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cholantesh··on It Was an Ambush
Literally in this case meaning staring at a spirograph blocking your view of the screen, I suppose, because he never said that once. Trump did accuse Zelenskyy of having hatred for Putin, and didn't get much of a response, but that's not quite the same. What he did say was that Vance's characterization of Ukraine's path as warmongering was at the very least misleading if not much worse. He did this by pointing to a decade's worth of ceasefires that were brokered by the US and Europe that Russia broke with impunity, and held Trump and Vance's feet to the fire about bucking that trend. Pretty wild that you see that as emotional framing, and not the literal shitfit of a response it elicited from a head of state and his deputy.
cholantesh··on Waterfox: Fast and Private Web Browser
>The integration is much deeper than what Vimium and the other WebExtensions allow.

Rather a dubious claim. Vimium is what VimFx is modelled on, and Vimium was always intended to be pretty minimalist compared to, eg, Vimperator, whose only real successor, Tridactyl, is a WebExtension.

cholantesh··on Tell HN: Generational Gap
>JSON simplicity won

I'm in my mid-30s and work with 20-somethings who insist that YAML is even simpler. I hope you turn out to be right because after a couple of years of staring at Kubernetes manifests I still don't agree with them.

cholantesh··on I Tried to Fix Government Tech for Years. I'm Fed Up
>The author not getting that is just… do you ever stop and think?

They refer to themselves as a "lifelong libertarian", so probably not since turning 14.

cholantesh··on Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning
If it's costly to run, maybe it's reasonable to expect that persisting settings, which is also costly, has some level of gatekeeping? I'm as ambivalent about LLMs as the next guy, but these are frankly nonsense concerns.
cholantesh··on Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning
>Perhaps the feature is meant for people who are unsure what they want, but for me, I just want the answer with links to sources in the least verbose way possible.

Did you try including that in your prompt?

cholantesh··on Show HN: Fuckingsearch.com, search Google without AI Overviews
Yeah I'm a fan except for when I'm looking for things to buy or comparisons of products,which I suspect is less a Kagi issue and more the fact that it is trying to correct for spam and advertorial which unfortunately comprises most of that content online.
cholantesh··on Personal Software Is Becoming a Trend
Yes, but pawning off the work on an infuriatingly forgetful and hurried junior who doesn't really listen to you is.
cholantesh··on Executive Order: For each new agency regulation issued, 10 must be repealed
And that analysis is being relayed credulously by possibly the most influential libertarian think tank in the US, so perhaps a spoonful is warranted.
cholantesh··on BYD's electric supercar jumps over potholes and spikes
This is disingenuous. You yourself were discussing a specific technology as was the person you're replying to, and really, the specific technology is going to guide the conversation of what gets built. An autonomous car isn't the same as an autonomous train or a bus, and having a bunch of them on the roads does not create demand for other forms of transport or infrastructure that supports it.
cholantesh··on BYD's electric supercar jumps over potholes and spikes
Is this a joke? How does having more cars on the road, with the same capacity as other cars, and which rely on, adapt to and perpetuate the status quo of car-dependent infrastructure correlate with either of these things?
cholantesh··on Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS
Quite a lot of methodological caveats being noted in that section...a couple of questions I would ask are how much computing is done inside a browser now, making the platform irrelevant, and how much is done on a mobile device rather than a desktop. Anecdotally, I see a lot of them collecting dust in the houses of friends & family, and very little being done outside of Zoom and Chrome.
cholantesh··on Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck
lmao yes; specifically Far Cry 3.
cholantesh··on Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck
Neither of those scenarios are typical for 'casual users' of the 2020s: at work, most have Windows laptops issued to them that they can't install things onto anyway, and elsewhere they are liable to do most of their computing on a tablet or a phone. There's almost nothing an exe file could do for a casual user that couldn't be done in a browser or mobile app, and most of them understand what an operating system is and that, on some level, there are cross-compatibility issues between them that they may be able to resolve with a tool.

>Photoshop or whatever

No one who _needs_ Photoshop is a casual user.

cholantesh··on Bye-bye Windows gaming? SteamOS officially expands past the Steam Deck
I'm not even sure it's an 'or' at this point; I've recently gone (multiple times) through the surreal experience of having to install a client and register an account having already bought a game through a storefront for which I had to install a client and register an account and which had already ostensibly installed. In the first case it was for a game I had actually previously played before the publisher decided to slap an account on top of its offering, and I decided I didn't care enough to keep going.
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cholantesh··on Black Friday is a trap
There is zero advocacy for systemic change here, just lecturing individuals to adopt solutions that only present themselves as choices to the privileged, to say nothing about the gobbledygook about 'guarding your psyche' by 'abstaining' from viewing ads. None of this sounds like leftism, just liberal idealism. Not especially bold to know what one is talking about, but thx.
cholantesh··on Christopher Hitchens and the Necessity of Universalism
By the end of his life, he was one of the most effusive cheerleaders for American Imperialism and had nothing but a posh accent to back it up.
cholantesh··on Black Friday is a trap
I've been speaking French at an intermediate level for a couple of decades, but thanks. I'm happy to expand my critique to how your arguments all individualize responsibility for a systemic issue that requires targeted collective action and social transformation. This is not leftist strategy.
cholantesh··on Black Friday is a trap
I'm not making any kind of argument, I'm simply describing capitalism as it is.
cholantesh··on Black Friday is a trap
Yes, exactly, as well as rent-seeking behaviour.
cholantesh··on Black Friday is a trap
>The entire raison d'être of capitalism is to provide the highest quality goods and services for the lowest cost.

Quality is absolutely _not_ of paramount interest in capitalism; return on investment is.

cholantesh··on Agile Is Dead
Co-operatives and worker self-management can and have existed under communism.
cholantesh··on I Stopped Using Kubernetes. Our DevOps Team Is Happier Than Ever
I think they mean organizationally, not architecturally.
cholantesh··on Ben Affleck's surprisingly comprehensive take on LLMs for video
Train it to attribute its failure to land on wokeness, have it generate designs for merch that communicate this idea, and book an appearance on JRE and it'll have completed the arc of a lot of short run comics.
cholantesh··on Gandhi's Letter to Hitler (1940)
This is the view advanced by Churchill and his hagiographers but it's false; there is correspondence from 1942 that warned that the ramifications of policies going all the way to March of that year had been dire, and the war cabinet simply dismissed them.
cholantesh··on Gandhi's Letter to Hitler (1940)
As well as 'those who play well with others'.
cholantesh··on Distributed Systems 4th Edition
This is apparently van Steen's site (https://www.distributed-systems.net/index.php/me/)
cholantesh··on GOG's Preservation Program Is the DRM-Free Store Refocusing on the Classics
>savegame sync

Now this is interesting. I only ever use Steam for games I can't find on GoG (or can't find on a treasure hunt, shall we say) or which I invested a lot of time into and have savegames I want to preserve. Maybe this will help me push past that...

cholantesh··on An oral history of "We Built This City," the worst song of all time (2016)
And they are still not even as bad as a lot of basically redundant modern pop with the deliberately atonal robovox, trap beats, and flat production.
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