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I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned the "magic unlimited magazine" yet, especially with fully-automatic weapons. It's distracting to watch the hero shoot and shoot and shoot and never reload.

Big props to the John Wick franchise for making reloading* a first-class part of their gun-fu choreography.

* ...and badass one-handed press checks that no-one should ever do IRL.

They would make an excellent Beowulf cluster.

I would get one of these in a hot minute except that my HP-16C that I got sometime in the '80's is still going strong! I rarely use it anymore but a couple of years back I was working on an app that involved bit-twiddling and the 16C fired right up and was immediately helpful.

It's difficult to take an announcement like this seriously when it's posted on Twitter.

Everything he quoted is a fact, which can be proven or falsified. Taken together (and if true) they're pretty damning.

You responded with an ad-hominem attack. If you can offer a rebuttal of the facts then please do, otherwise try to refrain from personal attacks.

Also "couch lock", i.e., reduced physical activity.

The real serverless horror isn't the occasional mistake that leads to a single huge bill, it's the monthly creep. It's so easy to spin up a resource and leave it running. It's just a few bucks, right?

I worked for a small venture-funded "cloud-first" company and our AWS bill was a sawtooth waveform. Every month the bill would creep up by a thousand bucks or so, until it hit $20k at which point the COO would notice and then it would be all hands on deck until we got the bill under $10k or so. Rinse and repeat but over a few years I'm sure we wasted more money than many of the examples on serverlesshorrors.com, just a few $k at a time instead of one lump.

> I made an honest mistake; I expect companies to reject candidates who make honest mistakes during interviews.

Follow-up: do you expect companies to fire employees who make mistakes?

I recently received an AI-slop bug report for a small open source project (PureLB) that I maintain, and the slop was generated by DeepWiki. It was very incorrect, but I didn't know what "DeepWiki" was so I wasted about an hour. If DeepWiki is causing garbage bug reports even on tiny projects like mine, I can't imagine how much maintainer time it's wasting over all.

> At what point do these things stop being Amigas?

Ah, the classic "Ship of Tramiel" gedankenexperiment.

I use Firefox but donate to Ladybird and Servo. Mozilla Corp is too far gone but hopefully the next generation of browsers will have less corporate baggage.

The main link returns a 404 - maybe a griefer deleted example1?

I'll defer to Stringer Bell:

> Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?

"Normal CEO things" don't include committing crimes, and they are only a "huge self-own" when they document those crimes.

I'm curious about the pros and cons of Cloudflare pages versus GitHub pages. Given that you're using GH as a repo, would it be simpler to also use it to serve pages?

You control the trackball with the fingers of your right hand, and there's a scroll wheel and right and left buttons under your right thumb.

Windshield washer fluid is just liberal tears, after all.

They did, and this is what they got.

No discussion of LibreOffice would be complete without a reminder that the Apache Foundation continues to harm the open source community by pretending that Apache OpenOffice isn't dead as a doornail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice

Come on, Apache, admit what we all know to be true, and figure out a way to gently wind the OpenOffice project down.

(2021)

It's worse than that. VistA is a world-class open source EMR that the VA has been trying to kill for decades.

What ads? https://ublockorigin.com/

I worked for a company that was acquired by LU/Bell Labs in the '90's and their IP notebooks were excellent: hardbound with a sturdy cloth binding and thick, high-quality graph paper. We were supposed to have each page countersigned at the end of the day but that rarely happened. We were too busy makin' the donuts.

Yup! And before that they were in the basement of the Dedham Community Theater.

I'm not sure that you meant to say "Shit of Theseus" but if you did: bravo!

I would imagine that the Archive Team would be interested in these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_Team

> One thing I really want to try out is the FUTO keyboard

I've been using it for a few weeks and it works well. It seems to require some learning period because it started out making unhelpful suggestions for the predictive typing but is now pretty good.

As long as LLMs are trained on code that has bugs, they'll suggest code that has bugs.

> So that’s Perplexity’s real innovation here: shattering the foundations of trust that built the internet. The question is if any of its users or investors care.

Ron Howard voiceover: They do not.

I think that this qualifies: https://matt3o.com/

An open source fork is already up and running: https://andrewkelley.me/post/redis-renamed-to-redict.html