] || 0, parts[2] || 0 self.major, self.minor, self.patch = parts[0] or 0, parts[1] or 0, parts[2] or 0 The Ruby case is intended to handle s
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> Sticking to a Mediterranean diet that is light on carbohydrates and saturated fats is almost always the safest bet. Almost every health diet is some permutation of this. A permutation that's currently making the rounds in the pres
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packaging.version has a somewhat weird (or at least Python-specific) set of rules that don't match the semantics of Ruby's Gem:Version, which will accept basically anything as input. I'd use `semver` from PyPI and whatever th

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