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by tom_ 5mo ago
Whatever age range you have to be in to remember the most viral videos from 2012, some measurable percentage of HN's readership probably aren't in it.
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by tom_ 5mo ago
Things take time to play out!
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by tom_ 5mo ago
I don't, as my point applies regardless of the article's contents: that any downvotes of the submitter's comments are perhaps due to people not liking LLM-generated content, such as this article appears to be. (Being a person
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by tom_ 5mo ago
Perhaps actual thinking is not automatically necessary for that either! - and the LLM is proof.
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by tom_ 5mo ago
I assume it's because the article appears to be, if not AI slop, then certainly something that reads very much like it has gone all the way through an LLM's digestive tract and come out the other end. Perhaps the odd piece of swee
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by tom_ 5mo ago
For whatever it's worth, I've always only ever used the native Windows build of Emacs, and I've never had any awful problems sharing my config between Windows, Linux and macOS. I'm sure I had to expend at least a bit of
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by tom_ 5mo ago
I've always found it easier to collaborate using markdown. It's much more popular than org-mode! And you can get org to export text as markdown, so interop isn't necessarily even all that difficult. And as per the general the
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by tom_ 5mo ago
I didn't click through the full UI to get the lead time or anything; I just looked at the options presented on the UK site. Maybe there's a stock of laptop types here that have all sold out elsewhere? Or maybe they were just teasi
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by tom_ 5mo ago
Over 75% (well... just...) of the screenshots are 1024x768 or greater - though admittedly typically not by much. Over half (well, again: just!) are 1152x864 or larger.
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by tom_ 5mo ago
Use portrait displays! You'll never complain about the height again. Use 1440p (or scaled equivalent) and the width won't be an issue either. Many displays make this easy (all the Dells I've had can rotate), and adequate rota
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by tom_ 5mo ago
If you haven't tried it already, I've found it useful to get Windows to use the accent colour in the title bar and window borders: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/personalize-your...
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by tom_ 5mo ago
Well don't ask us. If AI writes your code, why not ask it? You could probably make it write a whole article for ya.
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by tom_ 5mo ago
Bleep bloop. This has always bothered me for one. Bools for unnamed parameters just always end up a bit of a pain. 1. Somewhat often, parameter hints just stop working. Why? Who knows! There never seems to be any way to debug these mechanis
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by tom_ 5mo ago
But what if you were going to buy a laptop anyway? Obviously you can't do anything with less than 64 GBytes these days, so the question is just whether you go for the jump to 128. In the UK, it's currently an extra £800 to get a 1
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by tom_ 5mo ago
The title often relates to the money, which is the bit you probably want.
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by tom_ 5mo ago
There's some official documentation for this process: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh40616/mac (and this works ok for terminal stuff too! Though it looks like the process will alwa
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by tom_ 5mo ago
No tilemaps on the Amiga.
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by tom_ 5mo ago
Presumably: * https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag/blob/master/assets/write-... * https://github.com/V4bel/dirtyfrag/blob/master/assets/write-...
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by tom_ 5mo ago
Doing stuff for other people: generally low-status work, to one degree or another Doing stuff for the machine: the behaviour of a pragmatic, nuanced builder. A forward-thinking agentic AI pioneer, executing and shipping at the unexplored bo
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by tom_ 5mo ago
If the computer can do it for them, then why not?
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by tom_ 5mo ago
The late 90s was the first time I'd heard of them. I was a university student at the time, and one of my friends was a foreign student, from America, and a fan. He also liked this other band called The Grateful Dead. I'd never hea
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by tom_ 5mo ago
Old timey American guitar noodler band.
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by tom_ 5mo ago
They've always written at least a little bit like this.
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by tom_ 5mo ago
There isn't one. Level 3 is just that much more advanced.
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by tom_ 5mo ago
Bruh.
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by tom_ 5mo ago
For whatever it's worth, which is probably not much, I'm in my late 40s and I never really liked sourceforge either. Too many clicks to do anything (still true), and I didn't like cvs (also still true, but thankfully now irre
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by tom_ 6mo ago
I think the BBC policy is to provide every measurement in both types of unit.
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by tom_ 6mo ago
Looks like one of the main contributors to the PR is one of the SDL maintainers. That probably helps!
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by tom_ 6mo ago
I don't know how the 6502's PC increment actually worked, but it was an exception to the general rule of page crossings (or the possibility thereof) incurring a penalty, or, as was also sometimes the case, just ignored entirely. (
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by tom_ 6mo ago
Are you sure you're not an LLM? There is no way anybody writing 6502 would do anything else, because there's no other way to do it. (You can squeeze in a cheeky Txx instruction afterwards to get a 2-or-more-for-1, if that would

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