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bluedel··on CSS-Tricks in Limbo
Imagine you're making a pizza, but you're out of pepperoni. Your mother-in-law is allergic to bacon. Now imagine I'm leaving your house and riding my bike into the sunset.
bluedel··on Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract
There's a (in my opinion) very weird tendency to think that workers are a hindrance to the product, that anything that gets made is made in spite of the people making it, rather than thanks to them. I think it's very destructive.
bluedel··on HTML Can Do That
That's weird, it works on my phone. Are you sure you didn't refresh the page with the anchor tag still in your URL parameters?
bluedel··on OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS
Am I right to be a little concerned by the phrase "it'll go straight to the pirate bay"?

Not to be a narc or anything, but is OpenClaw liable to just perform illegal acts on your behalf just because it seemed like that's what you meant for it to do?

bluedel··on EFF is leaving X
If an organisation had any serious chance of moving the needle by staying on X, musk would simply find a reason to ban them. X leadership isn't interested in fair and balanced discussion.
bluedel··on Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins
It's not a command line argument, it's part of the title of a hackernews post.
bluedel··on Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia
I think the point they're making is that the failure mode of a waymo and automated air traffic control could look the same from an angle, but would have very different consequences.
bluedel··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
>I want my comments judged by the contributions they make and do not make to the discussion

There used to be a sort of gentleman's agreement that I could spare the time to read and judge your comment because you went through the effort of writing it.

bluedel··on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state
I feel like that would only change your opinion of the quote if you originally equated it to "Government bad!", which is a thoughtless thought.
bluedel··on We mourn our craft
I refuse to believe you sincerely think this is a salient point. Determinism was one of the fundamental axioms of software engineering.
bluedel··on Ian's Shoelace Site
I've made a couple with the Kumihimo technique, using cheap embroidery thread. The texture is similar to paracord, but you get your own pick of colors and patterns. I'm surprised at how durable they are.
bluedel··on Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video
Hopefully not. I'm impressed with the engineering, it is a technological achievement, but my only hope right now is that this tech plateaus pretty much immediately. I can't think of a single use-case that wouldn't be at best value-neutral, and at worst extremely harmful to the people interacting with it.
bluedel··on Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot
I don't think it's obnoxious to protect your trademark against a literal homophone operating in the same space as you. I'm confident a lot of people heard about "clawdbot" and assumed it was an anthropic product.
bluedel··on To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI
Newspapers and professional journalism are indeed doing well right now, nothing to worry about.
bluedel··on I'm just having fun
you're right, blog articles should be entirely devoid of stylistic choices and signifiers.
bluedel··on I'm just having fun
the lack of capitalization (and occasional omission of punctuation) was already a big thing on tumblr / twitter 10 years ago, especially in some anime and LGBT-adjacent spaces. I don't think jyn got it from Sam Altman, and I don't think he had that big a role in popularizing it.
bluedel··on Is it a bubble?
It's a fairly common descriptor
bluedel··on It’s been a very hard year
Everything that we know and love is reducible to a basic CRUD web app
bluedel··on Don't push AI down our throats
I think there's quite a jump from "ChatGPT has a high user retention rate" to "AI is useful to people". That's like saying funko pops were useful to nerds just because they kept buying them.
bluedel··on Terence Tao: At the Erdos problem website, AI assistance now becoming routine
For some definitions of "you" and "die".
bluedel··on LLM code generation may lead to an erosion of trust
At least if the car doesn't start, you can immediately tell.
bluedel··on Twitter's pivot to x.com is a gift to phishers
No, you got that right. Only the displayed text is affected.