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bobsmooth··on Android apps running native on macOS
Can MicroG be ported?
bobsmooth··on I built a programming language that LLMs can't use
It would need to use a lot of slurs. Really bad slurs.
bobsmooth··on I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one
Yeah, it's every paragraph.
bobsmooth··on Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men
To anyone with a degree not in software, you can pivot to a hands-on job. I'm a technician for factory equipment. AI is not replacing me for a long time.
bobsmooth··on Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026
Same. I have to restart FF once it reaches the 10GB mark.
bobsmooth··on Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A)
Classic bit of reverse engineering. I love how detailed your readme is.
bobsmooth··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
What exactly are the downsides?
bobsmooth··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
Then dont use Vanced
bobsmooth··on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
Because the algo, despite everyone's objections, is pretty good at recommending videos.
bobsmooth··on Salesforce Global Outage
Sure, but it's already integrated in the Field Service app we already use.
bobsmooth··on Salesforce Global Outage
My boss recently added a custom integration to allow us to log hours on jobs. It includes GPS coordinates so we have proof of our whereabouts.
bobsmooth··on People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination
No, we really do. Do you ever get a song stuck in your head?
bobsmooth··on Splash-free urinals (2025)
Water and chemicals spent on cleaning. Less splash means less cleaning.
bobsmooth··on I Feel about AI
Here's a great short story about how it could go either way

https://web.archive.org/web/20100211181147/https://marshallb...

bobsmooth··on The OG Creator of Task Manager on Windows Built a New Task Manager
Too colorful for you?
bobsmooth··on Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck
The chart literally says it accounts for inflation
bobsmooth··on Just because a game is on disc doesn't mean it will work in the future
The lite is hackable with enough effort. You could probably sideload updates and such.
bobsmooth··on A Trampoline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine
bobsmooth··on Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold
That has nothing to do with the fact that the article is inaccurate.
bobsmooth··on Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students
Fentanyl is used in hospitals for pain management, so yes.
bobsmooth··on ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content
Generating SVG code and generating an image are two different things.
bobsmooth··on ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content
They patched it.
bobsmooth··on Windows 11 25H2 – I'm so happy to not be using this
>For example, the author is complaining that Windows "forgot" his PNG file association

No, Windows really will mess with your file associations after an update. Recently happened to me.

bobsmooth··on Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux
In my fantasy RAM was the predominate technology over flash.
bobsmooth··on Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux
RAM disks have always fascinated me. In a different timeline every PC has a 100gb of RAM and 50TB HDDs are the norm.
bobsmooth··on I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)
KiCAD is pretty good.
bobsmooth··on Who will buy your services if you fire us all?
HN used to be even more libertarian than it currently is.
bobsmooth··on A nicer voltmeter clock
I love these analogue devices are being driven by a digital output. Using PWM is clever.
bobsmooth··on SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites
Is there one organization you trust to run the space internet for everyone on earth?
bobsmooth··on Getting arrested in Japan
Torturing prisoners not even convicted of a crime is something we don't do in America.
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