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by nikanj 10mo ago
Can I have the a reverse filter, that replaces smart quotes, em-dashes and other web filth with something a proper compiler rightfully expects? Nothing like copying code samples from someone's blog, and getting weird errors because the
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by nikanj 10mo ago
How many more jobs are there at the aluminum plant than a datacenter? Big datacenters employ mid-hundreds of people
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by nikanj 10mo ago
Fortunately JB broke that addiction for my by first moving the commit dialog behind an option, and then removing it completely. If I have to learn a new workfrow, I might as well learn a new tool
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by nikanj 10mo ago
OpenAI is really weird about this stuff. I tried to get good minor chord progression out of chatgpt, but it kept running into guardrails and giving Very Serious Warnings. It felt as if there’s just a dumb keyword filter in there, and gettin
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by nikanj 10mo ago
Qatar and exorbitant cost are an iconic duo, surprised they haven't gone through the trouble considering the general trend of glamor and excess
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by nikanj 10mo ago
Host your personal blog on wordpress.com or similar
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by nikanj 10mo ago
When your cost per host is $0, even $5 / mo / hacked host profit can make for an ok business
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by nikanj 10mo ago
The great Fermi Filter maybe
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by nikanj 10mo ago
It makes me irrationally angry that cryptos have given a clear monetary value to raw CPU time, and a very strong incentive to create botnets.
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by nikanj 10mo ago
Society doesn't get improved by doing incremental work on a browser, and Mozilla's mission is to improve society
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by nikanj 10mo ago
Music has mandatory licensing: you can play any songs on your radio station as long as you pay the fixed, standardized fees. And yet the music industry is still alive
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by nikanj 10mo ago
This reminds me of the ”I just want to serve 5 terabytes” thing Google does not want your money, they don’t know how to count so low
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by nikanj 10mo ago
AMD, and the addition of PAE to the Pentium Pro which allowed 32-bit systems to reasonably have huge (for that time) amounts of memory
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by nikanj 10mo ago
And many things break in different, exciting ways. For example, we discovered that whilst the JVM can be configured to use system certificate store, that does not apply to websocket connections. So the product seems to be able to connect to
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by nikanj 10mo ago
Companies know that it's important to have Cybersecurity™. A vendor shows up with shiny brochures, and company is happy to purchase Cybersecurity™. Now they don't have to worry about it anymore, they bought a product that sits in
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by nikanj 11mo ago
In 1994 C++ compilers were buggy, and a modernization of the C++ allowed features list is still stuck in a committee somewhere?
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by nikanj 11mo ago
But by feodal times, you also had to also work a number of hours for your liege. Which modern idiots have perverted with the whole ”a peasant had more free time than you”-meme, where they only count the hours of mandatory service and ignore
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by nikanj 11mo ago
Every now and then some phone manufacturer mistakes online sentiment for actual demand and gets burned making a mini phone that won’t sell
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by nikanj 11mo ago
For me Linkedin returns the 500 cloudflare error
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by nikanj 11mo ago
This model, unfortunately, often leads to a "well, we might as well spend the extra profits on executive benefits"-issue. Whenever you have money without oversight, you always face a moral hazard. If the company makes a profit and
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by nikanj 11mo ago
And to avoid simply building more homes. There's been a housing shortage for 50+ years, it's a little late to blame the 2025 datacenter craze for the problem
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by nikanj 11mo ago
Handwriting might be very beneficial, but so are frequent social visits and those are going away too - a 2025 human spends way less time with friends than a 1975 human did. We are not rational actors, and good habits die easily
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by nikanj 11mo ago
The writing is on the wall for handwriting. Zoomers use speech recognition or touchscreen keyboards, millennials use keyboards. Boomers use pens
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by nikanj 11mo ago
The crew that runs SO must be aware of the tone in this thread, right? There always seems to be a strong consensus whenever SO is mentioned on HN, and it’s always very negative. Why don’t they change the moderation rules, if the supposed ta
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by nikanj 11mo ago
In theory this is a problem because LLMs don’t get any updates and are just a snapshot of old questions on SO, but in practice SO also gets no new questions because every question is closed (incorrectly)
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by nikanj 11mo ago
Sure, but the only thing available anywhere in your neighbourhood is big houses made for families. That's the whole missing middle thing, there's luxury pied-à-terre sold to millionaires downtown, and then there's the endless
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by nikanj 11mo ago
Four-year anything is not seen as worth the cost, when every platform firehoses you with stories about people who became billionaires in 7 months. Being long degeneracy [1] is the number one strategy right now 1: https://oldcoinb
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by nikanj 11mo ago
AirBnB and Uber have demonstrated to all companies that legality doesn’t really matter as long as the numbers are good. It takes regulators an ungodly amount of time to act, and any well-written appeal buys you another 5 years for making po
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by nikanj 11mo ago
If every developer was able to build as much housing as they ever wanted, the quality would go up through competition. In pretty much every other sector of the economy, the government regulates safety, and quality comes via competition. Hou
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by nikanj 11mo ago
It's a housing version of the national debt philosophy, where debt doesn't matter as long as you're outpacing it with growth. If last decade you had $25k HELOC on a 400k house and today you have $50k HELOC on a 800k house, yo

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