IIsi50MHz

I laughed, then remembered PalmOS had a target of no more than 3 clicks.

Shmer? It has so much padding and margin, even in "compact" mode. But it does have a lot of advertising all over, trying to get me to pay for stuff I don't intend to use. Maybe it's ad-dense?

I'm surprised and excited each time I manage to block a UI element successfully. Discord is usually quite preventing that for things that are meant to be noisy, like ads.

Hmm, I wonder if there's a subscription option for "Shaddup! I don't want to buy anything or do your quests!"?

Yes, why did somebody somewhere decide underscores should be italic? They're most clearly underline, as in the days of dial-up BBSes. (-:

> Of course, what was really happening is that they were not getting worse, but naturally every year there was some small percentage of vocal dissatisfied users, while the silent majority simply enjoyed their shoes and didn't have much to say about them.

This also happens in product support. When I was a helpdesk tech at a company, I saw thought "Our stuff is such _crap_! Why does anybody even buy it?". I felt like the sorts of errors we were seeing just shouldn't happen in any deployed product. But gradually, I got a trickle of customer comments like "It saves us so much time. What took multiple people hours..." and "Oh! Sorry, I was trying to reach accounting to renew. We love your software.".

Out of respect for Fruity Loops, and contempt of WK Kellogg Co.'s lawyers, I refuse to acknowledge the forced named change. WK Kellogg can accept the reality that there is no conflict of trademarks or other business interests between music software and sugar-pushers, or they can shove off. (>_<)

Somehow, this has me thinking of the Hubris operating system. If a subprogram calls an API incorrectly (wrong number of arguments, wrong argument type, out-of-bounds memory access…), the system kills the caller with no chance for recovery.

If the AI is not supposed to access a thing, and it tries to in a way you know how to detect, halt it and eject it from memory?

That is wicked fast, mate. I've recommended it to some people who don't use Kagi.

Assistant depends heavily on which of the many models you use. I've most recently liked results from Kimi K2.7 Code.

Kagi lets you re-rank sites, and also lets you ban results from sites you don't like.

onelook.com works for this usecase. Allows pattern searches, and can set it as a custom search engine.

> OneLook scans 16,965,772 entries in 805 dictionaries. Use it to find definitions, related words, quotes, names, lyrics, colors, and more.

The first I remember seeing:

2026-06-02 https://kagi.com/changelog#10959

2026-06-25 https://blog.kagi.com/translate-update

The above two only disabled free access, due to costs. They mention that Kagi Translate would become a subscription service (so I pessmistic'ly assumed it would no longer be part of my existing subscription).

The 2026-29-10 announcement includes "As we roll out our unified Fair Use system, usage across Kagi Translate and Kagi Assistant will count toward a shared allowance.".

> There was Amazon app store which failed to gain traction

I also heard that dev's couldn't remove apps they, for whatever reason, no longer supported. Even if the developers abandoned Amazon's app store entirely, the old bitrotted apps would still be there. The 1-star reviews would pile up, biasing users against them on other platforms.

Kimi K2.7 Code, for me. It's the first model I've used that usually writes working code, somewhat rarely breaks stuff when adding or changing features, and usually fixes a bug correctly just by providing a traceback or description.

Kagi Assistant defaults to the last-used model unless you got there from a Quick Answer. Several times I forgot to change models, and interrupted K2.7 Code, but after a failing to notice the model a few times and getting usable results, I now usually just leave it alone. Unless I want a quicker answer and doubt a "Code" model will grok me.

I'd forgotten that. I miss Fog Creek Software.

Used Trello a lot before it got sold to, and damaged by contact with, Atlassian. FogBugz looked cool…but I had to use an old version of Bugzilla.

I didn't know Glitch existed until this site had a notice that it Glitch would be shutting down. Surprised me FCS had anything to do with a game, and seems it wasn't a good fit. I like the style though, and downloaded some of the art and variations on the Groddle theme before it died.

I don't believe the metric bit. Metric is so much easier to deal with than random-relations-between-unit-sizes.

Static stretching increases tendon length, among other things. The stretch MUST NOT cause pain, and MUST be steady for the duration of stretch. Some suitable duration increments are 10 sec. (absolute minimum), 30 sec., 60 sec. Multi-minute stretches are suitable if they can be held without discomfort.

Notably, longer tendons are counter-productive for energy return. The fastest runners tend to have increased tightness along the backs of their legs.

