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by spudlyo 10mo ago
I struggled greatly with this article. There was something halting about it. Something precious. I felt that the author desperately wanted to elevate the mundane into the realm of the sublime. I found myself annoyed. I thought to myself &qu
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by spudlyo 10mo ago
The new Liquid Glass UI has a lot of detractors, both on iOS and on macOS, but it seems like the clamor is even louder on macOS. Beyond the looks, it's created a lot of usability issues for folks. Buttons and controls can overlap awkwa
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by spudlyo 10mo ago
I agree that Tahoe is considerably less enshitified than Windows, but they are slowly turning the screws on us. With every release, it becomes harder and harder to run unsigned macOS binaries, and I can't shake the feeling that their u
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by spudlyo 10mo ago
With both Windows 11 and macOS Tahoe now being non-starters for many, it's clear that we're going to continue to see impressive growth in the Linux desktop in 2026. Last year I migrated my Windows gaming machine to Ubuntu, and it&
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by spudlyo 10mo ago
I read it this year too. I was surprised by the amount of heartfelt soliloquising the monster did, he was much more compelling than I expected. Victor of course was the real monster in the story, self obsessed, not taking responsibility for
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by spudlyo 10mo ago
I started learning Latin in 2025, and I'm pretty happy with my progress. I can read intermediate level pedagogical texts -- mostly adapted Greek and Roman myths. In 2026 I want to get my proficiency up to the point where I can comforta
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by spudlyo 10mo ago
You get a much cheaper TV. The folks who manufacture the TV expect to make a certain amount of revenue from your data, so they price this into the cost of the TV. This saves you from having to spend more money on a commercial display that o
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by spudlyo 10mo ago
Yeah, it was certainly performative rather than actually serving the customer. My hope at the time was that the STARS knowledgebase would show itself to be slow and overloaded and Bill would realize that it was necessary to invest in upgrad
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by spudlyo 10mo ago
I was involved in that particular incident, and wrote about it on HN when the story was making headlines. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=957936#958365
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by spudlyo 10mo ago
I'm not as sure as you are that people are watching hours and hours of slop every day -- I feel like there are still plenty of humans out there trying to make a buck and getting their egos stroked by creating rage-bait for the normies.
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by spudlyo 10mo ago
I can't speak to everyone's motivation, but for me YouTube, and only YouTube has the kind of fascinating niche content that I want to watch. Often that content is created by random people who have a passion and zero profit motive,
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by spudlyo 10mo ago
You laugh, but the global language learning market in 2025 is expected to exceed USD $100 billion, and LLMs IMHO are poised to disrupt the shit out of it.
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by spudlyo 10mo ago
Certe loqui conor, sed saepenumero prave dico; canis meus non turbatus est ;)
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by spudlyo 10mo ago
I'm a Latin language learner, and part of developing fluency is practicing extemporaneous speech. My dog is a patient listener, but a poor interlocutor. There are Latin language Discord servers where you can speak to people, but I don&
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by spudlyo 10mo ago
Not for my use case. I can open it up, and in restored classical Latin pronunciation say "Hi, my name is X, how are you?" and it will respond (also in Latin) "Hello X, I am well, thanks for asking. I hope you are doing great.
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by spudlyo 11mo ago
I think it used to just mean "singular", from the Latin grex, gregis meaning herd, and e/ex meaning "out of". It could mean singularly bad or singularly good I guess in English, but in Latin I think it had more of a
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by spudlyo 11mo ago
Carthago delenda est! That's how us noob Latin language students learn the gerundive, with "delenda" being a verbal adjective, meaning "to be deleted (destroyed)". As a bonus it's also useful as a paradigm for
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by spudlyo 11mo ago
It doesn't take too long to get back into the swing of things. After a while, if you learn enough programming languages, they all tend to meld together in your brain, and the cost of switching isn't too disruptive. You know what y
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by spudlyo 11mo ago
If you step back and cross your eyes, Perl, Python, and Ruby are more similar than they are different.
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by spudlyo 11mo ago
I worked at Booking.com for a year or so around 10 years or so, and most of their stack was in Perl. Folks there had mixed feelings about it, I'm not sure what things are like now, but I assume they're working to replace it.
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by spudlyo 11mo ago
It's definitely more powerful and has less foot guns than bash, the problem is the stigma is worse than bash. You will face more scrutiny and possible derision from your colleagues for using Perl than bash. It's not just questio
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by spudlyo 11mo ago
Can confirm. I was able to access it using GPTel in Emacs using 'gemini-3-pro-preview' as the model name.
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by spudlyo 11mo ago
For those of us who hate both intellectual property and OpenAI, it's hard to pick a side on this one. Hopefully there is a way both sides can lose.
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by spudlyo 11mo ago
> what problems are they solving For me, it's about making a repeated workflow efficient. Sure, I could alt+tab over to my PDF viewer, figure out the range of pages I want, then switch to my terminal window, run qpdf with the right
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by spudlyo 11mo ago
I'm hoping to prepare a presentation on how I use Emacs for language learning for Emacs Conf 2026. There are a couple of talks for I'm very much looking forward to this year's conference[0] (happening in less than a month!) a
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by spudlyo 11mo ago
Many HN readers grok software development, would likely get a kick out of learning Emacs Lisp, and have time to invest in coding and debugging. Emacs is not as clumsy or random as modern user-hostile software -- it's an elegant tool fo
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by spudlyo 11mo ago
Emacs also has Org-mode and org-babel, which can work a lot like a Jupyter notebook, and can even talk to jupyter kernels. I do a lot in Emacs, especially now that I'm comfortable with GPTel. I open a poorly aligned, pixelated PDF sc
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by spudlyo 1y ago
Hundreds of hours here, and I can't even always reliably spot my own ums. I edit as many out as I possibly can for myself, my co-host and guest, as well as eliminating continuation signaling phrases like "you know" and "
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by spudlyo 1y ago
I would like to take this even further, I'd like to see what it's like to not consume any intellectual property encumbered media of any sort, so either public domain or CC licensed materials. I can, and do this easily enough with
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by spudlyo 1y ago
I maintained some backend Linux dialup PPP infrastructure at a company called ConnectSoft back in the late 90s who sold clip-art and fonts "online" via dialup, as well as selling a reasonably popular Windows Email client. I had a

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