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jaxelr··on Endian wars and anti-portability: this again?
This, a hundred times. The expectation shouldn't be that you must maintain all scenarios, environments, edge cases.

It's also reasonable to say I simply do not use this software the same way you do. The individual is empowered to fork, contribute and/or collaborate.

jaxelr··on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office
I stand corrected.
jaxelr··on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office
I wonder, does the streak technically still continues? As he was stripped of his titles.
jaxelr··on Chuck Klosterman on why we've never actually seen a real football game
Dopest thing I’ve seen this year. Thanks for sharing.
jaxelr··on Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews
> Don’t leave too many comments

I'll say this is directly proportionate to the size of the changes. If a code review is a conversation between n parties, it seems reasonable to me that more code leads to more comments.

jaxelr··on Top Programming Languages 2025
Kinda surprising that I see nothing from Zig on all these lists.
jaxelr··on Ahmed Mohamed Clock Incident
This, a hundred times this, I used to do this quite often since I was 5-6 years old with all the hardware that I was tired of using (games, toys, etc...)
jaxelr··on Chomsky–Schützenberger Enumeration Theorem
Genuinely curious as to what are the practical uses of this theorem?
jaxelr··on British Nuclear Warning System
I can also recommend the new Annie Jacobsen book, Nuclear War: A Scenario for a horrific experience that would scar you for a few days :)
jaxelr··on Deno KV internals: building a database for the modern web
(2023)
jaxelr··on Pyrrhic Victory
Acoup blog recently did some analysis related to Pyrrhus worth reading as well: https://acoup.blog/2024/03/08/collections-phalanxs-twilight-...
jaxelr··on Write OpenAPI with TypeSpec
You can, see here: https://typespec.io/docs/libraries/http/authentication#avail...
jaxelr··on Power Metal: is it really about dragons? (2018)
I tend to lean more into the Valhalla crowd chanting <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ_VFJn2kJM>
jaxelr··on Bing Gained Less Than 1% Market Share Since Adding Bing Chat
Not to mention that most of the times it’s just slower than literally using bang(!) searches on a browser like duckduckgo.
jaxelr··on I found the music I love on the internet
> I went back to Borders, I picked up Deliverance by Opeth expecting it to sound like Damnation

I went through the opposite experience at college, I picked Damnation expecting it to sound like Deliverance.

You have to love bands that have records that you hate upon first impression then end up loving them after years.

jaxelr··on My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar
My son loves this app and he’s 7. Thanks!

A small gripe, I’m unsure whats the api refresh rate and my kid continues closing and opening the app and then it sporadically gets time outs on the API. That being said, I much appreciate taking the time to release it and blog about it.

jaxelr··on Conversational AI is a great tool for education
This; its really hard to discern nuance when you do not understand a specific field. The value of procedural text generators is higher when you as an individual with the knowledge, understand when the AI is hallucinating or spewing nonsense versus when you are rubber duckying your way into solutions.
jaxelr··on When I stopped trying to self-optimize, I got better
Thanks for the TLDR.
jaxelr··on Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable
Crazy to think that iOs does and it barely gets noticed.
jaxelr··on The persistence of prog rock (2017)
> Good thing Punk is the ultimate palette cleanser. The smartest genre of music we’ve created yet.

Heavy metal would like a word.

jaxelr··on We are ‘greening’ ourselves to extinction
Somewhat related, John Oliver had an episode about Carbon Offsets https://youtu.be/6p8zAbFKpW0
jaxelr··on How Twitter moderated the Covid debate
The problem is there’s a lot of conjecture concerning intentions and thats basically unprovable.

Some parts feel sensationalized for the sake of theater.

jaxelr··on Metal Archives 20th Anniversary
This! I use it constantly since its way easier than trying to type on the search bar from a mobile
jaxelr··on Sean Suiter
There are a bunch of recurring actors from The Wire and it’s sort of expected considering Simon’s previous repertoire.

My favorite “cameo” was the actor who played Duquam Weems (Jermaine Crawford) makes a brief appearance as a Cop

jaxelr··on Mercedes shipping mini CDs with its vehicles to fulfill GPL requirements
I recently got a MB and it did brought it, so at least latest models still do on the US.
jaxelr··on Bomb Squad called to Royal Hospital after man gets WWII mortar stuck up his bum
Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode of the proctologist.

> Cosmo Kramer: Have you ever met a proctologist? Well, they usually have a very good sense of humor. You meet a proctologist at a party, don't walk away. Plant yourself there, because you will hear the funniest stories you've ever heard. See, no one wants to admit to them that they stuck something up there. Never! It's always an accident. Every proctologist story ends in the same way: "It was a million to one shot, Doc. Million to one!"

Taken from imdb.com quotes.

jaxelr··on You can't download this image
Likewise, using Firefox on iOS.
jaxelr··on Show HN: Hippobase – easily self-host open source databases
Hosting
jaxelr··on RSS Box – RSS for websites that do not support RSS
I got the same error message using my own user for Twitter
jaxelr··on How Napoleon Bonaparte’s delayed funeral came to be
Sweet! Thanks for this.
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