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terminalbraid··on Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby
A+ name, no notes
terminalbraid··on Bun support is now limited and deprecated
What's more is yt-dlp already has plugin support for 3rd party interpreters. They're just saying they don't want to deal with supporting bun themselves and the infrastructure for anyone else do use whatever they want is already there.

This is just the standard misguided entitlement people feel towards other people's projects supported by other people's time and effort. It's continually outrageous to me how people feel they can just volunteer other people's time and effort to support their own wants. The people who do the work are entitled to make their decisions and if you don't like it fork it yourself. This has been the way of this ecosystem since it started.

yt-dlp is surprisingly hackable as is.

terminalbraid··on Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers
> We received digital confirmation of data destruction (shred logs).

This is shockingly naive

terminalbraid··on Agents need control flow, not more prompts
My friend, you have invented management.
terminalbraid··on Amazon WorkMail End of Support
Not surprised given development was clearly abandoned years ago.
terminalbraid··on GitHub having issues [resolved]
I would prefer we have posts when github is not having issues to cut down on noise.
terminalbraid··on New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind?
The density does not dictate cardinality which is what this article is about.
terminalbraid··on Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
Stop giving money to the company that doesn't give you what you want.
terminalbraid··on 4chan for Clankers
I thought the point of calling them clankers was to be unkind.
terminalbraid··on GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
"Hey GPT thanks for the result. But is it actually true?"
terminalbraid··on GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
It's a nontrivial calculation valid for a class of forces (e.g. QCD) and apparently a serious simplification to a specific calculation that hadn't been completed before. But for what it's worth, I spent a good part of my physics career working in nucleon structure and have not run across the term "single minus amplitudes" in my memory. That doesn't necessarily mean much as there's a very broad space work like this takes place in and some of it gets extremely arcane and technical.

One way I gauge the significance of a theory paper are the measured quantities and physical processes it would contribute to. I see none discussed here which should tell you how deep into math it is. I personally would not have stopped to read it on my arxiv catch-up

https://arxiv.org/list/hep-th/new

Maybe to characterize it better, physicists were not holding their breath waiting for this to get done.

terminalbraid··on GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics
That doesn't answer the question. That statement just admits "maybe" which isn't helpful or insightful to answering it.
terminalbraid··on Another GitHub outage in the same day
Forejo was originally forked from Gitea
terminalbraid··on U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession
I disagree, but my personal belief is the economy and the government stewardship thereof work much the same way as WH40K ork technology
terminalbraid··on We mourn our craft
> AI can generate any kind of music anyone wants

It only sounds like music.

terminalbraid··on We mourn our craft
I'd add part of the craft is enjoying those minutiae, sharing lessons, and stories with others. The number of people you can do that with is going to dwindle (and has been for a long time from the tech sphere's coopting of all of it). That's part that I mourn.
terminalbraid··on We mourn our craft
No, I actually haven't made, nor desire to make, a way to automate "thinking about, researching, and solving a problem".
terminalbraid··on We mourn our craft
The better analogy is you're now a shop manager or even just QA. You don't need to touch, look at, or think about the production process past asking for something and seeing if the final result fits the bill.

You get something that looks like a cabinet because you asked for a cabinet. I don't consider that "woodworking craft", power tools or otherwise.

terminalbraid··on We mourn our craft
Forgive me if "just dig your way out of the hole" doesn't sound appealing.
terminalbraid··on We mourn our craft
Right. Except the dictionary analogy only goes so far and we reach the true problem.
terminalbraid··on We mourn our craft
> All the things the author said will still exist and keep on existing.

Except the community of people who, for whatever reason, had to throw themselves into it and had critical mass to both distribute and benefit from the passion of it. This has already been eroded by the tech industry coopting programming in general and is only going to diminish.

The people who discovered something because they were forced to do some hard work and then ran with it are going to be steered away from that direction by many.

terminalbraid··on We mourn our craft
> Programming was always a tool

This is the narrow understanding of programming that is the whole point of contention.

terminalbraid··on We mourn our craft
> Now it's always available.

And often incorrect! (and occasionally refuses to answer)

terminalbraid··on Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly
> Guix itself enriches the ecosystem

Except that ecosystem Guix provides is not on Windows nor MacOS, making a serious limitation to anyone who wants to develop guile on those platforms.

I support GNU's mission in general, but I find it ironic that when they push freedom of choice you're forced to make the "right" choice or you're left twisting in the wind.

terminalbraid··on OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
Expensive and overhyped?
terminalbraid··on Claude is a space to think
> I guess we should be thankful that things are looking rosy enough for Anthropic

Forgive me if I am not.

terminalbraid··on The Great Unwind
Except the part where they confuse "cryptography" for cryptocurrency. Assuming they knew the difference.
terminalbraid··on Show HN: I build an AI tools for Birthday Invitation
Why do you keep submitting this? You are treating this site as your own promotional vehicle.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

terminalbraid··on ConvertTool is your all-in-one file conversion hub!
This doesn't even have a privacy policy statement or terms of use. How does anyone know if this is trustworthy at all?
terminalbraid··on [dead]
You've unsuccessfully posted this every day for the last three days.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

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