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xdfgh1112··on Always be ready to leave (even if you never do)
Before AI people would still say things like this. "The best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago. The second best time is now". Among the set of such constructs, some are overused by LLM and have become a symbolic of it, but they will still show up in human writing with the same frequency as before.
xdfgh1112··on Always be ready to leave (even if you never do)
I guess AI is the new catchall term for "cliched or bad writing"
xdfgh1112··on Show HN: Anki-LLM – Bulk process and generate Anki flashcards with LLMs
There is also a meta level investment in your deck that comes from curating it by hand, and that pays off in long term motivation AND improves recall.

I'm sure some people can knuckle down and learn an LLM deck with random words, but they'd be a minority.

xdfgh1112··on Show HN: Anki-LLM – Bulk process and generate Anki flashcards with LLMs
I have 15k learned. It's a question of timing. Can time spent making the card outweigh time saved learning it? I would say yes. It's easy to spend too long making a single card. A compromise is to make a small card at first and improve it whenever you fail it.

Personally I need some context in a card to hook it up to other things. Such as the sentence where I first encountered it. Without that I will often fail the card over and over and waste time - it would have been quicker to put some effort upfront making a decent card.

xdfgh1112··on Claude outage
Even if AI is down for 20% of the time it can still outcode you 100x.
xdfgh1112··on When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone
In Japan they are also pushing an app for vending machines, but you immediately get three free drinks (then nothing after). It got me to sign up anyway.
xdfgh1112··on Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital
I enjoyed the content of the video using the subtitles as delivered. It made sense and was informative. I doubt there were any egregious issues given the relative similarity of the two languages.
xdfgh1112··on Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital
Really good video. I don't speak German but the subtitles were fine.
xdfgh1112··on Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps
It used to cost money, it's now free but it's quite limited. I'm sure it'll get more expensive later, but it is great value at the moment.

Not sure how you can rug pull an open source project...

xdfgh1112··on Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps
Just because something is overhyped doesn't mean it can't be useful. You can literally try it for free with vscode and figure out quickly where it saves you time and where it doesn't. I made a value judgement that it saves me more than 20usd of time. If it didn't I wouldn't pay for it. Developers are not idiots motivated by fomo.

Using it for vibe coding where you pay for every token - and end up paying hundreds over dozens of iterations, when it would have been easier to write it yourself - is probably closer to what you're talking about. That's a totally different use case.

xdfgh1112··on We will no longer be actively supporting KuzuDB
Abandoned for a new project. Kuzu is Japanese for unwanted/useless scraps or garbage, so I suppose it's still living up to its name.
xdfgh1112··on No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
New phone came with no standalone music player only YouTube Music. But fair play to them you can click "local files only" at first launch and it keeps out of your way.
xdfgh1112··on Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps
You live in a bubble. 299 is a crazy amount of money for me. I am currently debating whether to pay for copilot at 20/mo or keep using the free version.

Even if I was paying for that, there's no comparison between AI and a web framework that has many free competitors.

xdfgh1112··on Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year
I bought a new Motorola phone and there are no less than three ways to open Google assistant (side button, hold home button, swipe from corner). Took me about 10 seconds before I triggered it unintentionally and quickly figured out how to disable all of them...
xdfgh1112··on Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps
I think the pro version and charging stuff is totally fine. It's the lack of transparency that bothers people. I shouldn't have to figure out their profit model from HN comments. If you want to be paid for your work, charge for the whole library or make the free/pro distinction very clear to people. Don't try to hook them in with a free offering while locking features behind a paywall that they discover later.

Or if you want to be altruistic (as you keep referring to nonprofit) make it free and solicit donations/patreon.

The current approach is certainly a new one and I am interested to see if it pays off.

xdfgh1112··on Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps
I'm sorry people didn't immediately take to this financing model as well as you did. The average person is not as invested as you and most people are going to immediately switch off if they hear part of the functionality costs money and this isn't mentioned anywhere on the front page. Doesn't matter how "unnecessary" these features are, it's a bad look.

Plenty of other open source projects make money without attracting this kind of negative feedback. It's curious to me that you suggest everyone is intentionally being negative or malicious here, instead of looking at why the project caused such a response.

xdfgh1112··on Datastar: Lightweight hypermedia framework for building interactive web apps
I appreciated it. If I'm going to consider a framework I want to know if some of it costs money. Especially like 299usd.

Frankly your response seems very hostile and makes me wants to avoid them more.

xdfgh1112··on Rejected announces from libtorrent clients proxying through SOCKS
Depends how private...
xdfgh1112··on Rejected announces from libtorrent clients proxying through SOCKS
Private trackers have no open registration. If they ban you at the account level then it's pretty hard to get back in.
xdfgh1112··on Rejected announces from libtorrent clients proxying through SOCKS
Although the identification is literally just a string you send when connecting, easy to spoof.
xdfgh1112··on PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports
That's already part of the PIP. There is a flag to enable lazy imports for all possible imports.
xdfgh1112··on An informational website about why I went to prison
Most impressive to me is that he implemented apps for every single platform around (like 20?) I wonder how much work that was. If he's not lying about the 11k customer amount, I guess he must really love hacking!

> Apple TV, Android, Android TV/Fire Stick, ChromeCast, fourth-generation game consoles and newer, Roku, smart TVs, smart fridges, Tesla, and the usual web platforms.

xdfgh1112··on FAA is granting Boeing “limited delegation” to certify airworthiness
That's literally the security industry and third party security assessments are routine in tech.
xdfgh1112··on Python developers are embracing type hints
They catch bugs. And you don't have to use them; even if they're only provided by libraries, there is a benefit to users.
xdfgh1112··on Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant
Has no real democracy and the govt is able to plan decades ahead. It seems much better than the typical Western political system to me. But then again gays were only very recently accepted there, right?
xdfgh1112··on Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place
After the spike rose and fell, it continues to decline fairly quickly. I have no horse in this race but it looks sharp to me!
xdfgh1112··on Gurted – A web ecosystem introducing the gurt:// protocol
It's Bristol UK slang. Gurt lush = very nice / beautiful.

Although the author appears to be Moldovan.

xdfgh1112··on consumed.today
Lol that is a broscience number that is barely relevant for most people. Where did you learn this?
xdfgh1112··on Solving a wooden puzzle using Haskell
Way to miss the point.
xdfgh1112··on In defence of swap: common misconceptions (2018)
You can apply memory quotas to the individual processes with cgroups. You can also adjust how likely a process is to be killed.
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