Will, choice, and agency are unnecessary for explaining the example. It can be described simply by the forces exerted. The locations of the observers or sensing equipment matter little in this case, though they do become problematic when attempting discern whether heliocentric model fits unaided observations from a planetary surface.

I use it for "disconcerted", but I guess any situation that would result in a diagonal mouth irl would be fine.

Which is reall just a patch for the problem of "On one hand… On the other hand… …On the OTHER hand…".

It's worth noting that the one-other-gripping pattern seems meant to convey two considerations and end with the strongest of three.

The English one-other pattern doesn't necessarily require the second consideration to dominate. They could be equal, or they might merely introduce concerns that haven't been evaluated to conclusion yet.

Alas, one-other-gripping doesn't seem to generalise to more than three concerns.

> can open more than one video at once.

And a nice side-effect of that is that YouTube doesn't throw away the list of other videos on the page you came from!

I thought the claim was "It's annoying and difficult.", not "Can't be done.".

See also https://nebusec.ai/research/ionstack-part-2/#mitigation for the fullpatch and two other mitigations

> The affected range is v2.6.39-rc1 to v7.1-rc1, with CONFIG_FUTEX_PI=y the only requirement and no capabilities or user namespaces needed.

Every one of those is also an example of how people have written and spoken since before AI existed. But then, I don't 'Claude', so I'm not sensitised by exposure.

> That doesn't actually answer my question, it just makes me want to repeat it: if you have that attitude, why be there at all? The existence of a forum instead of an IRC chat or some other immediately-forgotten medium means that someone considers the discussion worth preserving.

At first I thought the complaint was that long threads can have numerous irrelevant fluff posts, outdated posts, and off-topic posts getting in the way of reading the useful bits. But treating a forum thread as a live conversation was somewhat surprising to me. And specifically excluding that a thread could be reference material perhaps reflects a difference between the sorts of places GP and I prefer to browse.

But about long threads: stepping through a 30-page or 300-page thread, where rarely is a post an update about the project, while the rest add nothing substantial, discourages looking through the whole the whole thread is not always practical. And search often doesn't return anything useful.

Droidify sometimes does a weird thing when installing apps:

1. Ensure Droidify is not running. 2. Launch it. 3. Tell it to install or update to an app. 4. Receive an Android system prompt to approve the install/update. 5. Approve it. 6. Tell Droidify to install or update another app. 7. Reveive a system prompt to approve the action of step #3 again. 8. Approve it. 9. Receive system prompt to approve step #6. 10. Repeat #6 through #9 for more apps.

Workaround: Do steps #1 through #5.

Foxy Droid doesn't have this problem, but won't auto-download updates for you.

Disagree. If this VP is delegating to direct reports things they should be capable of handling, that's normal. If a direct report informs this VP of intended action, it both keeps the VP informed and acknowledges that the VP might have other information that should alter the intended course.

I'm assuming a trusted, competent direct report, and that the DR has chosen a timeframe that is reasonable give the situation.

For example:

Customer has a problem that will cause them to miss payroll on Friday. We've known about it since Tuesday morning. VP, DR & team spent Tuesday understanding the underlying problems.

VP has found one of the issues is in a third-party product, who are notably resistant to believing they have a bug, and are prone to not deploying a fix until either the next major update or three months after first report. VP is working on a software fix that makes use of another esoteric behaviour of the third-party product to potentially prevent the current problem from recurring, but now expects to not be done before Thursday.

DR & team spent Wednesday testing, and believe they can ensure payroll will be ontime by deploying a workaround Wednesday night, during the customer's existing maintenance window, where customer's I.T. group are known to be available for this issue. DP sends email to VP with intended course of action and known caveats.

VP knows he can keep working on the longterm fix without the customer's ability to make payroll hinging on it.

. o O ( The above actually happened, approximately thrice, due to different vendors committing shenanigans. It is abstracted from different customers. )

I believe the intended meaning was "Now, regardless of any future considerations, your budget is permanently smaller.".

Sorta. macOS "Japanese – Romaji" input method supports capslock to switch between English and Japanese (easier than using the standard keycombo).

All that dark, dismal grey, though… (-:

For reasons I don't fully understand, it makes me thing of repressive environs along the lines of "This is not for you. Serious business only.".

Although I do find some of the borders much too thick, it would be bit of relief from the modern trend of having enormous padding/margins everywhere.