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by mplanchard 20d ago
This is in fact one of the primary points of TFA and the book it recommends: that the degradation of literacy, public discourse, and general intelligence that started with the television (and was well-described in Amusing Ourselves to Death
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by mplanchard 20d ago
It is less annoying, at least to me. I can read a semi-promotional post. I just bounce right off LLM writing
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by mplanchard 21d ago
This is such a classic HN take, thinking you know better without any real knowledge of the situation. Here’s a real-life blind person who strongly disagrees with you: https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/disability-dong
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by mplanchard 22d ago
iphone, linux (ubuntu, nixos), mac, firefox. I have a shared vault with my partner, which was easy to transfer and re-share. She’s tech savvy, so no issues there, but it didn’t seem any more complicated to me than setting up 1password was.
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by mplanchard 22d ago
I switched to Proton Pass yesterday, since I’m already a subscriber to Proton Mail. Setup and import from 1PW was easy, took maybe 15 minutes tops. So far it has been working satisfactorily enough.
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by mplanchard 23d ago
Apart from everything about DHH, I personally feel like the choice to invest so much money in Omarchy, of all things, shows a lack of good technical sense from the folks at 1pw. If you’re doing charitable giving, why not give to an establis
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by mplanchard 24d ago
Oh whoops I ceded my livelihood to an opaque corporate subscription service and they banned me
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by mplanchard 24d ago
I literally only have Firefox installed and cannot remember the last time I encountered a broke web page.
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by mplanchard 24d ago
Too much RAM use is rare for me, but when it happens I just open the tab unloading page and unload all the tabs. Usually it’s Jira’s fault.
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by mplanchard 24d ago
I’m sorry, but this is not my experience at all. The process of installing and using Firefox for a non-technical user is no different from Chrome: both give you immediate access to search, both offer to sign you in for cross-computer sync,
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by mplanchard 24d ago
Seriously, I’m with the person who says people hating on Firefox are often just trying to justify sticking with Chrome due to the inertia. I’ve been exclusively using Firefox for many years. I don’t even have a Chromium browser installed! (
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by mplanchard 25d ago
The nice thing about wayland is you can easily combine a compositor/window manager with a wayland desktop shell and get a lot of the stuff you used to have to fiddle with when using like i3 for free. For example, I use niri with the “d
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by mplanchard 25d ago
This may be unpopular? But Signal > iMessage > WhatsApp, is my personal ranking. Usually it’s possible to get almost anyone on one of those, and while WhatsApp is far from perfect, it’s better than SMS or another totally unencrypted s
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by mplanchard 27d ago
I haven’t! It seems akin to ACP, is that accurate? Do you recommend it?
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by mplanchard 29d ago
Mostly same as with any treesitter mode: it’s easier to build structurally-aware features, and it automatically supports any minor mode that’s enabled by treesitter (examples from my own config include structural movement, folding, selectio
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by mplanchard 29d ago
One of my coworkers uses “load-bearing” ironically constantly now, it’s very funny
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by mplanchard 29d ago
One option would be to read the section of the linked article talking about features: https://rahuljuliato.com/posts/markdown-ts-mode-emacs-31#a-q...
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by mplanchard 29d ago
Thanks for posting the ghostel link, I hadn’t heard of it. Excited to try it out and see how it compares to vterm
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by mplanchard 29d ago
Seconded, agent-shell is my favorite LLM interface bar none
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by mplanchard 29d ago
I think eglot often just works now. I recently started doing c++ stuff, and it just detected clangd and I was off to the races with no config. Same with rust-analyzer for rust projects.
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by mplanchard 1mo ago
Other folks talking about how rolls are measured, but I have family members who I can’t help but notice when they come to visit use an absurd amount of toilet paper. I think that, rather than using a square or two, they just pull off a bu
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by mplanchard 1mo ago
It took a pretty long time for me (like 15 seconds)
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by mplanchard 1mo ago
I don’t vibe code, or use AI much when programming, but if I want to experiment with it, I’d like to be able to track my code in the code hosting service I’m paying for, without my repos being subjected to arbitrary scrutiny or ideological
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by mplanchard 1mo ago
Big, medium, and startups. Big and medium definitely biased more towards leetcode, but I also got it at around a quarter of startups I applied to.
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by mplanchard 1mo ago
I would. Just finished up a job search recently for staff+, and still got leetcode interviews for most companies.
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by mplanchard 1mo ago
I think jyx was talking about the throw/try/catch mechanism[0] used for error handling, in contrast to error handling in e.g. Rust, where the idiomatic way of handling an error is to return a Result enum, containing either a succe
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by mplanchard 2mo ago
Ha! A friend and I had this idea ages ago when living in Austin. I actually have the domain “walkdarkly.com” registered for it, in case I ever got around to it. If somebody actually doing something with it wants the domain, I’m happy to tal
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by mplanchard 2mo ago
Teen-ager and some other unusual hyphenations are New Yorker style, yes
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by mplanchard 2mo ago
It’s worth traveling to see totality if you can swing it
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by mplanchard 2mo ago
It isn’t. I’ve seen both total and partial, and it’s (literally) night and day. There’s no comparing the two, in my opinion.

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