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by kitd 6mo ago
But that k8s engineer's cost is spread over all the functions the cluster is doing, not just the rpc setup.
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by kitd 6mo ago
Not sure Stonehenge qualifies as "niche". Anyway ... If you're ever visiting the Lake District, NW England, I recommend the unexpectedly interesting Pencil Museum in Keswick. Graphite was first mined nearby and when it was re
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by kitd 6mo ago
Call it `chatctl` and give it a CLI.
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by kitd 7mo ago
I love that HN contributions include articles like this, and those about pure science & nature too. They're such a breath of fresh air among the endless AI discussions. People sometimes say they shouldn't be on here. I say the
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by kitd 7mo ago
HTMZ? ;) https://leanrada.com/htmz/
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by kitd 7mo ago
There's a stat I think quoted in "Code Complete" by McConnell that says the number of bugs in a system strongly correlates with the number of coders. The conclusion is that as the # of coders goes up, the # of lines of commun
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by kitd 7mo ago
> now The idea is about 10 years old. At least that's when I first heard about it, with relation to RSS. It may go back earlier. Edit: confirmed by the "See Also" section at the end of TFA.
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by kitd 7mo ago
At least the BBC has RSS feeds for its stories, which avoids having to go through the dire news front page.
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by kitd 7mo ago
You wouldn't know they had no history of leaving their local area unless you interviewed them.
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by kitd 7mo ago
You need to change your social media algorithm.
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by kitd 7mo ago
A populist far-right racist would fix all the potholes and bring HS2 in under budget? Got it.
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by kitd 7mo ago
On the other hand, the process of having Commons legislation rejected by the Lords, then amended and sent back can take almost a year. A government looking to push its legislative programme in a single parliament may choose to remove the mo
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by kitd 7mo ago
See also "boiling frogs". But then I'm replying to @mr_toad so you probably knew that already.
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James Bruton's new one-ball balance bike [video](youtube.com)
3 points by kitd 7mo ago|2 comments
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by kitd 7mo ago
You may remember James Bruton who built a "bike" using 2 balls. Now he has revealed his one-ball version. Check it out!
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by kitd 7mo ago
Thanks for the link. I had often heard of the importance of the battle of Marathon, but couldn't remember its provenance. Here's an interesting excerpt from the Siege of Orleans though: the struggle by which the unconscious heroi
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by kitd 7mo ago
Tools like Claude Code are the ultimate cheat code for me and have breathed new life into my desire to create I'm in my 60s and retiring this summer. I feel the opposite. Agents have removed most of the satisfaction and fulfilment fr
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by kitd 7mo ago
Someone else who has read Godel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter?
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by kitd 7mo ago
Ah, yes ... "volcanic" organisation. shuffles papers "Hang on ... it's here somewhere ..."
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by kitd 7mo ago
> feeling resistance In a software context, I wonder what the impact of the language used is on the sense of "resistance"?
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by kitd 7mo ago
You can only marry a step-sibling in the UK if the 2 parties first met as adults. If one or both was under 18 when they first met, then no. Edit: I believe the same applies for step-parent/child.
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by kitd 7mo ago
> But unlike commercial ventures, the plan is to give away all the intellectual property I would prefer the term "share". "Give away" implies a single, proprietary enterprise could acquire and control it, which isn&
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by kitd 7mo ago
BBC News does have to report on itself from time to time. Here's it's "live" feed from November on the Parliamentary Committee investigation into the Trump speech edit incident: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news
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by kitd 7mo ago
Be careful. I'm pretty sure my wife is going to leave me for Claude any day now.
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by kitd 8mo ago
IIRC, only education outranked age in predicting how likely you were to vote leave. In short, the younger and more intelligent you were, the more likely you were to vote remain. Looks like today's youth continues that trend.
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by kitd 8mo ago
Blog post written with an LLM What makes you say that? a project that went Go -> Rust -> Node? The DB went from Go to Rust. The Node part is the Node DB driver Does it not bind to your already built Rust tool? It's in the 3
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by kitd 8mo ago
The long-term trend (ie since 2023) is for more ShowHN posts to be stuck at 1 point compared with normal posts, and for that gap to be growing. This implies that people find the ShowHNs to be less and less interesting.
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by kitd 8mo ago
Given that an estimated 70% of human communication is non-verbal, it's not so surprising though.
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by kitd 8mo ago
The claim is "no classes for native elements". Ie you don't need classes just to create a button etc.
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by kitd 8mo ago
Great work! PicoCSS feels a bit too minimalist at times. This looks like a better balance of lightweight and functional.

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