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carb··on Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
I agree I would expect a reference. Another difference between this an AvianVisitors is the image sources. AvianVisitors is all AI generated with a consistent prompt, but OP's is using chiefly public domain images with retouching by AI as needed.
carb··on A Small Telescope That Surprised Me
Due to their past, LLMs need to prove themselves as correct and accurate. Bloggers have already gone through this gauntlet and have proven to be more likely to be correct and accurate.

Neither are a guarantee.

carb··on A Small Telescope That Surprised Me
AI-prose may be vetted, but there is no way for a reader to know that for certain as much AI-prose is not.

As such, you cannot be sure if the writing contains correct and accurate information at all, even with modern models.

carb··on My server is a phone now
that title might be easier to parse, but it's less poetic and less attention grabbing
carb··on Waveloop: What Fable left me
The video game Audiosurf[1] did this, as it has to generate the game track ahead of time so that it would be playable!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audiosurf

carb··on HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
It's a good analysis but the AI slop writing makes me not trust you've reviewed this and I'm unable to finish or subscribe. I'm sure you're a great blogger but this is holding it back!
carb··on Show HN: Crespo – Tree-sitter AST blueprints instead of raw code for LLMs
love the concept and dont mind that ai wrote the code, but please consider rewriting the readme out of the AI style and cadence, it's a bit exhausting seeing ai writing everywhere.
carb··on Be wary of Bluesky
Sorry, meant say that Blacksky is much more important than the metrics you point to, with more detail on that wiki.

They're the first alternative full stack, the first alternative AppView, and that is something that the author should have mentioned. However, it weakens the argument so they left it out.

"Number of contributors" has never meant impact. You wouldn't dismiss openssl or curl, ya know?

carb··on Be wary of Bluesky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacksky
carb··on California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves
Not OP but yeah that's the one!
carb··on The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed)
Yes, I only open an IDE to run a debugger when needed. The vim support isn't exhaustive and it's jarring whenever a command doesn't work.

This is about Vi though and that's certainly more rare. For me that's only used over a rare ssh with vim not available but vi present

carb··on What life is like in Minneapolis now
Yes, I agree. Everyone in ICE or supporting them.
carb··on What life is like in Minneapolis now
I disagree. Notable and impacting politics are often here and foster interesting discussions.

Everything is political, and nowadays everything has relation to tech. ICE is being supported by Palantir and many defense tech companies and that technology impacts and perfects the terror and abuse by ICE in Minneapolis.

It's important for us to talk about this, especially when it is uncomfortable.

carb··on Go's escape analysis and why my function return worked
Why have you had to avoid the heap? Performance concerns?
carb··on Bag of words, have mercy on us
Different people have different levels of internal monologuing or none at all. I don't generally think with words in sentences in my head, but many people I know do.
carb··on Why LLMs can't really build software
I've found better results when I treat LLMs like you would treat little kids. Don't tell them what NOT to do, tell them what TO do.

Say "keep your hands at your side, it's hot" and not "don't touch the stove, it's hot". If you say the latter, most kids touch the stove.

carb··on A new Sudoku layout with 81 uniquely shaped cells
I liked it fwiw! Fun to play and solve. Thanks!
carb··on Goodbye Dockerfile, Hello Bazel: Doubling Our CI Speed
did migrating to bazel require specialized expertise or were teams able to pick it up quickly?
carb··on Bayleaf · Building a low-profile wireless split keyboard
That's how I feel about keyboard tilts away from a full pronation/flat and towards a neutral position. Once I switched to having a rotated split keyboard, my forearms and wrists felt incredible, and I hadn't even considered them uncomfortable before.
carb··on Eggs US – Price – Chart
Yes that's true they can roam outside, but roaming outside does not massively increase their chance of picking up bird flu.

For the same reason that the main guidance during COVID was "be outside if with other people" and not "stay inside if with other people".

carb··on Disney+ Loses 700k Subscribers Following Price Increase
There was a price increase, but there was also an explicit elevation of Disney+ from a "Pressure Target" to a "Priority Target" of the BDS movement last December.[1]

I know anecdotally dozens of people, including myself, who have made the sometimes difficult decision to cancel Disney+ subscriptions to avoid crossing the picket line. I haven't heard anyone making a fuss about the price increase, specifically.

[1]: https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott

carb··on Eggs US – Price – Chart
That's true when you're talking about foxes and wolves, but not if you're talking about an airborne flu.

Rows of adjacent cages keeping groups of chickens in close proximity with each other with shared air.

carb··on Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
Ah I don't run any LSPs so that's fair.

Retaining positions, buffers, and edit history between sessions is all straightforward in vanilla vim though. Unless you run an autolinter or formatter that edits your target file and wipes the history.

carb··on Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
That's true for me too but usually my tabs and windows are managed one level higher, by the terminal emulator, or I'm opening vim with -o/-O to open a split window directly.
carb··on Steam Brick: No screen, no controller, just a power button and a USB port
It's certainly a real term. The context is often student athletes that intentionally didn't play their sport for a season (called redshirting) to maintain their 4-year eligibility so that they can stay for a fifth year and compete in their sport.
carb··on Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim
What editor state are you losing when you leave vim?

I run a pretty light vanilla vimrc (60 lines maybe) and with two lines you can enable vim undofiles and returning the cursor to the last location upom reopening a file. For me, quitting vim is functionally equivalent to ^Z?

carb··on UI is hell: four-function calculators
If anyone else was curious about the final image and the `x÷` button: http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/sharp_el-8.html

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> The keyboard on this calculator has the number of keys reduced to the minimum by the use of only three function keys, including a combined "x÷" key.

> Here, pressing "x÷" gives the multiplication function if "+=" is subsequently pressed to give the answer, and gives the division function if "-=" is subsequently pressed to give the answer, so:

> 4 x÷ 2 += gives the answer 8.

> 4 x÷ 2 -= gives the answer 2.

carb··on The Most Mario Colors
I'm curious why you have your post set to be posted on 2025-06-24 instead today? Is that to maintain a post schedule?
carb··on How shut-down Bay Area tech companies ditch their fancy gear
I got my current chair nearby, possibly where OP is talking about. I wanted to be able to sit and adjust chairs and needed one that would tilt forward. Their selection is a bit chaotic and didn't have the chair I really wanted, but I liked being able to try out a few.

I think you'll have similar success watching Gumtree, craigslist, etc.

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Andrews Office Furniture - Old Street & The City 250 - 254 Old St, London EC1V 9DD

carb··on Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server
I think that's still pretty modern. My stream setup uses liquidsoap to generate HLS files which are served as a livestream directly from Tigris/S3. But a lot of users of liquidsoap still use the icecast output I think.
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