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cschep··on I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
ahh sorry I didn't understand. I'm so used to cmt-tab, cmd-` but I'm not at all claiming that's "most" efficient. makes sense why people would want that. I wish Apple would "just" add a fucking checkbox somewhere for that. Seems like a thing people really want.
cschep··on Why I'm not rushing to take sides in the RubyGems fiasco
You can’t expect anything that isn’t in the original agreement. If you want to sell software, sell it!

If you don’t want a megacorp using your software, don’t give it away. Or license it such that they can’t do what you don’t want them to do.

This retroactive take backs shit is so, so bad for everyone involved.

cschep··on I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework
cmd-tab does this. what are we missing? cmd-tab, cmd-tab. terminal, browser. browser, terminal. has for years.
cschep··on Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system
Ok, I'll bite.

While we are on Hacker News, this is still an enormously obtuse way to communicate.

Are you saying that as users of git we will be negatively affected by deps being added and build times going up? Do you have evidence of that from past projects adding rust?

Why not just say that??

cschep··on Git: Introduce Rust and announce it will become mandatory in the build system
My guess is that we (I am also a user of git) won't even notice.
cschep··on Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads
can you imagine allowing this into your house? who is this for? I guess maybe if they give the fridges away.. oh god don't give them ideas.
cschep··on Plugin System
I'd love to have a system where I could run a script from the command line to randomly choose an episode from my collection and airplay it to my tv.

Are those API's available here? anyone know?

Cool!

edit: Without full mirror mode. I use Airflow for this right now and I love it, but would be more fun with automation.

cschep··on My thoughts on renting versus buying
There used to be a world where you could get INTO the investment with almost free money. You can't get a 2% loan and dump it into the stock market. Well you can't do either anymore but you used to be able to :)
cschep··on Clankers Die on Christmas
to the replies that we shouldn't use fiction to aid decision making -- yes of course! how rational. how reasonable.

.. but perhaps can we access deep wisdom by paying attention the recurring themes of myths?

.. and perhaps does "The Matrix" access any of these themes?

(yes and yes!)

cschep··on Clankers Die on Christmas
Is this the equivalent to the humans nuking the sky to fight the robots in the Matrix? I don't think that worked.
cschep··on South Korea: 'many' of its nationals detained in ICE raid on GA Hyundai facility
Will this administration start costing serious people money enough that the other billionaires will get involved to kick out the nationalist idiots? That'd be nice. It's too bad we need that to be the case but.. would be a nice side effect.
cschep··on Why I'm declining your AI generated MR
Low effort contributions have always, and will ways be, unhelpful. We just now have a tool that generates them EVEN FASTER. :)

That must be frustrating for OSS maintainers, especially when contributing them can meaningfully move the needle on getting jobs, clients, etc.

Definitely makes sense to have rules in place to help dissuade it, but this brave new world isn't going away.

cschep··on Notion releases offline mode
Are they comparable tools in a team context? The ease of linking documents to people and collaborating? Seems like solo, sure. But in a group.. Obsidian doesn't replace Notion at all.
cschep··on I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked
1,000 more tests!? That reads coherent to you?
cschep··on I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked
So hard to tell if this is parody or not.
cschep··on I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
no.
cschep··on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
I'd love to hear why this is being downvoted? Not agreeing is one thing, but it seems like a reasonable thing to suggest?
cschep··on I don't think AGI is right around the corner
Which they absolutely would not have done if Zuck didn't start it, get funding, pay them handsomely, and tell them exactly what to do.

I'm sure that Zuck is worthy of huge amounts of criticism but this is a really silly response.

cschep··on LLMs as Compilers
Since LLM’s aren’t deterministic isn’t it impossible? What would keep it from iterating back and forth between two failing states forever? Is this the halting problem?
cschep··on Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'
this is so, so out of touch.
cschep··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)
on-site in Seattle for 130k? Curious how that works.
cschep··on The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
That should be true, but it doesn't end up working that way because people become corporations right? The actual tax burden is footed by the people making just enough to call rich, but not breaking into the territory where it's worth hiring an army of tax lawyers to reduce it to zero. This is bad.
cschep··on Sinaloa cartel used phone data and surveillance cameras to find FBI informants
Your surprise at this makes you an extreme outlier.
cschep··on How to live on $432 a month in America
This isn't a good take. When was the last time you lived in NYC? Surely maybe there were glory days at one point, but there used to be a LOT more crime too. NYC is still one of the all time great cities.
cschep··on Getting Forked by Microsoft
I hope by regular rates you mean your Enterprise rate that is 10-50x your regular rate. :)
cschep··on An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force
You can implement this yourself fairly easily.
cschep··on Apple's Software Quality Crisis
What distro do you run on the framework? Ubuntu feels bloated and the software is old. The framework laptop is much, much worse than a MacBook Pro. The comparison isn't even remotely apples to apples.

I wish there was a perfect solution, but man. Comparing a framework laptop with ubuntu to an MBP with MacOS is crazy from anything but a cost perspective.

cschep··on Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?
Could be bias, could also be that we just can't fake it anymore?
cschep··on Why Clojure?
While clojure has gained (accreted) more options of ways to run things, every single one of the ways you mentioned still work! It’s extremely stable in this regard. Nothing was taken away because there is a new hotness. Sure, things were added. Why is that bad at all?
cschep··on What happened when REM went mainstream
Is being "your favorite band's favorite band" not the most insanely high praise though? I can't think of anything cooler.
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