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comonoid··on After wearing the Pebble Time 2 for two weeks, I'll never buy another smartwatch
Pebble is too feature overloaded, I prefer a ring.
comonoid··on Formal methods and the future of programming
The book "Program = Proof" by Samuel Mimram starts with a formula which is true for all n below

n = 15 341 178 777 673 149 429 167 740 440 969 249 338 310 889

I don't think you can catch it with any test suite.

comonoid··on EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
English is not my native language, but I believe "attributed" does imply unverifiability. Otherwise other word is used.
comonoid··on Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
From Reddit:

> After being laid off, a programmer becomes a welder. One day while working, he suddenly muttered to himself, "It's been so long, I've even forgotten how to solve three sum". A coworker next to him quietly replied, "Two pointers".

comonoid··on Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary
I don't know about Japanese, but to Turkish definitely can.
comonoid··on EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
True.
comonoid··on EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
8. 2026 White-list mode is occasionally enforced.
comonoid··on EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
"If you are not in prison yet, it is not your merit, but our failure." -- attributed to Felix Dzerzhinsky.

Upd: are they able to use VPN when the Internet is in so-called "white-list mode" where only certain websites are available?

comonoid··on HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
Read it aloud with GLADOS voice.
comonoid··on Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?
I wonder when my manager "prompts" me "I want the feature X and I want it fast", is his prompt a human creativity?
comonoid··on US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says
But you do.
comonoid··on US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says
Ukraine should request strong cards in exchange.
comonoid··on How to fold the Blade Runner origami unicorn (1996)
"Diagrammed by Kenneth Thompson". The name sounds familiar...
comonoid··on Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth
I've seen Mallorca from the Tibidabo mountain in Barcelona (the website states it is 194km). It required number of attempts for perfect atmosphere.

This is an independent observation from the Fabra Observatory: https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2015/03/03/inenglish/14253...

comonoid··on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings
It seems you haven't been to Moscow for the last 20 years. With all the oil money + cheap workforce it looks much better than EU capitals.

It is rather Novosibirsk.

comonoid··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
Propaganda never sleeps.
comonoid··on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
Switching gas providers is more difficult than switching from Zoom to Google Meet or other alternative.
comonoid··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
... such as usa?
comonoid··on There's a ridiculous amount of tech in a disposable vape
God bless these horrible devices are not disposed in billions every day as bottles are!
comonoid··on V8 Garbage Collector
FTE is a TLA.
comonoid··on Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support
Can QuickJS be compiled to WASM and executed in WASM sandbox?
comonoid··on I Am Mark Zuckerberg
"I don't know who they are, but their attorney is Mark Zuckerberg".
comonoid··on Show HN: Strange Attractors
I would suggest to keep initial particles' color -- it would be easier to understand the system's evolution.
comonoid··on Synadia and TigerBeetle Commit $512k USD to the Zig Software Foundation
That's more than Google donated to Rust Foundation in 2025 (though it donated $1M in 2024).
comonoid··on YouTube is a mysterious monopoly
Russia tries to push its population to "alternatives" like Rutube(sic!) and VK Video by interfering into network connectivity (they call it "slowing down", they just drop fraction of packets that goes from YouTube servers), but it seems the success is quite limited.
comonoid··on Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python (2023)
C was designed to be compiled with a single-pass compiler.
comonoid··on Jujutsu for everyone
I'm replying to a comment that starts with accusation: "False.". My point is that correct version differs just by a single word. It can be just a tipo in Disposal8433's comment, not "false".
comonoid··on Jujutsu for everyone
Ok, you need to call `jj bookmark set -r@ XYX` (or `jj b s -r@ XYX`), so what?
comonoid··on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
An airport.
comonoid··on Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end
Perhaps, "Deep Work" by Cal Newport can explain that.
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