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by pja 8mo ago
These days the world assumes that all parts of emails are case-insensitive, even if RFC5321 says otherwise. If it’s true for Google, Outlook & Apple mail then it’s basically true everywhere & everyone else has to get with the progra
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by pja 8mo ago
“I want this thing, but in a different language” seems to be something that the current generation of cutting edge LLMs are pretty good at. Translating a vibe is something the Ur-LLMS (GPT3 etc) were very good at so it’s not entirely surpri
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by pja 8mo ago
Doesn’t do that for me. Have you got some oddball extension installed or something?
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by pja 8mo ago
Waymo cars are driving around London right now. Not taking paying passengers yet though!
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by pja 8mo ago
There are plenty of people on HN who could re-implement a C compiler like this in less than three months. Algorithmically compilers like this are a solved problem that has been very well documented over the last sixty or seventy years. Impl
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by pja 8mo ago
I’m impressed that San Diego electrical power manages to be even more expensive than in the UK. That takes some doing.
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by pja 9mo ago
They’re part of Steve’s art project, they just don’t realise it.
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by pja 9mo ago
Brand trust? (Yes, yes: insert Musk related joke here.)
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by pja 9mo ago
Pretty much the same then - good news!
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by pja 9mo ago
Six years ago I was building LLVM pretty regularly on an 8GB Dell 9360 laptop whilst on a compiler related contract. (Still have it actually - that thing is weirdly indestructible for a cheap ultrabook.) Build time wasn’t great, but it was
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by pja 9mo ago
A BIOS update to my PC reset the TPM only this week. I did get a warning that Bitlocker keys would be wiped as a result before acting at least. (I believe this was because it was fixing an AMD TPM exploit - presumably updating the TPM code
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by pja 9mo ago
Just ctrl-p & look at the preview.
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by pja 10mo ago
Eesh. The fight over RAM supply is going to upend a lot of product markets. Just random happenstance over whether a company decided to lock in supply for a couple of years is going to make or break individual products.
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by pja 10mo ago
Yeah, I think (sadly) this kills the Steam Machine in the short term if the competition is current consoles. At least until the supply contracts Sony & Microsoft have signed come up for renewal, at which point they’re going to be gettin
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by pja 11mo ago
Yes, it applies to all flash memory. Timescales will vary depending on the fabrication type, ambient temperature etc etc.
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by pja 11mo ago
I capitalised the quote. All lowercase is an annoying affectation that I didn’t choose to repeat.
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by pja 11mo ago
> “He wasted his entire life, my mom said to me, the evening we found the love letters. His entire life, and mine as well.” What a burden of expectations to lay on both yourself & your own family. I’m glad the author was able to put
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by pja 11mo ago
SteamOS on the Deck is just a standard (tuned) Linux distribution under the hood. It would be very surprising to me if Valve shifted to an entirely different OS for the Cube.
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by pja 1y ago
Arguably "Disco Elysium" is a modern text adventure. A text adventure crossed with a point & click puzzle game in a 3D world admittedly but the vast majority of the actual game itself is contained within the text.
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by pja 1y ago
Not if you’re going to be “web scale” (tm) you can’t.
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by pja 1y ago
Oh sure, there’s also way too much cynicism in some quarters. But that’s all part of the fun.
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by pja 1y ago
I’m aware. But the first part is “find me something in the vector space that looks something like the thing I’m asking for”. Then the rest is vibes. Sometimes the vibes are good, sometimes they are ... decidedly not. If the results are usef
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by pja 1y ago
Yep. I find the hype around AI to be wildly overblown, but that doesn’t mean that what it can do right now isn’t interesting & useful. If you told me a decade ago that I could have a fuzzy search engine on my desktop that I could use to
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by pja 1y ago
I believe USB C cables actually do have an orientation - it's just that the negotiation both ends do usually makes that orientation irrelevant. Maybe the negotiation can fail & the plugged in orientation is then the only one that w
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by pja 1y ago
> > I didn't want to actually host my own mail stack > > Is there a way to only host the receive portion? > > I'm happy to pay someone to handle all the idiocy around sending email and getting it through Google
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by pja 1y ago
The Framework Desktop is not a laptop. The clue is in the name... https://frame.work/gb/en/desktop
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ICFP Programming Contest 2025(icfpcontest2025.github.io)
3 points by pja 1y ago|0 comments
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by pja 1y ago
No mention of backports in this article as an alternative to tracking testing if you want (some) newer packages. The Libreoffice 5.8 (which was just released very recently) is already packaged in backports for trixie for instance. Did thing
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by pja 1y ago
> I found those spiderverse movies really hard to watch because of the low frame rate. I don't think it was artistic, it was cheap. It was absolutely an artistic choice - Sony spent more per frame on those movies than any previous a
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by pja 1y ago
https://github.com/doppelc/org-notifications is a thing if you want that. Emacs will happily run in the background.

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