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__del__··on So I guess everyone uses LLMs to think now
something that does meaningfully affect readability is WRITING IN ALL CAPS. you're almost guaranteed to have encountered the visually distinct shapes of lowercased words thousands more times than you've encountered the shapes of their uppercased counterparts
__del__··on So I guess everyone uses LLMs to think now
i highly recommend asking for terse or concise responses in whatever your chosen LLM calls its system prompt. you can give a brief explanation of your areas of expertise and say that you don't need those things explained to you. there are limits to how much this stuff works, but it's worth a shot
__del__··on So I guess everyone uses LLMs to think now
more or less, but a lot of people have been doing this for decades. to do it sanely on a phone requires adding lowercased words to your dictionary like i'm, i'd, i'll, and i've. a lot of us also leave off the trailing period
__del__··on I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0
instead of iterating over an array and if-branching to one of two paths for each item, conceive of your conditionals as logic operations which test for set membership (i.e. "is this array item a member of the set i care about?") and with this array mask of "do the thing or don't do the thing" flags, you can mutate your data 0 or 1 times.

the key for me is thinking in terms of sets—much of your conditional logic is probably about sorting things into sets anyway.

__del__··on Eunice is almost here
yes, it bears repeating that text editors didn't keep entire documents resident in memory, they maybe buffered a page ahead and behind.

when it appeared as a feature, spell checking was impressive for the technical feat of compressing word lists with tens of thousands of entries into representations suitable for tiny memories.

__del__··on Eunice is almost here
>pretty much none of which were actually brought into daily life by AT&T...

i don't care about facts, tom selleck convinced me it was at&t

__del__··on Illinois just told every operating system to start reporting your kid's age
five minutes? it took me two minutes to come up with a threat:

someone will serve an innocuous page to adults, and some malicious honeypot trickery to children, all based on an http header.

"you've won five billion robux! click allow [to a webcam permission] to be able to receive them into your account!"

__del__··on A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway
nice dotfile
__del__··on A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway
there are some early unix tapes floating around, and in those early shells, i'm fairly certain the colon was one of only two special-cased code paths after the command line was parsed. does anyone recall more specifically?
__del__··on Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years
as a matter of ux, users probably don't need to know that a session is being instantiated, and probably expect a simple play button

fun

__del__··on The war on terror primed America for autocracy
this is a dense comment (there's a lot here to unpack). it sounds like you're saying:

once it became clear that conquest with an explicit intended return of large numbers of enslaved people would allow caesar to pay debts and fund further expansion, the pyramid was capped and required exponential expansion to perpetuate its economic aims. and this was the beginning of the end. a model which required autocratic steering to operate.

__del__··on Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases
wouldn't that be a hash of the image signed by a trusted entity and stored on a chain? maybe i'm overlooking why this doesn't work
__del__··on Wake up! 16b
i can barely accept this is possible
__del__··on A Rust-Python thing I am working on. Apache 2 licence
it would be helpful to know why this was developed!

running data science tasks on constrained systems may be an unfamiliar goal for many on hn, but i can imagine reasons for doing so.

perhaps you can share real world use cases and talk about the target environments for this tooling.

__del__··on delta time
i don't think time moves faster as we age, i think our perceived duration of early life grows because we keep thinking about it.

for example, i have spent 35 years thinking about the events which took place at age 8, but i have only spent 8 years thinking about the events of age 35.

__del__··on Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes
>you'll dance to anything by toad the wet sprocket. loser.

love a good screenshot easter egg

__del__··on Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands
im[ns]ho, people want desperately to believe that only state funded actors can possess that kind of power.
__del__··on I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk
the administration which declares ad-hoc emergencies is behaving as predicted
__del__··on Flameshot
i've been using flameshot with wayland the last six months, simply because i didn't know i couldn't
__del__··on Why do RSS readers look like email clients?
yes, i mutter to the screen "why not just give us your prompt and let us think about it?"
__del__··on Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update
we'll be working on that very strongly in the next period of time
__del__··on This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser
if it worked on a pentium iii, it should work on a phone with webgl. who's going to port it?
__del__··on Replace the Retiring Windows XP with Linux (2014)
should be quite a bit faster than that now. 1-2ms would be normal
__del__··on Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings
i often think about all the music ruined by self obsessed dorks singing soulless middle school poetry, and it's the main application of AI i'm quite excited for
__del__··on Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help
an icon for "save" will suffice to help me find the portion of the menu with "save as", "save a copy", and "export". when all four have the same icon, or slight variations, i'm back to reading each one to discern the difference.
__del__··on The consumption of AI-generated content at scale
i'll never give up the em dash. and i will continue to evangelize the en dash from now–forever (hint hint, ranges should use en dashes instead of hyphens).
__del__··on The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks
this has been my casual finding as well. why would i want all that conversational crap in the context window?
__del__··on Cassette tapes are making a comeback?
i had ONE cassette unwind. my less careful friend was always winding them with a pencil. the culprit? button mashing between fast-forward and play.
__del__··on 1D Conway's Life glider found, 3.7B cells long
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method
__del__··on Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched
clarity is good. i believe that was a reference to the futility of posting "i do not consent" messages on social media.
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