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I appreciated it.

Since we're on the topic, is it just me or does GitHub Copilot seem worse than it was on release? Posts like these lead me to believe that some developers are out there halving the amount of code they write, but Copilot often fails for me even with very explicit instructions about how I want something implemented. In fact, ChatGPT seems to fare better, even though it's both OpenAI's 4o (switching to Antropic's model does not help).

What should I use to replace me?

> Firmage rose to fame after founding a software company from his bedroom in Salt Lake City when he was a teenager, later selling it for $24 million to Novell and founding the digital design company USWeb in 1995.

https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2024/02/29/joe-fi...

> USWeb's business model focused on acquisitions of small, independent web design firms and their client bases, with the company's public stock as payment; in all, it bought more than three dozen other companies

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USWeb

The article is paywalled, but the "pioneer" moniker seems to stem from this business model?

The Junior hat, absolving you from any responsibility for prod's status.

For those casually browsing the comments, this is an actual quote from the article.

With Elon being such a politically contentious figure, I'm surprised the organisers are expecting his name to be anything but trouble by June. Then again, if his actions up till now haven't gotten him shunned yet, maybe nothing will.

I believe their point was that they have no desire to fix the issue if they can just look elsewhere, making it detrimental to the vendor more so than the end-user.

I know the enshittification is inevitable, but one of the best things about BlueSky getting prominence is that they actually allow you to view everything without logging in.

Nitpick, but please inline the icon on your landing page to prevent the initial layout shift.

It'd be interesting to see this project develop further, if only to get WebRTC running on Win95 (iirc).

I managed to get a decent development environment going a while back using Nix, but I quickly discovered that Android is otherwise unsuited as a productivity OS anyhow.

> There is a known bug via touch scroll ability on Android, external keyboard's spacebar or mouse works correctly though, currently. If you know about a solution, let me know.

While I always appreciate the effort, bugs like these show how most Hackernews readers are antithetical to its design — when all you're serving is paginated HTML documents with form submissions, few things can possibly break in the first place.

> I prefer to use virtual machines. They’re slower to set up, and start up a little slower too [...]

LXD containers solved a lot of the problems inherit to virtual machines for me, though I don't like their reliance on global configs (something like Docker compose for LXD containers would be ideal).

> At the same time, I am also dismayed at the block a lot of people have at any phenomena that doesn't seem to be physically-based.

For me it's a matter of the scientific method — if it doesn't hold up to appropriate scrutiny, as the metaphysical never does, I can not consider it any more than a curious misunderstanding.

In the case of Marc's story, I'm skeptical about whether the events happened as described before I even take other explanations for his knowledge of the language into account.

The Web pages of college and health care providers are usually limited by the back-end in my experience, but modern Web apps can be the worst of both worlds — ClickUp, for example, is both very slow to load and sluggish once loaded. I've found myself using form submission again instead of XHR as a way to protest the tides.

To add to [1]: if .io can teach us anything, it's not to build on top of ccTLDs. I'd even call into question whether Google's new global TLDs are in the same class as a .net or .com.

This is cool for sure, but I fail to see the audience. Microblogging may work well enough, but for anything more substantial you will likely still need to make edits within their app down the line — even immediately after posting when your markup is inevitably rendered differently than you expected.

E-mail has an "open protocol / data ownership" appeal to it as well, but that's kind of a facade in this case; you just get to store a log of your API calls, essentially.

Trying to get Eduroam working soured me on NixOS as a desktop/laptop OS. If conventional methods fail, you're left with a completely non-standard OS designed to prevent quick hacks.

But NixOS spoiled my entire mindset around Linux. Going back to anything else feels like a massive downgrade. We would be better off today if declarative operating systems became the standard back when they could.

I get what you're saying, but syntax is the least of my concerns. With a modern IDE, or even just a decent language server, I run into syntax error very, very rarely. Everything else is the hard part.

What is the use-case for this feature? I get specifying byte ranges for parsing headers and whatnot, but I don't know a curl workflow that benefits from this.

The situation at large is even worse if you consider how Discord moved a significant portion of discussion away from the indexable Web.

I thought of mailing lists as archaic, but maybe we just regressed from there.

That sounds like one such folklore-esque belief. At least, it's something you tend to hear before a project is taken down.

I'm not sure how these services work, but are you planning to offer hard covers as well for a "next print"?

I've had my eye on Crafting Interpreters for a bit now, and I don't mind paying extra for a nicer version — especially if it's going into the pockets of an independent writer.

This issue aside, thanks for doing what you do. I was kind of expecting Itch to get sold to some holdings or casino company at some point, as good things tend to go, but I've been happily surprised to see it mature independently throughout the years.

I wish desktop OSes had evolved with such a model in mind. There is no reason why a calculator should be capable of reading my downloads folder — in fact, I'd even prefer it if I had to give explicit permission to access my network, Internet included. Maybe software wouldn't be so liberal with data collection if we had started requiring such stringent permissions way back when.

That looks great! I moved from Fish and NuShell to Zsh because of its reasonable compatibility with bash, so OSH seems right up my alley.

I really like the styling of this blog. It's nice on the eyes, gets out of the way, and the collapsed containers for extra info is a nice touch. There's a bit of layout shift though, but that's about it.

Interestingly, this prompt breaks o1-mini and o1-preview for me, while 4o works as expected — they immediately jump from "thinking" to "finished thinking" without outputting anything (including thinking steps).

Maybe it breaks some specific syntax required by the original system prompt? Though you'd think OpenAI would know to prevent this with their function calling API and all, so it might just be triggering some anti-abuse mechanism without going so far as to give a warning.

I can think of many reasons to stop posting on X, but leaving right when a new president takes office strikes me as odd. If it's about Musk unfairly promoting Trump, why wait? It's already happened after all, even if Musk himself will likely take office from that point onward.

I've been meaning to give something APL-ish a shot, but I don't see how such languages can be justified in a non-academic engineering environment. I doubt any company would like to limit themselves to hiring programmers who are capable of maintaining such code.