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dansmith1919··on NYC Apartment Aquaponics
Nobody is arguing this will replace farming, nobody disagrees with you.

The point is that it's fun and you learn something.

dansmith1919··on Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites
Technically yes but that doesn’t mean they deserve a podium to spew their hate

edit: on second thought this is way too obvious ragebait

dansmith1919··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
Thanks, that’s exactly what I meant! It only makes sense now because we know exactly how it works, it makes no sense to a first-time user.

I feel like other commenters are being obtuse on purpose and avoid the point? Or did I just not word it correctly

dansmith1919··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
I hate the word mansplaining but this comment could go into the dictionary as an example.

The point was that this bothered me when I used git for the very first time (what is it like 15 years ago at this point) and indeed did not understand it yet. Hope your comment made you feel better about yourself at least.

dansmith1919··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
I feel like you’re either misunderstanding the entire thread or being obtuse on purpose.

The point is that “Delta compression using up to 10 threads” means nothing to most users - it’s also not a progress thing. Hide it unless the user does -v or something.

dansmith1919··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
The point is that if it's useless information for 99.9% of users, what's it doing in the UI?
dansmith1919··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
This has bothered me ever since I was using git for the first time: what do you mean I have to 'add' and 'commit' and then 'push'? I just want to save my stuff, this is SO many steps.
dansmith1919··on Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T
bro was right ONCE and now every tweet is a headline
dansmith1919··on UAE to leave OPEC
Finally, a history video I fully understand
dansmith1919··on John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement
If you make a very rough estimate of the emotional maturity of a person that abuses a neighbor for not “buying American”, I think the answer become reasonably clear
dansmith1919··on Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
Oh damn, I love this one. I’ve been vibe coding a ‘public benefit’ app on the side that has a few hundred users but never thought of doing something for an actual non-profit.

Care to elaborate on your process? Curious how you approach them and come up with the best path forward with limited time (assuming you have a full time job as well on the side). Thanks!

dansmith1919··on Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language
Big fan of the accountability phase, or the “find out” phase:

Engage in high-risk, uncalculated actions and be prepared to face the inevitable, data-driven consequences.

dansmith1919··on I put my whole life into a single database
That was my main takeaway as well. How do you do this without any shame? My man is emitting an amount of CO2 on par with an small African country
dansmith1919··on Don't Become the Machine
The very basic (but incorrect) assumption that the “grind never stops” people rely on is

more hours == more productivity

It’s not. If you’re sleep deprived you’ll produce shit, which you’ll probably have to redo later. Sleep properly, produce more in less hours.

But hey, at least your colleagues think you’re busy because you’re last to leave redoing your shitty work!

Edit: read The Brain at Rest by Jebelli, don’t work yourself to death

dansmith1919··on VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
Only one I have issues with is Ticketmaster, other than that I forget that it’s even on all the time
dansmith1919··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
How much free time do you think the average person has to learn and set all this up?

“You’re giving these companies your data and then dare to be angry when you lose it? Just get a degree in computer science and host it yourself!!1! I am very smart”

dansmith1919··on How to run phones while being struck by suicide drones
Yeah now we know why it’s on the front page not even 10 minutes after posting…
dansmith1919··on Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
Keep them?? But how else would you keep devs working hard if there are no mass layoffs to be afraid of all the time??
dansmith1919··on Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k
What it the dystopian fuck is this headline
dansmith1919··on EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners
To be fair, if they're actually buying it for the whole sportswashing thing and not for the short-term cash profits, could it maybe be a good thing for the games? Better games == more effective sportswashing?

Either way, human rights journalists lose.

dansmith1919··on Users only care about 20% of your application
> But they don't necessarily care about the same 20%.

Did you write that entire comment based on the headline only?

dansmith1919··on Apple says it may stop shipping to the EU
Tech behemoth attempts to blackmail an entire continent. In other news: the sky remains blue.
dansmith1919··on You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here
So... nothing? Because I'm also not from an English speaking country and I speak English.
dansmith1919··on You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here
At some point they told ChatGPT to put emoji's everywhere which is also a dead giveaway on the original report that it's AI. They're the new em dash.
dansmith1919··on You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here
Crazy how he doubled down by just pasting badger's answer into Chat and submitting the (hilariously obvious AI) reply:

> Thanks for the quick review. You’re right — my attached PoC does not exercise libcurl and therefore does not demonstrate a cURL bug. I retract the cookie overflow claim and apologize for the noise. Please close this report as invalid. If helpful, I can follow up separately with a minimal C reproducer that actually drives libcurl’s cookie parser (e.g., via an HTTP response with oversized Set-Cookie or using CURLOPT_COOKIELIST) and reference the exact function/line in lib/cookie.c should I find an issue.

dansmith1919··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
Our company wants to move away from Google Chat, I'm happy that Slack is letting us know upfront that they won't have to be considered at all.
dansmith1919··on Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
I think they mean prompt injection rather than some malformed image to trigger a security bug in the processing library
dansmith1919··on Human writers have always used the em dash
That's why I still finish everything I write with "Sent from my iPhone 4 using Tapatalk" — just to reinforce that there's a human behind it.

Sent from my iPhone 4 using Tapatalk

dansmith1919··on Human writers have always used the em dash
They also get the em dash when typing '--'
dansmith1919··on Becoming the person who does the thing
> The part that never sat well with me was how they were trying to preach it to others and present themselves as the wise, experienced guru sharing this advice to others when really they were just barely figuring it out.

Honestly, you probably have to bring it like this if you want to generate a following. I guess people like it when someone just hands them a truth in a confident enough way.

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