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by rjh29 9mo ago
Pretty simple: the pleasure I get from solving the puzzle is not always higher than the pain of trying to solve it. There is a limit and it's different for everybody. When I do the New York Times crossword too, I'll try to figure
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by rjh29 9mo ago
Items that were found by "HN scraper" have working Show HN links. The rest for whatever reason have a non-working link. Probably more likely that the code was generated by LLM and is full of bugs.
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by rjh29 9mo ago
First item I clicked: github link is 404, HN thread goes to wrong comment. The game link itself works though! https://andrewgy8.github.io/hnarcade/games/games/sandspiel
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Amazing!
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by rjh29 9mo ago
Same situation in the UK. Even a modest amount of savings (a few months of your salary) is enough to disqualify you from the majority of benefits, childcare etc.
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by rjh29 9mo ago
I went the other way. I just want to shuffle all my songs or a playlist (m3u) without any of the other crap. Add and remove favourites. Album-focused players are a non-starter. Players without a simple global search box are a non starter. E
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Depends on the country. Switzerland will. I suspect Japan will too
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They're just expensive. If you spend the same amount on Sony earbuds or another good brand, they also work fine.
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by rjh29 9mo ago
Great now multiply that bullet point list by 1000, because everyone wants different things and has different hardware, and you'll see that even the current state of Linux is a miracle. We're at the point where 90% of the time you
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by rjh29 9mo ago
On that note I absolutely love Matt Johnson (Jamiroquai)'s youtube channel because you can tell he likes gear but spends a huge amount of time actually playing it and making his own patches. So much of the review market is just GAS-ind
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Or any community that involves conspicuous consumption. There's always what feels like a majority of people who collect/buy/show off more than they use things
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ChatGPT gaslit the OP telling it there was no such thing as keystroke chafing. So yes, in this case it would have been better to do the work oneself.
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by rjh29 9mo ago
Absolutely - although the free plan (or free trial) of Spotify/YouTube are good enough for that. Spotify is certainly convenient especially being multi-device, but after a few months you've probably exhausted its recommendations.
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by rjh29 9mo ago
I'm old enough to have an mp3 collection, so I haven't needed spotify. They don't have 20% of the tracks in my playlist and their integration of local audio has been steadily eroded to be almost unusable now (i.e. it's c
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by rjh29 9mo ago
That implies you are paying too much for phones then, since the mobile providers can apparently get them significantly cheaper. They may also be selling your data and pre-installing apps, but every country does that.
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by rjh29 9mo ago
Yes but you will generally pay more for your monthly plan in those cases vs. buying an unlocked phone at full price and a dirt-cheap SIM like Lebara.
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by rjh29 9mo ago
It was glibc's resolver that failed - not exactly obscure. It wasn't properly tested or rolled out, plain and simple.
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It wasn't clear to me how much this was intentional vs. being the limits of the technology at the moment.
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The refusal is probably because OP said "100% written by AI" and didn't indicate an interest in actually reviewing or maintaining the code. In fact, a later PR comment suggests that the AI's approach was needlessly compl
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by rjh29 9mo ago
To be honest it looks like it was rendered in an old version of Unreal Engine. That may be an intentional choice - I wonder how realistic guassian splatting can look? Can you redo lights, shadows, remove or move parts of the scene, while pr
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by rjh29 10mo ago
Varies widely across country and the type of thing you're recycling. People are so extreme with recycling, it's either "recycle everything!" or "it's a scam, just chuck it all in the garbage"
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by rjh29 10mo ago
Even with 3 films out the visual spectacle is what brings people to the cinema. That and the fantasy of living in a different world. The second film focused on previously impossible in-water filming techniques.
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by rjh29 10mo ago
That explains why there's a crossing where you can see 7 Family Marts in Shin-Imamiya...
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by rjh29 10mo ago
100 books is too small a datasize - particularly given it's a set of HN recommendations (i.e. a very narrow and specific subset of books). A larger set would probably draw more surprising and interesting groupings.
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by rjh29 10mo ago
The definition of 'vibe code' is somewhat nebulous at the moment. For many it means "only look at the end product (website) and use prompts to fix it" but for others it means "mostly don't hand-code anything, b
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by rjh29 10mo ago
Validated? TUI-based sequencers have been around since the 80s. It's nice that someone can vibecode what used to take probably a manyear of work though.
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by rjh29 10mo ago
Even the newest ZFold is a "money to burn" item due to its high cost and relatively high failure rate. Pay for warranty, and even then they might not fix it, or it might die right after your warranty expires. I enjoyed my fold4 ve
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I just uninstalled it and Windows reported it as 3.21GB, so it was larger than I thought!
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Standard disclaimer that Samsung's ZFold range is very fragile (mine personally lasted a year, and I have the 4th generation!) so I would be VERY hesitant to use a first generation of this. If you think "It's Samsung not Huaw
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Doesn't help that many people use AI to assist with autocompleting boilerplate crap or simple refactors, where it works well, or even the occasional small feature. But this is conflated with people who think you can just tell an AI to

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