raddan

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by raddan 9d ago
Yes
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by raddan 9d ago
For what it’s worth, it’s the analogy I use, and for the twenty or so college sophomores I taught on Tuesday, the analogy is sufficiently understandable that they were able to generate and use SSH key pairs to do their homework. I think the
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by raddan 10d ago
As a programming languages researcher I disagree. HTML is not just a programming language (a declarative one), it literally has the word “language” in the name. The world of programming languages is much larger than general purpose language
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by raddan 12d ago
If the author is an LLM, it’s a really bad one. > wind appears to be going out of the sales of “AI.” is a sentence that virtually no AI would write since the most probable word here is “sails.” I can’t read the article though since it ap
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by raddan 14d ago
Citation needed, or at least qualification. https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/what-will-tax-provisions-... https://www.npr.org/2025/11/05/nx-s1-5590112/trump-beautiful...
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by raddan 14d ago
My friends and I have been asking this exact question lately. I’m sure people are still working on interesting things that AREN’T AI. I too would love a HN-minus-AI.
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by raddan 14d ago
Is it sitting on blocks on your lawn or does it actually roll?
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by raddan 14d ago
You’re missing the part of the budget that no longer exists because of tax reductions for the wealthy. Also, so what? It should be more.
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by raddan 14d ago
It was cheap, but on this car, it was not easy. I tried. I would have no trouble replacing it now, but then, I had no money, no tools, and I could not afford to bring it to a mechanic.
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by raddan 14d ago
I lived in a place for a few years that had a free public transportation network. I can’t tell you how liberating that was, because it meant that I could get to lots of places without owning a vehicle. They even had bike racks on the busses
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by raddan 14d ago
My grandfather bought me a $200 Ford Taurus at a car auction. I hated that car. It was this ugly green color and handled like a boat. But I drove it for many years, mostly to part-time jobs waiting tables or working at a butcher shop when I
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by raddan 15d ago
When Visual Studio (not VSCode) incorporated a time travel debugger, that felt like a major advance in an IDE. I don’t remember exactly when that was, but I think it was around 2013. I am still a little stunned by the rapid adoption of VSCo
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by raddan 15d ago
Exactly. Mass-market music is not good. It takes effort to find the good stuff, especially if you want to find new good stuff. The last 20 years has seen a shift toward the most bland, formulaic, autotuned music. All the weird, quirky, inte
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by raddan 22d ago
There’s a great and terrifying story by Stanislaw Lem about the endgame of an AI arms race called “The Invincible” [1]. It’s hard for me not to wonder whether AI run amok will play out to make the world uninhabitable more like Lem’s vision
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by raddan 23d ago
I also went there, shortly before it shut down during the pandemic. A friend talked me into visiting when we’re were in town for a scientific meeting. I am so glad I went. The museum on the afternoon we visited was nearly empty. As a result
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by raddan 25d ago
Ditto.
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by raddan 1mo ago
Can you share more about your setup? I sort of hate my laptop. I carry a ridiculously overpowered phone around with me all the time, though, so the dream is just to dock it at home or at work and just use that. It’s a shame that Apple does
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by raddan 1mo ago
They absolutely restrict their own production. Have you ever been to one of these things before? There are probably a few maple syrup producers out there trying to scale up, but for the vast majority, it’s a lifestyle/supplemental inco
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by raddan 1mo ago
NetBSD runs beautifully (but not quickly) on a 32-bit Raspberry Pi Zero. I hosted a mail server on that platform for about 7 years. I absolutely love how spare the system is when you start it up. You don’t even get a fancy shell, just sh. R
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by raddan 1mo ago
Scarcity is not really the problem—it is price competitiveness. Many, possibly most, maple syrup producers in New England do not sell to national grocery store chains. You go to the sugar house and buy a jug which is typically much more exp
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by raddan 1mo ago
Yes. Other Sid Meier games had similar copy protection features. F-19 Stealth Fighter had an aircraft identification task that “could only be answered if you had the manual.” I had an official copy of the game but I played it so frequently
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by raddan 1mo ago
Huh, I am using Firefox and it seems to work OK.
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by raddan 1mo ago
If you set up SPF/DKIM, this rarely happens. I self host and my email works just fine. I also rarely see spam.
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by raddan 1mo ago
Why switch then? Need more excitement in your life? I have been running Postfix for 22 years, from a big corporate installation to my own on a Raspberry Pi Zero. It just does its job.
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by raddan 1mo ago
Perhaps this is the sign of a true addict but I would never travel someplace new without a backup supply of coffee. I always at least bring instant coffee; if it’s a longer trip I might bring a portable grinder and aeropress.
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by raddan 1mo ago
Have you made this open source? I really want something like this. Bonus points if it lets me add filters, etc. I want to read my local newspaper, but like half of the stories are about high school sports, of which I have absolutely zero
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by raddan 1mo ago
I've been using a Supernote Manta for the past month and I love it. It's not a full-on computer, and it has its own UI that discourages you from treating it like one, but it is in fact an Android device. I've installed Sync
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by raddan 1mo ago
My first real job out of college was IT at a college textbook publishing company in the early-2000s. I had some experience doing design for offset printing in college, and I was kind of a hacker (with a philosophy degree), so that's p
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by raddan 2mo ago
As long as they’re not my dollars, fine with me.
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by raddan 2mo ago
Hasn’t mypy been a thing for years already? The main problem with Python is that, if you’re not doing your work in highly optimized numeric libraries (which are usually written in C), then you’re paying terrible overheads to use the Python

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