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Anduia··on On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted
TLDR: Neovim did a breaking change to persistent undo
Anduia··on "As a Language Model": Chat Template Switches LLM Self-Referential Voice
Be careful there. LLMs may be good at identifying a condition based on a description of the symptoms, but they are much worse at recommending the correct course of action (getting it wrong half of the time).

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-04074-y

Anduia··on Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds
US military showed a version in 2012 [1], and there is a DARPA report[2]

That said, it's a solid student project. I'm sure she'll do well at university.

[1]: https://www.ifsecglobal.com/uncategorized/soundwaves-a-new-p...

[2]: https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20...

Anduia··on Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)
Flat earthers don't use Mercator projection, they use polar azimuthal equidistant (AEQD) projection centered in the north pole.

I think it would be something like Portugal-Kamchatka:

https://i.ibb.co/9mqz8fvb/image.png

Anduia··on Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)
It would be a straight line (in their official map) from the south of Portugal to Kamchatka (east Russia)
Anduia··on Longest Straight Line Paths on Water or Land on the Earth (2018)
If you are talking about the trail from Cape Town to Vladivostok, that one is not a straight line.
Anduia··on We let models localize into 16 languages. How we made it read native.
I'm so confused with the "Upgrade" example. Why does it lose the title case and why does it end up phrased as "upgrade to" instead of "Upgrade"?
Anduia··on Writing by hand is good for your brain
Having tried gel rollerball and fountain pens, I always end up going back to clutch pencils with soft leads.

The author dismisses all pencils because he has to press down hard to use them, but I don't press down any more than I would with a fountain pen.

Being able to erase is also a bonus. Not to mention the ASMR sound!

Anduia··on AI makes programming differently difficult
It's existential crisis Tuesday
Anduia··on Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers
Scroll down, there is a huge ad but the article continues.
Anduia··on New era for Gibraltar with removal of border controls with Spain
It wasn't millions, it was half a million. And what they're getting is permission to work in Spain, so it's unrelated to the article.
Anduia··on No Spanish reading crisis?
I don't think "less rich population" is an accurate description of Spain. It's a high-income developed country. Perhaps you assumed the article was about Spanish speakers worldwide rather than Spain specifically?
Anduia··on EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
They're describing EU sanctions on individuals, just very dramatically
Anduia··on window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world
"Choose your browser cache folder to improve performance"
Anduia··on Dav2d
Well, if every asset request hits the origin (no CDN, no caching...) that would be a misconfiguration of the website. It should never happen for a blog.
Anduia··on Social media bans for teenagers lack evidence and pose risks, scientists say
for those with parents yes
Anduia··on How to run Qwen 3.5 locally
That's why I start any prompt to Qwen 3.5 with:

persona: brief rude senior

Anduia··on The first sodium-ion battery EV is a winter range monster
Less bloated site:

https://carnewschina.com/2026/01/22/catl-unveils-worlds-firs...

Anduia··on Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users
> draws a pretty clear picture

You have "memory" activated in your settings. It is recording information about you and using it in future conversations. Have a look at settings > personalization

Anduia··on Developers are choosing older AI models
I cannot audit and report GDPR violations if I do that.
Anduia··on YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'
> YouTube eventually restored both videos

Okay, nothing to see here then. Just some sensationalism around a content moderation mistake.

Anduia··on Developers are choosing older AI models
To the authors of the site, please know that your current "Cookiebot by Usercentrics" is old and pretty much illegal. You shouldn't need to click 5 times to "Reject all" if accepting all is one click. Newer versions have a "Deny" button.
Anduia··on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly
Not at all, look at Tiktok
Anduia··on Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations
I use PlantUML because it renders in GitLab's markdown, including wikis, MD docs and even PR comments. However, I have to use Mermaid for projects hosted on GitHub.

The hassle of tweaking the layout in puml, such as pairing elements with an invisible connections and groups, adding or removing dashes from the arrows in class diagrams... is gone because Mermaid is simply inferior in that sense.

Mermaid always feels like it's in beta and I don't understand why GitHub ignores the request to support puml (1). It seems that adoption of diagrams as code is tied to what is supported by major vendors and they don't care enough. Or maybe it is because mermaidchart made an official vscode plugin, who knows.

While I agree that improvements are needed, I'm not convinced that creating a third standard is the answer. What I would like is to be able to assign weights to my elements and let the renderer do the work (not set x and y coordinates like in oxdraw).

[1] https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/10111

Anduia··on Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score”
It's not about wanting sympathy. In peace and prosperity times, people has more time to reach adulthood and explore themselves, they don't have to suppress pain in order to survive. Not saying everyone, but many.

I'm no expert either, but for sure there are psychology and sociology studies about generational differences, openness, and things like that.

Anduia··on Populism and economic prosperity
It is called sortition.
Anduia··on Discord says 70k users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach
Discord uses Zendesk (1). However in the press release they don't name the third party that was compromised, and Zendesk denies that it was their service.

What other third party was Discord using if not Zendesk? Who's reputation are they protecting?

[1] https://www.zendesk.fr/customer/discord/

Anduia··on How far can you go by train in 5 hours? (interactive map)
Yes, it is the mountains. Tunnels are very expensive. The French TGV lines only reach the Spanish border at Hendaye on the west coast and Perpignan on the east. The fast line to Barcelona is quite recent.

In northern Spain, there is a slow train line that connects Barcelona with Galicia called the "tren estrella," but it stops everywhere and uses old infrastructure, so it is slow. Traveling to Madrid is always fast with the newer AVE lines, and more are being built.

No idea about Portugal. I guess that it is the same situation, and those routes are covered by buses.

Anduia··on Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement
See the Copyright Act of 1976. That battle was lost long ago and judges can't ignore statutary damages.
Anduia··on Models of European metro stations
This again? The site is from 2012, does not use https, and has not changed since it was posted last time (7 times already)
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